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Show , WASHINGTON There are twenty-three women seeking seek-ing "oats la congress at the elections next month. Twenty-one are candidates candi-dates for the house of representative and two for the senate. All have men opopsed to them anti all are making an active campaign. Ocean steamers which sailed from foreign ports Monday for the United States faced the necessity of carefully computing the amount of alcoholic beverages on board against the mile-age mile-age shown by the ship's dally log. The last stein and decanter must be emp. tied before the ship rroeses the three-mile three-mile line. i The state department made pnbl! Monday plans for the evacuation of the Dominican republic by American military forces and announced that a proclamation had been agreed to by which a provisional government would J be established. ' j Federal reserve banks have been authorized by Secretary Mellon, It was announced nt the treasury, to redeem re-deem In cash, before December IP. treasury certificates off Indebtedness of series TD 1922, dated December 15, 1021, and series TD2 1922, dated June 1 1922, and both maturing December 15, 1922. Adoption of the pending resolution propoBlns a constitutional amendment putting an eml to the Issuing of tax-exempt tax-exempt securities will "be urged upon congress at Its short session It has been stated by Jilgh fiscal officers of the amiulstratlon. They declared t;ie question of tax-free fconds was , the most important, not alone of the national na-tional tax problems, but of some of the industrial oneB as well. Associate Justice William H. Day of the supreme court, has decided c!e finitely to resign from the bench, in view of his duties us umpire in the German-American claims negotiations. Prediction that congress will be call ad in special session ubJiit November 20, was made by Representative Cam. bell, Republican, of Kansas, after n conference with I'resident Harding. Fire losses on railroads In this conu-ry conu-ry declined nearly $3,000,000 in 1921, ns compared with 1920. The interstate .ommerce commission commis-sion soon will pass on the. application of the Los Angeles & Salt 1-al.e Railroad Rail-road company for authority to build a thlrty-two-mile line in Iron county, Utah, from Lund, on its main line, tC Cedar City. The administration, It was declared on high authority, will In all pr Mmbl-llty Mmbl-llty send recommendations to congress con-gress for revisions of the Volstead net which will modify the s'tuatlon resulting re-sulting from the attorney general's rocent ruling regaining foreign ships and the United States prohibition law. FOREIGN Serious property u.'.inago and tl.e loss of at least one life by forest fire , wus reported from Holdar, Canada, abut seventy miles northwest of Edmonton. Ed-monton. , . No general election for many years lias presented such unpredictable problems prob-lems for solution. One of the weekly reviews declares that it will turn upon the simple question of for or against Lloyd Goor.w, and therefore will be n purely personal contest. In the near future every shift of coal miners will take down into the mine and hang up la the level where they work an instrument which can bo set to sound un alarm, by bell or horn, at any percentage figure of admixture of coal gas or firedamp. KMfflOF THE M WEEK A Complete Hwtorjr of WhatHw Bra Happening Throughout die World ' WESTERN Th tBianta commerce eommls-akm eommls-akm at Washington head that the proposed pro-posed advance In rates on Iron and ateel In carloads from Midvale, Utah, to points la California, from T5 cents to $1.08 par hundred pounds, is not justified, and canceled the proposed new schedules which would bare gone Into affect November 22. About 200,000 acres of land in New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming were classified under the stock-raising homestead law and were designated designa-ted for entry in tracts of 640 acres r less through the geological survey In September, ttiev interior department has announced. What old-time residents here de-' de-' clared was the largest funeral within their recollection took place in St. Joseph Mo. when the body of Nellie Hals, 14-year-old girl killed by a shot supposedly fired by police. The formal opening of the Los Angeles Union Stock Tnrds Co. is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, Wednes-day, November 1. When the opening j tikes place there will be many cars ; of livestock from Wyoming, Colorado, i New Mexico, Nevada and California there, much of which formerly went t: East , Property