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Show TELEGRAPH TALES FOR BOSnEADEBS RESUME OF TH WEEK'3 DOINGS IN THI8 AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Matthew Decker, held as a suspect in the slaying of Walter W. Power, automobile salesman, was postively identified in Los Angeles by Mrs. Ethel Garcia as the man she saw running from the scene of the killing, it was announced at the district attorney's attor-ney's office. Two more large Nevada wool clips have been disposed of, according to word received in Elko, the first bringing bring-ing the top price so far recorded of 48 cents, and the second bringing 43 cents. The top price clip is that of Adams and McGill in White Pine county, amounting to approximately 200,000 pounds and is one of the largest larg-est in the eastern part of the state. The U. S. S. Idaho football eleven won the United States battle fleet championship for the fourth time in the last five seasons, defeating the U. S. S. Melville, 13 to 9 at Trona field, California. Effective immediately an embargo was declared by the California state department of agriculture on the importation im-portation into California of live poultry poul-try consisting of chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, pigeons and pea fowl from the states of North Dakota, Da-kota, South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. Choking her daughter, Martha, 5, to death with a rope, Mrs. Freda Toulsen, 42, went to the 'barn on her Selnia ranch home near Fresno, Calif., put a rope over a rafter and around her neck mounted a barrel and shot herself through the mouth the woman's wo-man's husband told police. Both died almost instantly, it is believed by Svend Toulsen, the husband, who found the bodies when he returned to his home from work on the ranch. Bloody finger prints on a water faucet and washbowl supplied the only clues the police had to the murderer mur-derer who killed Nels Anderson and his wife in their combination barber shop and beauty parlor at Billings, Mont., by spliting their heads with an ax. The two were found dead in their place of business, with the blood smeared ax nearby. The mercury dropped 8 degrees below be-low zero on December 9th, at Rock Springs, Wyo., the first time it has been below zero this year. A light snow preceding the drop in temperature tempera-ture materially alleviated drought conditions which have beeu threatening threat-ening the sheep industry. GENERAL Statements by a number of university univer-sity law school deans indorsing the child labor amendment to the constitution consti-tution were made public by the headquarters head-quarters of the national organization associated for the ratification of the amendment. The Missouri Pacific railway, which, through recent acquisition of control in the Gulf Coast lines and the International In-ternational Great Northern railroad became the largest transportation system on the United States announced announ-ced the purchase of fifty additional locomotives, 3000 freight cars ana forty cabooses at an aggregate cost of about $9,000,000. - James Higgeson, 62, of Oklahoma City, conductor on a St. Louis and San Francisco train, was suffocated while directing passengers to safety when fire destroyed two coaches of his train. "That provision in the house inserted in-serted by Congressman Crumton of Michigan, which requires settlers on the new Salt Lake basin irrigation project to pay interest on deferred payments, will be stricken out when the bill reaches the senate, if it is not eliminated by the house," said Senator Reed Smooc, and the senator sen-ator is in a position to speaK authoritatively au-thoritatively because he is chairman chair-man of the senate subcommittee that will handle the interior department bill. But Representative I.e;' therwood intends, if possible, to have this interesting in-teresting feature stricken out 1ef-re thh bill passes the house. Government construction of a $30,-000,000 $30,-000,000 flood condition dam at Boulder Bould-er canyon on the Colorado river was proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Rep-resentative Fredricks, Republican ot California. Samuel Gompers, who for nearly a half century led the labor ranks of the country was buried near the graves of some of the wealthiest and most prominent men of America. Ameri-ca. The Gompers plot in Sleepy Hollow Hol-low cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y. is within 200 feet of the grave of Andrew An-drew Carnegie and about the same distance from the mausoleum of William Wil-liam Rockefeller. Also near by are the graves of John D. Archbold, once president of the Standard Oil company, com-pany, and Carl Schurtz. Mr. Gompers Gom-pers purchased the burial plot about 1000 square feet in area, five or six years ago. No member of the family has heretofore been buried in the plot. Representative Colton of Utah introduced in-troduced a measure under which jurisdiction jur-isdiction would be conferred on the court of claims to adjudicate all claims between the United States and the Uinta and White River tribes of Ute Indians. A bomb explosion demolished the front porch of the home of Franklin Lorraco, who had received threatening threaten-ing letters demanding $5000. Orlando Morganti, who lived on the first floor had received a warning that he should move, as the building was to be destroyed. Charles H. Burke, commissioner of Indian affairs, was charged with maladministration mal-administration of the oil-bearing estates es-tates of three Indians of the Creek tribe in a sworn statement inserted in the Congressional Record by Representative Rep-resentative Howard, Democorat, Oklahoma. Ok-lahoma. Senator King of Utah, a member of the senate naval committee, announced an-nounced he would oppose passage of the bill for additional cruisers when t is brought up again in the senate and that he planned to introduce a resolution calling for a thorough investigation in-vestigation of the navy, with a view of obtaining sufficient appropraitions to put it in first-class condition. The city of Philadelphia was given permission by President Coolidge Cool-idge to retain Brigadier General Smedly D. Butler of the United States ' marine corps as its director of pub-lie pub-lie safety for another year, but was reminded that "locol self-government cannot be furnished from the outside." out-side." FOREIGN William Van Anden Hester, president presi-dent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle corporation cor-poration died of heart failure at his summer home at Glencove, after an illness of several months. He was 66 years of age. Mr. Hester was the son of Colonel William Hester, former for-mer president of the corporation, and nephew of Isaac Anden who founded the paper in 1841. The red flag of the Union of Socialist So-cialist Soviet Republics, as Russia now is officially named, was ceremoniously ceremon-iously hoisted from the Russian embassy em-bassy at Paris. Leonid Krassin, the ambassador issued a note saying that the cermony took place in the presence pres-ence of the embassy staff and "every citizen of the union who is in Paris." H. Jalmar Branting, premier of Sweden, is seriously ill, according to advices reaching Copenhagen. It was said that he had developed inflama-tion inflama-tion of the lungs and that grave fears for his recovery were entertained. A dispatch to La Nacion from Rio Janeiro says the Brazilian government govern-ment has decided to lift the state of siege in the state of Sao Paulo. Assurance that the United States would be represented at the proposed conference on the traffic in arms, to be held in Geneva in April or May. 1925, was expressed in a reply to the league of nations invitation received re-ceived by the secretariat at Geneva from the American state department. After a six-hour hearing in camera Judge I'lhl remanded the Iiev. Dr. Anton l'ast, American Methodist Episcopal bishop of . Scandinavia, for a period of three weeks without bail. Pr. Bast was arrested on a charge of misappropriating charity funds in Copenhagen. Co-penhagen. Prince Alexander Trubetzko.i, the adopted son of a Russian admiral. Prince Wladimir Tmbetzkoj, has 4een sentenced to tnree years in prison for a series of sleeping car robberies. After a summary court martial at Khartum, following the recent nu-tiny nu-tiny of the Sudanese battalion, four officers were sentenced to death and three of them were executed hy shooting. The sentence of the fourth was commuted to fiftteen years' im-prisonuinL |