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Show All Corners of the Earth Complete Hirtorr of the Pm tyeck Told in Paragraph Prepared for the Btuy Reader INTERMOUNTAIM. The eastern Sibera') republic with heudquiinrs ut Chita fias been overthrown over-thrown by t lie nnti-IIoIslievTki forces according to unconlined reports from foreign sources received til Vlafltvosrr S'liese reports deel ired the mil i lary stores of the Oil' i government hiul been fired and t int the government had fled to Manc'.airia. Reports have been received at Tase-flena, Tase-flena, California, of the death in the Arizona desert of August Kaufman, a cement contractor of that city, who perished of thirst while wandering in search of aid for his family. His daughter Lillian, aged 3, died during the wanderings of 72 hours. Mrs. Kaufman and two surviving children were rescued by ranchers. The War Mothers of t.'io southeastern southeast-ern Idaho district, comprising Ban-Dock, Ban-Dock, Oneida, Bear Iake, Franklin and Oaribou counties, will be the guests of tlie Soda Springs chapter August 25 and 26. Frank DeKay of Blackfoot Btate War Mothers will be present nnd address those in attendance. The meetings will be tield at the Presbyter-Ian Presbyter-Ian church. An effort Is being made to take the delegates on a tour of the bear-by country. V David Reese, restaurant manof Colorado Col-orado Springs, Colo., had a premonition premoni-tion a month ago that he would kill his wife, so he asked The police to lock him up to protect her life. Four days later he was released at his wife's request. Thursday he shot her and threw her body out of a second-story second-story window. He then turned the weapon wea-pon on himself, dying instantly. His wife died at a hospital. They had five children. Engineers of the Idaho reclamation service will begin work in the near future boring foundation test holes tor the Black Canyon dam, according to information coning from authentic sources, DOMESTIC. Election betting has started in Wall street witli the odds heavily in favor of Mayor Hylan of Now York, and the Democratic ticket. Democratic money, t lie brokers report, is very plentiful, and by no means all of it is bein. taken. The odds are two to one tlr.it :he entire Tammany ticket will win and two and a lull! to one that Hylan will be reelected. Even money is being offered, of-fered, without takers, that the mayor will carry every borough in it'.e city and odds of one to four that he will double Cumin's vote. L. IT. Heitmanli, CI, world's champion cham-pion stay at home, died at Burnside la., Wednesday. He lived all his life within three miles from where he first saw light, had twelve children, and died two miles from where he was T)orn. J. S. Crowell, former owner of the Crowell Publishing company, Spring-held, Spring-held, O., publishers of the Woman's Home Companion and Farm and Fireside, Fire-side, died early Wednesday in a hospital hos-pital in Cincinnati. He had been ill with cancer for many months. The board of trustees of the University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, at a special meeting Wednesday in response to the request of Secrtary of War Weeks, released Major General Leonard Wood until September 1, 1P22, from his agreement agree-ment to become head of the university. This action leaves the general free to accept the appointment of President Presi-dent Harding as governor general of the Philippines. Music to improve the morale of workers whose duties take them well Into the wee, small hours has been tried out in theMinneapoHs postolfice and proved a success. E. A. Purdy, postmaster post-master at that place so informed Postmaster Post-master at that place.so informed Postmaster Post-master General Havre. The idea was tried, Mr. Purdy said, after he had made a psychological study of conditions condi-tions under which his night force worked. He found men working away from the general noises of the day as a rule showed a low morale, inclined to be morose and generally worried at being away from their families, which resulted in an absence of enthu-siasin enthu-siasin in their work. Exports of both cotton and wheat increased in volume, but declined Id value during July as compared with last year, commerce department figures fig-ures Thursday disclosed. Cotton exports ex-ports amounted to 527,000 bales, valued val-ued at $32,000,000, compared with 211,000 bales worth $44,000,000 a year ago. Wheat exports aggregated 25,000,000 bushels at $37,000,000 us against 24,000,000 bushels at 870,000,-000 870,000,-000 Last year. Sixteen delegates will represent Colorado Col-orado at tlie fourteenth annual convention con-vention of the National Tax association, associa-tion, which will lie held in Bretton Woods, X. H., September 12 to 10, inclusive, in-clusive, Governor Siioup announcing the list -Monday, headed by Artorney-Geueral Artorney-Geueral Victor E. Ke ts. There was generdi agre;;r.ienl at the museum of natural history at New York Thursday that the homing pigeon pig-eon which flew inic ' olumbus circle and incidentally into uil the newspapers newspa-pers wiTh a message from Yellowstone Yellow-stone park announcing that E-Jmund Heller, the naturalist, was lost in 'the Hoodoo mountains and in need of immediate im-mediate assistance, had flown from the hands of some joker. It was pointed point-ed out that no bird could possibly make such a flight In the time elapsed August 13 when the alleged mes-age mes-age from Heller was dated. WASHINGTON. Grain men from practically every state west of the Mississippi river are in Washington prepared to begin presentation pre-sentation of testimony before the interstate in-terstate commerce commission intended intend-ed to show cause for reductions in freight rates on grain produots and hay. The hearings are expected to continue five days. Woodrow Wilson's first appearance Wednesday at his law offices here was taken by his friends as evidence of the former president's Improving physic-.! condition. Balnbridge Colby, former secretary of state and Mr. Wilson Wil-son s law partner, also was at the new offices, where Mr. Wilson spent some time in cooference with clients. Secretary Hughes was asked in a resolution adopted Wednesday by th senate to transmit a list of all Americans Ameri-cans aboard the Lusitania when suLk by a German submarine together w'ith a statement of claims filed for damages dam-ages and steps taken toward p.djust-menr, p.djust-menr, and copies of all cor-espond-ence between the state department and German government on the subject. Butter produced from sour cream the acidity of which has been re3uced by neutralizing agents before churning, churn-ing, is not adulterated butter or taxable tax-able as such under an opinion by Attorney At-torney General Daugherty made public Wednesday. The bill providing for federal regulation re-gulation of the meat packing indurtry has been signed by President Harding, it was announced at the White House Wednesday. U.'ider the law the secretary sec-retary of agriculture is given broad powers of contiol and supervision of the industry. FOREIGN. A reception greater'so far as the size of the crowds and enthusiasm was concerned than given them at any place in France they have thus far visited with the exception of Paris, was accorded ihe delegation of American Ameri-can Legion members ot Lyons, Tuesday They arrived after an all-day trip 'by train from Toulouse. Twenty-four Poles were killed and many wounded Wednesday in a fight between Germans and regular Polish troops near the frontier vlllagis of Sternalitz and Kostellitz, in Upper' Silesia. Si-lesia. The Germans drove the Poles across the frontier. m Uncertainty over the Irish situation has caused the English government to change its plans, and instead of proroguing pro-roguing parliament as hrtW been intended, in-tended, it will merely be adjourned until un-til October IS. The speaker, In the interval, will have the power -to convoke con-voke parliament should Irish developments develop-ments necessitate it. Premier Lloyd George is expected to make a statement state-ment on the Irish situation Just before be-fore adjournment. Creation of the permanent court of international justice is assured, it ia announced at Geneva. The secretariat of the league of nations has been informed in-formed that Spain and Haiti will soon deposit their ratifications of the agrce-mentto agrce-mentto establish the coii'-r and when they are received the n : iher of nations na-tions which have dopus; m.1 ratifications ratifica-tions will have reached twenty-four, the requisite number. If they are received re-ceived in time, the as.-emhly of the league of nations which w:U meet nrxt month, will be able to elect the judges snH orrtit itt tho rmirt. |