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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOP. BUSYREADERS 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 Orders issued last June for the destruction de-struction of alleged boil weevil infested in-fested cotton crops in the Postvalle area near Tucson, Arizona were declared de-clared "unauthorized, illegal and void," in a report filed in United States court at Phoenix ly H. L. Partridge, special master in chancery. chan-cery. Donovan Baker, Mare Island navy yard sailor, from whose stomach were extracted ten naiis in an operation a month ago, swallowed a table fork at Vallezo, Cal. He will recover. A per capita payment of $25 to 2526 Flathead Indians of Montana was authorized by the interior department de-partment in response to an appeal that the Indians were in need of financial assistace on account of approaching ap-proaching winter. A $50 payment was asked, but because of lack of money in the tribal fund, the payment pay-ment was fixed at $25. Washington, D. C, was chosen as the 1925 convention place of the National Na-tional Association of Railway and Utility Commissioners, at their session ses-sion at Phoenix, Arizona. The date was fixed at November 10 to 13. F. R. Anderson, wealthy attorney of Vancouver, B. C, and Russell Whitelaw, also of Vancouver, and reputed millionaire, were among scores of individuals indicted at San Francisco by a federal grand jury on charges of violating the prohibition prohibi-tion law and the treaty agreement between the United States and Canada relaitve to shipping liquor into this country. Three persons lost their lives in the waters of the main canal of the Yuma irrigation project at Yuma, Arizona when their automobile plunged plung-ed over an embankment into the stream. Three others riding in the machine narrowly escaped death. The United States Smelting and Refining company of Boston has discontinued dis-continued operations to locate a meteor in Meteor mountain, east of Flagstaff, Arizona, and the plant machinery is being dismantled to be moved to the company's site of operations at Oatman. Gross payment of more than $11,-500,000 $11,-500,000 to sugar beet farmers was made by the Great Western Sugar company of Denver. This distribu- tinn rcnrosotito tVio initial nairmPTlt on beet tonnage delivered in October. Lower sugar prices this season will probably have an adverse effect on future payment The proposal to give San Francisco continuous baseball during the 1925 season of the Pacific Coast league failed by a five-to-t.hree vote to obtain the approval of the league's directors and club owners at their meeting at Seattle. The proposal to dispose of the Salt Lake team to Long Beach and to remove its base of operations to San Francisco also failed to receive unanimous approval. GENERAL Five collars, approximately, for ' every man in the country, were made I last year. Census bureau's statistics statis-tics of manufacturers sho.v 15,5i)0.6G2 ! dozen, or 1S7,6S7,&oS men's collars ' were turned out by factories in 1923. i That included starched and soft col i lars made principally of cotton fab j rics and there also were some ct ! celluloid, pyralin and paper. Then total value was S30,S03,554. Leo Bargemar.n, IS years old, has confessed that he shot his father, ; Err.est Bargemar.n, on their farm near Tripoli, Iowa six weeks ago in order that he might obtain his father's land holdings, officials announced an-nounced after the bey's indictment on a che.rge of assault wi.h intent to commit murder. W. W. Irwin of Wheeling;, W. Va., j past imperial potentate of the Ancient An-cient Arabic order. Noble:- of the Mystic fhrir.e. died in a hospital at Pittsburg, where he underwent an iper-tijn several weeks ago. He served as postmaster of Wheeling during President Wilson's adminis tration srd was imperial postentate f the Shrinrrs of North America in 1 1913 and 1914. - Chicago bandits kidnaped Otto G. Schmidt, president of a construction company, and his chauffeur in front of hi.; home and then robbed Schmidt of a payroll of approximately $10,000. William II. Harkins, master forget awaiting arrival of officers from Fort Worth and Salt Lake City, attempted at-tempted to commit suicide in his cell in the Miami, Florida city jail by using his underwear for a rope and tying it to the upper part of the cell. The navy is proceeding with its plans for utilizing the uncompleted battleship Washington for target practice despite the continued effort of William B. Shearer of New York, through the courts, to prevent Secretary Sec-retary Wilbur from dsposing of the vessel under the arms conference agreement in this manner until congress con-gress has an opportunity to act on the question. Adolph Roquet, insurance man, the husband of Mrs. Oneima De Bouchel, vho was given wide publicity on account ac-count of her heart balm suit against Asa G. Candler, Atlanta soft drink king, died at a New Orleans hospital after a short illness. The Supreme court sustained lower courts in holding settlers furnished .vater by the Twin Fals River Land and Water company must a.l be made parties to any suit to recover on 'settlers' contracts" to pay for the irrigation project. Agents of the customs service have succeeded in breaking up one of the greatest smuggling conspiracies in recent years, it was disclosed at the treasury at Washington, where it was said that customs agents in half a dozen sections of the country in recent re-cent months have seized and identified identi-fied smuggled jewelry valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars. Lieutenant W. H. Harkins, held at Miami, Florida as a master forger and wanted in Salt Lake City, Fort Worth and other places, told the police that he intends to. rely on the fact that he was once confined in an asylum at Agnew, Calif., to secure se-cure his release on criminal charges. He will voluntarily submit to be taken tak-en back to Agnew. Postponement of tax reduction or any extensive revision of revenue laws- until the regular session of congress, con-gress, convening in December, 1925, is the definite program of the administration admin-istration at Washington. John W. Davis, defeated Democratic Democra-tic presidential nominee, will sail for Cherbourg within the next two weeks in company with Mrs. Davis and his daughter, Mrs. William MacMillan Adamas. Mr. and Mrs. Davis had contemplated a winter cruise in the Mediterranean, but they have not yet completed definite plans. Charges alleging violation of the corrupt practice act in behalf of the senatorial candidacy of Thomas D. Schall were submitted for consideration consider-ation to the Hennepin county grand jury by County Attorney Floyd B. Olson of Minneapolis. FOREIGN Zoro Agha, the oldest man in the world, has celebrated his one hundred hun-dred and fiftieth birthday anniversary. anniver-sary. He is a Kurd by birth. . His age is authenticated by a birth certificate, cer-tificate, by his minute remembrance of rulers and events in Constantinople more than 120 years ago, and by the testimony of a dozen old men, who declare that Zoro was already an old man when they were boys. Alejo Garcia and Francisco Ruiz .vere sentenced to death for the murder mur-der of Mrs. Rosalie Evans, the American-born widow of a British ubject, who was killed last August near her hacienda in the state of puebla. The German people's party has issued is-sued an electoral address expressing desire to reach an understanding 'ts opponents en the common basis of securing the freedom, honor and existence cf Germany as a factor in world po'icy and economics. The manifesto speaks of Germany's im--recipit'i. le liht to colonial activity. John V.". Riddle, the American ambassador am-bassador to Argentina, who has been undergoing treatment at Panama for in attack of acute rheumatism has ailed for home. He was bound for the I 'Jnit-ed Str.tes for a vacation when :eiied with the attack, which necessi ctcd his removal to a hospital upon lis arrival heie two weeks ago. "His majesty," Cyril I, emperor of j Russia,' ha decided, according to Fari.-, to convoke a crown council I r,t which all the grand duke who ! have recognized him will be present. Grand Duke Dmitri has been ap pointed "his majesty's" representative representa-tive in Paris, with two counselors, one fcr military affairs and the I other for civil affairs. |