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Show 'NEWS OF A WEEK 111 CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF TH S IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. HappenlnQt That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and OJven In a Pew Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. Six grandsons officiated as pallbearers pallbear-ers at the funeral of Dan Morlarity, better known as "Grandpa" Morlarity, Of Anaconda, Mont. "Tabby," the pet cat of a citizen of Fairplay, Colo., escaped with all of Its traditional nine lives when It was resumed res-umed from an old box in which It had been Imprisoned for 99 days without food or drink. m J. II Howard, president of the American Amer-ican Farm Bureau federation, declares that through the effort of the organisation, organi-sation, farmors have been saved more than $50,000,000 In freight rates alone. m Portland voters favorably passed pon the question whether they will pay a tax of $2,000,000 to help finance the proposed Atlantlc-l'aclflc Highways High-ways and Electrical exposition to be held there In 1923. Project 150, better known as Che Eighteen-Mile Hill road, now nenring completion, was orcicially designated "Harding Way" by the board of county commissioners, and the county engineer engin-eer and surveyor Instructed to so designate de-signate It on all afflciul maps and survey sur-vey reports and to record the same With the county clerk and recorder. - JeBsie Miller was sentenced to a day In the county Jail for contempt of court tit Butte, Mont., when she admitted admit-ted to Judge J. J. Lynch that she applauded ap-plauded the veridct of the Jury which tound her brother-in-law, Abe War-jvlck, War-jvlck, not guilty of selling cocaine. There are 116 school districts In Washington county, Ore., 227 school leachers, 192 women and 85 men. Eighty per cent of n normal force M men U now working in tie Colo, mines. It la reported. 1,019 workmen reported at the mines, as compared with 983 a few days before. GENERAL , Private Wasserman, of U. S. Marine fcorpa, discovered two men at the door of a mail car at Washington Junction, Md. He fired on them and one man dropped off the train and the other swung out on the hand rail of the car nnd was later captured. State and federal authorities In Chihuahua have been appealed to in aa effort to end a reign of lawlessness l mining camps in northern Mexico, according ac-cording to official advices received in Juarez. Two indictments, charging Roy Gardner Gard-ner escaped convicted mall robber, of attempts to rob the United States mails at Maricopa, Ariz., on November Novem-ber S, and at Phoenix, on November 15, were returned by the grand Jury in the United States district court. Gardner Gard-ner pleaded not guilty to both Indictments. Indict-ments. Unemployment and the prospect that his wife would have to go to work to 6upport the family was the plea of Thomas Cutherwood, 20 of Chicago who confessed, according to the police, that he killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Betty Sharpies and stole ?05 from Tier home. While railroads in every part of the United rtntes are calling conferences to propose n reduction of wages, international in-ternational officials of the six shop crafts, affiliated with the railway employes' em-ployes' department of the American Federation of Labor, are preparing their demands for wage Increases of 5 cents an our over the rates established establish-ed by the railroad labor board's 5000,-000,000 5000,-000,000 wage award of July 20. The greatest gathering ever known In the west is predicted for the convention con-vention of te Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, to beheld in San Francisco next June. Members of Islam temple of San Francisco, under un-der tlve auspices of which the convention conven-tion is to be held, and who have been In charge of reservations and preparations, prepara-tions, estimate that there will be at least 'ioO.O'W visitors on this occa-sion. The oil business is leading all other industries in spectacular recovery. Six advances in prices since the Inst of September have brought Pennsylvania crude oil to $1 a ban-el, a rise from Ten small type touring cars are lieing operated at Bruceton, Pa., in an old coal mine 130 feet below the earth's surface and 1050 feet in from the pit mouth of the mine, in vehicular tunnel ventilation tests. These tests are being be-ing conducted by the United States Three men In an automobile drew up alongside a taxicab containing Charles E. Leighton, purser of the United States steamship liner Mararao, who was carrying $5000 payroll back to his ship and escaped with the money, according ac-cording to Leighton's report to the police po-lice at San Franscisco. An express train plowing through a thick fog and enow crashed into an automobile at Summit, 111. which was crowded with funeral attendants, the casket being in the car ahead. Eleven wore killed and 2 injured. The car was so demolished that not a piece bigger than u mans arm could be found. r WASHINGTON. Although a new tax law is now on the statute books, agitation for a further fur-ther revision will be commenced at once by individuals and organizations dissatisfied with the measure signed by President narding. Whatever may be the view In other official quarters, at least a part ofThe American arms delegation believe that any resulting agreement on a naval armmament should be put into the form of a treaty. .Responding to the speech of M. Briand, Premier of France, the United States and Great Britain, seconded by the delegates of Italy and Japan pledged their respective nations to support the cause of right, liberty and Justice In the future as in ttie past. The nntl-niedical beer bill has been signed by President Harding. Japan has decided to recede partly from her hitherto Insistent stand tlTat she be allowed an Increase of ten per cent In capital ship tonnage under the general program plan for limitation of naval armament. The Kn Kiux Investigation has received re-ceived it quietus. The Imperial wizard 16 to be permitted to do his premised house cleaning In his own time and way, without Interference by congress for the present at least. A radio system designed to give Information In-formation to aviators of weather conditions condi-tions along their routes of flight. In ttie air as well as on the ground, hat been approved by the army air service ser-vice and soon will be extended orei the entire continent. Investigation hy the Interstate commerce com-merce commission on Its own hehalf f the rapo!iableness of the prewent lvel of nations! transportation rates is tl VttteM and perhaps most mandatory manda-tory rf government actions, all of which have been directed toward forcing forc-ing down railroad charges. Some thousands of dollars, the property prop-erty of an American citizen, T). L Drake, who died in Mexico in 3912, and whose place of residence in this country is undetermined, are awaiting a claimant, according to the wte department. de-partment. The estate will revert to the Mexican federal government unless a claimant comes forward within a short time. FOREIGN. The negotiations for an Irish settlement settle-ment are feared to he nearing an unfavorable un-favorable end. and there is apprehension apprehen-sion that they may utterly colappse unless un-less more favorable ciccumstauces shall develop. The Iyondon newspapers express satisfaction sat-isfaction at the bethmthnl of the l'rin-css l'rin-css of Mary to an Englishman and equally approve hor choice of a husband hus-band In the Viscount Lascelles. Three more small boxes containing what the prosecution and the experts contend are human bones, were produced pro-duced and added to the box which hn been prominent in the proceedings in the trial of Henri L.tndru, accused of eleven murders and a cremating the bodies. Lord Curzon, British secretary of state for foreign affairs says the real strength and protection jt France does not consist in her arms or the lnex. austlble spirit of her people or even ! the Justice of her cause, but In the fa., that the conscience of the world will not tolerate the reappearance in the heart of Europe of a great and dan-1 dan-1 gerous po.vpr. |