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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS. A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reporter by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the : Busy Reader WESTERN Charles West, 35, of Bridgeport, Neb., was shot and almost instantly killed in a raid on an alleged gambling gamb-ling game at Lavoye, forty-five miles north of Casper, Wyo., in the Salt Creek oil field. John Newell, rooming room-ing house proprietor of Lavoye, one of the two deputized to assist deputy sheriff C. G. Vance in making the raid, is said to have admitted firing the shot and to have claimed it "was accidental. No farmer of Nevada hesitates to hire a California laborer who shows a certificate that he has been fumigated fumi-gated at Gerlach, the most western division point of the Western Pacific In Nevada. Gerlach possesses the best facilities for bathin'g and fuml gating of any town along the line. The old General Thomas mine at Lone Mountain has been leased to Tonapah parties and will be reopened reopen-ed and operated for the attractive lead-silver ores that once made the property one of the best-known shippers ship-pers in the southern district. The mine has not been worked for ten years, owing to the decline in lead and the advance in freight rates. Rabbi William Rice, formerly of Salt Lake, where he waa connected with the congregation of B'Nai Israel was one of the four persons indicted by the Los Angeles county grand jury, in connection with the suicide of Theodore Beaver, wealthy manufacturer. manu-facturer. Inspection find disinfection of. all railroad passengers from California bound for Arizona points became effective April 2S as a further safeguard safe-guard against spread of the foot and mouth disease to Arizna, under an executive proclamation issued by Governor Hunt of Arizona. Mrs. Sara E. Asliurst, mother of United States Senator Henry F. As-hurst As-hurst of Arizona is dead at Azusa, California. She had been critically 111 for several days. The city commissioners of Baker, Oregon have levied a license fee of $250 per year upon private automobile automo-bile camp touring grounds and fixed a maximum fee of 50 cents a night to be charged by the owners. GENERAL Two aviators, J. H. Green and H. R. Cruickshank, were killed at the Great Lakes naval training station at Waudegan, 111., when their seaplane sea-plane crashed into a tree from a height of 1000 or 1500 feet. Cruickshank Cruick-shank formerly lived in Cedar Rapids, Rap-ids, Iowa. Both were married. Charles Peter of Salt Lake City, president of the Consolidated Mascoi Mining Company pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging grand larceny, lar-ceny, in New York. Peter Roeder complained that he had paid $10000 for 1000 shares in a mine at Hailey, Idaho, on Peter's representation that there was $6,000,000 worth of ore at the mine ready for shipment. Suit for divorce brought by Jack Clifford, dancer, against Evelyn Nes-bit, Nes-bit, former wife of Harry K. Thaw, was restored to the trial calendar ol the Supreme Court of New York. Clifford had moved originally to have the case stricken from the calendar, but was said to have changed hrs mind. The dancer alleged infidelity infideli-ty in his complaint. His wife has filed a counter claim against him, also alleging unfaithfulness. Walter F. Daly, 55, for eighteen years first assistant United States district attorney of Colorado, was found dead in an alley in South Denver. Den-ver. Death was due to natural causes. Miss Dorothy Dalton, 2S. of the Bilent drama and Arthur Hammer-stein, Hammer-stein, 51, son of the lute Oscar Ham-merstein, Ham-merstein, and himself a theatrical impresario im-presario were married this week at Chicago. The ceremony was celebrated cele-brated very quietly, performed by ltabbi Hirshfield and attended by only a few relatives and friends. Harry K. Thaw was declared sane at Philadelphia by the jury that had been hearing testimony to determine his mental condition. The jury declared de-clared htm fully capable of looking after his estate. The Jury deliber-ted deliber-ted seven hours. WASHINGTON The amazing discovery has been made that the Daugherty investigating investigat-ing committee had lost, through theft and forgery vital papers and records belonging to Gaston P. Means, Investigator Inves-tigator extraordinary and principal aide to Senator Wheeler of Montana in the "prosecuting" of the former attorney general. The world court controversy flared up in the senate when Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman of tne foreign relations committee, and Senator Sen-ator Shipstead of Minnesota laid De-fore De-fore the senate a large bundle of petitions pe-titions in favor of American participation partici-pation in the court. Negotiations to continue the Taft Panama canal agreement in effect until June 1, have been opened between be-tween the Washington and Panama government. The agreement was to expire May 1 by arrangement entered enter-ed upon by the two governments when they began negotiations looking toward the construction of a treaty to supplant it. At that time it was thought a treaty could be drafted, ratified and put into effect by May 1, but that waa found impossible. A flat statement that "if by any chance the nomination" for the vice presidency "should be offered to me, I should decline to accept it," was made by General John J. Pershing. "Any statement that has been made that I would be a candidate for vice president has been made without my authority," said the general in a formal for-mal statement. "I am not a candidate, candi-date, and if, by any chance the nomination nom-ination should he offered to me, should decline to accept it." . House Republican leaders informed inform-ed President Coolidge that the house was aproaching conclusion of consideration con-sideration of constructive legislation, and that, so far as that body was concerned, congress would be able to adjourn June 1. The Mexican embassy announced receipt of advices from Mexico wljieli said that, with the occupation of the southeastern states, "that rebellion started last Deoember has come to 9n end and the authority of the gov ernment reestablished over the whole of the republic." A fourfold attack on the revenue bill sent to the- senate by the finance committee was outlined in the minority minor-ity report of the committee filed by Senator Jones, Democrat, New Mexico. Mex-ico. The first move toward carrying out the recommendations of the reclamation reclam-ation fact-finding committee was made in congress when Representative Representa-tive Leatherwood of Utah introduced the bill authorizing the construction of five new projects and Representative Represen-tative Smith of Idaho, chairman ot the irrigation committe, introduced the general hill proposing important changes in the reclamation law. FOREIGN Dr. Carl Helferich, eminent German' Ger-man' financial authority, and his aunt were among those killed in the collission of two express trains near Bellinzona, Switzerland. Holland will grant de jure recognition recog-nition to Russia within a short time, it was forecast authoritatively at Amsterdam. Rus-sia, according to this information, has made recognition by the Dutch government a condition for resumption of commercial relations between the two nations and Holland has agreed. Resolutions appealing to President Coolidge to veto immigration legislation legis-lation which would exclude Japanese from the United States were adopted at a mass meeting held under the auspices of newspapers of the Federation Feder-ation of Mercantile Guilds and attended at-tended by several thousand Japanese. Japan-ese. Two international de luxe tourist trains coming from Zurich and Milan respectively crashed in head-on collision col-lision shortly before dawn, killing thirty and injuring fifty, of which twenty are probably fatally injured. Both "millianaire' trains were carrying car-rying a heavy quota of "starving" German spendthrifts, who were leaving leav-ing the gay resorts of Paris and seeking new pleasures in other expensive ex-pensive tourist Meccas. If the present immigration bill before be-fore the American congress, restricting restrict-ing Russia's quota to 2000 annually, becomes a law, a number of Britisn steamship companies specializing ir transportation of Russian settlers tc the United States and Canada will be forced to abandon their business, it is declared. J. Sloat Fassett of Elniirrt, X. Y.. former congressman of the United States died at Vancouver, B. C. sooe after going ashore from the steam, ship Empress of Russia, after a visit to the Far East. He became ill sud. denly after landing. |