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Show NEWSISM OF A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN Three mutilated pouches containing hundreds of opened letters, compris ing pnrt of the loot obtained by Roy Gardner, notorious bandit, in the Maricopa, Ariz., mill car robbery last November have Just been found, it was announced by the postofflce Inspector's In-spector's office at Phoenix, Ariz. WASHINGTON ' A reduction . -f $1,014,000,000 in the public debt during the month of June is announced by the treasury. Selection of a s!te for a $1,000,000 hospital for disabled veterans to be erected at Summerflelds, In the vicinity vicin-ity of Beacon, Dwhess county, New York, was announced by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Clifford. The sfte, he sold, which comprises 228 acres situated on the Hudson river, riv-er, was acquired at a cost of $100,-000 $100,-000 and he hospital will be erected Uiere and turned over to the. veterans' bureau, to be used in the care of soldier sol-dier patients from the metropolitan district of New York. Approval of 32 advances for agricultural agri-cultural and livestock purpose nggre-gntinjr nggre-gntinjr $878,000 is announced by the war finance corporation. Distribution of loans included: Idaho $SO00; Montana, Mon-tana, $83,000. Enos Bello, a racing car driver, was killed and Louis Sllva, his mechanician, mechan-ician, was injured, probably fatally, when, os they were testing out their car on a speedway at San Luis Obispo, Obis-po, Calif., it struck a colt To verify reports that disease in cattle end tuberculosis In poultry ex-1st ex-1st to considerable extent in Idaho, Dr. J. D. Adams, director of the state bureau of animal industry, announces that a survey of the entire state will bo started Immediately. Howard Ferris strangled with his bare hands a wolf that attacked him near Lake Desmet, Wyo. E. J. Holden, superintendent of the State fish 'hatchery on Silver creek, near Hailey, Idaho, will plant 500,000 natU e trout finperlinjrs in the streams of this region this summer. Government ownership of every postofflce building in every hamlet, town and city in the United Stutes, advocated by Tostmnster General Wkrk, as an economy measure, was said to have received the approval of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and members of congress interested in postal development. By n vote of 88 to 12 the senate approved a tariff of 30 cents a bushel on wheat. Democratic leaders declared de-clared during the debate which preceded pre-ceded the vote that this rate would cost the American people $100,00000. Senator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, In charge of the measure, stilting frankly the purpose of the rate wjis to keep above the world level the price of northern spring wheat from the Pnkotis and Minnesota, Minne-sota, said he did not think the tariff proposed would be carried on to the consumer, nut even u u was u wouu not amount to two dollars a year t each consumer. A new "dry" move to tighten up prohibition enforcement and plug up one of the biggest leaks in the Volstead Vol-stead act was launched by Senator Willis, Ohio, Republican, one of the authors of the recently enacted nntt-beer nntt-beer act. Senntor Willis introduced a hill designed to check the flow of liquor from government warehouses -nfo bootleg channels through fake permits. It provides penitentiary sentences sen-tences for persons convicted of counterfeiting coun-terfeiting or being In any way con-"erned con-"erned In the illegal use of forms used by the prohibition authorities charged with the enforcement of the Volstead act. President Harding end 5,000 marines visited Gettysburg battlefield, as a part of Independence day activities. FOREIGN ' The Japanese admiralty 1eswd a formal statement flatly denying recent re-cent reports that Japan was evnding the Washington naval treaty by increasing in-creasing construction of auxiliary vessels, ves-sels, - American drunkards are wilder and more disorderly than those of Europe, but whene there is one Intoxicated man on the street In an American 'ity there are hundreds rolling around In an European town, according to Robert Hrrood, director of the International Inter-national Temperance bureau, Lusnn r.e, "Switzerland. Independent members of the bind-tag bind-tag at Munich, Bavaria, have Introduced Intro-duced a mot'on demanding legislation to expel fnun Germany H male mem. 