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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE M WEEK 1 A Complete History of What Has i Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN The interstate commerce commission commis-sion has held that existing carload rates on apples from Idaho and Utah points, by way of Salt Lake City, to BiSbee, Douglas and Nogales, Ariz., are unreasonably high, and directed that the rates be reduced to $1.40 per hundred pounds. Never in the history of the inter-mountain inter-mountain west . have there been more motorists touring than this summer. Since the latter part of June they have swarmed into this district by i the hundreds daily. All previous estimated es-timated and actual records have been ": shattered by at least a 25 per cent i Increase. News has been received by the forestry for-estry officials that examination for forest rangers will be held at the headquarters head-quarters of the various forestry supervisors super-visors October 24. The servic is anxious to have as many . qualified men as possible enter the examinations. examina-tions. An examination for scalers will be held October 25 and 26, but the places of examination have not yet been announced, i It took a mule driver, five city firemen, fire-men, a veterinarian, a hardware man, a blacksmith and about 1000 spect-tors spect-tors two hours and five minutes to release a diminutive mule which caught its foot in a street drain pipe at Kansas City. Samuel M. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive works, announced an-nounced receipt of an order from the Union Pacific Eailroad for 15 locomotives locomo-tives to cost $900,000. Construction of these engines will begin at once. After severely knifing Deputy Warden War-den Arthur Muchow, four prisoners escaped es-caped from the South Dakota penitentiary peni-tentiary at Sioux Falls, taking Warden War-den George W. Jamison with them. 1 The prisoners fled in a motor car parked by a tourist just outside the prison walls. GENERAL Eepeublican leaders are alarmed over reports that the president will not seek another term. Northwestern flour markets remain very unsettled. Three big steel corporations, em-j em-j ploying nearly 300,000 workers, have I announced a 20 per cent wage increase i for all day laborers in their manu-; manu-; facturing plants. Increased wages averaging 47 per i cent and affecting between 30,000 and ! 40,000 nonunion miners in Westmore-j Westmore-j land and Fayette counties. West Vir-i Vir-i glnia, were decided upon at a meeting meet-ing of operators, it was officially announced. an-nounced. The state governments of the TJnit-. TJnit-. d States have a total debt of $1,071,-C0G, $1,071,-C0G, 981.28, or $10.18 for every man, woman and child in the country, according ac-cording to a nation-wide su'rveye of state finance just completed liy the Bank of America, New York. i llead.iustment of wages bringing a close approach to normalcy as applied to mining has resulted in a return of the pendulum toward greater mining activity than has been experienced in the history of Alaska since the boom days. Mrs. Warren G. Harding, whose recent re-cent gift of $100 toward a fund to buy oats and hay for Clover, the 51-year old horse, brought her an offer of honorary hon-orary membership in the Nyack Society So-ciety for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals, she accepted the honor. English women athletes won the first international woman's track meet at Paris over competitors from the United States, France. Switzerland and Czcclio-Slovakia. The American ' team was second, France third, Czecho Slovakia fourth aud Switzerland fifth. The V.y22 area of sugar cane, not including sorghum cane, in the eight principal si .T.'S producing sugar cane is estimated by the I'nlled States department de-partment of agriculture to be 524,200 acres, or about 90 per cent of the harvested cane acreage of 921. This is a preliminary estimate and includes the acreage intended to be harvested for seed and syrup, as well as for sugar. WASHINGTON Breeding a dairy cow which wil' give enough milk to feed thirty children chil-dren a day more than six times the capacity of the ordinary cow is one of the latest feats of the industry, which has been accomplished by the United States department of agriculture, agricul-ture, and which can be done by proper pro-per feeding and selective breeding on the Maryland government farm. Payment by the government of $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 to the person who discovers a permanent cure for any one of five diseases was proposed in a bill by Representative Sproul, Republican, Illinois. The diseases enumerated are Tuberculosis, pneumonia, epilepsy, de. mentia, praecox. The crew of the giant seaplane Sara-paio Sara-paio Correia, which collapsed and fell into the ocean between Cuba and Haiti Hai-ti while attempting a flight from New York to Rio de Janeiro, probably will be landed at Guantanamo, Cuba, by the TJ. S. S. Denver. All members of the crew were picked up by the Denver after the plane made a bad landing and was smashed. The first infestation of mildew on red clover in this country this year has appeared east of tie Mississippi from Wisconsin to Georgia, says a report of the agricultural department. This mildew makes the plant look white. Last fall It was quite prevalent pre-valent in the South, and is worse there this summer. Rigidly restrictive immigration legislation leg-islation enacted by congress in June, 1921, to dam the flood of foreigners surging to American shores cost the state department over $5,000,000 in passport visa fees during the past fiscal year, and its position as the only self supporting department of the government as well. . Running expenses of the government govern-ment fell off by more than $157,000,-000 $157,000,-000 during July as compared with the same month last year, while public debt disbursements were reduced by $198,000,000, according to the monthly statement of expenditures issued by the treasurer. The attention of farmers In all sec-, sec-, tions of the country to the free distri. bution of excess war explosives for farm work, is called by the United States department of agriculture. Since last fall the department, in cooperation coop-eration with the various state agricultural agri-cultural colleges, , has distributed 3,000,000 pounds of picric acid, a surplus sur-plus explosive, which is very efficient, easy and safe to handle. In Minnesota Minneso-ta the state agricultural college reports re-ports : "We feel that picric acid has been !a great benefit to the state and has done great deal to stimulate land clearing. All reports are to the effect ef-fect that its use has been highly satisfactory. sat-isfactory. The 774,000 pounds allotted to Minnesota were distributed to 3511 farmers, averaging 222 pounds per farmer. We estimate that this will clear, 35,000 acres of land, and has made1 a saving of over 70,000 for the farmers of the state.'' , FOREIGN Great Britain will hold an International Inter-national Air Congress in London the last week of June, 1923. The conference con-ference will be open to all countries vhich are signatories of the International Interna-tional Air Convention. The technical and scientific development of aero-aautics aero-aautics in all its aspects will be discussed. dis-cussed. , A bucket brigade cf 200 Armenian orphan boys from the industrial school recently saved thousands of Turkish homes at Beylerbey, on the thickly populated Asiatic shores of the Bos-phorus, Bos-phorus, from .destruction. by .fire. England's policy on reparations is scored, by Andre Tardieu in speech. English clergymen score church as bein ,r,to effeminate and not-grappling with present day problems. An American steamer is fired on by Chinjese troops and he captain, badly wounded. V ' - KiPk Alfonso wins 3.1,000 francs at Deaulville races by backing American jockejys. - Austria bankrupt; credit is sole hope for rehabiltatinn. Cyrus C. K. Curtis, Philadelphia publisher, returned to the United State after 'seven weeks in Europe with jword from former Premier Clem-enced'U Clem-enced'U thai" French war leaders felt "Amfii' never finished her job:" Negotiations for a commercial 'treaty between America and Germany are ex-pecte.ll ex-pecte.ll to bCLiin soon arter the' return of th.i' German ambassador to Wash-ingtor- Anibasador "Weidfeldt sails tor N ew York with instructions to take .lIP Ile question .with the state, department. In circles close to the Germn government it is "stated that WashntTton is disposed to grant Germany Ger-many "Uie oiOi't favored nation clause1' |