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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES for Braces A RE3UMC OF THE WEEK'S DOI.NQS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRI ES Important Events of the Last Seven Dayr Reported by Wire and Pre. piired for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN What Is regarded as one of the largest deals ever made in citrus lands In Ihe state of California was announced at Los Angeles with the report of the sale of 10" 1 acres of land between Lindsay and Porterville. Cal., by King C. Gillette, safety razor manufacturer to Charles C. Chapman of Fullerton. One of the state's foremost fore-most citrus growers. Most people are honest, Seattle's treasurer has found. As- an experi-perlment experi-perlment in honetsty he wrapped up Iron washers in papers that usually contain stacks of silver dollars. lie then placed these stacks just under a teller's window in his office. Only a few citizens walked oft with the iron. Cloudbursts caused irrigation ditches dit-ches near Rocky Ford, Colo., to overflow over-flow nnd flood the basements of buildings. Trains on the Santa Fe railroad were delayed for several hours, when a culvert near Fayette, west of Rock Ford was washed out. Claron Nelson, formerly Superintendent Superin-tendent of the western air mail division divi-sion and two boy passengers were killed near Salt Lake when the machine ma-chine in which they were flying went into a tailspin and crashed to the ground.1 The airplane was completely destroyed by fire. The Lions club of Rock Springs is making plans for a booster trip to Pinedale, Big Piney and possibly ivemmerer. the latter part of this months. The Lions will carry an orchestra or-chestra with them, giving a dance at Pinedale and a concert at Big Piney and Kemmerer. Ray J. Bower, accused of robbing homes and stealing automobiles while patroling his beat as a policeman in the suburb of Beverly Hills, pleaded guilty to a burglary charge in the Superior court of Los Angeles and asked for probation. Wholesale news agents of Spokane, Wash., were collecting from news stands copies of a score of magazines maga-zines ordered suppressed by Prosecuting Prose-cuting Attorney Charles Leavy as obscene ob-scene and indecent. Mr. Leavy announced an-nounced that he would prosecute in case of further sales of magazines coming under this category. The action ac-tion follows passage of a resolution by the recent convention here of the Inland Empire Education association condemning the circulation of such publications. GENERAL A grand jury investigation of Mrs. Helen Auguste Geisen-Volk's East Eighty-sixth street "baby farm." where twenty-two babies have died within more than a year, was ordered at Xew York. Meanwhile the woman was held in $:6.000 bail. George W. Wickersham. attorney general during the Taft administration, administra-tion, took sharp issue with Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the foreign for-eign relations committee, over the necessity for the codification of international in-ternational lav,-. "vVickersharu's views were made known in a statement issued is-sued by the federal council of churches. church-es. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. as- ; f'.stant attorney general of the PnUed 1 States, whose department controls t'.-vlerrl prisons, has ben aw-arcled a medal by the national committee on prisons and prison labor for outstanding outstand-ing services in prison work during I i Mayor John F. Hylan of Xew York announced that he positively would be a candidate to succeed himself at next fall's municipal election irrespective ir-respective of whether or not he received re-ceived the support and indorsement of Tammany Hall. Mrs. Caroline Beatty Kiing. step-I step-I mother of the late Mrs. Florence Kline Harding, lost a race with death. Advised by her physicians of the approach ap-proach of the end. Mrs. Kiing leit Paytor.a, Fla.. with the hope cf reaching her home at Columbus. Ohio, before she expired. Death overtook Ver. however, when her train was be-l be-l eer Richmond and Washington. An American dt-Wation, headed by A:-i-ta:it Secretary Andrews of the : trea-.iry. left Wa-hinmon for El Paso. Texas, where tli-y will meet j repre.-'-atativi-s of the Mexican gov- j rninent in a conference on border bor-der questions. It is the hope of in- administration here that treaties can be worked out for the co-opera-'ive handling of smuggling and other border problems. When Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller. Jr., is married to David Mediwether Milton she will wear a gown with a train of Irish and Vene-rian Vene-rian lace valued at $1011 a yard. The wedding will be at the Rockefeller home in order to avoid the crush and publicity that would attend a church affair. Miss Ellen Milton, sister of the bridegroom will be bridesmaid, and Albert Fink Milton, his brother best man. The treasury has made plans for printing more paper money in the next fiscal year than ever has been turned out by the American government govern-ment in any other twelve months in history. Orders have been prepared for the purchase of 200,000,000 sheets of distinctive silk fiber paper, from each sheet of which eight pieces of currency are made, and, beginning July 1. the great bureau of engraving engrav-ing and printing will be run at maximum maxi-mum capacity to meet the nation's paper money requirements. Charles C. Hart, Washington correspondent cor-respondent for the Portland Oregon-ian Oregon-ian and a number of other western newspapers has been selected as minister min-ister to Albania to fill a long-existing vacancy. Formal announcement of the appointment is withheld pending approval by the Albinian government. Mr. Hart is a native of Indiana, 47 years old, and has had wide experience exper-ience in the middle and far west. He was secretary and manager of the national Republican Progressive league, lea-gue, seeking the election of Charles E. Hughes in 1916. The District of Columbia government govern-ment must pay $7500 damages to Howe Totten, a Virginia farmer, for permitting prisoners at its workhouse at Oceorjuan, Va., to escape and invade in-vade his premises, frightening his family and making it difficult" for him to keep farmhands. FOREIGN The allies have received under the Dawes plan G40. 010,066 gold marks, or more than $160,000,000, since the plan was put into operation, accord-;ng accord-;ng to figures just issued by Reparations Repara-tions Agent General Gilbert. The Panaman newspapers prominently promi-nently display rumors of an impending impend-ing uprising among the San Bias Indians In-dians and the government has dispatched dis-patched a coast guard ship with a police contingent as a "preventative measure." Officials have been Unable to verify the rumors because of the solated position of the affected territory. Prominent citizens of Japan have raised a fund of $75,000 to restore the huge statue of Buddha in Uyeno rark, which was dacapitated during the 1923 earthquake. A plot to shoot President Calles f Mexica has just been discovered. Maria Lusia Jauregui, wealthy young Mexican girl is being held following revelations of an alleged plot by her to assinate the president of the republic. re-public. She terms herself the Joan if Arc of Mexico. In his first public declaration since his return to Moscow, Leon Trotsky 'ias formally bowed to the soviet dic-ators. dic-ators. affirmed his allegiance to bol--hevism. denied any aims to convert Russia into a bourgeoise democracy with a parlimentary system and free private trade. Jose Gabino Vallanequva was chosen president of the republic of Bolivia in the elections held recently. The count of the ballets shows that Sen-or Sen-or Viillanee.uva polled 45.000 votes as j the republican candidate, as against j: ;.e,A ct'.Tt for the defeated coalition ; eniiai;h.te. Daniel Salamanca. i A formal agreement will likely be 1 signed in a few days between the , Harrinian combine and the soviet j government of Russia concerning the ; output of the manganese mines in the : Chiaura fields of the republic of ; Georgia, it -was authoritatively learn-! learn-! ed. Negotiations for such a conces-; conces-; sion have been reported under way for several months. I The United States will have cer-: cer-: tain constructive suggestions to offer : the international conference for ccn-' ccn-' trol of the trafiic in arms. Representative Represen-tative Theodore Burton of Ohio told the conference at Geneva. One. of the most important, he said, concerned concern-ed additional measures to deal with ' the trafiic in poisonous gas and with j the hope of reducing the barbarity of j modern w-arfare. |