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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 Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Sergeant Hubert Thome of. the Canadian mounted police arrived at Fort Yukon, Alaska, 150 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska and reported that he executed two Eskimos at Ilerschel island, on the arctic ocean, near the mouth of the Mackenzie river, February , for the murder of two white men. Governor Friend Y. Richardson of California has issued a statement in' which he said ho would call a special session of the legislature to provide means of assisting in the financing of the campaign against the foot and mouth disease in this state if "a definite, legal, intelligent program for legislative action is prepared." Plans to replace all manual telephones tele-phones in Los Angeles with those of the automatic or dial type are not meeting 'with police department approval. ap-proval. Four states, California, New York, Oregon and Washington, produce more than half the pears grown in the United States, according to the California department of agriculture. An area of 'twenty-four blocks in extent, embraced in the site on which the Panama-Pacific exposition was held at San Francisco has been sold by Mrs. William K. Yanderbilt, Jr. of New York to a local syndicate and is to be developed immediately and ' offered for sale for residence pur poses, it was announced here recently. The value of the development tract is expected to total at least $2,500,000. Two parallel lines of armed state guards are on the ridge of hills extending ex-tending from Berkeley to Pinole, in Contra Costa county, Cal., to shoot all wild animals moving between sections of the district under close quarantine in the campaign against the foot and mouth disease. Twenty thousand dollars will be sought by the finance, and advertising committees of the chamber of commerce com-merce of Ogden, Utah, to be used in the proposed advertising campaign and for the creation of a new industries in-dustries department of the chamber of commerce. The drive for the funds will begin March IT, it was announced announc-ed by Secretary Jesse S. Richards. GENERAL After having traveled from Los Angeles, An-geles, Cal., in custody of a deputy marshal to face trial at Wheeling, W. Ya., under two indictments charging violation of the national prohibition net, Edward D. Haines escaped from his guard by leaping from a passenger train at liarnosville.Ohio, twenty-five miles west of Wheeling. Alfred H. Smith president of the New York Central railroad was killed when he was thrown from a horse in entral park. Ignacio Moran former Mexican consul con-sul general at Perlin was arrested at New Orleans after an international internation-al search. D. II. Pearson pilot of the mail airplane air-plane that left l'.ellefonte, Pa., for Cleveland' late Saturday was found burned to death in the wreckage of his plane, two miles east of Curwens-ville, Curwens-ville, Pa., according lo telephone communication com-munication with l'.ellefonte. The plane was a mass of charred wreckage. wreck-age. More than twenty rebel generals have surrendered to federal arms within the past six days and have been summarily dismissed from the service by Secretary of War Serrano, according to advices received in El ' Pas by Mexican Consul Ceueral Krf-riiiue Krf-riiiue P. Ruiz. Nine persons were injured, five of them seriously, when three pounds of gunpowder exploded in the laboratory of the Toronto. Ohio, high school at Sieubenville. Ohio. More than (WOO longshoremen em-ploved em-ploved bv the Southern Pacific Steamship Steam-ship company dropped their work at New York in protest against efforts to place employees of the Port Loading Load-ing company formation of which recently re-cently was announced, on the piers. Two ships were tied up by the suspension. WASHINGTON Secretary Wallace told the house agricultural committee that he "heartily "heart-ily indorsed" the Haugen amendment to the packers and stockyards act, which would authorize suspension for thirty days of any marketing agency or dealer for violation of the act. As the oil committee opens up new fields of inquiry this week, special government counsel will institute the first of the court proceedings looking to the recovery of the naval fuel reserves re-serves from the Sinclair and Poheny interests. Whether t'ae senate investigation of Attorney General Daugherty will begin be-gin this week with Mr. Daugherty in or out of office appeared as uncertain as ever. The provision for a 25 per cent reduction re-duction in income taxes, payable this year, will rest on the fortunes of the revenue bill, house leaders reaching a tentative agreement not to attempt to remove it from the revenue measure and seek its immediate enactment in a separate resolution. Opening to homestead entry of 323,-000 323,-000 acres in five western states the largest area to be set aside for that purpose in a year was announced by the interior department. Dates for filings will be announced later Appointment of Representatives White, Republican, Maine, as chairman chair-man of the special house committee which will investigate the shipping board was announced by Speaker Gil-lett. Gil-lett. Machinery was set in motion in congress to remove from the revenue bill the provision for a 25 per cent reduction of personal income taxes payable this year and incorporate it in a joint resolution which could be adopted before March 15, when first installments are due. The Antisaloon league was charged with being a representative of big business instead of the Christian churches, in an open letter sent to the members of congress by the joint legislative committee for modifying the Volstead act. The house ways and means committee com-mittee has definitely1 decided to favorably report a soldier bonus bill but discussion of the form of the measure provoked violent wrangling, which led to a near fist fight, when adjournment was taken without an agreement. FC REIGN Italy is addressing an inquiry to Great Britain regarding the British naval reinforcem nts that are being concentrated in t e Mediterranean, it was learned late Saturday. It is reliably reported that Premier Mussolini Mus-solini is preparing to announce a new program of naval expansion as a result re-sult of Great Britain's Mediterranean policy. A campaign to raise funds for the treatment of 300,000 lepers in the British empire has been launched at London. If sufficient funds can be raised it is hoped that Great Britain Brit-ain will be purged of the disease within with-in a generation. Radio broadcasting is to be commenced com-menced next month in Japan, where hitherto communications have been strictly limited by the government. Like commercial radio the broadcasting broad-casting will be under stringent government gov-ernment regulations. Excitement is growing in Publin in connection with the mutiny in the ranks of the Nationalist army as disclosed dis-closed in the official communication issued Saturday night, saying that or-ders or-ders for the arrest of Major . General Liam Tobin and Colonel Charles Dal-ton Dal-ton had been issued. General Aizpuru, Spanish high commissioner com-missioner to Morocco, reports that twelve men were killed and seventy-nine seventy-nine wounded in the latest encounter between the Spanish forces and Morroccan tribesmen Ample reinforcements rein-forcements have been sent. From the point of view of shipping 1S12.; was about the worst year Liverpool Liver-pool can remember; there are how-over, how-over, signs of improvement, for since January 1 there has been a greater demand for tonnage in many directions. direc-tions. This was a statement in an address made recently by Sir 15 Burton Bur-ton Chadwick. president of the Liverpool Liver-pool Shipping Staff's association. Importations into Canada of livestock live-stock from any state of the United States was prohibited by the Canadian Cana-dian government as a further protection protec-tion against the foot and month disease. dis-ease. The reopening of the tomb of Tutankhamen for inspection by some JO0 visitors, guests of the Egyptian government, was preceded by the pi, -tares. pie ceremony, following the custom in the days of the pharaohs, of sacrificing two bulls in the center of the town. The first party, made up of ministers and high officials, was present. |