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Show NEW5 HISTORY OF THE nT WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN The Rtv. J. E. Lewis negro pastor f the Church of the Living God, of lot Angeles has announced another ttempt to sail from Los Angeles to fcfonrovla Liberia. His first attempt fulled when the "ark," a craft upon which he had labored many months, sank nt Its launching. Now he and his flock have obtained the niotorshlp Angel, and rechrlstonect her '"Queen of (Liberia," and they plan to start the voyage tt Africa August 13. Jesus Gomes, a laborer, arrested at Bparks, Nevada made a statment before be-fore the chief of polce here Tuesday Tues-day that he was hired to kill Frank Brennan, a deputy sherlf on railroad strike duty at Tracy, Cal. Gomes said lie was hired by a "tail man wno worked In the round house," and was paid .$10 for the deed. Blinded by sunglare, Howard n. Johns, World war veteran y Chicago, was found exhausted on the oeserr, 60 miles west of Salt Lake and taken to the county hospital at Tooele City, according to word receiver at Salt Lake. Johns was attempting to hike to Trescott, Ariz., for entrance to a government hospital there. He ts said tb be 83 per cent disabled, out has signified an intention to make another effort to cross the desert on foot, since officials of the veterans' bureau have denied his application for transfer and cannot issue transportation transporta-tion to Johns. B. H. Prater, engineer of maintenance mainten-ance of way, Oregon Short Line, nas been conferring with Rupert, Idaho business men In reference to the rail-rood rail-rood strike. He stated that no work had been done on car repairing since July 1, and that unless men could be secured to take the place of the strikers strik-ers in the Pocatello shops, a car shortage wtoiild seriously affect the movement of the crops In this section. sec-tion. Financial ruin faces fruit growers of the western slope district of Colorado Col-orado unless railroad cars can be secured se-cured Immediately to move the perishable perish-able crops, it is stated in a resolution sent to Colorado senators and congressmen con-gressmen nt Washington following a meeting at Delta, Colorado, of shippers, ship-pers, growers and business men of Montrose and Delta counties. That the strike of shop employes is hampering transportation was evidenced evi-denced at Livingston, Montana. Division Divis-ion Superintendent G. H. Jacobus of the Northern Pacific railway announced announc-ed that passenger service .on the Shields river valley branch would be discontinued and tthat the Yellowstone Yellow-stone Park special, a train of Pullmans Pull-mans operating between St Paul and Livingston, would also he taken off. W. PI. Robinon avaitor and two men passengers were burned to death at Los Angeles. When the airplane in which they were riding caught fire and fell. GENERAL Martial law has been declared at Denison, Texas. Five infantry companies com-panies of the 142ud regiment nave gone there. Rangers called to Deni-son Deni-son will be shifted to Childress and Sherman under the "open port" law. Boston has been chosen by the contention con-tention of the Independent Order of Good Templars for the 1024 'biennial session of the grand lodge. This selection se-lection closed the formal huisness of the convention Wednesday, though ( the executive board remained at Butte, Mont., Wednesday for further conference. confer-ence. Senor de I.a Huerta, Mexican secretary sec-retary of the treasury arrived nt Mexico, Mex-ico, City Monday. Immediately after his arrival 'he visited Chaputepec castle to cl nfor witli President Obre-gon Obre-gon who is confined to his room. The secretary declined to discuss any phase of his New York visit statins he wished to consult the president e-fore e-fore making any dclaratinn. The rail and coal strikes brought a touch of wartime privations to Chicago Chi-cago Mi mday, when one of the city's largest chain grocery stores announced n strict limitation of purchases or sugar. su-gar. A temporary limitation of If"1 pounds to each customer was blamed en tiie slowness of the railroads in telling cars through WASHINGTON Imports of wines and liquors were banned Tuesday night by Commissioner Commission-er Blair of the Internal revenue until supplies already In the country for non-beverage uses are Insufficient to meet the national requirements. After a three-day fight, the senate, by a 2 to 1 vote, fixed the basic duty on raw wool at 33 cents per pound of clean content. By practically the same vote, the senate ie.:ected an amendment seeking to reduce the duty to the Fordney rate of 25 cents, and then rejected an amendment by Senator Sena-tor Wadswurth of New York proposing propos-ing a rate of 28 cents per clean pound. Royalties received from the production pro-duction of oil and gas on government leased lands are now running around half a million dollars a month and for the last fiscal year aggregated $5,-700,507, $5,-700,507, It was announced Wednesday by the bureau of mines. Receipts for the month irf June amounted to $565,-It)!) $565,-It)!) for production in Wyoming, California Cali-fornia and Montana. The bulk of this amount, $55T,708, was for oil. There are now 311 producing wells on leased public lands, it was said, and seventy-two seventy-two in process of drilling. Approximately one billion dollars at 4 per cent Victory notes, maturing May 20, 1923, will be called for redemption re-demption on December 15, 1022, as a result of lots drawn Tuesday by Secretary Sec-retary Mellon which decided the series to be retired in advance will be those lettered A, B, C, D, E and F. Republican and Democratic senators sena-tors Monday joined in demands for prompt payment of American damage claims against Germany and Austria but differed as to precedure during three hours' debate on the bill of Senator Underwood of Alabama, the Democratic leader, wbich proposed an American claims commission. Indictments against five persons in connection with the Knickerbocker theater disaster of last January, in which ninety-seven lives were lost, were dismissed Monday by Justice Siddons of the District of Columbia supreme court, who sustained demurrers. demur-rers. FOREIGN Antoine Ouiette, one of the Indians Who served under Sitting Bull at the time of the Custer Massacre, over 50 years ago is dead at Weylurs, Canada, at the age lof over 100 years. The British government nas reeelv ed a note from the Washington government, gov-ernment, it was annouced Moday ask-ig ask-ig co-operation in the suppression of liquor runing into the United States through Bermuda and the Bahamas. Tetrameter, by Terarch, out of Man-dota,, Man-dota,, won the Steward's cup, a handicap handi-cap of 1000 sovereigns, for 3-year-olds and upwards, six furlongs, run yit Goodwood, England. Gavan Duffy has resigned as foreign for-eign minister of the provisional government gov-ernment of Ireland. He announced that, while he agrees with govern-ments's govern-ments's military policy, he opposes its policy on certain other grave and urgent issues si strongly that he cannot can-not longer honorably remain with the administration. ' Senor Lebroton, the Argetine ambassador am-bassador to the United States, has definitely given up his post and is leaving France soon direct for Argentina, Argen-tina, where he will serve as senator. President Alvear of Argintina, who is now the ambassador to Frnace, will leave for Argentina on August l'J. A strike against wage cuts recently inaugurated among Canadian railway shopmen was favored by 97 per cent of voters in a ballot just completed by Montreal unions, it was announced Wednesday. Igaee J. Paderewskl lias decided . definitely that his country is unwilling to accept his political services, it was learned Wednesday. He will return to the United States In November to fill several concert engagements. Former Tremier Orlando, of Italy, after an hour's consultation with King Victor Emmanuel is reported tc have refused to form a cabinet to sue ceed that of Premier Defecta which resigned l?st week. Senor Orlando, who has been discussing the situation situa-tion with all the leaders or the various var-ious constitutional groups of the chamber, is said to have declared himself against the formation of a short-lived cabinet. Recent speculation on the snpposec Impending large-scale operations against the Republican insurgents in southwest Ireland seen.s to have moved mov-ed the Free State go eminent to put the brakes on popular anticipation o: au early march to triumph and peace |