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Show i iheSsi ra I , A Complete History ofhat Has I Been Happening ThioOchout j ' the World ! 1 I- VV ;i WESTERN , financial ruin faces fruit grpwers I ' of the western slope district of Col- orado nnless railroad cars can Qe se- 't cured immediately to move the ilrlali- able crops, it Is stated In a resolution sent to Colorado senators and cou- I gressmen at Washington follownpg a I meeting at DeWa, Colorado, ofAhip- pers, growers and business mm of Montrose and Delta counties. ( That the strike of shop employes Is hampering transportation was evidenced evi-denced at Livingston, Montana. Dlvls-; Dlvls-; ion Superintendent O. H. Jacobus of the Northern Pacific railway announc ed that passenger service on the i f Shields river valley branch -would-be ,' discontinued and ithat the Tellow- i Btone Park special, a train of Pull mans operating between St Paul and Livingston, would also be taken off. ;- v , WASHINGTON- J Agrevment upon a tentative plan j for dljtiH)tM:tpn,(o( cool, and . for re- ; strlction of unfair prices was announced an-nounced Monday by Secretary Hoover Hoo-ver after a series of conferencfs during dur-ing the day , with representatives of producing operators, the railroads, the Interstate commerce commission and ottoer departments of the government Indictments against tlx persons in counectton with ; the Knickerbocker theater disaster of last January, la which ninety-seven lives were lost, were, dismissed Monday by Justice Slddous of the District of Columbia supreme court, who sustained dvmur- Plans by which the army could be expanded on short notice to a strength capable of defending the ' country, against a foreign foe and of checking check-ing any Internal bostllltles have been competed, General Pershing has an nounced. ' . r I ' This will be the "crucial week" of the tense Industrial sltuntion according to government officials, and before it ends the government rony be In control con-trol once more of the' vast structural of . intei-sfiaite transportation. This wek will determine, according to ad-nilnstration ad-nilnstration whether the railroads are able to function by themselves, and it will see also ithe- great example of trying to produce coal with volunteer workers from mines that have been strut down since the srtlke begun four months ago. ,- .; George B. Klndler endorsed for the ' i governorship of Wyeming, by the y newly organized "Conference for Pro- , ' gressive Political Action" at Douglas j , last week, Monday filed his petition I as a Candidate for the democratic I nomination. V 1 , No trace has been found of Clar- : . ence O. Trest, tint aviator who start- - ed from Eagle, Alaska for Fairbanks, 4 - last week and has not been heard of i since Searching parties made Up of Republican and 1 Democratic senators sena-tors Monday joined in demands for prompt payment of American damage claims against Germany and Austria but differed as to precedure during three hours' debate on the bill of Senator Underwood of Alabama, the Democratic leader, which proposed an American claims commission. s Fairbanks citizens, Including skilled mughers and odd. time ' iroapeetors, - have scoured two hundred miles of country between the two- cities with-I with-I , - out renult. Grave fears for Prosl'a sale ty are entertained, as the season Is i the worst ever known here for rain 3 and cold and Prest was without food J or a blanket I That hundreds of school districts i In the state of Montana will not be .1 able to maintain school sessions for 1 1 the full nine months during the en- suing school year on account of the I lack of finances to nuport, is the , I statement made at Miles City, Mon- tana, by Miss May Trumper of Hel- ' ena, superlntemlent of public instruc- ' I Hon, In an address before the Miles 1 1 City regional summer school v W. II. Roblnon avaltor and two men' y passenger were 1urfieU" td 'deafh" at Los Angeles. When the airplane In which they were riding caught fire and fell. t , GENERAL Lieutenant Milton B. Mackall, who J foi the last three years had lain In u bathtub at the Fort McHenry hos-' hos-' pltal at Baltimore as a result of a 1 f wound received in the world war, died ; Monday. He was conscious almost nn-' til the last. The case of Lieutenant Mackall was wlthbut parallel In the ' ; military annals of the country. The retail price of cool In car- j lots in Chicago has Jumped from 5.15 $ a ton to $ll.Co and $13 since (lie j miners went on strike while in small 3 quantities the cost has increased from I to.; to $0 a ton to $15.25 and $1S, 1 according to figures given out Mon- l day by a large Industrial ouncern, which ranks among the largest users Senate Republicans -werff accused Wednesday by Senator Robinson, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, Arkansas of contSucting a filibuster fili-buster -against their 'jarrlfr