'iers of the reigning and princely fam. illes. The measure provides specifically specifi-cally for the immediate expulsion from Bavaria of all male members ol the Wlttelstmch family, and make them liable to imprisonment of from thre months to five je.irs if found in the country after it took effect. A number of floating saloons are planned beyond the three mile limit of the California const Aroused by the action of property owners along the beaches who have sought to charge for the use of sands and the sea, Los Angeles city, Los Angeles county and several of the beach towns, Including Santa Monica, have started a move to condemn nl" beach lands not already owned by the public within an hour's drive of the downtown section of Los Angeles. Eight hundred men, guests of the Emil Zola club, Chicago, where the entertainment included a veil dance by four young women clad only In scant pieces of gauze, were arrested by police raiding parties. GENERAL Cotton Jumped about 17.50 a bale within ten minutes after the publication publica-tion of the first government forecast - of the season.. Heavy .buying came In from all quarters as It was realized that the estimated yield of 11.005,000 bales probably would not meet re-' re-' qulreraents. The fire, which swept the Locust Paint river front of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Baltimore, caused damage estimated by the company at $1,804,000 nd seriously threiitened the public health service hospital at Fort Mellenry. A mysterious organization formed at New York and named the focletv for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cupid Is said to have for Its purpose the Instruction of its members In the art of winning and keeping n husband. Two persons were killed and another anoth-er probnbly fn tally Injured when a westbound Chicago, Milwaukee & St. raul passengvr train struck an uuto-xnoblle uuto-xnoblle at a crossing three and a half miles west of Ellensburg, Wash. "As far as we are concerned, the United States railroad lalior braird no longer has Jurisdiction over our affairs. af-fairs. Onr men are not now workin;.' for any railroads." This Is the attitude atti-tude of more than 400,000 railroad shopmen who went on strike recently, as announeed by their leader, P.. M. Jewell, president of the railway Vm-ployees' Vm-ployees' department of the American Federation of Labor at Chicago. Four years ago France and Italy Jct-arat Lo.!!3 Fredw, foir tinses wounded, gassed and shellshocked while serving In the Yankee division In France. A passing policeman found him in New York a huddled, rain, sonked figure, starving on a bench in Bryant park, in the heart of New York's busiest district He was unable un-able to tell his story until, nt the station house, coffee and food had re- The United States naval trnnsjiort Henderson, bearing Secretary of the Navy Denby and members of the Annapolis An-napolis class of 1SS1 to their class re-ml-in In Toklo, received a typical n:i-,-ul welcome on its arrival at Yokohama. Yoko-hama. The Henderson was mot at y, rrWh ot the bay by Jnpunes" Aeroplanes and destroyers and escorted escort-ed to her dock, while the shore batter 'cs boomed their salutes. Advices from Gleiwltz, Silesia, re K.rt fifteen killed and twenty-five wounded In a collision between tier- nnn civilians and a detachment of French troops. A state of siege has ,een procltiimod. French armored nrs are imtrolllng the streets and He firing occurred in some of the itreets. vlved him slightly. Federal Mexican troops were rushed Into the Tamplco, Mexico, oil fields t head off General Gorozave, who has threatened t return to levy tribute upon American oil companies. Three hundred nnd fifty cavalrymen arrived from the south. A detachment of IfiO Infantrymen was sent from Tamplco. It Is leported 1,000 additional soldier landed after being transported by ')fits from Vera Cruz. William Spain, a 'stunt" flbT, fell 2000 feet tr his death at Seneca, Mo., twenty miles south of JopHn, M"-, when a parachute with which he lenp-d from n nlrplone f,,wl ,0 open. , Bernard Conway, wlw was a burglar urn 11 h i was caught at it. was placed in solitary cr.nflnemont In S!ng Sing prison. New York, because he so far forget his position as a convict as to engage in a little prtvnrfe distilling n. terprlse. Six persons met their dsath when the Spray, n St. L-iwrence river tug it Quebec, was side swiped by the steamer Calrrrdhu. (it the Robert Re-'ord Re-'ord line. The Spray sank almost immediately nil on board being trapped In their bunks. Five men and a woman were victims. Two men attafk'd Maximilian Harden Har-den editor and political writer, near Ms home In Grunewntd, a suburb of Berlin. He wrm taken unconscious Into the hou, where he was found to be suffering from five wounds In the head. The German mark fell to yet an. -.th-r new low leva, being quoted be-'ore be-'ore the opening ot business st XE3 or MM equivalent of 100 'f 23 cents. Before the war the value of the mark ;n this country was 23 6-10 cent. |