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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSTJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Sevan Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Governor A. T. Hannett of New Mexico has advised Governor Clarence Clar-ence C. Morley of Colorado that he had affixed his signature to the public pub-lic statement drawn by governors of tho upper Colorado River basin states at Denver defining the stand of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico Mex-ico with regard to development of the river. The horticultural experiment work of Luther Burbank, aged plant wizard wiz-ard of Santa Rosa, Calif., will be taken tak-en over by the Stanford university which will raise an endowment fund to secure perpetuation of Burbank's eervices for humanity. A guarantee fund of $25,000 has been pedged to the Pendleton, Oregon, Ore-gon, Roundup association by the business busi-ness and professional men of the city for its use in the event of bad weather weath-er that might reduce attendance at the show, September 1G to 19. Stricken as he was returning from the scene of a wreck of two Colorado & Southern railroad trains near May-ne, May-ne, Colorado, John H. Adams, division divi-sion superintendent of the system, with headquarters at Trinidad, Colorado. Colo-rado. Paralysis caused death. John W. Vivian of Denver, Colorado, Colora-do, formally took over his duties as administrator for prohibition enforcement en-forcement district No. IS on September Septem-ber 1st. The district embraces Colorado, Colo-rado, Utah and New Mexico. Mr. Vivian Vi-vian announced the following appointments: appoint-ments: Deputy for Colorado, I. S. T. Gregg of Golden; for New Mexico, C. H. Stearns of Albuquerque, with headquarters head-quarters in Albuquerque; for Utah, J. E. Richards of Salt Lake City with headquarters there. Ralph Dixey has left Blackfoot, Idaho, Ida-ho, with 17 Indians, and a number of papooses for Jackson Hole, where they will be filmed for a photo play which the Fox Film company is to bring out soon. Tom Mix and his party passed through Blackfoot some time ago for the same country on a similar mission. After the Indians are filmed in the Jackson Hole country coun-try they are to be taken to California Califor-nia where the picture will be finished. fin-ished. GENERAL Fourteen of the crew of the Shenandoah, Shenan-doah, giant dirigible, are dead, and two others were seriously injured when the pride of the United States navy cracked near Caldwell, O., during dur-ing a severe storm on its western cruise from its Lakehurst, N. J., air port. Among the dead is Lieutenant Commander Zachary Laudsowne, captain cap-tain of the ship. Flood waters of the Rio Grande river, which burst through the levee on the outskirts of El Paso drove 500 families from their homes and caused damage now estimated at $400000 . Refugees hurriedly carried their household furnishings and other valuables into Washington park, established es-tablished as a refugee's camp by city officials. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the late Wiliam Jennings Bryan, plans to obtain a seat in congress "as the lady from Florida." John P. Inman of Springfield. 111., past department commander of Illinois Illin-ois was chosen commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. to succeed Louis F. Ar-ensburg Ar-ensburg of Pittsburg. Pa. A two-thirds vote of the delegates to the annual national encampment of the G. A. R. elected Mr. Iuan over Bernard Kel-ley Kel-ley of Kansas. The estate of the late Victor F. i Lawson. editor and owner of the Chicago Chi-cago Daily News, was placed at $20.-300.000. $20.-300.000. it was learned when the will and inventories were filed in the probate pro-bate court. The Daily News and a considerable portion of the estate were left in trust to the Illinois Merchants Mer-chants Trust company bank. Examination of the income tax returns re-turns at the Baltimore internal revenue rev-enue collector's office, where returns from the District of Columbia are filed, revealed that most of the high officials of the federal government made their returns in their home districts. "Honest bootleggers," who wanted to be square with the government contributed between $500,000 and $1, 000,000 of the total tax paid in the richest tax district of the United States, lower Manhattan, it was revealed re-vealed in a study of income tax returns re-turns at New York. Officials said most bootleggers filed the returns under un-der the head "Returns on Investments." Invest-ments." President Coolidge has sent $5 to an elevator boy who cleaned up the executive ofHces in Lynn without being be-ing asked to do so. The boy, Arthur Nelson, IS, saw that the offices needed need-ed cleaning during a visit of the president pres-ident on July 4. Sweeping is not part of his job, but he did it anyway. Mr. Coolidge has just sent him a letter of appreciation, inclosing a five-dollar bil. When public schools reopen in Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, hundreds of anthracite miners' min-ers' children will be absent. Since the suspension affecting 14S.000 men went into effect, youngsters have been taking jobs to help support their families during the idleness of elder breadwinners. A marked slump in school enrollments was a certainty, according to a school survey made in Wilkes-Barre, which was believed to reflect conditions throughout the coal fields. Removal of national headquarters of Veterans of Foreign Wars from Kansas City to Washington, D. C, was recommended by Adjutant General Gener-al Henry W. Lawson of Boston, in his annual report presented to the national na-tional encampment at Tulsa, Okla. An initial blow to the reorganized prohibition forces in the Chicago district dis-trict was struck when seventy-four injunctions against as many saloons and soft drink parlors were obtained by Miss Mary D. Bailey, assistant TJ. S. District attorney. The orders were signed by Federal Judge Adam C. Cliffe. A new world's record in the horse pulling contests was established at the Iowa State Fair, at Des Moines, when a team of Percheron geldings owned by Clyde Kinney of Bagley, Iowa, pulled a load of 31000 pounds the regulation distance. This was equal to starting a load of 40,000 pounds and excelled the record set by the same team a year ago, when a tractive pull of 2911 pounds was recorded. re-corded. The record was in the class for 3000 pound horses or under. A movement to build a permanent tomb at Indianapolis for the late Thomas R. Marshall was discussed at Washington by a group of close friends of the former vice president. Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis, the author was asked to head the movement. "My idea," Mr. Meredith said, "would be a plain but lasting structure in keeping with the homely virtues of Mr. Marshall's life." FOREIGN Seventy years discrepancy in ages proved no bar to Euseblo Andrae and Serafina Quevedo, who were married at Cordoba, Argentina. Andrae, a landowner, is S3 years old and his bride, the daughter of a cab driver, is 13. A large crowd staged a noisy demonstration outside the registrar's office while the ceremony was performed. per-formed. One hundred and fifty persons were killed in an explosion at the Taihaku coal mine near Pingpang Korea, dispatches dis-patches to the Nippo Jiti Shimpoo received re-ceived at Tokio, Japan, said. While warships are shelling Abdel-el-Krim's headquarters near Fez, French Morocco, the battle front is humming with activity all along the line for the coming offensive. Reinforcements Rein-forcements are being rapidly slipped-into slipped-into places assigned to them in the plan of action formulated by Marshal Petain and General Naulin.' The Los Angeles cannot possibly fall victim to the kind of an accident acci-dent which wrecked the Shenandoah, according to Dr. Hugo Eckener of Berlin, head of the Zeppelin company, w-ho piloted the' Los Angeles across the Atlantic. A terrible disaster occurred when the Franco-Sranisa transport, Espana Quinte. with 1000 Spanish foreign-born foreign-born troops aboard, was sunk by Rif-fian Rif-fian gunfire in Alhucemas bay. Mexico's new- bank of issue which is to put paper ':oney in circulation for the first tir since 1920 was formally for-mally opened in the presence of Pres- i ident Calles, his cabinet and the diplomatic di-plomatic corps. j Three human skeletons, believed to be of the Neolithic age, have been discovered dis-covered by archaeologists, who have been delving into the mysteries buried bur-ied at Solutre, near Macon, France, j The Skeletons are believed to be from six to eight thousand years old. The last of them, was that of a nun of about 40 years of age. j |