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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Dayii Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Ex-Governor Louis F. Hart of Washington will not have to stand trial in the Pierce county information informa-tion charging him with an attempt to solicit a bribe. Superior Judge Teats sustained the demurrer to the information which was argued before be-fore him recently. Judge Teats ruled that the elements of a bribe were not set forth in the information, sustaining the objections raised by Attorney Maurice Langhorne in behalf be-half of the former chief executive. Eddie Hubbard, veteran air mail carrier, fell more than 4.r,00 feet into Lake Washington near Seattle, Washing, Wash-ing, but suffered only slight injuries. The plane, a new type naval plane, which Hubbard was testing, was much damaged. Figures compiled during the last five years by the largest moving picture pic-ture producing companies of California Califor-nia reveal that the aspirant to stardom star-dom in the films must overcome a 50,-000 50,-000 to 1 chance of achieving success. Dorothy Ellingson "jazz gin, alleged alleg-ed slayer of her mother, will undergo under-go an operation for appendicitis, it was disclosed when her trial was postponed. Trial (late was advanced from June 15 to August 15 by Superior Super-ior Judge Harold Louderback of San Francisco, when told the operation was necessary. The skeletons of twenty-nine prehistoric pre-historic Indians have just been unearthed un-earthed near Iron's ranch on the Miami-Superior highway near Yuma. Arizone, by Eric H. Schmidt, archaeologist archae-ologist of the museum of natural history his-tory of New York, who is employed by Mrs. William Boyce Thompson, now in Superior, Ariz., to investigate some of the Arizona prehistoric ruins. ru-ins. The skeletons indicate some of the Indians were over six feet tall. About 2000 Indian relics also have been found in fifty of the 120 rooms unearthed. James C. Burger. Denver, was officially of-ficially installed as imperial potentate poten-tate of Shriners at the annual meeting meet-ing of the imperial council at Los Angeles, An-geles, succeeding James E. Chandler. Kansas City. Philadelphia will be the 1026 mecca of Shriners, the imperial im-perial council decided. A giant brown bear was knocked from his perch in a tree, lassoed and hog-tied with a pair of chaps and led home to' the E. L. Montgomery ranch near Lyons. Colo., by two cowboys. Only two veterans of the civil war are now residents of Rock Springs. Wyoming. One is C. J. Harns. 79 years of age, who is confined to his bed by illness. He was a member of L company. Second Missouri cavalry. The other "Boy in Blue" is Charles N. Ware, who served wth the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth and Twenty-ninth Maine regiments. regi-ments. Mr. Ware is S2 years of age and still able to hike from ten to fifteen fif-teen miles a day. He enjoys hunting hunt-ing and fishing. r- c M c D A I I Chicago gunmen and thugs met a severe but costly repulse at the hands of police and citizens1 when two gunmen, gun-men, cne of them a nortorious "bad man" were shot to death and another but recently tried for murder, was fatally wounded. One of the gunmen slain managed to eke cut a shot as he fell dying, and it found its mark in the heart of Joseph Baggott. a veteran vet-eran policeman. Baggott died later in a hospital. j Knocked out for the firs; time since he started boxing fifteen years ago. Tom Gibbons has given up his ambition for the world's heavyweight championship and will retire from the ring. Gibbous, who was floored twice by Gone Tunney. the former A. E. F. champion, in the tewlfth round and counted out while he was gamely trying to pull himself up the ropt-s. has net made the ar.nou3ceae"t of-. of-. ficiauy. but he has decided to give up , boxing. ', The tombstone over his fa'her's I grave in Wahiheim cemetery. Chica-! Chica-! go. which fill vhon he attv-rapt-;! :o 1 climb it. resulted in the death el Los-j Los-j ter Laelche. 