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Show AH Corners of the Earth Complete History of the Part Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader ! J INTERMOUNTAIN. j ' Fire Tuesday destroyed practically. j the entire town o Cloverdale, Ore., ! In southern Tillamook county, aecord- ' Ing to word received here. J L. D. Robinson, chief clerk in the ""j Salt Lake offices of the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy railroad, Thursday Deconies traveling freight agent for that company, working out of Salt Lake over the territory handled by R. F. Neslen, general agent. This includes in-cludes Utah and Neveda, most of Idaho Ida-ho and parts of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. Arguments in the application of Marcus Mar-cus Murray fur letters of administration administra-tion in the estate of his uncle, James A. Murray, who died recently in Cal- ifornia, were concluded Friday and the matter was taken under advisement by "District Judge Jackson. Mr. Murray left an estate in Montana and Pacific coast states valued a several million dollars. Scott C. F.one, newly appointed governor gov-ernor of Alaska, accompanied by Mrs. Bone and his son and daughter, sailed for Juneau Saturday. He said he (vould take over the office, succeeding Governor Thomas Riggs Jr. immediately immediate-ly upon his arrival nt Juneau. ' General T. Coleman Dupont an nounced at Colorado Springs late Thursday that he had telegraphed the governor of Delaware, accepting his appointment to the United States senate to suceed Josiah O. Wolcott. With an estimated fllush production Of from 40!) to oOO barrels of oil daily the No. 2 well of the Thermopolis Cat Creek Creek syndicate located in section sec-tion 11-15-29 near I.ewistnn Mont, came In recently according to an announcement announce-ment of company officials. Three fatal ncldents happened at Sundance, Vyn. last week. Louis Schnedier, 70 year old prospector, was found dead wilh a bullet through his 'heart; Italpli McHonry died from a broken back caused by an automobile accident and Walter AtkinsonlS years Did, was dragged to death by a horse. The raoifie fleet, with all Its 2(17 vessels ves-sels present, will rondozous in San Frnnciscn. bay on or about September I, for review by Secretary of the Navy Denhy. according to an official order Issued by Admiral K. W. Eberie, fleet commander. Saturday. The ships will pass In review befoe Denby in battle formation. It was said, and the demonstration demon-stration will be one of Hie greatest displays dis-plays In the navy's history. During the year 120 the production tf gold, silver, copper, etc.. in Neveda R'as as follows : Gold 172.540.40 ounces; llver 7,745,003 fine ounces ; copper. 50,540,70.'? pounds; lead 21,20.1,700 pounds, of a total valuation of $2.1,S70-513. $2.1,S70-513. DOME8TIC. Mrs. David Duff of Centralia Kansas, ivho died after a three days' illness, ras the largest woman in the county. She weighed 500 ponds. She was 37 nd the mother of three children, tier parents are of normal siz The number of cattle for each hundred hun-dred persons in the United States is One-third loss than in 1000, the sheep Supply Is reduced nearly two-thirds, ivhlle the number of hogs is 41 per Cent smaller, according to figures compiled com-piled from the federal census reports ly Herbert Myrick. a farm expert of Chicago. On the sworn affidavits of Jack Deni-pscy Deni-pscy and Jack Konrns that llioy are no longer residents of Utah and California, Californ-ia, respectively, but that I hey are and have been residing in business in Now fok. Supreme Court Justice Guy fhurs afternoon issued an order to Frank J. Spellman to show cause why he should not release IVmpsey's SiWOO lutomobile that Spellman had attached at the beginning of his .nt.).o0 suit Rguiiir't the -'haiupiivn and his manager, alleging breach of contract regarding (notion picture rights. Governors of thirteen states, including includ-ing W -uuing. will n cot at Salt Lake ?n Ju! lS-h. to discuss the future pro-cress pro-cress o" activities of the Western Slate lie :aiiKHi' sjvyico. Seven states sweltered Wednesday in the grip of a heat wave which threatened serious damage to crops. Temperatures ranging from 9i to 110 were reported inlllinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, Much