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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BMADER5 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 EPITOME Turgatee, Oregon and vicinity were covered with a sheet of water a foot deep, which swept over the lowland, washing out the tracks of the Oregon-Washington Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company to the aggregate of about one and a half miles. The greatest damage was done at Nelson and Wea-therby. Wea-therby. No loss of life has been reported. re-ported. William D. Brown, 99-year-old California Cali-fornia pioneer and said to be the oldest old-est Shriner In the world, died at Berkely, Calif. He was born in Charlottesville, Char-lottesville, Va., and would ' have reached his one hundredth birthday on December 4 of this year. Applicants for licenses to drive automobiles au-tomobiles in California must submit evidence of their mental and physical fitness under the terms of the law passed by the last legislature which became effective July 24th. The new automobile law al&o forbids the use of "speed traps" as a mean of determining determin-ing the rate at which a machine is traveling. The "trap," used for many years, was a method of timing the speed of a machine between two arbitrary ar-bitrary points on the state highway. During a freak thunder and lightning light-ning storm tank No. 4 on the underground under-ground reservoir of the Pacific Oil company near Bakersfield, Calif., was struck by lightning and the stored oil ignited. The tank had a capacity of 750,000 barrels. The loss is estimated esti-mated at $450,000. Employes of the Pacific Associated and Standard Oil companies cooperated in preventing any spread of the flames to surrounding surround-ing tanks and refinery property. Funeral services were held at St. Ignatius church, San Francisco, for Pancho Villa, world's flyweight boxing box-ing champion, who died in a hospital here recently while undergoing an operation on his throat. Ten members of the Catholic Filipino club acted as pall bearers. The Rev. Father Pius Moore delivered an eulogy. Men and women representing many nationalities national-ities and from all walks of life filled the church to overflowing. Mrs. Virginia Cookson, Orange county, California, farmerette for whom the sheriff's posses have been searching for several days on the theory that she had been murdered or abducted, appeared at police headquarters head-quarters at Calexico, Calif., and told of being kidnapped by three men in an automobile. Park rangers and guides recovered the body of J. L. Cartwright, an eastern east-ern news writer, who was killed by 300-foot fall from a shale rock to a glacier about Twin lakes, not far from Sperry Glacier, Mont. Rangers and guides said Cartwright left Sperry to traverse a portion of the park that has no trails, against the advice of official guides. The scene of the mishap was within a few miles of where the Whitehead brothers of Chicago were last seen last fall. I |