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Show All Comers of the Earth ft:,. v "ct Complete History of the Past Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMOU.MTAIN. Despite the fact that the tax value of property tu Silver Bow county Mont, was reduced 513,000,000 this year, the (V delinquent tax list prepared by County y Treasurer, shows that $222,77S.40, or about 14 per cent of the total amount : due, has not been paid. It is the larg est deliquent tax list in the history of the county and is 377.SS.91 more than : last year. c Martin Adelin Plennevaux filed an ( application with the clerk of the dis trict court at Butte, Mont., to have his name changed to Adelin Martin. The petitioner alleges that Ins present i Dame is a great inconvenience because of the difficulty for ordinary English speaking persons to correctly spell or 'pronounce it. He is a native of Lon-grinne, Lon-grinne, Belgium. m 9 v Despondent because he had been , placed on the retired pension list, Bat- ; talion Fire Chief 'William Carr com- ,-- mitted suicide by slashing his throat, i m m Losses from forest fires throughout the United States decreased over 000,000 during the calendar year of 1920, according to the annual report of the forestry service bureau of the department of agriculture. , That financial conditions in Flat- ! lead country Mont, are not so bad as reported is shown by the fact that as large a percentage of taxes as usual were paid by Nov. 30. Total deliveries by Hood River apple growers to the Apple Growers' association asso-ciation the last week reached 36,856 boxes, bringing the season's total to 1,244,637 boxes. The week's shipments reached 30,328, bringing the total to 5784,857 Total carloads of apples shipped ship-ped from here reach 1502,71 having i been shipped since December 1, Flax growers of the Salem, Oregon district, who apparently are dissatified with the present arrangement made by the state board of control with relation to payments for their products, let it be known that they are considering the advisability of seeking special legislation leg-islation at the legislative assembly which convenes this month. Owing to the unusual Increase in the membership of the Boy Scout organizations, organiz-ations, the Miles City Mont., Scout-" Scout-" ' masters association has been formally organized with the election of A. E. Beck as chairman and Jack Gordon as secrtary. There are more than a score of scoutmasters who are taking an ae- ' tlve part in the Boy Scout movement in this section, the Scout membership running in the neighborhood of a i couple of hundred. GENERAL Retirement papers were issued at Vallejo, Cal., recently to Campbell 'Whitthorne, who, it Is said, has served the United States government under every administration from President Grant to President Harding. V ... ; Grain growers were asked to insist on an early investigation of the export trade by the flederal trade commission i in order that the "real reasons for present ruinous prices may be deter mined," in an appeal sent out by C. H. Gustafson, president of the United States Grain Growers. Freely and frankly discussing the present plight of the American farmer. farm-er. Secretary Wallace tells the president presi-dent In his first annual report that thre "seem to be good reasons for believing that the worst Is over and that we may reasonably hope for gradual Improvement from now on." w m 9 The "wild and wooly" east was decried de-cried by Gilbert B. Traveller of Cimarron, Cimar-ron, N. M., a circuit rider for the Mothodlsts Episcopal church for many years. "There was a time," he said, 'when our grandmothers used to tell ' us tales of the terrors of the west, but now you have to come east for excitement. ex-citement. w w m Twenty-five years ago Richard Bor-mlngham, Bor-mlngham, Forham graduate, cut rhort a postgraduate course In surgery to 5 become a policeman, because, he said, be'd "rather walk a beat than be the world's greatest surgeon." He la on the retlre-1 list with one of the best records In New York police history. A large talking machine company has made application of Judge Garvin in the United States district court, Brooklyn, for an injunction to prevent the American market from being flooded flood-ed with phonograph records imported from Germany, made by cheap labor and likely to seriously undersell American-made records. AVater, the most despised liquid refreshments re-freshments in Broadway's restaurants and cabarets, will be the only available stimulant along the once gay thoroughfare thorough-fare on New Year's eve, if prohibition agents have their way. The frequency with which federal officials have recently re-cently been paronizlng several of the most popular resorts has been interpreted inter-preted as a fbrrunner of tight lid on the city's biggest night. WASHINGTON. Names of more than 100 former service serv-ice men were presented to a senate committee by Senator Watson, Democrat, Demo-crat, Georgia, who asked that they be brought to Washington to testify in the investigation of his charges that American soldiers had been put to death in France without right of trial. Funding of the eleven-billion-dollar debt owed the United States by foreign governments into obligations maturing not later than June 15, 1947, and bearing bear-ing interest at not less than 5 per cent, would be authorized under the funding bill as approved by the senate finance committee. Commissioner Burke of Indian affairs, af-fairs, announced through his annual report, that he had found it unwise to continue the recognition of Indians of one-half or less Indian blood as competent, com-petent, without further proofs. Nearly a million acres of land, the commissioner commis-sioner stated, were allotted to Indians In-dians during the year ending last June 30. The effort in the house to compel Federal Judge Landis of Chicago to quit the bench or resign his baseball Job, came to a sudden end when Representative Rep-resentative Mann of Illinois made a point of order against the amendment offered by Representative Moore of Virginia, to forbid federal Judges from engaging in another occupation for compensation. The chair sustained the point of order and the house, by a vote of fifty-nine to fifty-one, sustained sus-tained the ruling of the chat, Suspension of immigration for three years, except for husbands, wives and minor children of naturalized citizens, is proposed in a bill introduced by Chairman Johnson of the house immigration immi-gration committee. The measure would become effective sixty days after af-ter enactment. The present 3 per cent Immigration restriction law expires ex-pires June 30. An appropriation of $10,000,000 to be used for the purchase of 10,000,000 bushels of corn and 1,000,000 bushels of seed grain to be distributed in Russia Rus-sia by the American relief administration administra-tion is proposed in a bill introduced by Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee. w After drastic amendment had been written into the administration's bill for refunding the $11,000,000,000 foreign for-eign debt by the senate finance committee, com-mittee, it was ordered favorably reported re-ported to the senate. Agreement was reached after a stormy session of nearly near-ly five hours behind closed doors. FOREIQN. Germany at the present time has fewer unemployed than any period within the last fourteen years, according accord-ing to labor officials. In the mining Industry, the building trade and the chemical industry the number of vacancies va-cancies exceeds that of the unemployed. Germany has failed to pay 190,000,-000 190,000,-000 gold marks due during the first two weeks of December under the schedule oi payments calling for 26 per cent of her exports and certain portions of her customs duties. A new quadruple agreement to preserve pre-serve peace in the Pacific was announced an-nounced by the United States, Great Britain, Japan and France. As a consideration con-sideration of the International realignment. realign-ment. Great Britain and Japan agreed to consign to the scrap heap the Anglo-Japanese Anglo-Japanese alliance, long viewed with apprehension ap-prehension In borh America and Asia, Almost all of the doctors' associations associa-tions in Germany have passed resolutions resolu-tions calling uih their members to fix the fees of patients from foreign countries coun-tries in the currency of the couatry from which they come. Recently a member of the American colony in Berlin, who had engaged a German doctor doc-tor of no particular fame or repute, received a bill of $10,000 "for services rondered." The charge for such a service serv-ice to a German patient would be 3000 marks, or less than $25, at the present rate of exchange. |