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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSnODERS 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 Three young men and one young Woman were drowned in Lake Washington Wash-ington near Seattle, Wash., when a sailboat in which they were making a pleasure trip to Sand Point, Wash., sank in the rough waters of the lake. The dead were children of prominent Seattle families. Freezing temperature at the bast of Mount Shasta has checked the stupendous stu-pendous flow of ashes, mud and lava formation which poured down the sides of the mountain before a torrent tor-rent of flood waters, imperiling the lumber town of McCloud, Cal., five miles distant from Sacramento. Modification of the embargo on shipments of livestock and produce from California now in force gener ally throughout the west, was recommended recom-mended at Helena, Mont., to the heads of the departments concerned concern-ed in the seventeen western states, by Dr. V. J. Butler, state veterinarian veterinar-ian and president of the Western States Livestock Sanitary association. Governor George W. P. Hunt of Arizona is reported "resting easily" at St. Joseph's hospital after a hurried hur-ried operation, when he was stricken with an attack of appendicitis'. An official checkup of the number of miners and workers' in the Sublet mine No. 5 when the explosion entombed en-tombed all at 11:45 o'clock the morning morn-ing of September 16, at Kemmerer, Wyo., show that but forty-seven men were in the mine at the time of the blast, according to' officials of the Kemmerer Coal company, owners of the property. The number of entombed en-tombed men was set at eighty-one in earlier estimates by the company. Twelve men were taken out alive. Nearly 14:000 acres of land in Elko and White Pine counties, Nevada, will be thrown open to preferential soldier entry on September 26, but filings may be made prior to that date. The land is being released from stock driveway withdrawal. After Af-ter December 27 any land not previously pre-viously taken up by sendee men will be subject to general entry. Nearly $60,000 worth of construction construc-tion is called for in building permits issued in the first half of September, records in the office of the city engineer en-gineer of Nampa, Ida., disclose. It is considered probable that the total for this month will agreggate nearly ten times this amount as it is expected expec-ted that within a week or two a permit per-mit will be iss-jed for the new Pacific Pa-cific Fruit Express car shops at a cost approximating $450,000. Nine Utah companies controlling thirty sugar factories in Utah, chiefly, chief-ly, and in Idaho, Washington and Wyoming, will have paid farmers $13,500,000 for sugar beets by October Oc-tober 15, the date of final payment for beets? harvested last fall, according accord-ing to a report of Frank Andrews, statistician of the United States department de-partment of agriculture. GENERAL A patrolman defending the Italian i aviator Antonio Locatelli, from an attack from a frenzied mob of his countrymen, who awaited his appearance ap-pearance outside the Manhattan opera op-era house at New York, was stabbed three times with a stilletto. Anthony Cioffe, 43. who s-ays he is a member of the I. W. W., is under arrest. The patrolman is in a serious condition. A lene bandit escaped into Kansas. It is believed, after. he forced the cashier of the bank of Po'Stwick. Neb. to open the vault, and took about S1.100. Bostwick is near the Kansas-Neliras'ja Kansas-Neliras'ja border line. Tile Prince of Wales, accompanied by a secretary, called ar Sajanmre Hill, the home of the late Theodore Roosevelt. The Prince visited for some time with Mrs. Roosevelt and her son, Kermit. America's tax burden was $775,-000,000 $775,-000,000 heavier in 1923 than in 1922, and in ten years taxation has grown more than S5, 500, 000, 000 the national industrial conference board announced in a report made public in New York. Total taxes raised in 1923 were placed at $7,716,000,000, as against $3,961,000,000 in 1922. The Idaho civilian team won th( Camp Perry shotgun team match ai the National Itr.'e association al Cam) Perry. Ohio. It scored 2..1 oul o a possible 2o0. The Kansas national na-tional guard and United States navj team, Hie only other competitors, tied for second place, Kansas winning the shoot-off with 101 targets against 0C for the navy. Frank Melchoit, 35, policeman is the employ of the Olive Iron Mining comiany, was instantly killed al Evelelh, Minn., when he attempted tc remove from the street a high voltage electric wire which had beer torn down by the storm. Authority for the transfer of approximately ap-proximately 14.000 acres of publk land in the Salt Iiiver valley ol Arizona to the city of Thoenix foi public park purposes was granted bj the interior department. ISernard Grant has been given a reprieve by Governor Len Small oi Illinois. Grant was under sentence to hang October 17. The reprieve is good for ninety days. Before it expires the governor will have acted on Grant's application for a full pardon. Mrs. Mae Urdang of New York celebrated cele-brated her ' n-llh birthday in the Harlem home of the Daughters ol Israel. Among those taking part in the jollification were her "young' brother of 100 years' and her "boy'' who is just So. Federal Judge Carpenter overruled demurrers of Colonel Charles F. Forbes Forb-es and John W. Thompson, Chicago and St. Louis contractor, to the indictment in-dictment charging them with connection con-nection with Forbes' administration as director of the veterans' bureau. The trial date will be set October 14 at Chicago. Herbert A. Thompson of 'Williamson, 'William-son, Mich., was elected grand sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-iows Fel-iows at the sovereign grand lodge session, at Jacksonville, Fla. Portland, Port-land, Ore., was chosen for the 1925 convention city. , Richmond, Va., will be the meeting place for the 1S25 convention of the National League of Women Voters from April 15 to 20. Its executive committee accepted formal invitations to meet there. Jimmy Murphy, Los Angeles, was fatally hurt at the postponed New York state fair and motor races. His car -left the track on the 138th lap. Murphy was buried in the wreckage and died soon after being rushed to a hospital. America's polo team, before a crowd of 40,000 persons, defeated England's international polo team at Meadow Brook, N. Y., by a score of 16 to 5. This was the largest score since the series was inaugurated in 1888. The American team ran away with the Britons. FOREIGN John D. Wallingford, the Panama Canal district judge, died suddenly while delivering an address at a-. American Legion dinner at Panama. Anonymous -circular letters frtfn an unknown source summoned the chiefs of all Europe's film producers, agents and exhibitors to a mysterious con ference scheduled to be held in London Lon-don two weeks from now for thf purpose of uniting and taking up arms against American domination of the moving picture industry and distribution. Official telegrams received at Pe. kin from Qtiinsan. field headquarter.v of the Kiangsu armies seeking to can ture Shanghai, declared that Cbe'.dang regimental commanders with their men were surrendering to the attacking attack-ing forecs. According to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Constantinople, Constanti-nople, more than 100 pers ns perished in a fire in a moving picture house in Smyrna. The dispatch says no details have been received in the Turkish capital. Grand Duke Cyril, cousin of the former Czar of Kussia, has signed a proclamation declaring himself "Em-peror "Em-peror of all the liussians," says a Berlin dispatch to the Daily Mail. A charge of murder was lodged against Leonard Reid, held responsible responsi-ble for the deaths of six men who .ere killed when his automobile ran down a group of Yorld War Veterans Veter-ans at Callahan's crossing near St. Johns, N. F. When arrested Reid was held for manslaughter and the charge changed to murder in court. Bail was set at $200,000 for Reid, who is a member of one of Newfoundland's New-foundland's first families. It is learned that the assassination of Todor Alexandroff, head of tha Macedonian revolutionary organization, organiza-tion, occurred on August 31, and that in the reprisals following the crims there have been eight other politi cal assassinations. |