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Show All Corners of the Earth Complete History of the Pat Week Told in Paragraphs II Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMOUNTAIN. The following fourth-class postoffi-ccs postoffi-ccs have heeu raised to presidential grade, effective as of July 1; Kenil- -rlli, Utah; Big 1'iney, Dixon, Dubois Du-bois and Opal, Wyo. ; Fernwood, Firth, Houston, New Meadows, Kirie and Btar, Idaho. Recommendations contained In the report of the Washington state coal Commission, made? public last week at Seattle, Wash., that the wages of coal minors in the state he cut approximately approxi-mately 20 per cent, will be submitted to a referendum vote of mine workers, It was announced Wednesday. Practically Prac-tically all commercial miners in Washington Wash-ington have been closed since March 15, when workers refused to accept a wage cut of 24 per cent. Two women and a boy were injured In an airplane accident nt Ohoteaoi, Montana, during the celebration of July 4, when the machine of Oliver Giles of Great Falls struck a small automobile and overturned it. More than COO young men from California, Cali-fornia, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming were present Wednesday for the opening open-ing of the citizens' training camp of the United States army at the Presidio. A month's course will be given. 4 4 Mors Than three thousand veterans of three wars, garbed in pajamas and nightgowns, turned out early Wednesday Wednes-day to fight a fire in the soldiers' home Bt Sawtelle, near Los Angeles. The guardhouse, in which the fire started was destroyed but the veterans prevented pre-vented the flames from reaching the numerous other buildings. The los was estimated at $3000. The senate has passed Senator Gooding's Good-ing's bill placing southern Idaho once more on mountain time, and making Huntington, Ore., the dividing point instead in-stead of Pocatello. The house committee com-mittee before which the similar Smi bill is pendng has not yet taken ac- tOL. DOME8TIC. One woman was overcome with heat Wednesday and tumbled into the Niagara Nia-gara river a short distance above the American falls and another, fainting from excitement, followed her. Both were rescued. "I thought he was too old to shovel off his walk so' I dropped around and did it for him," said Walter Jacobus of Newark, N. J., when found in front of a friend's house vigorously, wielding a snow shovel. The friend is S7. So Is Mr. Jacobus. f'-JB; H:-fJr.aliam, a contractor of Grass Vafley, has arrived at Alleghany with a crew of ten carpenters to erect and equip a ten stamp mill for the Kate Hardy Mining Company at Forest. Work will be rushed with all possible speed and it Is hoped to have the mill in operation by early fall. The Kate Hardy Mining company announced several months ago that It had a large body of ore virtually blocked out and would have to cease mining until a mill could be built, as storage facilities were lacking. Since then materials have been assembled and contracts let Xor erecting the mill. A bust of the Into William Stead, who lost his life on the Titanic, was tmveiled at Ninety-lirst street and ir'ifth avenue, New Yirk, Wednesday. It is a replica of one erected on the Thames embankment in London by English and American newspaper men In honor of the distinguished journalist. journa-list. Melville E. Stone, counselor of he Associated Press, delivered an address ad-dress in which "lie praised Stead's work for international peace and described ki is achievements as a journalist. Fire of unknown origin destroyed 'the block plant of the United States Gypsum Company early Wednesday morning at Fort Dodge, la. with a loss estimated at ,?:VXK.l. A complaint regarding the present distribution of civil service appoint-im.ms appoint-im.ms amen.! the state was made to r.vs'.Vnt Harding by Senator Willis. J:.-.mM''-:-ii. Ol.'o. and several Ohio rep.-. : n-si-ive. They asked that in t' gt. . . . .:::.'.';it reorganization. now i v ,.-. :i M..;e he given a : o;. i.n'.L ! - 'a. 'J. Humors that Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Soc-ialist candidate for president, who Is now serving a term at Atlanta for violating vio-lating the espionage act during the war, was to 'be released from prison, were denied emphatically Saturday night by Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. Carl Wanderer, eonvictedof the murder mur-der of his wife, lunborn child and the "ragged stranger," in a fake holdup, was declared sane by a jury and sen. tenced to hang on July 29 at Chicago recently. Purchase of the entire estate in Texas Tex-as of the late Jake L. Hamon, comprising compris-ing approximately GOO acres of oil and other lands in Comanche, Stevens and Eastland counties, was announced at Oklahoma. Oily Tuesday by J. B. French, a local oil man, for a sum estimated at $300,000. WASHINGTON. Dr. Lee K. Frankel, vice president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company of New York recently assumed assum-ed personal charge of the welfare bureau bur-eau set up in the postoffice department to improve the spirit and actual working work-ing conditions of the 300,000 men and women postal workers. Dr. Frankel, It was announced, conies to the government gov-ernment service for an indefinite period per-iod without salary. Joseph T. Booth was nominated by President Harding today to be register of the land office at Evanston, Wyo. Donald McAllister was named receiver of public moneys1 at the same if ace. Alien Property Custodian Miller has been ordered by Justice Hitze of the District of Columbia supreme court, to return to Countess von Bernstorff, wife of the former German ambassador to the United States, stocks, bonds and cash amounting to one million dollars, which was seized under the trading with the enemy act. A senate committee was ready Wednesday Wed-nesday to start hearings on the Sweet bill to consolidate the soldier relief agencies of the government, but no witnesses appeared. The committee turned its attention to amendments suggested by Director Forbes of the war risk insurance bureau and approved approv-ed by the American Legion. Members of congress believe many mining claims have been "jumped" in Montana because of the failure to pass a law to extend the time for assessment assess-ment work. A bill was passed by the senate, but held up in the house on the theory that extensions had been granted three other times, and should not be continued. The Sam Browne belt, worn by officers offi-cers of foreign armies and Americans who saw service overseas, was approved approv-ed Wednesday as part of the regulation regula-tion issue uniform for officers of the United States army. Under the orders, or-ders, all officers in uniform will be compelled to wear the belt, beginning July 15. Members of the army nurse corps and warrant officers are not permitted per-mitted to wear the belt. Favorable report on the Willis-Campbell anti-beer bill was ordered Wednesday Wed-nesday by the senate judiciary committee. com-mittee. Chairman Sterling said he would oeek senate consideration probably prob-ably within two or three days. The committee approved some amendments designed to afford a greater degree of protection to the legitimate users of alcohol. FOREIGN. All delegates from the Socialist party par-ty of Canada to the Canadian Workers' Defense league, inckidlng Alexander Shepherd, chairman, have been expelled ex-pelled from the league, It was announced, announ-ced, as the result of a disagreement on the policies of the league. While lighting the kitchen fire with a candle, Annie Florence Brooks, aged 11, of London, was frightened by a mouse which ran out from a cupboard. She jumped and the flames of the candle set her clothing afire, causing burns which resulted in her death. Guards at the national palace Saturday Sat-urday prevented the entry of those who could not show clearly they had business to transact or were not known personally to officials, as an outcome of the story published under a Dallas, Texas, date telling of an alleged plot gainst the life of President Zayas which was to have been carried out before his Inauguration. The policy of the United States in demanding of President Ibregon of Mexico n statement of his attitude toward American landowners was approved ap-proved at a meeting of the National Association for the Protection of American Amer-ican Bights in Mexico at Chicago Wed I nesilay. Members from Illinois. Iowa Wisconsin and Michigan attended. |