5 years old. His m-'iiirr was placing flowers on the grave j.nu sobbing as the boy tried to climb the slender shaft three feet high. I: toppled, top-pled, fracturing his skull. In a suit filed by three Californians. In New York, Sidney Howard, playwright. play-wright. Is charged with plagarism in his drama, "They Knew What They Wanted." which was recently awarded award-ed the Pulitzer prize as the best ; American play of l'.i24. j More than forty delegates attending attend-ing the State Girls' club convention at Webster. Mass., were striken with illness. All available doctors were called and a general call was sent out for nurses. The girls were stricken strick-en after a dance. The intense heat and excitement is believed to have been partly responsible, although a few had svmptoms of ptomaine poi soning, according to physicians. W. T. Barlow, a Lexington, Ky., truck driver, asked his boss if he could "get off" for 20 minutes. He went home, changed his suit, was married and reported back to work in that period. When vice-president Charles G. 1 Dawes alighted from a train at Marietta. Mar-ietta. Ohio, for a three-day" visit at his birthplace during the commencement commence-ment exercises at Marietta College, he was greeted by the cheers of 5000 Marietta citizens who had turned out to receive the city's most famous son. Transfer of the bureau of mines from the interior department to the department of commerce, has been decided upon. Attorney General Sargent Sar-gent has ruled the transfer can be made by executive order and action was agreed upon at a enference between be-tween President Coolidge and Secretaries Secre-taries Work and Hoover. Senator King of Utah is in New York, planning an extended trip to a.,;., trt rtiVa a first-hand study of conditions in Armenia and Turkey. King is intensely interested in the Armenian problem and is disposed dis-posed to credit reports or atrocities inflicted on the Armenians by the Turks. Postponement of the trial of ex-governor ex-governor Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas Kan-sas and his son, Russell, on the bribery brib-ery charges was agreed to' by opposing oppos-ing counsel in Shawnee county district dis-trict court. The case was forwarded to the September court docket. The body of Thomas Riley Marshall, Mar-shall, whose gentile appeals for more kindliness and toleration endeared him to the nation, lies in the same cemetery wherein rests the body of James Whitcomb Riley, another Hoos-ier Hoos-ier who touched American hearts through his poems of homely strains. They lie not far apart on the rolling slopes of Crown Hill, in Indiana. The United States supreme court ruled that the Cement Manufacturers Manufactur-ers association, an incorporation of 19 manufacturers and distributors of Portland cement, was not a combination combina-tion in restraint of trade. FOREIGN Soviet Russia has started a small counter offensive in some countries against the international credit blockade block-ade move of foreign holders of Russian Rus-sian bonds. The soviet 'government, it is alleged, is trying to Dreak thru the front established by the organized organiz-ed union of bondholders in two ways. Dr. Friedtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer ex-plorer and diplomat, and Commander Command-er Walter Burns, German aeronautic authority, have evolved a plan to explore ex-plore the North Pole region with a dirigible in 1927. The airship will have a capacity of 150,000 cubic meters me-ters capable of carrying a party of fifty men with provisions for ninety days. The plans call for a trip from Amersieruam to luwiuciiiia u.. viaj of the Pole in five and a half days. General Belavin. commander of the southern Russian army during the world war. and Nina Krezeckovska, a beautiful 21-year old girl, were sentenced sen-tenced to death at Kiev, Russia, by a war tribunal after having been found guilty of espionage for Poland. Fourteen accomplices including the girl's mother and two young women, were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor for terms ranging from three to ten years. j Extensive works are to be carried j out along the Rio Grande to protect ! the country from floods, it is annour-i annour-i ced by Se'.icr Tejeda. secretary o; communications and public works of I Mexico. Operations will begin as i .... ! soon as a mixed engineering commission commis-sion reports the results of its survey. ! The secretary added that Mexico was in ro dauber of losing territory ti-.ri ugh the straightening of the river jbc-d. JIamon De Valera. the hero of all 1 Trtland four year aco. seems in a fair i wi-.y to toi'.ow ir. the footsteps of other r'.h h.-vces and end his days disil-'.uh:oned disil-'.uh:oned and unhappy. Recent elections elec-tions have shown that De Yalera's j political power is waning, and waning rapidly. |