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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE PAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout die World WESTERN Is 'i'impanogos cave in American Fork canyon, Utah, which has been partly explored by thousands during the last two years, the property of the United States or does it belong to private pri-vate Interests? This is a question which the supreme court of the United Unit-ed States may be called on to decide. Returning to his home for the first tirr.e in two years Senator William B. Borah arrimd in Nampa from Washington Wash-ington 1). C. The question of whether criminal proceedings against four officers of the defunct Burley state bank will le dropped or continued, will lie ar-jui-d in supreme court, it was announced an-nounced liy the clerk of the court. Governor MaJbey of Utah and Governor Gover-nor Emmet D. Boyle of Nevada will nttend the luncheon to be given at San Francisco by the Victory Highway High-way association. Means of financing the transcontinental highway route through Utah and Nevada will be discussed. dis-cussed. One of the largest livestock deals in Idaho for some time was consummated consummat-ed when representatives of the 'Swift and Henry interests, contracted for 3f,000 head of sheep, to be shipped from Idaho Falls, Weiser and Mountain Moun-tain Home. Thirty days in jail or $100 fine or a combination of both is the maximum penalty in Walla Walla, Washington's hew pure advertising ordinance, passed pass-ed by the city commissioners at the request of the local ad club. Three Americans, held at Juarez, following an attempt to smuggle a California ciiminal Across the international inter-national boundary, have been freed. More than a tcore of pasengers were injured, ten of them seriously, In a crash between two street cars at Denver. Den-ver. Toison oak comes under the head ing of industrial injuries, the California Califor-nia industrial commission! ruled in awarding $33.19 to B. P. Porter for compensation oecaute of having been infected while hauling gravel. Miss Kathryn Miller, a student at the University of California and the daughter of a wealthy Oakland ice cream manufacturer, was in the Berkley, Berk-ley, Calif., county jail serving a 48-I 48-I hour sentence. She pleaded guilty to I speeding. The presiding magistrate I vgave Miss Miller the privilege of sur-I sur-I rendering her motorist's license for I eix months in lieu of the jail sentence. I Miss Miller took the sentence. I GENERAL I That President Harding expects to I return to the scene of his birth and I boyhood days on his retirement from I the hW'ite House became a possibility I -when French Crow, postmaster at I Marion, Ohio, and personal friend of I the president, acting in behalf of the I chief executive, bought the old Hard-I Hard-I ing homestead, near Mount Gilead, I Ohio. I Isadore Duncan and her exuberant I young poet-husband. Serge Yessenin, I were permitted to land in the United I States after the department of justice I had detained them for twenty-four I hours. I The United States dreadnaught, 1 Utah, with Vice Admiral A. T. Long, I commander in chief of the European I station, has arrived at Gibraltor. I Tosses of farmers are scouring the I entire section of the ,oounty with I renewed energy for two lions, report- I ed to have been seen several times I near Mount Victory, Ohio. I Many German hospitals have been I forced to close their doors because I of the high prices and the scarcity of I necessary supplies. General NIder has been appointed I commander-in-chief of the Greek army. I The government hopes further to re- I inforce the army thnugh the popular I call for volunteers. 1 "White" forces which have been I harrying soviet detachments on the I outskirts of the Vladivostok area, I have clashed with troops of the Far I Eastern republic of Siberia at Kim- I bor vs!c. I .lames Bell. 10". believed to be Wis- I consin's old st resident, is dead, tit I his home a; Abrams. He was bora in I trelr.nd and came to America when 21. WASHINGTON With an old slouch bat cocked on the side of his heart, Uncle Joe Cannon Can-non started out by automobile for Danville, III., traveling over the old National pike bis parents took eighty-three eighty-three years ago in emigrating westward. west-ward. An appeal to the newly formed national na-tional organization of .reserve officers of the army in session here to use Its 1 influence against "false economy'1 in army appropriations was made by General 'Pershing. Mrs. W. H. FeJton, 87 years of age, of Carterville, (!., became the first woman member of the United 'States senate when she was appointed by Governor Thomas W. Harding to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson. The state of Utah was granted permission per-mission in the supreme court to file a brief in support of the motion of the state of Colorado and others for a rehearing re-hearing in the ease brought by the state of Wyoming which resulted in a decision last spring in which the court held priority of Impropriation was controlling in establishing the right to use water taken from interstate that "certain represents fives of the department of justice" converted to their own use large stocks of liquor seized in the enforcement enforce-ment of prohibition laws were made in a special report filed by the District Dis-trict of Columbia grand jury. Only four cities in the country have a higher birth rate than Salt Lake City, according to data gathered by the census bureau. The birth rate in Salt Lake City is twenty-eight per thousand of population, a rate exceeded exceed-ed only in Fall Iiiver and New Bedford, Bed-ford, Mass., and Hartford and Bridgeport, Bridge-port, Conn. Fifty-eight army cantonments, flying fly-ing fields and depots have been eliminated elim-inated from the lists of military posts administered by the war department. Troops have been moved from them to permanent stations. United States government has filed suit in the United States court in Day-ion Day-ion Airplane company, formerly known as the Dayton Wright Airplane company, com-pany, seeking to recover $"2,408,207.41 at C per cent interest from June 31, 1919, alleged to have been fraudulently paid to the company by government officials. Exports of cotton decreased In volume vol-ume but increased in value during August as compared with August, 3921, according to foreign trade reports re-ports issued by the commerce department. depart-ment. A tentative value, of $5,894,000 was fixed by the interstate commerce commission com-mission upon the properties of the Bingham & Garfield railroad in Utah. The corporation estimated the value of its own investments in land and transportation facilities at $6,496,000. An indictment against approximately approximate-ly 85 per cent of the corporations, firms and individuals engaged in producing pro-ducing sanitary pottery in this country coun-try was made public by William Hay-ward, Hay-ward, United States attorney for the southern district of New York. The indictment names twenty-three companies com-panies and twenty-four individuals. FOREIGN Announcement that big oil interests will soon start drilling for oil in the Cold bay district of Alaska promises to bring the thrilling scenes of gold rush days to life again. Attempts are being made by miners in the southern fields of New South Wales to bold up the production ot coal, and the men are threatening to strike. Republicans made a surprise attack on the nationdlist garrison at Omeath, County Louth, Ireland, and a sharp three-hour fight ensued. It is reported report-ed that ten republicans were killed and many wounded. At least three mining towns have been wiped out by forest fire burning over a wide area in northern Ontario. Former Premier Venizelos of Greece called on Ambassador Harvey and asked ask-ed the ambassador to send a mesage to Washington requesting the United States government to intercede with the allies and request them to occupy Thrace pending the final disposition oT that territory. It is reported that opposition among members of the family of the former kniser t his marriage to princess Hemiine of Keuss is in no wise diminished, di-minished, although the former crown prince is declared to have yielded to the arguments of his father and is now disposed to give an unwilling consent. con-sent. The former emperor has defied (his family and insists on the marriage. |