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Show TELEGRAPHIC JULES FOR BUSTMREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'8 DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Casoline may be purchased far 16 ccnlH a gallon nt the state supply depot at Mitchell S. I). The sharp cut In price, a reduction of 10 cents n gallon, from gas station prices prevailing pre-vailing throughout South Dakota, is Governor W. II. McMasler's answer to the contention of dealers that 20 cents a gallon is a fair price. Burled under such a weight of earth and rock that two hours were consumed con-sumed in recovering his body, Frank I). Voting, 50, a miner in the employ of Baxter & Itaxter, leasers, met his death Wednesday night on the 900-foot 900-foot level In the Ialy Judge mine when n caveln occurred at Park City, Utah. A fire discovered Thursday in the boiler room of the liner President Wilson, just as the ship was about to sail from San Francisco for the Far Fast has postponed the sailing for an indefinite period. Thirty-five persons were injured, three severely, and thousands of dollars dol-lars damage was done by a tornado that struck Leodl, Kansas, a town of 400 inhabitants, late Saturday, only one building, a bank was left standing stand-ing undamaged in the business district dis-trict of the town. The federal grand jury which Monday Mon-day indicted ten oil operators six of Texas and four of Los Angeles and one Los Angeles corporation, on charges of using the mails to defraud lias adjourned, subject to call. The Los Angeles men indicted were Martin J. and Bernard T. Cullen, Thomas V. King and Kobert A. Dennison, nil connected with the Great Aneglus Oil and Land corporation, which also was named in the bill. They are charged with having misrepresented as oil hearing land a tract in the Antelope valley in the northern part of Los Angeles county. GENERAL I'nder the vast dome of the Capitol with low spoken prayer and the tender words of old hymns, Warren G. Harding Hard-ing was given into God's keeping at noon Wednesday by the men of high place in the nation who had served with him in the short years of his leadership for the glory of the flag that was bis winding sheet. As simple sim-ple in its dignity and its high faith in the goodness of God as the man whose passing it marked, the religious ceremony cere-mony took a bare 20 minutes. Then, under the ceaseless vigil of motionless sentries who stood at the corners of the bier, the great doors were opened for the waiting thousands outside to pass slowly by the casket on which the sorrow of the nation and the world was poured out. Two men and a woman were blown to pieces when a small powder house of the Rosedale Goal company at Maidsville, W. Va., Thursday. Cause of the explosion was not determined. Nearly two score engine compantes fought a fire at the plant of the Albert Al-bert Schwall Malt company at Chicago which, it is estimated, has caused a loss of approximately $500,000. The plant consists of four buildings, two of them eight-story grain elevators. Two young bandits held up the David Da-vid J. Fried, manufacturing jeweler, offices on the seventh floor of a State street building at Chicago and escaped escap-ed with a box of unset diamonds valued valu-ed at between $15,000 and $20,000. President Coolidge apparently has "no present intention of calling an extra ex-tra session of congress, but those who called on him Monday received the Impression that he had not made a final decision. The possibility of an extra session was dscussed by the president with Samuel Gompers, president, pres-ident, and Frank Morrison, secretary, of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Gompers said the president appeared ap-peared to have no intention now of calling congress U;ether ahead of time, but was serving any definite decision. A. J. Wright, On, D. W. Hopper. SI, find Theodore Wright. S were drowned drown-ed in a tank on a ranch near Coleman. Cole-man. Texas. Hopper was rrachin-young rrachin-young Wright to swim and got beyond be-yond his depth. ' PERSONAL A cold 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. Mrs. Annie Hosier, mother of eleven children, who was pardoned by the late President Harding, following her conviction for violation of the liquor laws, was re-arrested Thursday on a similar charge. Janathan M. Davis, Kansas' governor, gover-nor, was seriously ill from influenza. President Coolidge has affixed his signature to a paper authorizing Mrs. Vila 15. Pugh, n clerk in the general land offtce, to sign his name to land grants. She is the only person in the service, of the country with authority to sign the president's name to official of-ficial documents. President Harding will not lie buried bur-ied beside his mother and sister in the Marion cemetery. His body, after the funeral services here Frday morning morn-ing will be placed in the receiving vault at the cemetery and lield there pending the rection of a mausoleum to receive it. Henry Ford Saturday postponed his annual vacation for a day in order that he might pay his lust respects to the man who "helped to give him his start." The funeral was that of Alexander Alex-ander Young Malcolmson, who gave the Ford Motor company badly needed need-ed financial support in its infancy. Mr. Ford acted as honorary pallbearer. pall-bearer. Governor General Leonard Wood was taken ill while entertaining guests at a luncheon at Manila, It is officially announced that the governor is suffering from an attack of pta-maine pta-maine poisoning. Leo F. Floyd, secretary, and John Harrington, teller, entered pleas of guilty to a charge of embezzling $22,-000 $22,-000 in liberty bonds of the closed Hibernia Bank & Trust company of Denver. The shortage in the hank's funds amounted to $4-43,000. JuSge George F. Dunkles, presiding, sentenced sen-tenced the men to serve from four to ten years in the penitentiary. FOREIGN As a result of various disturbances in Duesseldorf during the week end, the eastern frontier between occupied and unoccupied Germany will ba closed to ordinary travelers for one week. The agitation among the workers is becoming more serious daily, according ac-cording to both French and German sources of information. At the Schoegel and Eisen mines, near Reek-linghuasen, Reek-linghuasen, the miners locked the mine directors in their offices and declared themselves in control of the mines. Tlie Orepheum male voice choir of Cleveland, Ohio, composed mostly of steel workers, who years ago emigrated emigrat-ed from South Wales, won first place in the choral competition at the Welsh national eisteddfod, at Mold, Wales, the greatest song and poetry festival of Great Britain. All the shops in Berlin, with the exception of the provision stores are closed as a protest against the refusal of the authorities to allow prices to be fixed on a gold basis. Xew volcanoes are developing in the mountains of northern Spain, following fol-lowing an earthquake which destroyed villages, said a dispatch from Berdun Monday. Hundreds of persons whose homes were demolished are living in the open. Dispatches from Tsitsihar province of Holunklang, Manchuria, announce that 750 bandits were slaughtered by soldiers in the barracks there by command com-mand of the provincial tuchun, or military governor. The victims were among 1200 outlaws who surrendered recently and were being trained for the army of Chang Tso-Lin, the Man-churian Man-churian war lord. After nearly a month of inactivity, hostilities have again broken out between be-tween the Brazilian r?bels and regular reg-ular troops in the state of Bio Grande do Sul, says a despatch from Rivera to La Xaeion. The two forces clashed clash-ed about thirty miles from the Uruguay Uru-guay border. Many were killed and wounded on both sides. Details at the fight are lacking. The Turks refused to play their part in signing of the Turco-American treaty set for Saturday evening, and, instead, Ismet Tasha brought to Joseph Jo-seph C. Grew, head of the American negotiators, a new formula for the American claims, which probably will have to be submitted to Washington. General de Goutte of the forces of occupation has ordered nil boy scout organizations in the Rhinetand dissolved. dis-solved. He takes the grouDd that they endanger the scurity of the occupying oc-cupying troops. |