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Show NEVIS HISTORY OF THE M WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout ' the World WE8TERN Ivan L. Anderson, Robert Hones and Clifford Freeze, all of Salt Lake, who Were marooned on the rocky apron which separates the upper and lower Sosemlts falls, 1000 feet from the poor of the valley, were rescued by rangers. The rescuing party of four tied themselves together with a half. )nch rope, and were enabled to reach Ihe stranded youths only after considerable consid-erable perilous efforts. Hundreds Watched the work of the relief party, learchlights being used to guide them. Before turning on the gas to end bis life, at Cody, Wyo., William Harding Hard-ing moved his canary to another room to save the bird. Man's last frontier the barber Ihop has been invaded. The girls of Bait Lake now make free use o barber bar-ber chairs for "hair bobs," according to a boss barber of one of the largest local shops. He estimated that more than 60 per cent of the women who bob their hair make regular use of the hitherto male sanctum-sanctorlums. Henry C. Hanks, former Hennepin county, Minn., treasurer, entered the state penitentiary at Stillwater to begin be-gin sorving a sentence of one to ten years at hard labor for defrauding the county of $28,000 while he held office. of-fice. His imprisonment followed a day of sensational episodes. Early in the forenoon he confesed his defalcations, defalca-tions, resigned his office, was indicted by the grand Jury and pleaded guilty to grand larceny in court at 1 p. m. He left for Stillwater a few minutes after 7 p. m. in an automobile, accompanied ac-companied by the sheriff. The Nevada-California-Oregon railroad rail-road authorized toy the interstate commerce com-merce commission to take an additional addi-tional 10 per vcent proportion of the Joint rates which it collects on traffic Bhared with the Southern Pacific system. sys-tem. The necessity of maintaining the Nevada lines as a feeder to the larger system, the commission said, required that the proportions be increased. in-creased. Fire of undetermined origin at Wichita Falls, Texas, destroyed the Wichita Falls & Northwestern Railway Rail-way shops, with an estimated loss in excess of $125,000. The buildings and all equipment, three locomotives-, several sev-eral passenger coaches, and a number of box cars were totally destroyed, while minor damage was sustained by other rolling stock in the yards. GENERAL The ending of the soft coal field strike at the Cleveland conference marks the renewing of coal mining in seven states which had been suspended suspend-ed since March 21. The union officials offi-cials and operators signed an agreement agree-ment renewing the wage rates in effect ef-fect when strike was declared. Miss Frances Kirkhead of New Orleans Or-leans has filed suit for $50,000 damages dam-ages against Lee M. Russell, governor of Mississippi, in the United States 7.strict court for northern Mississippi at Oxford. Miss Kirkhead as in her two previous suits against the governor, gover-nor, alleges seduction, under a promise prom-ise of marriage. Approximately 500 independent oil producers gathered at Tulsa, Okla., from five states of the southeast unanimously unan-imously voted for a complete shutdown shut-down of drilling operations as the only means of preventing further declines de-clines in the price of crude oil. The five states represented were : Louisiana, Louis-iana, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma. The secretaries of more than 100 chambers of commerce throughout Illinois Il-linois have sent out appeals to thousands thous-ands of busines men asking for contributions con-tributions toward a proposed $100,000 fund to finance the Herrin mine massacre mas-sacre prosecution. John H. Camlin of Rockford, who originated the idea, sets lorth that Attorney General Brundage of Illinois has indicated his willingness willing-ness to "do all in his jwwer to mete out Justice to the guilty parties" although al-though he is not in his official capacity charged with any legal responsibility in the affair. The coal agreement signed at Cleveland Cleve-land is regarded as a victory for the -union. When the strike was called on April 1st, the union's demands were outlined as (1) no reduction in wages wag-es ; (2) retention of the check-off systems sys-tems of collecting union dues. All three of these demands are met in the settlement covenant WASHINGTON Amendments of existing laws with reference to summoning of witnesses in civil cases is urged by Attorney General Daugherty in letters to Chairman Chair-man Nelson of the senate Judiciary committee and Chairman Volstead of the house Judiciary committee, asking for additional legislation to enable the government to institute suits for the recovery of money in "certain war fraud cases." Revival of the antiprofiteering provisions pro-visions of the wartime Lever law is under consideration in administration circles to check soaring coal prices. Secretary of Commerce Hoover pointed point-ed out here that the price control arrangement ar-rangement he has with producing nonunion non-union coal operators was merely for the duration of the strike and that with scores of mines resuming operations opera-tions a new method will have to be found to prevent higher coal prices. The soy bean is rapidly taking a place a a major crop in the farming systems of the corn belt, replacing oats to a considerable extent and taking tak-ing part of the corn acreage, says the department of agriculture. The American Tobacco company and the Chicago Tobacco Jobbers association, as-sociation, has 'been cited to appear before the federal trade commission to answer charges of alleged price , fixing agreements. Rail labor officials declared themselves them-selves pleased over the settlement of the coal strike. The resumption of mining activities, they declared, would aggravate the plight of the railroads. The fact that the railroads had been able to make as good a showing as they have since the shopmen's strike began was due largely to their 'being relieved of the necessity for handling the usual seasonable traffic in coal. When the mines began producing again, they explained, the country would soon appreciate how unable the railroads would be to handle the normal nor-mal amount of traffic. It is probable the Colorado River commission meeting, scheduled to be held at Sante Fe, N. M., August 2S, will be postponed at least until October, Oc-tober, at which time Chairman Herbert Her-bert Hoover, secretary of commerce, believes he can be present ; or it may even ,at the suggstion of Judge S. Davis, New Mexico member of the commission, be postponed until after the November elections. Two Indian chiefs positively identified identi-fied Barney McBride, wealthy half-breed half-breed Indian, found slain near Mea-dowes, Mea-dowes, Md., and expressed the belief that he was murdered in vengeance because of a feud between Oklahoma Indians and oil interests. FOREIGN Sixty carloads of foodstuffs from New Jersey on the food ship Saugus, which sailed from New York on June 20, has arrived at the "American Orphan City," at Alevandropool, where the near east relief is maintaining 20,000 Armenian children. Lord Northcliffe, famous British publisher and political power, died of acute blood poisoning at London. Reports from the Alsatian frontier indicate that considerable physical and financial hardships are being imposed im-posed on German families who are now being forcibly deported across the Rhine. The minister of the interior in-terior of Germany has authorized the German Red Cross to establish receiving re-ceiving stations at various points in Baden, where refugees are now finding find-ing temporary assistance. French scientists have found that the death of many fine trees on streets where automobile traffic is heady is due to fumes from the motors. Colonization of the rural districts of Hawaii by "citizen farmers" recruited re-cruited from among discharged soldiers sol-diers of the United States army who have seen service in the islands and have there received, as a part of their military training, courses in tropical agriculture, will probably result from a conference held at Honolulu between be-tween Major-General Charles P. Sum-merall, Sum-merall, U. S. A., commanding the Hawaiian Department of the United States army, Executive George P. Cooke, of the Hawaiian Home Commission, Com-mission, and Dr. Elwood Mead, noted land settlement expert, of the University Univer-sity of California, according to announcements an-nouncements made following the con-ference. con-ference. Fighting is now in progress around Killarney, Erskine Childers is leading the irregulars, numbering about 500. General Dailey is anxious to spare tha famous beauty spot and is reserving his fire when possible, but already there is much firing heard. |