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Show HEWS STORY OF mm week A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World INTERMOUNTAIN. F. A. Ilnzeltine, editor o tliTT South Bend, Wash., .Journal, Wednesday re-relved re-relved appointment as general super-risor super-risor oC federal prohibition agents from Major Itoy Ilaynes, federal prohibition commissioner. Mr. Hazeltlne, who is at Tacoma attending a district conference con-ference of the Methodist church, announced an-nounced he will accept the post beginning be-ginning November 1. The nineteenth annual state fair of Montana opened Monday, with displays Biat, on the whole, are said to eclipse Ihe record, especially of agriculture and livestock products.' Inclement Iteather cut the attendance. Sixty-four trail blazers answered roll call Monday morning when the Montana Society of Pioneers began Its thirty-eighth annual meeting at the Judith club at Lewlston, Montana. It pas an inspiring scene when the white-hfiired white-hfiired members, still alert and active, exchanged greetings and took their teats. Los Angeles was named as the 1922 encampment of the United Spanish rar Veterans at the encampment at Minneapolis Wednesday after all other competing cities had withdrawn in favor of the California city. Census figures made public Thurs-Hay Thurs-Hay show there were 3149 illiterate per-aons per-aons ten years or over in the state of Wyoming in 1920, illiterate as used (neaning unable to read or write in any language. Only 320 were native white of native parentage, the remain-4er remain-4er being of foreign or mixed parent-fe parent-fe or of foreign birth. The percentage percent-age of illiteracy decreased from 3.3 iu 1010 to 2.1 In 1920. The city council of El Paso, Texas, adopted on first reading Thursday an ordinance forbidding public gatherings bf demonstrations of masked persons. Permits from the police chief, are nee-ssary nee-ssary for masked balls or carnivals. Supporters of the ordinance say it is aimed at the Kuklux Klau. John T. Simpson, founder of Jack son, Wyoming, an early resident of the Jackson Hole country and one of the oldest surviving pioneers of the west, died at his home at Jackson, September Septem-ber 4 at the age of SG years, after a brief illness, i The Utah advisory committee of the Btockgrowers' Finance corporation, the headquarters of which are in Chicago, met Saturday iu Salt Lake and approved approv-ed loans to Utah and Idaho cattle and sheep growers aggregating $122,000. These approvals bring the total amount of loans on which ,the committee has passed to more than $1,000,000 for the district. During the session, the report re-port of the executive committee of the Corporation to the National Livestock convention was considered at length, owing to the rules and regulations which it promulgated. . DOMESTIC- Judge P. O'Brien of Houghton, Mich., has been named permanent arbitrator for the United Brotherhood of Maintenance Main-tenance of Way Employes and Kail-way Kail-way Shop Laborers. w Sheriff A. X Baker of Hidalgo county, coun-ty, Texas, last Tuesday night delivered to military authorities at Fort Brown, thirty-two alleged draft evaders. They were arrested following publication of the slacker list of Hidalgo county. All bear Mexican names. A general reduction in prices, ranging rang-ing from house rents to costs of a divorce, di-vorce, is in effect in Gary, Indiana. The cuts follow closely the big reductions In wages of steel workers. Lower prices pri-ces were recorded in restaurants, house rents, clothing, etc. Physicians" reduced redu-ced their call charges to v2 and attorneys attor-neys announced a cut of from S100 to S 50 for handling divorce cases. All but two of the persons drowned In the Hood at :in Antonio, Texas, have been identified. The unknown was a white man about 40 years old und a Mexican boy. The death list fct:mi!s at lit: v-one. another body being found in the debris. 'Sewrsil IVrvliins was a passenger on the stea:nhip Paris, sailing for France '.';nrs'kiy, whore he will be-Mow be-Mow po.