valued tt approximately I f 1,000 was stolen from a box car on i the Western Pacific railroad en route from Wendover to Salt Lake. Tho Society of American Indiisns, meeting In Kansas City was to take up the Question of enfranchisement of members of their race. Uniformity in the laws governing motor vehicles will reault from the meeting of the motor vehicle officials of Urn mountain and coast states, which waa held In Portland, Ore. Of 17 western states, 16 have suffl clont feed to carry sheep and cattle through the winter, according to a report re-port made public by statisticians of the United States department of agriculture. agri-culture. The single exception is New Moxlco, J GENERAL A plan to raise a fund of not less than $5,000,000 from firms and corporations corpor-ations that profited most during the war for the relief of needy ex-service men ami their tamllies during the coming winter was announced Monday i by a theatrical manager In Chicago. The Harvard committee on economic ' research hus no expectation of a drop In prices to the prewar level during i the next ten years. I Alvin M. Owsley of Teaxs was j elected national commander of the American Legion. Two of the men whose testimony resulted In freeing Thomas J. Walsh, btiisuess agent of the sheet metal workera' union, f the murder of two mn last December, have confessed they concocted the story of a "mysterious "myster-ious stranger" dashing Into the Weln. stuho, klllng the two men and rushing rush-ing out Mrs. Hazel McNally, declared by aer 55-year-old huslmnd to he the mother uf MdollbnbyM twins, was freed of a charge of murder when the Judge ruled the state had failed to prove the infants are still alive. tn a large collection of books recently re-cently presented the Cambrldgo, Mass. municipal library by a woman donor, whose iiientlty Is fcelag kpt ssciet, has been discovered an edition of the Rible nearly 400 years old and now-valued now-valued ut $100,000. Word was received of the death of James Lewis Cowlea, well-knwn writer on postal and railroad problems, at Richmond, Va. Mr. Cowles was knmvn us the father of the parcel poat A strange, almost hysterical rel'g lous cuthuslnsm Is rising In the Welsh village.1). In the towns of the Aber valley, in Swcnsea and other parts of South Wales, crowds in churches and on street comers are praying, slnj.. lng and shouting Hallelujah. Hundreds Hun-dreds of corners huve already been bnptlred and their number mounts daily. The SnlUm'a government has beta soundly snirbbed by the first dlcmltarj' of tho Turkish nationalist government to arrive here since Mustapha Kemul Pasha' army consolidated. Mexicans, who during a period of disturbance, uttack foreigners or their property, nre tobe registered ns traitors trai-tors and dealt with accordingly, under a measure submitted to the Klepnrt-raent Klepnrt-raent of interior hy President Ohregon. Dr. Lyman Abhott,editor-in-chl f of tho Outlook, with which he had boon associated nearly forty years; clergy man, lawyer, author and successor n Henry Ward P.eecher 88 pastor of Plymouth Ply-mouth church, Brooklyn has died. Twenty-one alleged communists, ar. rested ns a result of n raid on a meeting meet-ing held In the sand hills twenty nHer south of St. Joseph, Mich, last August were arraigned, charged with violating 'he Michigan nntisyndlcnlism law. A hound that lost her litter of pups has iidoptod five motherless piggies I to mine tit IVina, 111. The piggies nnd ! puppies were born in adjoining stalls j -f a Iwrn at aliont the same time. The mother hog died nt about the same time that the pups mysteriously disappeared. The dog mourned her puppies for a day and then adopted the IKter of pigs. The pigs take their ainner with grunts f natlsfutcion and the hound guards them as Jauloutly u though they were her pups. i Peking is alarmed over the nat'oral ; aspect of thft oil nation In Fu!a"n province, pro-vince, -vh ?e capital, Foochow, recent-I recent-I ui'B raptured by forces op;osd to the central republic. Large crowds w-.tchln the glid ti'-! competitions nt Itford bill F.ng! md witnessed a flight of 1 hour an ! minutes by Captain V. J. Ua. i Hu In a craft of British iiiarnifu-turH. The announcement that the Nation-nn Nation-nn Unionist association hi3 l.isinM a summons f. r an emergency -.:nircn-- I of the party dropped with a hi g In-tD In-tD the trou'de:! poip.lcal nr-n.t nnd made everybody Jump. After boldlnr the -office of p.-! r.t minister through seven of t!:e nict critical years of British historytlTR- years of war and four years of n construction David Lloyd 'SAr?. went into the wlWorness. |