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Show All Comers ofiheEartli Complete History of the Past Wees Told in Paragraph Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMOUNTAIN. Insinuation of "baby lighthouses," to flash their warning lights forty-five tiini's )er minute at all railroad cross-in;;., cross-in;;., at approaches to dangerous curves anil on steep grades llirough-out llirough-out Wyoming, is being considered by the state road commission. Police are conducting a widespread search for Dorothy Skeels, pretty 1G-jear-old high school student, who lias been missing from the home of her parents, Kev. and Mrs. Skeels. at Denver, Den-ver, for over a week. Joseph W. Latham, fid, vice president presi-dent and general manager of the Vulcan Vul-can iron works, committed suicide by shooting in his office at Denver. Business Busi-ness associates said he had been in ill health for some time. Approximately 15 ppr cent of Colorado's Colo-rado's 12,000 coal miners will ask for a daily wage increase of $1.50. The men who seek the increase are not shovel men, but are known as inside and outside laborers. "Every man in Wyoming carries a pnn," Gerald A. Stack told a coroner's Jury in explaining his part in a fatal roadhouse row at Chicago. He was held by the police after admitting shooting Paul Williamson, who, it was alleged, insulted a girl in Stack's party. v Joe Sennett, 29, was killed and Miss Pauline Pitman was seriously injured at Denver when the automobile in Which they were driving crashed into a curb. The Rev. W. E. Fuson. former pastor pas-tor of the Banuim Baptist church at Denver, is guilty of "love making" to certain women members of his flock, according to the findings of an ex-parte ex-parte council of Baptist clergymen. DOMESTIC. Resolutions declaring "any compromise" com-promise" of the Japanese question "would not be acceptable to the citi-I citi-I zens of California" were adopted at a conference held at San Francisco of representatives of organizations working for the passage of anti-Japanese legislation in California at the, November elections. "A sugar bowl" riot broke out among the lToO immigrants in the Ellis El-lis Island dining room Thursday, when for the first time since the war sugar, substituted for molasses to sweeten coffee, was put on the tables. Several aliens were removed to hospitals, hos-pitals, one with three fractured ribs. Ben Hickman, escaped convict from the Utah penitentiary, where he was serving a life term, is in jail at Paw-huska, Paw-huska, Oklahoma, having been' captured cap-tured after he had shot anil killed his wife on a street. Formation of a gigantic wheat pool in the United States, whereby the farmers will virtually control marketing market-ing and selling of the grain, is one of the more important subjects to be planned at Columbus, O.. by farmers attending a session of the National Board of Farm Organizations. Xo solution has been reached of the mysterious killing of George Johnson a n(5 Theodore Schmidt, ranchers found shot to death in Johnson's summer home near Santa Cruz, Calif. Major II. S. Green, officer in charge of the Quantice, Va., marine barracks post exchange, was knocked unconscious uncon-scious at his quarters In the camp Monday by a robber, who escaped with $12,000 of the funds in his possession. Women of Georgia have a right to vote in the statewide primary on September Sep-tember S. as well as at the coming general election, according to an opinion opin-ion submitted to Governor Dorsey by the state's attorney general. Nearly every small town in Iowa, with the exception of mining centers, is almost destitude of coal, according to answers to a questionnaire sent out by the state transportation committee. commit-tee. licworked rags are replacing virgin wool in the cloth of manufacturers, according to frpeakers at the annual cunvention of the National Sheep and Wool Bureau of America, in session ai t'hicygo. P.cujamin Smith Lyman, S4. peolo-gjsi. peolo-gjsi. mining engineer and inventor of worldwide reputation, is dead. lie is ji'lwiowledged to have made the first survey of Japan, for which he was highly honored in that country. Dr. George W. Miller. Omaha's first p: ;j-;:cing physician and founder of the Omaha Herald, later made part of The W'o.