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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES Fl BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S OOINCS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Imrcrtant Events of the Last Seven Cays Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN f'N Posey's band and affiliated Indians in the neighborhood of P.kmding, Utah who oec.piecl tl,e limelight fur a week or so in early summer will soon become allotted wards of the government and have their o.vn lands for grazing and agriculture agri-culture use. The department of agriculture ag-riculture has set aside thirteen sections. sec-tions. Oificials of the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America gathered for wage noTotiath.ns with operators at New loi-k, Thursday appropriated $10,000 to relieve the distress of members In the mine explosion at Kemmerer, U'yo. Raising of a relief fund of at least $7.", 000 to immediately relieve the suffering, of tliose left destitute by the Farmington-YVillard, Utah flood, got under way, Thursday, when Govern Gov-ern ,r Mahey appointed a special committee headed by W. W. Armstrong Arm-strong to effect the organization. Officials of the Union Pacific railway rail-way system Monday announced that plans fur extension of the company's main line from Orchard to Boise, Idaho, had been completed. Twelve are known dead and scores are injured, as the result of a series of cloudbursts Monday evening devastated de-vastated much of the country from Salt Lake to Bingham City, Utah. The towns of Willard and Farming-. Farming-. ton probably suffered the heaviest damage. Half the town of Willard was swept away by the flood. The Lagoon resort near Farmington suffered suf-fered greatly from the floods and it was here that the largest loss of life oecu red. Two hundred miners in No. 1 mine of the Kemmerer Coal company were entombed Tuesday following an explosion. ex-plosion. The explosion occurred in the lower levels. A cave-in at entry No. I.i cut off all communication with the men who were working around the twenty-eighth entry. Nothing definite concerning the condition of the entombed men has come from the depths of the mine, but experts in miners' rescue work declared they . saw little hope of rescuing the men alive. GENERAL Seizure of a complete plant for the manufacture of counterfeit $100 federal fed-eral reserve notes in Floral Bark Long Island, was announced Wednesday by Joseph A. Palmn, chief of secret service ser-vice agents in New York. E. E. McDonald, railroad laborer, kidnaped by the five unmasked men fit Arimillo, Texas, returned to his home Thursday bearing fifty or sixty lashes on his body, telephoned the police po-lice for assistance and was hurried to a hospital where his condition is S 'id to be serious. With St persons already under arrest ar-rest at Savannah, Ga., under the c nspiracy section of the prohibition enforcement act, department of justice jus-tice officials said Thursday they be-lie-ed they finally had rounded up one f. if not the largest bootleg fon-es in the United States. Pis -overy Thursday that valuable se uri i"s were missing from the vrults of the American Bank & Trust c-nri :ny of Dayton, Ohio, have lr u- lit estimates of Cashier Fred V. TTpcht's alleged defalcation up to . 'J1.O0 ). A sweeping investigation into re. si Tc;i! iiity for the riot late Wednesday Wednes-day night in which two men were shot, one perhaps fatally, a dozen klnnsmen injured and about 40 members mem-bers of a mob of 1,000 which engaged in a free-for-all battle with 100 kinsmen suffered blackened eyes pnd cuts and bruises, was promised t'v Stct'benviHe and Jefferson county, Ohio, authorities. Director Scobey of the mint Satur-c'ly Satur-c'ly gave orders for the production by the Philadelphia mint of a bronze m-DKbin of President Harding. The rHilallions will carry on one side the f:; e of the late chief executive in I r'R"? re'ief and on the reverse side will be the dateB of his birth, inauguration inaug-uration ami death. They will be Bold to the public at $1.52 each. j PERSONAL The appointment of C . T'.ascom Slenip, former congressman from Virginia, Vir-ginia, as secretary to President Coolidge, Wednesday brought an end to the political armistice which has existed since President Harding's death. Dispatches from Berlin Wednesday say it is reliably reported that the name of former Chancellor Wilhelm Cuuo is being mentioned as sucessor to Dr. Otto Wledfedlt, German ambassador am-bassador to the United States, who will resume his direction of the Krupp works. Following a week-end of rioting in various parts of Germany in which -0 to 30 persons were killed, Gus-tave Gus-tave Strosemann of the German peoples peo-ples party began Monday the task of forming a government to succeed the Cuno cabinet which resigned Sunday. President Coolidge transacted official offi-cial business at the White House Monday for the first time since he became the nations chief executive. Awaiting him at the White House was a huge pile of governmental husiness which was sent to the Pacific coast a few weeks ago for President Harding's attention. Jesus Salas, the member of the Durango legislature who Is in jail following his voluntary confession that he led the band which killed Francisco Villa, has announced that lie will donate the rewards offered for the death of the former bandit leader towards the establishment of a charitable institution for the families fami-lies of Villa's numerous victims. Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, Harvey S. Firestone and Mr. and Mrs. George W. King of Marion drove up to the Harding residence Friday morning to pay their final respectb to their dead friend. Just two years ago about this time Ford, Edison, Firestone and the president were on a camping trip together in Maryland. William Rockefeller left an estate with a gross Friday in the report of the state tax commission. The report showed a net value of $67,649,660.30 after deductions for administration expenses, debts, funeral expenses and commissions to executors. Mr. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, who died on June 24, 1922, had numerous debts of several million dollars dol-lars each. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the American draft evader, shot down and killed one man and wounded another Friday night when men concealed in his hotel apartment at Eberbach Germany Ger-many seize him in a kinaping attempt. A gold medal for heroism at sea awarded by the late President Harding Hard-ing Wednesday was presented to Edward Ed-ward Kavanaugh, an Irish sailor, by Colonel Watkins of the United States shipping board. FOREIGN Tidal waves, combined with a severe storm, have submerged 25,000 houses along the Yalu river and on the west coast of Korea. No estimate esti-mate of the loss of life has yet been received, but it is said the damage to crops and the lumber industry will be heavy. The Belgian authorities, it was announced an-nounced Thursday have imposed a fine of three billion marks on the city of Duisburg as a penalty for the bomb explosion on a train near that city late in June. Ten Belgian soldiers sol-diers were killed and two score others injured. Communists stormed the city hall at Datteln, 19 miles northeast of Essen disarmed the police and took possession of the town. Militia which was summoned from a neighboring town also was disarmed. Many casualties cas-ualties occurred on both sides. Yu Er-Heng, former head of the Students' Self-government association of the Hangchow Normal school, and two cooks, Chien Ah Li and Ti ITo-Song ITo-Song were sentenced to death Monday Mon-day by the Hangchow district court for participation in a plot to poison the entire student body at the school. Twelve persons were killed and more than eighty were wounded at Aix La Chapelle Monday night when crowds nttempted to storm the police po-lice headquarters and rescue prisoners prison-ers taken during the day when the police broke up a food shortage dam-onstration. dam-onstration. Twenty-three persons were killed and seven were probably fatally injured in-jured Monday when a motor coach filled with excursionists plunged down a 250-foot ravine in the Pyrenees Pyre-nees mountains near St. fauveur, France. German police Friday fired on a crowd of several thousand who were staging a demonstration against the scarcity of food nnd the high cost of livintr at Crefield, killing one and wounding ten. |