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Show All Comers of the Earth : Complete History of the Part ! Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Buiy" Reader INTERMOUNTAIN Baker, Ore. At a meeting of the Healty board recently, a committee to investigate ways and means of completing com-pleting the remaining portion of the iBlg creek ditch in Medical -Springs section was named. Ten thousand dollars dol-lars has already been expended and It is estimated that $12,000 will b required re-quired to complete the ditch. Butte, Mont. The mining company iwhlch resumed work January 16, In Butte, Mont., reports that only one experienced ex-perienced miner has been obtained Itflam 50 applicants for work, and thnt production to date has been negligible due to shortage of machine men. Similar Sim-ilar reports are received from other tnin.es. It was assumed that old employees em-ployees would rush back to Butte as feoon as the announcement was made that mining would be resumed. Goldfied, Xev. Gus Kelly of Texas passed through Coldfield, Xev., recently recent-ly on his way to Tonopah to attend the ifUneral of his brother, Scott Kelly. Gus Kelly was In an army camp In Texas fcrtxen he received the news of the lieath of his brother and he flew 800 piles to make connection with a train to bring him here In time for the funeral. fun-eral. Carson City, Xev. An attempt Is to be made to stock Carson Valley with pheasants and the county eommlsslon-mra eommlsslon-mra have purchased twenty pair uf hese game birds. During the past two years efforts have been made to raise pheasants in captivity, but thus t&jr the experiment has proven a failure fail-ure In this valley. Corvallis, re. The Agricultural College Col-lege of Oregon now has the greatest great-est enrollment In its history 3S1S students. A report from the registrar's regis-trar's office gave these figures out to compare with the registration at a Corresponding time last year 3530 Showing an increase of 379. Each ol these students is registered in a full-time full-time college course. I GENERAL Friends of the Towner-Sterling bill, now before O-mgress, which, creates a Department of Education, point to the report of the Save a Life League, Just made public, which shows suicides of pore than 20,000 persons In as Indicative of the failure of modern educational prcesse.i. Education which does not fit those who obtain It for living, it Is pointed out, Is of no value elthsr to the Individual or to the ate. that 10 editors, 10 well-knjwn writers, 0 college students, 01 school teachers. il clergymen, J7 Judges and lawyers, f mayors, 03 bankers and 88 prcsldwvis Of large business concerns were numbered num-bered among the 10-1 suicides Is a teli fu- national aid in education hlch conserves to the state the lives of valuable men by putting emphasis upon true rather than fictitious educational edu-cational values. Eduard Johnson, of California, 13 years old, who a short time ago, came In contact wltli high power electric lres carrying 13,000 volts of electricity, electric-ity, still lives and haa practically re-Covered re-Covered fr7in the experience. Severe burns on his hands and feet show that the current passed completely through Urn. Award of cash prizes to indivldiinls throughout the I'nited States for exceptionally ex-ceptionally meritorious action In lll sivlng und rendering first aid to Injured In-jured (luring the year 1H21 were announced an-nounced at Aiuerlr-uif Kod Cross headquarters head-quarters In Vnshinton. Unless the government nets soon n will, with n strange roouest, mny prevent the purchase of Mammoth csve, Kentucky, as a national pnrk. Wis was pointed out by Stephen T. Hather, director of niitlonnl parks, In a report recently Issued. A move for the purchase of the enve ns a nation-nl nation-nl park Is now under way and baa lioen urged upon congress for action. "The 3,000 acres sought for park purposes pur-poses at the entrance to Mammoth cave." says .Mr. Mather's report, "are 1n private hands under the terms of n famous will, which dictated that the land must he held In trust until such time as the death of the list of the named heirs occurs, when it Is to 1c Bold at public auction In II n entirety. J'.ocam.e of the advanced ago of the two nurv l lnu' heirs, It may not ho on;,' before this world famed envwm aIII ho s ld under the hummer." WASHINGTON By a vote of 77 hi 10 the house re fused to agree to a senate amendment to the independent offices appropria tlon bill which would penult the ship ping board during the