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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJREADERS A RH3UME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Event of the Last Seven Day,, Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN A wage Increase agreement averting avert-ing the threatened Btrike of engine-men engine-men on the Santa Fe coast lines was signed at Los Angeles by company officials and representatives of the railroad brotherhoods. Fire of an unknown origin destroyed destroy-ed the quartermaster stable of Fort D. A. Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo. The loss was approximately $75,000. An explosion of kerosene oil used to start a fire in a heating stove resulted re-sulted In the deaths of Mrs. James W. Shelts and her three small children chil-dren at Lostlne, Oregon. Shelts was painfully burned and his wife's brother, bro-ther, Theodore Frost, was perhaps fatally burned. Mrs. Laura M. Pierce, wife of Gov-erno Gov-erno Walter M. Pierce of Oregon, died at the family home at Salem, Oregon, after a long Illness. All state departments were closed during the funeral hour. A maximum sentence of two years In the state penitentiary of Colorado for every dollar of loot obtained was imposed upon Lawrence Peterson, 19, and Clarence Lewis, 20, convicted of robbing a Denver pedestrian of $10. District Judge Charles Sackmann classed the youthful bandits as "potential "po-tential murderers" when he gave them the twenty-year maximum sentence. sen-tence. No marriage license may be issued In California until the expiration of five days after the application for It has been made, under the terms of a bill passed by the senate. The amendment proposed to the state's marriage laws also would provide that consent for the marriage of a minor given by the parents or guardian guar-dian must be approved by the judges of the superior court of such county. Applications for a license would be posted in a conspicuous place in the marriage license department and kept posted for at least three days. Expenditure of $1,136,000 authorized authoriz-ed by the state of Utah in construction construc-tion of a link of the 'Pike's Peak Ocean-to-Ocean highway between the Colorado line and Price, Utah, was announced at the annual meeting of the highway association at Colorado Sjrings, Colo. A publicity campaign, to be financed by the communities along the transcontinental route, was authorized at the meeting. Ray Arnold of Sacramento and E. K. Saver of Sin Francisco were sentenced sen-tenced to death on the gallows for the murder of Mrs. I. Ninimoya, a Japanese woman at Penryn, last November. No-vember. Superior Judge J. B. Landis fixed Folsom prison as the place of execution, and May 15 as the execution execu-tion date for Arnold and May 22, a week later, for Saver. Attorneys for the defendants filed notice of appeal, which automatically suspends execution. execu-tion. GENERAL A movement looking to the holding of a conference of Democratic leaders from the various states in the early summer, for the purpose of more securely se-curely welding together the Democratic Demo-cratic party has been initiated by Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, with the indorsement of other party chieftains. Edmund D. Barbour who claimed relationship with every president of the United States, with the exception excep-tion of Buchanan, and whose family-was family-was one of the oldest in America, died at his home at Boston in his eighty-fourth year. Publishers of newspapers and periodicals peri-odicals in the United States had an output in 1923 valued at $1.2TJS,501t-566, $1.2TJS,501t-566, an increase of 12:9 per cent over 1921, the last preceding census year. The census bureau figures. Just made public, showed that $793,-S9S.5S4 $793,-S9S.5S4 of tie total was contributed by receipts from advertising, and J361.17S.829 came from subscriptions and sales. The Blue Sky Oil Protective association, asso-ciation, which was formed at Pana, Illinois, to protect persons against Irresponsible Ir-responsible operators who violate the securities law of Illinois and cause a needless waste of money to Investors, Invest-ors, is said to be the first organization organiza-tion of Its kind in the United States. It will also assist in assigning legal leases of land owners. After announcing that the United States airship Los Angeles would carry car-ry mail on a second trip from Lake-hurst, Lake-hurst, N. J., to Bermuda, sailing about March 16, the postoffice department canceled its notice having received word that the Los Angeles would not make the trip to Bermuda for at least a month. W. C. Wright, Putnam county school superintendent, died at Eaton-ton, Eaton-ton, Ga., from injuries suffered when he was assaulted by two young men to whom he had given a. "lift" in his car near Eatonton. Three men held in jail In Atlanta are charged with the assault on the educator of forty years connected with the Georgia school system. Because of testimony that disease germ cultures may be "bought as easily eas-ily as pistols" in the coroner's inquest in-quest at Chicago into the death of William Nelson McClintock, millionaire million-aire orphan, the city council has ordered or-dered Its legal department to draft "such laws as may be required and ordinances passed to properly protect pro-tect the public from any abuse In this regard." Failure of the United States senate to adopt the Bok world peace plan during the sixty-eighth congress, which ended last week, caused Dr. Charles Herbert Levermore, author of the plan, to lose his chance technically, techni-cally, at least to gain the second award of $50,000 offered by Edward Bok. The first award of $50,000 was given Dr. Levermore upon acceptance of his plan by a special jury headed by Elihu Root. Theodore and Kermlt Roosevelt, sons of the late president, will sail from New York next month at the head of a Field museum expedition to explore and hunt rare animals in the Pamirs, known as the "roof of the world," in central Asia, it was announced by the museum. The expedition ex-pedition will be financed by James Simpson, president of the Marshall Field company. FOREIGN An extensive program of festivities festivi-ties is being arranged in honor of the officers and men of the American fleet on their arrival in Australia during dur-ing the summer. The program embraces em-braces excursions, luncheons, dinners, sports and various other entertainments. entertain-ments. Gabiele d'Annunzio has leased for nine years the former kaiser's villa, "Falconieri," near Rome. It was first reported that the beautiful estate had been given to him. British army doctors are rejecting eighty-two out of every 100 men who apply for enlistment. Two years ago the percentage rejected was 58 per cent. The silent marching of thousands of Catholics in protest against what they call the government's policy of "religious persecution," has been given giv-en added significance to the tradion-al tradion-al Sunday political meetings In France. Sunday always has been the hardest day for cabinet members, for often most of them are at provincial provin-cial dedications or other affairs fixing the government's political fences. With the bells of romantic old Heidelberg Hei-delberg echoing their measured beat against the inclosing halls, Freider-ich Freider-ich Ebert, Germany's president, was laid to rest by the side of his mother moth-er in his home town, in the Hill cemetery overlooking the winding Nickar river valley and the ruins of the mediaeval Heidelberg castle. The rights and interests acquired by Japan in Manchuria by virtue of the Portsmouth treaty have been recognized rec-ognized by China by treaty entered into in 1915, K. Yoshizawa, Japanese minister to Peking, said in a note to the Chinese foreign office. The note was on the reply to a protest made by China against the recently concluded con-cluded agreement between Japan and Russia. After fifty years of silence "the growler." the great bell, weighing twenty-one tons, which hangs m the tower of St. Stephen's church, in Vienna, Vi-enna, again is in use. Ringing of the bell was discontinued half a century ago because it was feared the swinging swing-ing of the huge mass would bring down the tower. An electric striking strik-ing apparatus enabling it to be sounded sound-ed without danger has been installed. |