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Show TELEGRAPH BREVITIES ij i WASHINGTON, Jan. a. The upTm court today ordi red the argument of th case brought by the government against the Southern Pacific and Centra Gael He Railway rompanles The rase Involves the question of ths ownership and control con-trol of the Central Pacific, by thr Southern South-ern Pacific. The case wes set for argument argu-ment on March 13. Note The Central Pacific Is the line extending from Ogden to San Francisco. NEVADA PLUM GIVEN. WASHINGTON, Jan 9. President Harding sent to the senate today th ni mfhatlnns of Bber Melvln Stelnlnger of Ida to be land office register at Elko. Nevada, and John Wldlon of Vlborjr, B . to b land office registrar at Gregory. Greg-ory. S. D. ON INQUIRY TRIP. WASHINGTON, Jan ?. Dr. L. S. Rowc. director general of the I'an-Amer-i'-:n union, has been commissioned r.y The governing board of that both', to make a trip through tho Central American Ameri-can republics, it was announced to-day. R. R. SHOPMEN MEET. CHICAGO, Jan. 9. The commit ice el 100, representing the nix railroad shop rraft unions from all sections of the country, coun-try, met here today to take up consideration consid-eration of the present shop ,ules, most of which were recently propMod by ths I. S. labor bcsird to replace tho national agrecment- VOTE FAVORS POLAND. PARIS. Jan. ?. Although the definite results of the election in tho Vllna region re-gion Sunday are unknown, as yet. dispatch dis-patch eS slate tho returns greatly fav-ored fav-ored Poland. (Note Since their establishment as na tinn following the war. both Llthuanlo , and Poland have made claims to the VII-' VII-' nn region which is situated on tho border ; between them.) HOSPITAL HEADS MET. ! WASHINGTON, Jan. s. Commanding officers of the United Stat.u vetoraa hospitals hos-pitals have been called to niece In a conference con-ference berS January 17 ' i dUciios plans for the federal board of hospitalization for the Improvement of treatment of di-j di-j abled soldiers. I The call for the meeting was announced j toduv by Brigadier t.oneral C. K. Sawyer, i :irtmg chairman of the board of hcspi-I I lallzaiion 4 HARDINO AS MEDIATOR. WASHINGTON. Jan D. PreaM Hardin has asrr. 'I to laka UP the congressional con-gressional situation presented by the lions, onaetment ? the Oyer iIH. authorizing author-izing an interpretation for eompanles :o-Inn :o-Inn business In China and the a.ate rnrictment of the enn-i nioaur with the tax exemption reatures of It stricken out. ltlirf!ontatlvn Pvrr. llepubllcan. Hlls- rnurl. .-.illcrl at tho White llouso tod.TV. mpanled by .1 R llou-ell. nerrelavy i Of thr. American chani'r of OOmmerCfl in Shanghai, anrl a delegation of American Ameri-can buslneefj men operatini in thr- rar Kar.t. conrcrnlnu tlie mait-r and Were told that the preeldenl wnull call In Sec-retarv Sec-retarv of Commerce llo,vor arei n.nid-r n.nid-r Tvlth him a plin tor apslr.lln tho house and .senate Cviif-jren to reconcile tho differences. TAXES HELD INVALID. WASHINOTON, Jan. ! Th eXOlM taxes Impowi by North Dakota upon rail- , roads ulthln the state were held by tho mnreme conrt u-ia-. to i.c invalid FATTY'S TRIAL WEDNESDAY. I ? VN FRANCIb'CO. r' . Jan P. The lecond mrnelauglitcr trial of Roscoe l" (Fnttv) Arhuckic. charged with having rnise'd tho death of MIsh Virginia Rappe I.o.o VnB!les motion idcturn uctrens, will ct;n Wednesday, as the nault of to-day' to-day' I proceedings In the supreme court IDAHO P. M. NAMED. W ASHINGTON, D C. Jon. 9 Postmaster. Post-master. nominated toaay inriuded IS. o Thomas. Ieadvllle, "olo., and Homer E. i Kstes. Moscow. Idaho. ALLIES NEAR ACCORD. I CANNKS, Jan. j. (By the Associated Ptcm ) Premiers Uoyd Oeorge and Brl-and Brl-and were on the point tod-y of agreeing agree-ing on the csscnllaJ features of a pact .or th" protection of Pnmce from possible German aggression whleh the British aoy will not he an alliance hut a port of general gen-eral accord In which Uelglum and IUvly will ho included. It was dccclared in we.l Infonned Quarters. TIMBER GOING FAST. WASHINGTON. D. C. Jon. 9 Timber In the Cnlted States is being consumed four times as rapidly as It U Being grown W B. Greeley, chief of the forent erv-Icc erv-Icc told the house arlcu!tuie committee irKlav. In urging federal legislation d -. i to contienc th. cemtr s f..r.' |