-: iitiTiiiiu-Oy upon an unknown French soldier the congres-sional lnodaJ of honor recently authorized by congress. Franklin Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy, Is suffering from a mild case of infantile paralysis, his physician, Dr. George Draper, announced announ-ced Thursday. According to Dr. Draper's Dra-per's diagnosis, made immediately upon up-on Mr. Roosevelt's arrival at the Presbyterian Pres-byterian hospital from Campobello, N. B., he Is slowly nearing recovery after suffering for four weeks. If there were more w omen preal-TTers in the pulpits there would be more men in thfe churches. Miss M. Madeline Southard, president of the International Internation-al Association of Women Preachers, told members of the organization at their convention at Chicago. Miss Southard accused men of feminizing the church and asserted if there were more women preachers, more men would become Interested In church work. Tl'.eodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary sec-retary of the navy, flew in an airplane from Washington to Camp Edwards Thursday to attend the state convention conven-tion of the American Legion at Ash-bury Ash-bury Park. The trip was made In two hours and ten minutes. After making' on address, Mr. Roosevelt returned to Washington by airplane. WASHINGTON. One of the two copies of Sie' treaty of peace signed between the United States and Germany at Berlin August 25 was received Monday at the state department. It was brought to America Amer-ica by H. R. Wilson, secretary of the American commission to Germany. The treaty is printed in English and German Ger-man in the usual form of parallel texts. A copy of the treaty with Austria also was received. Attacks on the 3 per cent immigration immigra-tion law are being made with the specific spec-ific intention of discrediting the law, Secretary Davis said Tuesday, adding that efforts to bring the law into disrepute dis-repute were more than likely to result, in congress shutting off immigration entirely. "We are going to stand by( the law," . he said, and reiterated a, statement recently made by President) Harding to the effect that most of the; difficulties In enforcing the law was due to the methods of dishonest steamship steam-ship companies. In 1917 and 191S tlvere was a shortage short-age of manganese ore in the United States owing to the impossibility of obtaining shipments from abroad. Because Be-cause of the necessity of discovering further domestic supplies a group of ten geologists of the United States geo- j logical survey, department of the in- J terior, made a rather careful examination examin-ation of districts throughout the country coun-try in which manganese ore was known or supposed to be present. Members of the senate committee investigating in-vestigating conditions in the West Virginia Vir-ginia coal fields will leave Washington soon for West Virignia with,' the intention in-tention of resuming tne inquiry in an informal manner. The subcommittee meeting in executive session Wednesday Wednes-day decided against immediate resumption resump-tion of the formal Inquiry in the coal ! fields, pending conclusion of the nnir- ! der and arson trials in Mingo county and the grand jury proceedings in Logan Lo-gan county. Distribution of wines for sacramental sacramen-tal purposes by wholesale dealers is to j be permitted for thirty days more, j Commissioner Blair said Wednesday. Regulations restricting sale of liquors at wholesale to manufacturers and ; wholesale druggists were suspended so j far as they applied to wines for re- j ligious purposes. I FOREIGN. j The lava in Halemaumau, fire pit of Kilauea volcano, is rising quite rapidly now, according to the latest reports of Volcanologist Jagger, and is only 200 feet below the rim of the pit. If the present rate of rise continues, Professor Profes-sor Jagger looks for an overflow at some time in October or November, probably accompanied by activity more spectacular than that seen during the eruption In March. A heavy blizzard swept over Swift Curren and the surrounding territory of Canada recently. Meager telegraphic telegraph-ic advices said that at 9 o'clock last Sunday morning the snow was fourteen four-teen inches deep on the level. A welcome exceeding anything ever : given to royalty was accorded Charlie i Chaplin, the famous American screen comedian, when he arrived in Londor recently from New York. A tremendous explosion in the for-j for-j iner German submarine le:::schland at : Birkenhead, across the r.orsey from ! Liverpool, killed three men and injured ( three others a few da;, s ago. It is j possible that many oii.ors perished. ; The submarine was being dismantled j at the time of the sxpbion, which oc-1 oc-1 ciirred in the engineron:.i from an tin-; tin-; known caue. The 1 ir::; -inland wa. j one of the submarines .-'lnvndered by the Germans under the terms of the 1 peace, treat j |