coming fiscal year to continue to use funds from liquidation of assets up to $55,000,000. Authority to use such funds until next July 1 was granted the hoard In a supply sup-ply measure passed a year ago, but It 'has realized only a part of the maximum, maxi-mum, and Chairman Lasker had requested re-quested extension of the privilege. Concurrence Con-currence was also refused In a senate amendment authorizing the purchase for $1,500,000 of land In Washington to be used tor an addition to the government gov-ernment printing office. Sergeant Eugene Riviere, holder of the world's altitude record for a para-chute para-chute drop, and Sergeant liolaud Bhik6 were seriously injured at Mlchell field when thjelr airplane crashed to the ground fnum a height of 100 feet and buried them in the wreckage. Riviere suffered n broken leg and nose una serious cuts and bruises. Both ol Blake's legs were broken and he suffered suf-fered internal Injuries. Investigation of the cause of the fire which destroyed a solid block of thickly tenanted office buildings, caused caus-ed a loss of more than 5,000,000, resulted re-sulted In the death of one man and made 20,000 workers idle, has begun by state, city and Insurance officials. Appropriation of funds sufficient to continue without interruption the federal fed-eral aid highway construction program was urged upon congress by William C. Marklmm, representing the American Ameri-can Association of State Highway Officials Of-ficials and the American Farm Bureau federation, before the house roads oommlrtee. Representative Woodruff, Michigan, member of the committee, ; would make the appropriation $50,- ! 000,000, SGo.OOO.OX) and $7. ".,000.000 for I for the next tlrree years. ! The senate judiciary committee split on the question of die eligibility of Senator Smo.it, Utah, and Representative Representa-tive Burton, fur membership tu the allied al-lied debt refunding commission. A : minority of the committee held them eligible and a majority Ineligible. Both 1 Tile demand by the Culled States for reimbursement to the extent of ?LM1.. 000100 for the expenses of Its forces ' in tiie Rhinehind before any reparations repara-tions are paid has provoked surprise ! and perplexity In French official cir- , cles. There is also some pointed coin- ; nwnt In several new spapers. FOREIGN ' Germany's potash Industry disrupts! ; by the war, is rapidly getting on its feet uguln. Within the last few months, according to recent announcements, Germany has concluded arrungeui---nts fov resumption of her potash trade with ail European countries, except Poland, and t Iso u number of oversen countries including tin- 1'niied Slates. The value of the total potash output lu Germany In is estimated at 2,- ."iOO.'KK.i.OoO murks. Greeted by the cry of "German killer" kill-er" us he entered a Nlsb cafe In Belgrade, Bel-grade, Serbia, Baron Itlchter von Sclrfs-ntiial drew a revolver and shol five men at a table nearby. Ignace Jim PuderewRki, former premier pre-mier of Poland and a world-fanioui pianist, gave out recently what win regurded in some quarters as an intimation in-timation that he might run for tlx presidency of that country. With all sectors of tin disaffected! .Iron lu South Africa cleared of rebeli except certain portions of JnhnncsSurg, or tiie central region of tin' Kami, tin struggle apparently has entered III final phase. Joppestown, in tiie east eiwl of Johannesburg, aeonis to be th principal remaining center of resist ance. Arllllery, tanks and airplanes were used In the capture of 1'ordsburg from the revolutionaries. There is a huge decrease lu the number of bankrupts in Germany. For tiw wholo of 1021 the number was only ft 1 00, compared with 12.700 In the prosperous year of 1013. The fncttlty of Sofia university declared de-clared n strlko and declined to hold rlawses until the mlnlHtry of education assures Its liberty of action. The dispute dis-pute over the attempt of the ministry to ellnilnae one U-tter from the Hub garlan alphabet, which was announced some time ag, Is now developing Into an organized prolest by the Intellect-uals Intellect-uals against, alleged class (list inct bin" by the government. The s'tualion h causing the cabinet much anxiety. Follower of Mary MacSwiney uiuished the platforms from which the aiiplM. iters or Ml. heal Collins Intended. In addrciH the large ga I herlties In Cork, Ireland, a few da.s ago. Iicspilo Ihe elTorts of the opponents of t'ollillP to present the tiifs'tlng, It proved to he the largest political gathering eet la-Id In Cork |