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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYBEADEBS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Repot-tei' by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for tho Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Four men were severely burned when bullets from the coast guard cutter Areata, seeking rum smugglers, smug-glers, pierced the gasoline tank of their motorboat in Mutiny bay, eighteen eight-een miles north of Seattle, Wash. Three of the four men were wounded by bullets. Adolph B. Spreckels, nationally known sugar magnate manufacturer and sportsmen, died at his home at Snn Francisco. Investigation has revealed that 89.08 per cent of Lewis county bees are la a diseased condition according to B. A. Slocum, apiary specialist of Washington State college at Pull-mnn. Pull-mnn. J. O. Wallace of Chehalis lias been made inspector of this district in hopes of removing what is regarded re-garded as a serious condition. A water well that cost the Green River water works $3000 to drill is a gift by that corporation to the people of Rock Sprigs, Wyoming for their proposed city park near No. 6. The only provision is that the city pay the cost of the casing which is estimated at $475. Mrs. Kennie Solomon Adler of San Francisco voluntarily relinquished relinquish-ed her claim to the $100,000 estate of her late husband, John S. Adler, in order that it might go to his sister, sis-ter, Miss Clara Adler of the Elms hotel, Chicago, when Adler's will came up for probate in superior court. Mrs. Henry Landes, wife of the dean of science in the University of Washington and acting mayor of Seattle in the absence of Dr. Edwin J. Brown, mayor, at the Democratic national convention in New York City, has taken personal charge of the police department. Mrs. Landes removed William B. Severyne from the office of chief of police, after she had given him twenty-four hours to effect reforms in the city and in his department, and he defied her. Fresno, Calif. General Grant national na-tional park, with its' towering sequoias, sequo-ias, has been saved from the flames which for three days have swept menacingly toward it. A battle at the county road leading into the park and along Mill Creek, several miles from the park, has succeeded it was declared by fighters. The main effort is now being made to save the $1,000,000 grove of giant redwoods' on Redwood mountain on the eastern side of the fire. Gearhart, Ore. Taxation of electric elec-tric light and power companies in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Utah has increased 42 per cent in the last three years', according to statistics assembled by George L. Myers, president of the Northwest Electric Light and Power association and presented at Thursday night's session of the association's annual convention. This percentage of tax increase, President Myers declared, is greater than the combined increase in the amount of money invested, the gross1 revenues, expense of operation net revenue and fixed charges of all the companies in this geographic division. di-vision. GENERAL Cyrus E. Woods, ambassador to Japan has formally presented his resignation re-signation to President Coolidge and it was accepted with an expression of appreciation for his services.. Inferring Infer-ring to the Japanese exclusion provision provi-sion in the immigration law. Mr. Woods declared Japan was conducting conduct-ing herself in the situation "with the dignity of a great nation." The department of agriculture has won its contest for the right to inspect in-spect the books and records of the packing companies when Federal Judge Cliffe at Chicago issued a writ of mandamus directing that all such records be opened to the department inspectors. A twisting tornado that whirled out of the west last Saturday took six lives in Sandusky, Ohio, leveled approximately 200 dwellings, destroyed des-troyed twenty-five business places, injured more than 100 persons and caused a property damage variously estimated at between $1,500,000 and 12,000,000. Loss of life in Saturdays tornado which wrecked a large portion of Lorain and parts of Sandusky and other Ohio cities, was not as great as first reported, but rechecking of casualties showed that more than 100 persons lost their lives in this storm and almost simultaneous disturbances at Pittsburg and in the upper Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley. Russel McDaniel, aged 18, of Mat-toon, Mat-toon, 111., was instantly killed in a baseball game at Johnstown, 111., twenty-five miles southeast of Mat-toon Mat-toon between a Mattoon team and a Johnstown and Trilla nine. McDan-a.1s McDan-a.1s was batting and was hit on the head with a ball. Resolutions holdng that the church in passing on an act for the declaration declara-tion of war invades the perogatives of the state and declaring for fundamentalism fun-damentalism were passed at Sunday's Sun-day's s-ession of the pastoral confer-erenoe confer-erenoe of the northern Illinois district of the Missouri synod of the Lutheran church. More than 20 ministers attended, at-tended, representing a membership of 1,200,000. Sweeping a patch about fifty miles wide, with Peoria, 111., as its center, a tornado struck this vicinity at 2:30 a. m. Saturday, claiming the lives of four persons, injuring seventeen others oth-ers and piling up damages which will run into the millions of dollars, according ac-cording to estimates. Plans for . the evacuation of the Dominican republic by the United States marines, who have been stationed sta-tioned there for almost seven years, have been completed with the assign, ment of the naval transports Henderson,-Kittery, Beaufort and Jason to the task of removing the 1S00 men now on the island. The evacuation will start as soon as possible after July 10. Suit for $25,000 damages wirs filed in supreme court at New York by Mrs. Mary Carey of New Kochelle, against the manufacturer and seller of a "hot cross bun" that last April caused her she says, to lose all her front teeth, injure her jaw and gums, and permanently impaired her personal per-sonal appearance. . She says the bun contained a wire nail. Bishop Levi L. Coppin of the African Afri-can Methodist Episcopal church is dead at Philadelphia of pneumonia. He was 70 years old. Bishop Copping Cop-ping had supervision over the Fourth Episcopal district, which comprises the states of Michigan, Illinois and Indiana. Definite assurance that the premier's pre-mier's conference in London will be restricted to a discussion of the Dawes plan for reparation settlement and that the subject of interallied debts will not be permitted to come forward has reached the Washington government. FOREIGN American Ambassador Crowder has sailed for New York from Havana, Hav-ana, Cuba en route to Washington where after a conference with secretary secre-tary Hughes, he expects to visit relatives rela-tives in Denver, Colo. General Crowder Crow-der appeared to be feeling well despite des-pite a fall from an elevator recently. Premier Mussolini of Italy will not represent his country at the interallied inter-allied conference on reparations here next month, because of the disturbed international situation in Italy following fol-lowing the assassination of the Socialist Social-ist deputy, Matteotti, by the fascisti, a Central News Rome dispatch said. Enough pulpwood to supply the western part of the United States with newsprint paper for fifty years is available in Alberta, Canada, according ac-cording to a report compiled by C. H. Morse, chief ranger for the province. pro-vince. Pulpwood resources in the province total 247,800,000 cords. Isolation of the leper is one of the serious problems of India, according to Dr. A. R. J. Douglas of Rangoon, Burma, who is in the Philippines to make a detailed study of conditions, of lepers in the Islands and the methods of treatment employed at Culion, where 5500 lepers are confined. con-fined. Fifty-six natives are believed to have been drowned by the capsizing of a large sail boat en route from Borbon, Province of Cebu, ti Leyte, according to a dispatch to the constabulary con-stabulary from Cebu. It is stated that six survivors landed on a small island near Leyte. Roald Amundsen, the explorer, who has been preparing for an airplane expedition to the North Pole, has announced an-nounced that the trip has been postponed post-poned because of economic difficulties, difficul-ties, according to a dispatch from Pisa, Italy. Captain Amundsen de-clered de-clered it would be out of the question for his expedition to start this year. |