sickness, especially among children vas reported as the re-suit re-suit of the torrid spell. Rain was badly needed in practically all parts of the Middle West. Frank A. Peterson, assitant United States attorney, of Omaha, Neb. tendered ten-dered his resignation Wednesday in a letter to Attorney General Daugherty, in which lie declared his sense of "justice "jus-tice had been outraged" by the pardon par-don of Thomas II. Matters, Omaha attorney, at-torney, who he said, served hut forty-four forty-four days of a five-year term. Mr. Matters, who was .sentenced on a charge of violating the national bank, ing act in connection with lite failure of the First Nationl bank of Sutton, Neb., was recenly released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan A compromise is said to have been reached by government officials and officers of-ficers of the breweries recently raided raid-ed and closed by prohibition agents at New Orleans, La. According to the reported agreement, the brewers will pay to the government, in tax: penalties penal-ties a sum considerably more than $100,000. Payment of these penalties it was reported, would not exempt the brewers from being prosecuted on chargs of having violated the Volstead act. WASHINGTON. The labor department shows that a year ago the dollar had a buying pow-,er pow-,er of 37 cents as compared with its value before the war. Now the power has increased to 05 cents. For the convenience of visitors in the various cities over the country, Postmaster General Hays plans to have all postoffice buildings marked with suitable signs erected on the exterior. ex-terior. Dr. David Jayne Hill author, collegian colleg-ian and diplomatist of long experience, likely will be the administration's choice as the first American ambassador ambassa-dor to Germany, following the world war. The selection of Dr. Hill tot the difficult post at Berlin is said to have already been decided on by President Pres-ident Harding. Dr. Hill is now in Europe. Brig. Gen. Charles F. Sawyer, personal per-sonal physician to President Harding, is working on a plan for the development devel-opment of a super race of people in I he United States. It is intimated that the Washington administration is interested in-terested in the plan. The house Wednesday adopted a resolution res-olution providing that a final vote on the Fordney tariff bill shall be taken July 21 and that only the duties on oil, cotton, chemical dyes and asphalt shall be open to changes by the house and that other changes must originate with the ways and means committee-FOREIGN. committee-FOREIGN. The former Gorman emporer la ignoring ig-noring the repeated demands for payment pay-ment of his municipal taxes, on the plea that his stay at Doorn Is involuntary, invol-untary, to which the municipality retorts re-torts that it has not the slightest objection ob-jection to his departure. 'William is dally becoming more unpopular; he cannot show himself in the roads without with-out being' hooted and jeered. Crown Trince nirohito of Japan arrived ar-rived in Rome last Wednesday. King Victor Emmanuel welcomed the prince at the station, and the two drove in slate carriages to the Quirinal, being enthusiastically cheered along 'their route. The prince was twice compelled compell-ed to appear upon the Imlcony of the Quirinal palace to respond to cheers from the crowd. Hr.- wh'. '. h:-;-' - - '-i i!, :'.' i. i Vs ?V;yr rds at .;..;.,:, Lag last Tuesday Tues-day caused damage amounting to many millions of marks. The timber sheds, .villi great quantities of building material, mat-erial, wore destroyed. The allied supreme council probably will meet toward the end of this month, either in Boulogne o in Paris, it was announced recently by the French foreign for-eign office. The Upper Siiesian question ques-tion will be uppermost in the d'seus-sions. d'seus-sions. Tile Greeks have advanced 15 miles 'n their offensive against the Turkish nationalist, said a dispatch from Smy-rr.n Smy-rr.n Wednesday. The main gains; wore made east of F.ronssa anil northeast of Anohak. The offensive, was launehod Monday after a terrific bombardment of tiie Turkish positions. A vice regal proclamation Issued Saturday at Belfast fixed June -'S as the date for the opening of the parliament parlia-ment for southern Ireland. |