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Show o o History of Past Week I IIB II I 111 111 I Mil m-irrr-r,-. The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed O ; Q (NTERMOUoH AIM. Hanging to two highly 'charged eloc-tric eloc-tric light "wires and swinging himself hand over hand along thorn, Casper Casey, 24 years old, escaped from the state penitentiary at Oinon City, Colo. How Casey escaped electrocution is a mystery to prison officials. Also how he escaped from his cell has not been ascertained. as-certained. Two million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars is the total amount of bonds issued against Elko county, , Nov., ranching properties during the latter part of 1921, according to documents docu-ments placed on file with the County Heeorder of Elko county. The memorial sit Centralia, Wash., in honor of (the four service men killed in that city in the Armistice-day parade of 1010 will he in the form of a handsome hand-some and dignified building, suited to patriotic assemblages, on a .sige large enough to permit an appropriate setting set-ting in landscape architecture. City sewers in Butte, Mont, are blocked by hirge deposits of moonshine mash, including prune seeds, rye, barley bar-ley ,1-aisins, corn and cherry pits, according ac-cording to City Engineer Henry J. Wie. genstein. Home brewers, the engineer said, are using sewers for garbage cans to avoid possible detection of .their illegal il-legal traffic. Six lines of hose, connected con-nected to a swirling nozzle, are being used to flush the debris. GENERAL The National Agricultural conference turned to Europe for a study of factors fac-tors causing the general American farm depression and for possible moans of relief. A hornless steer gave crowds in the shopping district of New York a new thrill when he escaped from' a West Side slaughter house and ran almost to the East river, crossing Broadway and Fifth avenue before being lassoed. Journalists of more or less note, authors of greater or less standing and plain, everyday reporters, all to the total of 512 have been or still are en-' en-' gaged in telling the world what goes on in the armament conference. Large feet are a joke no longer. They are an expensive luxury. Local shoe dealers have been notified that extra charge will be made on men's shoes above the 12 size and on wo-men's wo-men's Ina-ger than eights. An Increase to $21.20 as the mini, mum wage for women in California is proposed in a brief prepared by the Shite Federation of labor for submission submis-sion to the State Industrial commission. commis-sion. The present minimum wage is $10 and hearing will be held soon on a pro. posai by employers, that the wage be reduced. Amateur radio stations are barred from broadcasting information and entertainment features hereafter, according ac-cording to information received from the office of Radio Inspector O. K Kedfern, at Seattle, Wash. The amendment amend-ment follows : "Hereafter, no ama. teur station is to broadcast weather reports, market reports, music concerts, con-certs, speeches, news or similar infor. nuation or entertainment." Frozen oranges was the topic of discussion dis-cussion of citrus growers, distributors and horticultural commissioners in Los Angeles and at Riverside, after the second night of a serious cold snap, with freezing temperatures, in southern California. Picking of oranges will be halted until February 6, and shipments will be held up until the condition of the picked and unpicked fruit can be determined. It is impossible to estimate esti-mate the loss at the present time. A ten-imillion-dollar contract with Tokind, on behalf of several American firms, was announced by Ii. E. Taylor of Chicago who has just returned to this country after sixteen months' negotiation ne-gotiation leading to the signing of what is said to he the largest single order brought out of roland since the war. The equipment, of which IsToO.oOO worth has been started overseas, he said, consists of motor truck ambulances, ambu-lances, tires, bars, stool machine tools, machinery and raw materials. It will bo used for extension of agricultual life and genera reconstruction through, out the country. The contract was made entirely on a credit basis. Despite the industrial depression of l2t the ele-'lrii-al power companies of the country generally showed an increase in-crease in revenue, due to the enormous growth in resident ;;l! liglninu'. f the 21.OiMi.iNin homo in the I'lii:.