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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S 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 A fish hatchery to supply the streams of southwestern New Mexico will soon he established on the west fork of the Uhi river, according to ,T. I', Bengurd superintendent of the fish hatchery at Llhosa Springs. Edward Collett demonstrated in a brawl nt Ooldfleld, New, that his skull was impervious to a pistol bullet. The missile splintered when it struck his head, the larger portion of the slug being removed from Collet's skull with little inconvenience to him. Another fragment cut a furrow eight inches deep in a wall. i Last Sunday the Yukon river was frozen over at Dawson for the first time this winter, the latest date in the memory of the oldest sourdough residing in the territory. Three weather records have been broken this year. Last year the river was covered with ice on November 10. The season of navigation on the river opened May 10, 1923, two weeks earlier earl-ier than any on record here. From May to Novemer 24, the mean temperature tem-perature was 37 degrees Fahrenheit. Radio saved the lite of a sailor suffering suf-fering from acute gastritis aboard the steamer Venetian, 1200 miles out at sea, when officers of the vessel were able to treat the man according to directions wirelessed from Los Angeles An-geles by Major H. L. Heidreck of the United States public health service. Faces of prominent film actresses are being used for reproduction in wax figures, which are placed on display dis-play by department stores at Los Angeles An-geles as models. Wax reproductions of the movie stars are to be sent out through the country and used in department de-partment store advertising. With low-priced farm lands and heavy yields of grain in Alberta, Canada Can-ada tliis year, some farmers have been able to accomplish wonders in the way of financing their farms. Thirty airplanes, Including some torpedo planeB, all manned by naval airmen, will undertake a long and spectacular flight Immediately after tha conclusion of maneuvers with the United States battle fleet In Cari-bean Cari-bean waters next April it was announced an-nounced at San Diego, California. The crew of the F-5-L seaplane, composed of Lieutenant Earl Brix, pilot; W. Oesterman, seaman; C. D. Forsight, chief aviation rigger; E. B. Thornton, radio man, and Ande W. Nelson, chief electrician escaped death by a miracle when the airplane In which they were riding dived into the ocean twenty-five miles off San Diego. GENERAL Victorious over railroads, interur-ban interur-ban lines and rural chambers of commerce, com-merce, who opposed her. Miss Helen Schultz, 24 years old, owner of the Bed Ball bus lines, authorized by the Iowa railroad commission to operate a line between Des Moines and Mason Ma-son City, Iowa, is planning an extension exten-sion of her company. The United States shipping board has decided to sell the Skinner-Eddy shipyards at Seattle to the city of Seattle for 600,000. has been officially official-ly announced. The equipment in the yards will be placed on sale at a latter lat-ter date. The yards are expected to bring about $200,000. A bomb was ex-ploded on the doorstep door-step of the Spanish consulate on I'ine street Philadelphia. Scores of persons per-sons in the neighborhood were hurled hurl-ed from their beds, several bein,u' cut and bruised. No one was killed or injured, the police said. An organization movement to frustrate frus-trate ratification of the I,ausanne treaty by the United States senate was undertaken at the iale club by n group of InfluwitiS: Americans headed by James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany and now chairman of the American committee for the independence of Armenia. Dr. Stratton D. Brooks, president of the University of Missouri since July 1, was formally inaugurated Thursday. Presidents of a dozen state universities wer included among the 103 official delegates from educational institutions all over the cation. PERSONAL George A. Robinson, owner of the Clarence A. Wrotham shows and one of the best known showmen in America, Ameri-ca, died at Is Angeles in a hospital where he was taken 10 days ago, following fol-lowing a nervous breakdown. Winter headquarters of the show are in San Antonio, Tex. American withdrawal ' from the Philippines will be proposed in a resolution re-solution which Senator King, Democrat, Demo-crat, Utah, said he will introduce immediately im-mediately after the convening of the senate. Walter J. Harmon, alias Harold Steen, In charge of Police Inspector Tom Swennes of Portland, Ore., who had asserted that Harmon enacted marriage ceremonies with eighteen girls, arrived at Seattle from Juneau, Alaska, en route to Portland to answer an-swer charges of issuing and cashing worthless checks. Frederick Dixon, former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, died Sunday at New York. The venerable Archdeacon May, pioneer in the Northwest and best known for having translated the Bible in the Cree language is critically ill at North Battleford, Sask. He has served in the Northwest since 1S4S. The next major war "will be won or lost on the sufficiency of munitions muni-tions reserves," Major General Clar. ence C. Williams, chief of army ord. nance predicted in Lis annual report, made public Thursday at the war department at Washington. Answer to Mrs Guinevere Sinclair Gould's action to compel payment of interest on $l,00O,'000 In Liberty bonds left in trust for her by the late George Jay Gould was filed in chancery chan-cery court at Trenton, N. J. by the Commercial Trust company of New Jersey. President Coolidge took occasion a ueouay uo iet it De Known mat Major General Wood continues to have the support of the administration in the conduct of his duties as governor general of the Philippines. Representative Smith of Idaho Tuesday called on the secretary of war to allot, out of surplus war supplies, sup-plies, 20 five-ton and 10 10-ton caterpillar cater-pillar tractors to the Idaho state highway commission. This equipment, equip-ment, he reported, is urgently needed for road work in the state. Governor Louis F. Hart of Washington Wash-ington announced Monday before the state administrative board that for personal and family reasons he will not run for re-election as governor of Washington. FOREIGN By a vote of 193 to 1G6, the reich-stag reich-stag of Germany rejected the resolution resolu-tion to try von Kahr, Hitler and Lu-dndorff Lu-dndorff for high treason as the result of the recent outbreaks in Bavaria. The French parliament by one of the most sweeping votes of confidence in its history, approved the policy of the government of Premier Poincare in the recent negotiations in the council of ambassadors with regard to Germany. All the directors of the Krupp plant who were imprisoned last spring on charges of resistance to the French growing out of the riots at the Krupps on March 31, have been released says a Cologne dispatch. The apartment of Mrs. Oakley Maund, a wealthy widow in Westminster, Westmin-ster, wrs robbed of jewelry worth more than $350,000. The burglars entered en-tered the apartment unheard by four servants who were eating supper. Dr. Heinrich F. Albert, who was minister of the treasury of Germany under Chancellor Cuno, has accepted President Ebert's invitation to form a new cabinet. The Irish Free State government announced that six more Republican prisoners have ended their hunger strike after fasting for thirty-three days. Two hundred and thirty-seven, the statement adds are still going without food. The heavy rains of the Inst few days have done enormous damage to crops in many parts of the Philippines. Philip-pines. Rice and sugar cane losses were especially heavy. Cane milling was badly delayed. Thousands of acres of rice was flooded and in some cases washed entirely out. President Havenstein of the Reich-bank Reich-bank died suddenly at Berlin. He had lately had some differences of opinion with members of the cabinet regarding regard-ing the German government's financial finan-cial policy and it was known Hjal-mar Hjal-mar Shatcht was being considered as his probable successor. The scientists of the natural his- j tory department of the British museum mus-eum are delighted at a remarkable bequest from the late Nathaniel Rothschild in the form of the largest and most complete collection of fleas In the world. The collection comprises com-prises several thousand specimens, ea.cn carefully preserved in a tiny bottle. |