Mll' Hlsy chnrga came after.Ssntifejr Gooding-of, Idaho chairman of the Republican ng-riculturul-tariff bloc, and Lttdd of North Dakota had consumed four hours in reading prepared uddresses. Secretary Edwin Denby of the American Ameri-can navy narrowly escaped death ut Pekin, China Wednesday afternoon In an airplane accident He was flytng at a height of 4000 feet over the Great Wall, when the engine of the plane broke down. The machine was demolished demol-ished In lauding, but Mr. Denby wus uninjured. " FOREIGN - National troops : have gained a j j fresh victory in west Ireland by caiv j turing Ballyhaunia, " County Mayo, it was announced Monday. Former Premier Orlando, of Italy, after an hour's consultation with King Victor Emmanuel is reiorted to have refused to form a cabinet to succeed suc-ceed that of Premier Defecta which resigned last week. Senor Orlando, who has been discussing the situation situa-tion with all the leaders or the various var-ious constitutional ' groups of the chamber, Is said to have declared himself sgairiFt the formation of a short-lived cabinet , Sun Yait Sen, deposed president of the South China republic, announced Monday that his forces liyd captured Clilung-Mtng in the vicinity of .Ylng- tak, about iilxty miles' north of Can " !on. At Chen's headipiarters, however, how-ever, It was asserted that lh. engagement engage-ment at Ylngtak was unlmixrtunt and that only a few of Chen's soldiers were engaged. ' 1 of coal in the mlddlewest Tho Allegheny River Mining company com-pany at Klttaning Pa., Monday posted ' - at Its mines near here a notice ask ing Its 4000 striking miners to return re-turn to work under the lOUO wage scale. Company officials auld the offer of-fer was made by the company Individually Indi-vidually and not as a member of the Central Pennsylvania Bltumlnoug Coal Operators' association, to which it be- Brlilh miners will not balk ut mining min-ing coal to be exported to the United States to alleviate conditions caused by the miners' strike there, it was be-J'eved be-J'eved here Monday. It was reported In union circles ut London that British Brit-ish miners see a chance to even scores with American miners, who dug cargo after cargo of coul to De sent here during the British mine strike. , longs. Colonel Robert Walker Guthrie, for many years an -outstanding figure in the business life of Pittsburg and for tfroe DeovroIe nntlnnal coroi'rl-teeman coroi'rl-teeman from Pennsylvania, died ut his home recently at Pittsburg, ae 76 years. Colonel Guthrie was prominent prom-inent In the oil business and a brother broth-er of, the late George Guthrie, who died In Japan while American ambaa sador tg that country. The International Garment Workers' Work-ers' union has ordered its 50,000 members to suspend work for a week beginning next Tuesday. Nearly 3,000 plants will be affected by the order, which wus Issued to compel small contractors to . recognize the union. Employers of about 00 large factor-, factor-, ln8 already working under union mie say they bave agreed to the suspension suspen-sion In the hope that it will force j production methods. Dr. John Wlllstun Cook, nationally ! known educator and former president of the National Educational association associa-tion dd at his home at Chicago a few days ago Between ?5nMK0 and $750,000 dstn--ge to crops wca the etliiiata made by u corn spondent w ho toured the reghm 10 miles In diameter, laid waste late Saturday nlglit by the, most severe hailstorm ever known in Pierce county, Nb. Between 70 and So sections of the richest farming country are In the district. The worlds largest seaplane,, de-dgned de-dgned to cross the Atlantic In one day, b being constructed at Southampton jy the air ministry. Re-et spe-u'ati' :i cn the viprosd Impending large-scam operations n'iilnst the Republican Insurgents In southwest Ireland seems to have moved mov-ed the Free State government to put the brakes on popular anticipation of an early march to triumph and pence. A record raw silk shipment Is claimed by the Admiral liner President Madison, which arrived In port at Victoria B. C. Wednesday morning from the orient with 501,0 bales of raw sb'k aboard for the New Jersey mills. The department of engineering and medicine of Kyushu imperal university j .if Japan have been opened to women and a proposal to open tlie ent're school to them ls now under consideration. consid-eration. Fighting with a leopard In a six-foot pit Into which they hud' fallen at Nairobi Kenya Odony Henry J. Turn-ley Turn-ley held the animal at arm's length long enough for a companion to shoot him. A special British delegation will arrive ar-rive In the fulled States early in Sep-I Sep-I ember in connection with negotiations j'or funding the British debt t America, Ameri-ca, it was, announced by Prime Minis-ten Minis-ten Lloyd George In the house if commons com-mons Monday afternoon. |