-. States. t-linkiMmn are tio::r o'eetrirn power an.l $.iyV.i are win-d for eieetrieity. Simp craft employe-; of the railroads started dirfe; negotiation to o e:-:Iinv the !o. Si-'ll by the rnitel States ra'i-roa ra'i-roa lioarl elmii.aiia tiiae and unr fc.LT pay ij: ovef-Tirr.e. WASHINGTON. President Harding has under consideration consid-eration a proposal that the United States negotiate a new treaty witli Germany to create a commission for arletration of private damage claims growing out of the World war. Announcement is made by the Association As-sociation of Disabled American Veterans Veter-ans of t he World War that they would hold a conference in Washington, "in an attempt to carry the light for a'de-quate a'de-quate governmental relief up to the doors of the United Slates veterans' bureau." Althought President Harding believes that the work of the Washington conference con-ference eventually will load to reduction reduc-tion of both naval and land armament, he is not prepared now to reccomend any radical reduction in the land forces of the United States. Hanford MacNider, national commander comman-der of the American Legion, issued a statement charging Secretary Mellon with having adopted a "watchdog of the treasury" attitude toward the bonus question in his letter opposing the measure just made public. Assurance that the permanent tariff bill will be reported to the senate early in February and passed before the close of the present session, was given Republican leaders in the house by senate Republican loaders at a recent re-cent conference. Proposals looking to development of American agriculture as a self-sustaining industry, were considered by the national agricultural 'conference while its committees continued work on suggested sug-gested measures to relieve the acute situation and provide for general rehabilitation. re-habilitation. The house rejected an amendment offered of-fered by Representative Cnnnally, Democrat Dem-ocrat of Texas, to the independent offices' of-fices' appropriation bill to cut from (5370,000 to !?230,000 the amount carried car-ried for expenses of the alien property custodian's office during the coming fiscal year. American agriculture as a whole "could profitably study the factors that have contributed to the welfare of Cal-iifornia Cal-iifornia in the face of general business depression," G. Harold Powell, general malinger of the Calfornia Fruit Grow, ers' exchange, declared in an address before the National Agricultural conference. con-ference. FOREIGN. An urgent appeal from Austria to tlit allies, intimating that disastrous eonse. quences are probable unless financial aid is given the country, is engaging the attention of the British government, govern-ment, and a decision favorable to Austria Aus-tria possibly will be readied soon. The inemntlonal Irish league, organized or-ganized in Paris by the world congress of the Irish race, decided by resolution that the principal object of the league must be to help Ireland gain full independence. inde-pendence. Study of Quebec statutes has just brought to light that thousands of marriages mar-riages have been illegally performed in the -province of Quebec, Canada, during the last 100 years because of the nationality na-tionality of officiating clergymen'. The French government, because of information received from Berlin, is much preoccupied by what it considers the possibility of an agreement between tlie German and Russian soviet governments govern-ments with a view to forcing consid-ration consid-ration of revision of the peace treaties at the coming Geno conference. The four-power consortium has agreed that China shall floaot a 14,000,-000 14,000,-000 taels domestic loan, secured by the salt revenues. The bonds will be at S3.50, with 'nterest at 1 2-10 per cent monthly. The consortium stipulated stipu-lated that the overdue Japanese loan of 20,000,000 yen should be redeemed in monthly instalments of $700,000 from the salt surplus. The Vossisehe Zeilung of Berlin expresses ex-presses the belief that, the proposed land disarmament resolution of Score-tary Score-tary Hughes ait the Washington conference con-ference is in the nature of "an Ameri. can feeler prior to the Genoa conference" con-ference" to find out if the European powers are ready to give the satisfactory satisfac-tory guarantees which would permit the United States to work unhampered In he direction of reconstruction. The aid of President Hardinglu75 been enlisted by the arms delegates to bring Japan and China into agreement agree-ment on Shantung. Taking a diivel hand in the Washington noL'ot ia t ion for ilhe first time, the president urged the Chinese to accept the latest compromise com-promise offer and thus remove from i tlie field of eo!ii;roveisy a subject which j litis become a barrier to the progress of the conference. Tlie first skyscraper in Germany will soon lie enntsruetod in the old business busi-ness section of the city of Hamburg It will 1.,. 10 stories high, topping tlie highest building in Germany at this time by five stories. I'onner I-i'tiprc's Zi"a of Ai." ri till ti-ll in itfarv is retiirtani: to the island of Maderia to rejo'ti former End-orci 1'harles in cx.le. Siie was allowed to 'leave Maderia to be .at t'e- bed-ide of ! te-r soa. K.ibet-i. who n-eentiy unoe."-tenl unoe."-tenl an opoation in S ittt.a-Iand. |