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Show "telegraphic tales fob busyreaders 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 A reward of ?000 has 'been offered for Information leading to the location loca-tion of Dr. F. E. Fyle, missing Geildes, South Dakota physician, who disappeared disap-peared two months ago in Sioux City, Iowa. An organization formed to search for the missing doctor has posted the reward. One of the most interesting and historical characters of Green ltiver, Wyoming died Sunday of apoplexy, brought on by advanced age. He is old China Joe, a Chinese locally respected res-pected and known over Sweetwater county. China Joe came to Green Uiver right after the Chinese riot in Rock Springs in 1S!)5, hiding in ltock Springs in a bake oven for three dHys, until he was able to get away. After coming to 'Green River he was given protection by W. A. Tahusco, one of the town's pioneers, who subsequently sub-sequently died. Joseph M. Carey, ex-governor of Wyoming, f.or 55 years an active figure fig-ure in the state's political life and the only man who had been governor and father of a governor in the state has parsed away at Cheyenne. Are the Wyoming ' Indians to be come as wealthy as the Cherokee tribe in Oklahoma? At any rate, they are making a good start, for during dur-ing 1923 the Shoshone Indians in Fremont county, Wyoming received $4S,W0 in royalty on 75,192 barrels of oil developed on their reservation near Lander. Former District Judge A W. Agee of Ogden, Utah, was given a directed verdict for ?4S,178 against four insurance in-surance companies Who had insured the life of his son, Robert G. Agee, who was drowned at Mot Springs, July 19, 1922, in the United States district court. The verdict includes Interest of S392S Discovery of a new dry kiln process pro-cess for seasoning lumber was announced an-nounced at Spokane Wash., Wednesday Wednes-day by Albeit Hermann of Portland, OreM who told the members of the Western Pine Manufacturers' association as-sociation that it would effect a saving sav-ing of approximately 20 . per cent in tlie cost of drying their product. With. more than 50 members, company com-pany L, lSOth Infantry, Idaho National Nation-al guard was mustered into the service ser-vice at Twin Falls Monday evening by H. A. Padgham, Idaho adjutant general and Cant. L. E. Wortham, United States army. Officers of the umc are an veterans of the World war. ' GENERAL. The St. ' Paul Union Stockyards company is permanently enjoined from interfering with the state of Minnesota in the weighing of livestock, live-stock, in a decision filed In the Dakota county district court by Judge Albert Johnson of Redwing, Minn. Boston, New York and Philadelphia made bids for the 1924 annual convention con-vention of the Socialist party, at the meeting of the executive committee at St. Louis to decide on the time anil place for the meeting. Paul Gir.ther, prominent mining man of El Paso, Texas, and Chihuahua, Chihua-hua, has been taken prisoner by revolutionists re-volutionists under the command of Hipolito Villa and Manuel Chao and is believed held for ransom, according to word received in 151 Paso from Chihuahua. J. P. Morgan and company will head the list of those contributing to the $10,000,000 corporation to be or-gaiil:wd or-gaiil:wd for the relief of northwestern hanks with a subscription of $500,000 provided the remainder of the capital is raised by other banking and business busi-ness interests. v pian to nntKe mom iceuo, 1 nomas Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Charlottes-ville, Va., a memorial that will "embody "em-body active and continuous service for the preservation anil spread of American Ideals," has been worked out by the Thomas Jefferson memorial memor-ial foundation which is conducting a nationa-widp campaign for funds. Engineer Frank Zerenlverg of the Chicago & Alton yards at Boodhouso. Illinois received word that he inherited in-herited $125,000 In the will of a rich Denver resident. The Ixipiest is a reward for the bravery of the engineer en-gineer In saving the life, of the testator tes-tator when he was in imminent danger dan-ger of drowning in the Mississippi river. . ' Ten men miraculously escaped death, one was slightly injured and property damage running between ?75,ooo and- $100,000 was done here recently when a iiOOO.unit turbogenerator turbogen-erator in (he plant of (he St. Cloud. Minn., Public Service conijKiiiy exploded. ex-ploded. William 11. Anderson, state super-ir.lend super-ir.lend lit of the Antisaloon league ot X V,-r! wns sentenced from one to . r.r in state's prison for thlrd- d .ve t'o-L.e-y. I WASHINGTON President Coolidge was Saturday informed that he will have to agrse to a compromise on the surtax and that congress will adjourn on June 1, with the remainder of his legislature legis-lature