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Show All Corners Complete tf.story of the Pit Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMOUNTAIN. Waller Berge, 31 years of ege, 3208 , Stephens avenue, of Ogden, Utah, electrician elec-trician at the Thirty-first street and Lincoln avenue substation of the Utah Power & Light company, was instantly killed shortly after 4:1.) o'clock Thursday Thurs-day when his body came In contact with a wire carying about 400 volts of electricity. The largest funeral pyre to the memory mem-ory of John -Barleycorn since nationwide nation-wide prohibition went into effect, according ac-cording to csstoms officers, was fired at Baline Near Bellinghin, Wash, when whisky estimated at "bootleg prices" to be worth $150,000 was burned by a deputy United States marshal by order of the federal court in Seattle. The Olufs warehouse at Fresno, Cal.. was damaged badly by fire Thursday, with a loss on structure and contents estimated at $500,000 by the manager. Twenty carloads of raisins and dried fruit, with furniture and pianos and other goods stored in the building, were destroyed. Firemen and the building manager expressed belief that the fire was of incendiary origin. The drive for raising the necessary $1000 for finishing the tourist camp site near Fairview, Idaho which was interrupted by Uie closing, of the Bannock Ban-nock National bank, was resumed Thursday, and it appears that the money mon-ey will be quickly collected. The chamber cham-ber of commerce Is behind the drive, which was first initiated by the Bannock Ban-nock County Sportsmen's association. John Coryn of San Rafeal Cal., was found guilty Thursday of the murder of his two sons, aged 8 and 10 years, near here, April 24, and will be sentenced sen-tenced Saturday to life imprisonment in San Quentin, district attorney having hav-ing waived his right to ask for the death penalty. Coryn's defense was insanity. in-sanity. He had been an inmate of state hospitals on several occasions. I "The only bird I have' seen hovering hover-ing around here is an ostrich that was given us last Christmas and that is for . sale, cheap," Douglas Fairbanks declared Tuesday at Los Angles in denying published reports that his wife, Mary Pickford Fairbanks, is preparing pre-paring for a visit from the stork. "There is absolutely no truth in the report," continued Fairbanks. "If such a wonderful thing were' true, we would have no reason to deny it." DOMESTIC. As the result of a "strike" by patrons pat-rons against increased rates, begun three months ago, the Union Telephone company has closed its exchangs at Bloomfield Neb. State Water Commissioner Norviel of rhoenix, Ariz., Thursday accepted for filing the application of the Southern South-ern California Edison company to develop de-velop hydro electric energy from the Colorado river. Promoters of the project pro-ject say it involves an ultimate expenditure ex-penditure of about $SOO,000,000, or twice as much as the sum spent on the Panama canal. Governor Davis, of Idaho is confident that the McNary reclamation approp-raition approp-raition bill, carrying a total of $250,-000,000, $250,-000,000, will be passed by cong'ress. Since his return from a trip to Washington Wash-ington with other western governors interested in the passage of the measure, meas-ure, Governor Davis takes a very optimistic opti-mistic view of the outlook. President Harding has signified his willingness to address a mass-meeting to be held soon in Brooklyn for newly admitted citizens of the United States, it was announced Thursday by Federal Fed-eral Judge Garvin. Proposed reclamation projects in the West and those now under construction con-struction were discussed at a conference confer-ence at Denver, Friday which was attended at-tended by Director A. P. Davis of the United States reclamation service, Governor Gov-ernor D.W.Davis of Idaho, F. E. Weymouth, Wey-mouth, state reclamation engineer of Colorado, and other state officials. What railroad officals said probably was a deliberate attempt to wreck Illinois Illi-nois Central fast train No. 103, Louisville Louis-ville to New Orleans, took place at Epperson, Ep-person, five miles from Louisville, Monday. Mon-day. Three coaches and a locomotive tender partly overturned, but no one was seriously .injured, although many passengers were severly bruised. Enraged at the click of a camera among his folk, a 600 pound nun charged charg-ed Mrs. T. J. Stnhl of Waukegan, a suburb of Chicago, Wednesday with mich fury that it broke her right leg. I A flood which followed recent heavy rains Is forcing residents of Traer, Kan. to move, according