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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES' . FOR BUSYJREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN G. W. Smith, paymaster for the W. F. Pigg & Son, Denver gravel contractors, was held up, shot in the neck and robbed of a $200 payioll on the east lake road near Clear Creek, about five miles from the business section of Denver. The two bandits who robbed Smith escaped in his automobile. Members of the Centenarian club, ranging in age from 80 to 101, held their annual frolic at Los Angeles. A feature of the gathering was- a foot race for men of 90 and over, with a bobbed-haired "flapper' 'of 95 offi ciating as starter. Kemmerer, Wyo. No other oil field in the world offers crude gasoline gaso-line and lubricating oils direct from the wells, as does the oil fields north of Kemmerer. So high is gasoline content is the oil from the wells in Dry Piney Basin, that a motor car gas tank may be filled and the car run perfectly with it. Salt Lake City. The mining town of Bingham, Utah, was the scent of a $100,000 fire on August 17, when the city was threatened with complete com-plete destruction. The fire started from a defective ammonia plant in a meat market. The Rev. Chalfant Dreves of Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Pa., was killed by a fall into an abandoned gas-filled mine shaft near Howbert, Colo., Albert Davidson of Howbert, who was accompanying the minister, was overcome by gas at the bottom of the shaft and was rescued by Henry Rogers of Howbert, a third member of the party. Davidson's David-son's condition is serious. An investigation of the relations of Ann Luther, actress and Jack F. White, wealthy mining man, which will extend from New York to Los Angeles, with a view to seeking basis Mann act proceedings against the pair, was launched according to an announcement by Lecien C. Wheeler, agent at Los Angeles of the department depart-ment of justice, and United States Attorney joe Burke. Final decision on the upset price to be fixed by the United States district court for the sale of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad at an auction sale, will not be made until after September 1 at the earliest, according to an announcement by the court at Denver. How long after September 1 it will be before the upset up-set will be fixed will be determined only by the turn of events in disposing dispos-ing of a petition filed last week by Harold Palmer of New York, in which he sought to intervene in the hearing to determine the upset price. A. C. Tipple, only survivor of the group which saw the slaying of "Wild Bill" Hicock by Jack MeCal! at Deadwood, S. D., in 1873, and a pioneer, is dead. Andrew S. Anderson, Democratic nominee for governor of South Dakota, Da-kota, was gored todeath at -his farm thirty miles south of Bearsford, S. D. Clay county. Details of the purpose of a sevei? million dollar suit to be filed this month by the government against the Skinner & Eddy corporation, a wartime war-time shipbuilding firm of Seattle, for adjustment of claims and counterclaims counter-claims involving two hundred million dollars of shipbuilding transactions, were given out by Oliver B. M. Brown, special assistant appointed by United States Attorney General Harlan Har-lan F. Stone.. September 24 has been designated as the date for the big celebration at Burrs, Oregon, to mark the opening of the railroad in this terirtory. GENERAL The largest arrest in the history of the Richmond, Virginia police department depart-ment was made when 331 negroe excursionists ex-cursionists of Richmond were arrested arrest-ed on a blanket warrant sworn out by the town sergeant of Hopewell, J. C. Redman. The warrant charged them with being fugatives from justice and with looting the store of a Greek-merchant Greek-merchant in Hopewel' The monotony of the Franks case ought to be broken this week by arguments ar-guments .of the liwyers. It was- predicted pre-dicted that Judge John R. Caverly would have the fate of Nathan Leopold Leo-pold and Richard Loeb in his hands for a decision within a week. Anchored fifteen miles off Fire Island, New York, a small island on the ocean side of Long Island, says a copyright article by the New York Herald;Tribune is a 17,000-ton liner, flying the British flag, which has been converted into a palatial floating float-ing cabaret where almost any kind of vintage of Bachus may be had Tor a price. The Panama canal is 10 years old. During the decade in which the big ditch has been in operation it has provided an interoceanic short cut for approximately 28,100 vessels, of which 25,60''' were commercially op-" erated and 500 government owned Government receipts from bonus-es, royalties anj rentals for the leasing of mineral rights on the public domain do-main aggregate $13,627,588 for the fiscal year which ended June 30, the interior department has announced. Stories of fabulous profits from small investments are being circulated circulat-ed when the buyers of last year who oaid ?5 for 1,000,000 marks in German Ger-man war bonds cashed in at the prevailing pre-vailing quotations of $1750, a rise of $150 in the past week. Prussian war loans worth $400 per 1,000,000 marks three months ago, brought ten times the original sum and other German securities' rose in proportion. The rise in general was ascribed to the recent favorable report on the Dawes plan for rehabilitating Germany. Ger-many. Forty-one miners, charged with rioting as a result of a raid recently on the Kali-Inla Coal mine near Cambria, entered pleas of not guilty before Judge H. E. McLarty, justice of the peace at Ilberton, Okla., waived waiv-ed preliminary hearings and were bound over for appearance in district dis-trict court for trial November 1. Their bonds were set at $1000, which each man furnished. The First Baptist church, located in the center of the city, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., was bombed. The interior in-terior of the structure was wrecked. Windows in the church and in the Y. W. C. A. building acros-s the street were blown out. FOREIGN A demon in the shape of a woman who murdered in cold blood twenty women and children for the mere pleasure of killing has just been sentenced sen-tenced to death in the superior court at Moscow. New Foundland's new bill governing govern-ing the sale of alcoholic beverages is ready for the governor's signature. If signed, the bill will replace the prohibition act which has been in effect ef-fect since 1915. The legislative council coun-cil gave the bill final passage last week. The act allows the purchase of a bottle of spirits a day by any one person, and gives to hotels the right to supply guests with beer and wines. Governor General Leonard Wood of the Phillipines has gone on a two week's inspection trip of the southern south-ern islands. He will visit Lake Lanao and will investigate charges which certain Moros have perferred against Governor Livingstone, in connection con-nection with the administration of Lanao province. Continued activity of the rebels in ;he Spanish zone of Morroco is reported re-ported in an official communique just ;S-ued. The rebels in the western zone attacked a supply column in the Buharra sector, but were repulsed repuls-ed with losses. One Spanish soldier .vas killed and four wounded. The execution of Frau Meria Han- ka for the murder of her husband, which was recently delayed until she ave birth to a child, will take place oon, the authorities announced. The ay after the chi'd was born 20,000 Czech crowns arrived at the prison where Frau Hanika is confined with instructions that the money should e turned over to the infant, a girl when she reached the age of 18.. Inflamed with jealosy because each he'd herself first in the affections of Giovanni Manzi, a s-hepherd, two women wo-men fought a duel with knives which ended when Concetta Palmira disarmed dis-armed her opponent, Maria Mesehmo. ' md stabbed her to death, at Naples, "taly. The victorious duelist was arrested, ar-rested, charged with homicide. Ensign Evaristo Velo, Argentine naval aviator, is sailing for New York, on his- way to Tokio, where he will join the Argentine world flier, Major Pedro Zanni, on the latter's rrival, and act as navigation officer .vhen Zanni attempts his trans-Pacific flight |