program a failure. While the senate continued to debate de-bate the resolution calling for the re-maval re-maval of Secretary of the Navy Denby the navy oil lease scandal develoied still more ramifications and maintained main-tained the center of the national stage unchallenged for popular interests. in-terests. Tribute was paid Sunday to the memory of Woodrow Wilson in the Central Presbyterian church at Washington, Wash-ington, where he had worshipped in his vigorous days. President and Mrs. Coolidge and many high government gov-ernment officials were present to 1 hear the Rev. Dr. James II. Taylor deliver his sermon, "A Great Man Has Fallen." The first step in the revision of federal taxes was completed Thursday Thurs-day when the house ways and means committee, after two months' consideration, con-sideration, agreed to report the new revenue bill to the house. Shortly afterwards the house opened debate on another feature of the taxation program, the constitutional amendment amend-ment resolution to prohibit issuance of tax exempt securities. j E. L. Doheny, the California oil operator, has notified the senate oil committee that, instead of the $250,-000 $250,-000 he recently estimated his interests inter-ests had paid William G. McAdoo's law firm, the amount actually paid so far is $150,000, including an annual an-nual fee of $25,000 to Mr. McAdoo himself. The president has renominated Herbert D. Cheney postmaster at Gooding, -he being the first presiden- Liat posi.uia-s-i.er reappoinieu wiluoliu civil examination. He was retained because of his satisfactory service. Receipts of the Salt Lake City postoffice for January amount to $92,023, an increase of $3723, or 4.22 per cent, over the receipts of January 1923. Senator Johnson of California has formally denied published reports that he soon is to withdraw from the race for the Republican presidential nomination. T. V. O'Connor of Buffalo, N. T. former president of the International Longshoremen's union and present member of the -shipping board, was designated by President Coolidgde to be chairman of the board. Wrapped in the glory of death, Woodrow Wilson has found sanctuary sanctu-ary under the towering arches of the Washington cathedral, acclaimed by his countrymen and the world. FOREIGN The Prince of Wales broke his collar col-lar bone while exercising one of his hunters at Billington manor, near Ascot last week. The prince was putting his mount over a fence when the horse fell, throwing his rider 'heavily on his shoulder. The prince jrot nn and was rpmmiMnrr win, Hiffi. eulty when his equerry said: "I believe be-lieve you've broken your collar bone.' "Yes I have," Wales replied. The general election necessitated by the recent dissolution of the house. ot representatives of the imperial diet will be held May 10, it was announced announc-ed officially by the cabinet of Tokio. The government of France has presented pre-sented a bill in the chamber of deputies de-puties providing for ratification of an accord whereby the United States will be paid $250,000,000 for Rhine-land Rhine-land occupation expenses. , The Bolivian police, says a La Paz dispatch to La.Naeion have discovered dis-covered a revolutionary conspiracy and arrested the instigators. The revolution was set to begin in the early days of February with the assassination as-sassination of the Bolivian president, presi-dent, Bautista Saavedra, and other officials. The flag incident at the German Embassy in Washington on the occasion oc-casion of Woodrow Wilson's death, will be brought up in the German Reichstag when it convenes the latter lat-ter part of next week, ncocrding to the Neue Berlier Zeitung. Mrs. Katherina Trutch of Trincs Albert, Sask., was sentenced by Jus- hina T T? T nnilmrv trt linnn- f.ir after a jury returned a verdict of guilty on a charge of first-degree ra'irder in connection with the slaying slay-ing of hr husband in the Fish creek district, October 19. During the trial testimony was introduced to show that she was cersuaded by another an-other man to poison here husband. A forest fire two miles wide is sweeping the slopes of Mauna Ixa mountain, twelve miles from Keala-kekua, Keala-kekua, according to reports received at llilo. There are no buildings in the vicinity of the fire The flags of all public buildings in France were at half mast Wednesday on the occasion of the funeral of Woodrow Wilson. There is no sign as yet, ot an abatement abate-ment of the epidemic ot influenza which is sweeping over the United Kingdom. The deaths reported from influenza last week numbered 307. The Zionist executive committee announces that the Standard Oil company has stnick oil in a well it drilled in the ancient Biblical town of Hebron. The wells is not far from the famous Abraham's oak and the old residences of Airahatn, David and I the patriarchs. |