-ld-llerald, Is dead. He wu't IHJ years of ae. ! While appraisers were listing cans of peaches, tomatoes, etc.. in the store i at ( 'elina. ( .. of I lennis Dixon, deceased, de-ceased, tiiey found two peach cans on I the shelf containing in gold, bills and I securities a total of S.i3.00O. Seventy thousand miners are idle I as a result of the strike in the anthracite anthra-cite coal fields of Pennsylvania, officials of-ficials estimate. Four men were seriously wounded in a gun battle when Sheriff Robert Clay and three deputies surprised four men draining alcohol from a freight car near Wesley City. III. The sheriff was shot in the leg. Farmers near La Crosse. Wis., complain com-plain that harvesting isjieing seriously serious-ly hampered by crickets eating hinder twine. On many bundles the twine is entirely consumed. Farmers who soak the twine in poison declare the crickets cat it quicker than the untreated un-treated twine. WASHINGTON. Federal guarautee of railroad earnings earn-ings resulted in an increase in the public debt of $101,300,000 during August, Au-gust, according to treasury figures issued is-sued September 1, showing the nation's na-tion's gross debt to be S24.824.G20.000. Exports of the United States to the principal countries of the world during July totaled $(.'1,;S1.S27. au increase of ;?S2,t'l4,.'il2 over the corresponding period last year, according to department depart-ment of commerce figures. General John J. Pershing will tour principal countries of South America at the end of this year as the personal per-sonal representative of President Wilson, Wil-son, if present plans of the state department de-partment are carried out, it bas been learned. Suffrage leaders have announced they will start immediately a vigorous campaign to get Connecticut to ratify the nineteenth amendment, granting national enfranchisement to women. Plaus for the sale of the government's govern-ment's entire wooden ship fleet of 2SS vessels, aggregating more than one million deadweight tons, have been practically completed, it is announced an-nounced by the shipping board. FOREIGN. The British house of commons is considering placing a head tax on Americans and all other foreigners who enter England. The American government has long had a head tax on all incoming foreigners. Strike notices calling for a walkout of the members of the British Miners' federation on September 2o are being sent out, according to a decision reached at a meeting of the district delegates of the federation at London. Several factories in Rome have been siezed by striking metal workers, in concert With the metal strikers at Milan and Turin, where a number of factories had previously been occupied occu-pied by the workers, according to a Rome dispatch. The bolshevik army of Geueral Bud-enny, Bud-enny, noted cavalry leader, was annihilated anni-hilated during the operations in the Lemherg sector which began August 20 and ended September 1, says the Polish official statement. Masked armed raiders invaded n ballroom at the Rose Clare hotel. County Wexford, on Monday night, while a fancy ball was in full swing. They compelled the dancers to raise their hands above their heads, after which the guests were searched and a number of military and naval officers were expelled. These officers were admonished they were not permitted to mingle socially with the people, as they belonged to the army of occupation. occupa-tion. Dr. Walter Simons, the foreign minister, min-ister, addressing the German reichstag foreign affairs committee, declared lie had been urged to collaborate with the Russian bolshevik! against the western powers as a means of breaking break-ing the bonds' imposed by the treaty of Versailles, but that, after mature reflection, he had rejected this course. Representatives of both the soviet and Polish peace delegations at Minsk-have Minsk-have been sent to their respective capitals cap-itals to consult their governments regarding re-garding any proposed transfer of the negotiations to another place, according accord-ing to a wireless dispatch received from Moscow. The first death resulting from a hunger strike in an English jail occurred oc-curred at Worcester, on August ,'il. Karl Bunwal succumbed after going without food for five days. Prohibition of all drinks having an alcoholic content exceeding 2.S per cent is recommended in a report of a Swedish government committee appointed ap-pointed In 1!)11 to consider the liquor question. The Orangemen, determined to drive all Catholics from Belfast, just as' they have from Lisburn and several sev-eral small towns nearby, are meeting with increasing resistance. The French government has decided to appoint two delegates to the American Amer-ican Mayflower celebration in Novcni bor and December, one of which will be General Neville. The other has nut yet been selected. |