to a dispatch from McCook, Neb., which says considerable damage to crops has resulted. - Thousands Thous-ands of acre are Inundated in the iein-ity iein-ity of Treat- and Cedar Bluffs, Kan., and the water is reported to be sixteen to eighteen feet high, the dispatch lidds. Both towns are situated near Beaver creek. When John H. . White of Kansas City Kansas, an overseas velern, reached home from work Thursday he found a notice from the war department depart-ment advising his wife that his body had arrived at New York from France and would be forwarded to her immediately. imme-diately. A small fire of unknown origin Tuesday Tues-day slightly damaged the steamship George Washington, which twice carried car-ried former President Wilson to France and hack. The steamer is in dry dock at Hoboken N. J. undergoing repairs. The blaze, which broke out on the hurricane hur-ricane deck, was extinguished less than an hour after its discovery. Drydock officials said the damage could be repaired re-paired within two days. Ford Motor No. 5,000,00 was turned out Saturday at the Higland park factory of the Ford Motor Co. at Detriot. It will probably stay in Detroit De-troit as part of the museum of Henry Ford. Denials that Governor Stephens of California already was determined to refuse to pardon Thomas Mooney alleged al-leged San Francisco Preparedness day bomber, were made at the governor's office Friday. WASHINGTON. Micheal J. Kelly is understood to have been selected by President Harding Hard-ing for superintendent of the San Francisco Fran-cisco mint. ' Mr. Kelly, who lives at Oakland, was recommended for the place by Senator Shortridge (Rep.) of California. Wallace R. Farrington of Honolulu, Hawaii, publisher of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, was nominated Thursday by President Harding to be governor of Hawaii, succeeding George J. McCarthy, McCar-thy, resigned. A joint resolution designed to prevent pre-vent wholesale importation of foreign goods preliminary to the enactment of a tariff law by congress was introduced Thursday by Chairman Little of the house committee on revision of laws. It would authorize the president to limit importations for ninety days. Exemption of foreign ship owners from American income and excess profits taxes, provided American shipowners ship-owners are given similar prilvlleges abroad, is proposed in bill introduced introduc-ed by Chairman Jones of the senate commerce committee. The bill is designed to aid the American merchant marine, he said Thursday. Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, Thursday eliminated himself from those under consideration by President Presi-dent Harding for chairman of the shipping ship-ping board. The Milwakee Leader and New York Call were restored Tuesday to the second sec-ond class mailing privileges, it was announced by the postoffice department. Use of the mails were denied these two daily newspapers by former Postmaster General Eurelson because of the character of the matter appearing in their columns in relation to American participation in the war. The supreme court, meeting Tuesday Tues-day for its regular decision day before be-fore the summer recess, adjourned until un-til Wednesday out of respect to the late Chief Justice Edward Douglas Whitte. The chair of the late Chief justice was shrouded in black, as was the doorway through which he used to enter the chamber. FOREIGN. Rear Admiral Sims of the United States was granted an honorary degree de-gree of doctor of laws Tuesday by the University of Cambridge, England. At the same time the Prince of Wales was accorded the same honor. A Korean tramway conductor named Lihanno became suddenly insane last Thursday and killed his wife and seven Japanese, including women and children, child-ren, with a sword. He wounded nine others seriously. The crew of the Gloucester schooner Esperanto was brought to port at Halifax Hali-fax N. S. by the Elsie, which had taken tak-en them off' the wreck of their craft at Sable island. The Esperanto winner of the international fishing vessel races here last fall, foundered after striking a submerged wreck they said. Four members of the police force were shot dead and three others wounded in an ambush at Clomore, county Kerry, c-ear Dublin Thursday it was announced at hendquaters here Friday. The killed were Police Inspector In-spector MacCaughey, a sergeant and two constables. The three men wounded wound-ed were constables. The customs house in Dublin, says a Central News dispatch from that city, was-burned Wednesday nfternoon. The burning, adds the message, is attributed at-tributed to Sinn Feiners. |