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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 WE8TERN K. ltcinhart company's branch store at Goleondu, .Nevada was destroyed by fire. The loss is $2-1,000, with some insurance. The fire started in an oil room. .Mrs. Gertrude B. Brown, a widow, lias filed her declaration as candidate tor sheriff of Klamath county, Oregon. Ore-gon. She will oppose five men, including in-cluding IJnyd Low, Incumbent. In her declaration, Mrs. Brown says she was raised on a cattle ranch, is an exceptional ex-ceptional horsewoman and an expert shot with rifle and revolver; that she weighs 1(1.") pounds and is not afraid of any man in Oregon. Marriod women under 18 years of ago living in Pasadena, California will 1k compelled to attend school, according to a ruling made public by John llarbeson, director of child welfare. wel-fare. CSpecial classes for such brides will he conducted beginning April 24. Members of the dairymen's association associa-tion of Butte appeared at a meeting of the city council committee and asked for more rigid inspection of dairy's alleging that some ranchmen are using a few cows to mask moonshine moon-shine distilleries and are delivering milk and illicit liquor from the same wagons, using white painted bottles ' for the distilled liquors. Shipment of livestock from California Califor-nia across Utah by railroad will be prohibited as a further precaution against the spread of foot and mouth disease to Utah state, A. A. Hinckley, state commissioner of agriculture said following a conference with Governor Charles R. Mabey. Governor Govern-or Mabey is expected to make the necessary ne-cessary amendment to the quarantine proclamation, formerly issued. Edward Dougherty, a contracting smokestack painter, was instanly killed kill-ed at Trovo, Utah, when he fell eighty feet from a smokestack of the Springville-Mapleton sugar factory. A quarantine calling for the exclusion exclu-sion or inspection of livestock, meats, hides, fruits, fodder, vegetables, milk, cheese, butter, cattle cars and even farm hands from the state of California Califor-nia was ordered by Governor Joseph M. Dixon of Montana to prevent the spread into this state of the foot and mouth disease. The Rev. Baker P. Lee, Los Angeles Angel-es clergyman who attracted nationwide nation-wide publicity several years ago, when officers of the Episcopalian church assailed him for marrying Alfred Al-fred I. Du Pont, divorced powder ' magnate, to Miss Jessie Ball of Holly wood, was arrested at Los Angeles by the United States Marshall's office after his indictment on an oil fraud charge by the federal grand jury. GENERAL A forty-story building to house exclusively ex-clusively 200 wholesale jewelry and diamond brokerage firms is planned by Chicago jewelers, according to Phil Barnett, credited with originating the idea. The idea is fostered by the Jewelers' association of Chicago, which would have its headquarters in the building. Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army delivered the address ad-dress of dedication at the opening of the army's maternity hospital and home at Chicago, designed particularly particular-ly for unmarried mothers. The ceremony cere-mony marked the second day of the central territorial congress, attended by 1200 persons, including TOO officers - of the Salvation Army from the Central Cen-tral states. The beot sugar crop of the United States in 1923-24 is estimated at 1-7.-207 tons, an increase of more than 170,000 tons over the previous year. The jury in the trial of Governor Warren T. MeCray charged with larceny and embezzlement of state funds disagreed at Indianapolis. Simultaneous raids in New York, Bay Port Long Island and New Britain. Brit-ain. Conn., by United States secret service men under Joseph A. Palma, operative in charge, resulted in the capture of an entire gang of alleged counterfeiters, eleven men and two women, and the seizure of ?40.000 in spurious $20 federal reserve notes. WASHINGTON TTlio senate Is face to face with two momentous decisions -whether the Japanese exclusion policy is to he written into law and whether there Is to he an open breach with President Presi-dent Coolidge over the subject of senatorial sen-atorial investigations V." executive departments de-partments of the government. The Mexican rebel fleet, with the exception of a small tug, the Tabasco, has surrendered to the government, according to official advices here. Declaring the federal government should take steps to put outdoor recreational re-creational opportunities within the grasp of the poor as well as the weal, thy. President Coolidge announced appointment ap-pointment of a national policy committee com-mittee on out-of-doors life. The United States has laid down the definite policy that it will permit of no action by foreign debtor nations na-tions that would make the position of this government "less favorable" with resiect to obligations due it. The soldier bonus bill will join the tax reduction measure on the senato calendar this week and leaders of both parties are prepared to clear the path for their immediate consideration. consider-ation. II. E. Miles, president of the Fair Tariff league in a brief filed with the tariff commission and made public pub-lic recently, charged that body with "deliberately ignoring the domestic producer of sugar beets and sugar cane" as well as the consumer in the pending investigation. He demands a new examination of the subject. The new revenue bill was presented to the senate by Chairman Smoot of the finance committee with the statement state-ment that it would be called up next week for consideration. Senator Gooding, Republican, Idaho, asked the senate to investigate charges charg-es made by the Ponoma Grange of Idaho that he and his friends were favored by the war finance corporation corpor-ation in loans to livestock interests. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, was named as chairman of the special senate committee which will investi-. gate the circumstances surrounding the indictment by a Montana grand jury of Senator Burton K. Wheeler ot that state. The government nolle pressed one of the indictments against Representative Represent-ative John W. Langely, Republican, Kentucky, who is charged with conspiracy con-spiracy in connection with liquor withdrawal permits. The indictment eliminated is that against him individually. indivi-dually. Another, in which he is named with several others still stands. Chicago politics again came under the searchlight of the Brookhart investigating in-vestigating committee when a new effort was begun to bring home the nation-wide fight film "conspiracy" of 1921 to the doorstep of former Attorney At-torney General Harry M. Daugherty and his benchmen. FOREIGN Action of the American house of representatives in passing a new immigration im-migration bill abrogating the "gentlemen's "gentle-men's agreement" between Japan and the United States and barring of the Japanese from the United States, in spite of the vigorous protests of the Japanese government and the objections objec-tions of Secretary of State Hughes, made a profound impression, throughout through-out Japan. Russia has sent a sharp note to France "rejecting indignantly" the latter's interference in the trial of anti-soviet spies at Kieff. The Russian Rus-sian note was in reply to one from Premier Toincare in which the French premier urged clemency for the alleged al-leged spies on humanitarian grounds. Dr. Iljalmar Schacht, president of the Keichsbank and federal commissioner commis-sioner of currency of Germany, declared de-clared that he viewed the expert's report re-port as forming a satisfactory basis for reparation settlement negotiations. negotia-tions. The Free State of Ireland is pressing press-ing the British government to expedite expe-dite settlement of the boundary dis-pute dis-pute between northern and southern Ireland. Resumption of the conferences conferen-ces in I-ondon is being held up by th" illness of Premier Sir James Craig of Ulster. Ernest Sidney Murrill and Clarence Topping, convicted murderers were hanged simultaneously in the Middlesex Middle-sex county jail ward of London. They were pronounced dead seven minutes after the volt was shot. Plenty of time will be taken by the reparation commission of Paris to review re-view and digest the reports of the experts ex-perts committee. The commission is not likely to act before the end of next week, in view of the necessity ot the members consulting their respective res-pective governments. |