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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RH8UME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES important Events of the Last Seven Oayn Reported by Wire and Pre-pured Pre-pured for the Benefit of the 1 Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Former governors of Colorado and her congressional representatives joined high state officials and a multitude mul-titude of friends in bowing their heads In final tribute to former governor gov-ernor Elias M. Ammons, the man, who, "without the chance of a school education, set out to learn the great facts of life," to serve his state In her highest office. The world's Jersey butterfat production pro-duction record was declared broken when St. Mawes Lad's Pride, a senior sen-ior 3-year-old owned by H. D. Iliff, of Independence, Oregon, completed a year's test with approximately 1002 pounds. She was milked three times a day. The former record was held by "Ibsen's Jubilee Signal," owned by Hugh W. Bonnell of Ohio, with a record of 914.46 pounds. Figures are being forwarded to the American Jersey Cattle club of New York for certification. Peter Englehart, 72, a farmer of Loveland, Colo., was instantly killed when a high tension electric wire was snapped by the wind and dropped drop-ped on him. A cow came up to sniff of Englehart's body and touched touch-ed the broken wire, the shock knock ed the animal across the road. Departing from Seattle, Wash., for the Arctic ocean, the sailing schooner schoon-er C. S. Holmes carried Canilla Sar-pendal, Sar-pendal, 15 years of age and Tina Kap-onka, Kap-onka, IS. These girls were brought from the Arctic four years ago by Captain Roald Amundsen, an explorer, explor-er, and put in school in Norway. They are returning to their homes in Siberia. Dorothy Ellingson, 17-year old matricide, ma-tricide, whose trial on a murder charge was interrupted six wee."s ago vhen she was declared insane, "will be brought back to San Francisco from the state hospital at Napa to face a second trial for murder. The girl is accused of shooting her mother moth-er to death in their home here January Jan-uary 13. Two persons were killed, several injured, in-jured, and a large amount of property damage was done -when high winds swept the eastern portion of Colorado. Colora-do. From 150 to 300 carloads of lettuce probably will be lost in Santa Barbara Bar-bara county California as a result of the heavy rain there recently, ac cording to Paul Delzell of Santa Bar-hara, Bar-hara, one of the principal lettuce growers of the Guadalupe district. Robbers blew the safe of the Nome. Alaska, State Bank and escaped with $2700 after firing several shots at persons aroused by the explosion. GENERAL Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., confined in the Illinois state prison for the murder mur-der of Bobbie Franks a year ago. will undergo an operation for appendicitis, appendici-tis, it was announced by Dr. W. R. Fletcher, prison physician. The operation op-eration will be performed by Dr. J. A. McElvey, state surgeon. Leopold has been suffering from appendicitis for several weeks. A tidal wave along twenty-six miles of the American shore line struck Lake Ontario, causing heavy damage to one village and summer resorts. No loss of live was reported. The wave rolled in some places more than 150 feet inshore, carrying wreckage and small boats with it. John W. Worthington. of St. Louis, 75 years of age. stock and bond broker bro-ker of Chicago, who formerly was known as the "wolf of La Salle street" was indicted by the federal grand jury on charges cf having in his possession some of the securities stolen in the S2.400.000 mail truck robbery rob-bery at St. Louis. April 2. 1923. The name of Secretary Jardine's saddle horse has been changed from "Cal" to "Glittering Glory." One reason rea-son that is said to have led to the rechristening was the rambunctious behavior of the p-j:ebred on the bridle path did not properly represent repre-sent the dignified poise of a chief xecutive. Maude Lee Mudd. 16-year old heiress heir-ess to an estate valued at more than $1,000,000, has disappeared from the home of her mother at Miami, Okla. Mrs. Susan Bomberry and officers have been unable to find any trace of her. Land reclamation which has been confined mainly to the west, will be broadened by the bureau of reclamation reclama-tion of the department of interior, to include the netrlerted and thinlv rton- ulated areas of the South Atlantic states. A relapse has occurred in the condition con-dition of Ernest DeWitt Burton, president pres-ident of the University of Chicago, who has been ill for some time of an intestinal trouble.. Relatives were called to the bedside of the stricken educator. After a consultation, physicians phy-sicians announced Dr. Burton's condition con-dition as critical following a second operation within a month. Dr. Charles R. Erdman, Princeton, '. J., was elected moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States at Columbus, Colum-bus, Ohio, pledged to restore harmony n the church by "peaceful methods." Because they broke the college government association edict against smoking, thirty-two Wellesley, Mass., college girls are on parole and will not be allowed outside the campus limits until the end of the college years, it became known here. The National Air Transport, Inc., was organized at Chicago, 111., with $10,000,000.00 capital stock to operate night airplane freight and express service between New York and Chicago Chi-cago as the first of similar lines which the organizers plan to inaugurate. inaugur-ate. Determined to carry on for at least another year, the United Confederate Confeder-ate Veterans at Dallas, Texas, tabled a plant to hold departmental conven- HI lllO 1UIIL1C UL LllO general reunion. Joseph Lee of Boston, was re-elected president of the Playground and Recreation Association of America at its annual meeting at New York. Mr. Lee is known as the father of the playgrounds movement, and under his leadership playgrounds and recreation recre-ation centers in the. United States and Canada have increased to more than S000. William Kent, of Kent-field, Kent-field, Cal., was re-elected a vice president. pres-ident. FOREIGN A huge bonfire at Rome of 100,000,-000 100,000,-000 lire in bank notes recently marked mark-ed in the inauguration of the new governmental policy of reducing the circulation of paper money. The next council of the league of nations will be convoked at Geneva on June 8. The league has informed inform-ed Austria that the league council has approved its recent petition for the appointment of expert economists to inquire into economic conditions in Austria. Relief parties from warships sent to the Tajima district, northwest of Osaka, Japan, immediately following the earthquake there recently, In a report to the navy department estimate esti-mate that the dead will probably number num-ber 300 and the injured 1000. The warships were disratched to coast ports of Tajima with food, sanitary supplies and doctors for Toyo-Oka and Kinosaki, which suffered most severely and where they report relief re-lief work in progressing rapidly. A willow tree from Mt. Vernon was planted in the garden of the Chateau of Chavaniac, where Lafayette was lorn and grew to marhood and which Americans have brought and convert- d into a children's sanitarium as a vette memorial. The planting of the tree was plannel to be simultaneous simultan-eous with the planting at Mount Vernon Ver-non of a cherry tree from the grounds f Lafayette's home. Cheldon White-house, White-house, counsel of the American era-mssy era-mssy in Paris, planted the tree. Ahmed Pasha Maher, former minister minis-ter of education in the Zaglovl cabinet, cabin-et, was arrested in connection with the investigation of the murder of Sir Lee Oliver Stark, sirdar, or British commander of the Egyptian army, who was assassinated at Caria last November. It is alleged that Shafika Mansour, who was with Ahmed in his office at the time the crime was committed, had made certain disclosures disclo-sures regarding the ex-minister. A spokesman for the Japanese government at Tokio. said that Japan Ja-pan w-as not alarmed 1 the reported plans for the further fortification of the Hawaiian islands. Japan feels, he said, that strengthening the Hawaiian island defenses is entirely a matter of United States domestic policy and a siroing naval base at Hawaii was cot considered dangerous to Japan. |