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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BMADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Day Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN W. H. Silvertooth of Prairie City, Ore., has a tale of a lamb witli one head and two bodies, and he shows the stuffed skin of the freak as proof The animal he said, was born on the ranch of Mrs. L. Austin of Austin, Ore. It has one head, three eyes, three ears, two bodies and eight legs. The extra ear and eye are at the back of an otherwise normal head, and the two bodies join at the forequarters. Spooning parties in automobiles along highways of Umatilla county, Oregon, will be cause for arrest. Sheriff Cookingham has issued an order or-der for all parked automobiles to be investigated. "Spooning's carried out entirely too far," he said. And the court will be gi-ven the duty of deciding de-ciding what is too far. J. M. Benton, SS, pioneer stage driver and stage line owner of California Cali-fornia and Nevada, is dead at his home in Carson City, Nev. It was in one of his stages that Hank Monk drove Horace Greeley over the Sierra Sier-ra Nevada mountains to Placerville. Artemus Ward was another passenger passen-ger who has left a record of the trip. Benton was born in iStuben county, New York, and crossed the plains in 1SG0, settling in Carson City in 1S64. An indictment charging the Northern North-ern Pacific Railway company with having violated the federal Elkins act by leasing to five Spokane, Washington Wash-ington concerns warehouse sites at such a low rental as to constitute a rebate on shipments made over its lines was returned by the United States grand jury. Under the lease agreement with the shippers named, the indictment charges, the latter agreed to make all shipments, both as consignee and consignor, over the lines of the Northern Pacific. Dorothy Ellingson, 17-year-old matricide, ma-tricide, found insane by a jury in superior su-perior court at San Francisco was committed to the state asylum at Napa, Cal., by Judge Harold Louder-back. Louder-back. Two large Douglas seaplanes, similar simi-lar to those used by the United States army last year in flying around the world, will be used in the summer to I patrol salmon grounds in Bristol bay and provide air mail to towns in southwestern Alaska, Frank Wright, president of the Carlisle Packing company anonunced at, Seattle, Wash, on learning from Delegate Dan Suth-srland Suth-srland of Alaska that plans had been aproved. James Russell's tire puncturing Pcotch collie is at liberty on probation, pro-bation, his owner having promised the Burbank, Calif., police to train the animal to kep his teeth out of rubber. rub-ber. The dog was taken into custody after three motorists in succession had complained against him. alleging he attacked their weak tires and bit them flat. Nevada's divorce law requiring six months' residence was upheld at Carson Car-son City by the state supreme court when it dismissed proceedings brought by Emma Confer of Philadelphia to have a decree granted Nathan Confer Con-fer set aside on grounds that his six months' Nevada residence had been only for the purpose of securing a divorce. GENERAL Importers of southern Idaho, thru S. E. Brady of Pocatello. recently appealed ap-pealed to Congressman Smith to have Pocatello designated a port of entry, through which goods from abroad may pass to the distributors of Idaho. Ida-ho. At present Great Falls is the port of entry for both Idaho and Montana and Salt Lake City is port i for Utah and Nevada. That town in Cochise county. Ariz., was "too dead for her," Mrs. Lulu Anderson told assistant state's attor-. attor-. ney at Chicago in asking for extradition extradi-tion of her husband. Stanley, on a I charge of nonsupport. He had gone ' back to the peace and quiet of Co-' Co-' chise county, she said, where former-. former-. ly she had tried vainly to live with ' him. She told him Chicago was a live town, but after a trial he seemed to prefer Tombstone. Winfield Scott. Jr., wealthy Texas rancher and society man is "penniless," "penni-less," it was revealed when suit was filed in the district court by counsel for Scott's divorced wife for alleged nonpayment of alimony. Young Scott's entire estate, estimated at more than $1.500,0000, was turned over to his mother. Mrs. Winfield Scott, Jr., several weeks ago. according accord-ing to Norman Nelson, manager of the Scott ..state. A total of 344.059 surplus freight cars were in good repair March 31, and immediately available for service, an increase of 24,394 over the March 22 figure, the American Railway association as-sociation announced recently on the basis of reports from class 1 carriers. car-riers. No shortage was reported at any point. There is more potash development in Utah under the general leasing law than in any other state of the west, and coal mining on leased lands is more extensive in Utah than in any other state, save Colorado, and Wyoming. Wy-oming. To date the interior department de-partment reports that it has issued 128 coal permits, leases or licenses, covering public lands in Utah, 19G in Wyoming and fourteen in Idaho. In Utah there are now in effect 302 potash permits and leases, and one each in Wyoming and Idaho. Mrs. Sidney Smith, wife of the creator of the Andy Gump comic strip, was found dead in the bathroom of their magnificient Lake Geneva home at Chicago. Billy Mayfield, recently sentenced to two years in jail on a conviction of criminally libeling T. W. Davidson, former lieutenant governor of Texas, was granted a new trial and pleaded guilty, asking leniency of the court. He was fined $731, including costs, after signing a statement exonerating Davidson. Dav-idson. The libel charges were based on statements in Mayfield's weekly publication during the gubernational campaign last summer. Nine hundred high school students walked out of classes at Bessmes, Ala., and declared they "would remain re-main out" until the board of education educa-tion rescinded its action in electing a new superintendent of schools to replace Dr. L. L. Vann. Practically every member of the student body was among the number. Julius Kruttscbnitt, of New York, chairman of the board of directors and of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific company announced that he would retire on May 31, under un-der the pension rule of the company. In accordance with the will of Joseph Jos-eph Marcannot, wealthy and eccentric recluse, who died December 26, his body was placed on display in a cemetery cem-etery at St. Louis. Marconnot arranged ar-ranged to have his body embalmed in a manner similar to that of the Egyptians and instructed that the public should be given an opportuni-ity opportuni-ity to view it on the principal holidays holi-days of the Catholic church. Holy Thursday, was the first such occasion. occas-ion. FOREIGN In Sierra de Nayarit, state of Mexico, Mexi-co, armed forces entered the capitol buildings, deposing forcibly the state governor, Ismael Romero, and his staff. Behind the revolutional move is said to be the former governor, Villanueva, deposed a week ago by the local legislature on charges of peculation and immorality. Senor Romero Ro-mero wired Mexico City asking for military to help protect the state officials. A mesasge reaching Pekin from the China inland mission says .that the Brutish Missionary Tomkinson, who was held as hostage for the safety of the town of Shenkiu, in the province of Honan. has been released. General Von Hindenburg's candidature candida-ture for the presidency of Germany is deadlocking the French government govern-ment crisis. It is possible that the present ministerial impassee will continue con-tinue a fortnight until the fatherland electors decide whether the reich shall revert to the lieutenancy of the former kaiser's chief adherent or remain re-main a republic. Several American Catholic bishops Protestant pastors and Jewish rab bis figured prominently in the Easter services in Jerusalem. The city was crowded with more pilgrims than at any time since prewar days. The nomination of Field Marshal ! Yon Hindenburg for the German pres- I idency by the parties of the unite'l right came as a surprise to his fei low citizens, who. until the arrival of Admiral Von Tirpitz. as the em issary of the right block, thought the veteran millitary leader's refusal was final. Tirpitz generally is credited I with having been the decisive facto! 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