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THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS A Mlir RECORD. OF PABSINQ EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR EIQN COUNTRIES. IN LATEJDISPATCHES DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE. (MmNmwvVßtallMhnta) WESTERN Two men, trapped by a fire, were entombed on the 800-foot level of the Quartet mine at Searchlight, Utah. They were believed dead by members of a rescuing party which saved two other men from the burning mine. The Los Angeles county grand Jury which has been inveetigatlng alleged activities of the Ku Klux Klan, sub mitted a report to Superior Court Judge Frederick W. Houser. The Judge, after perusing the document, ordered it filed and “kept secret.” With Washington selected as the next convention city, officers elected, the business of the forty-eighth annu al session of the Imperial Council of the Shrlners was wound up by a grand pageant spectacle which brought to a dose the golden jubilee of Shrinedom in San Francisco. More than 100 pieces of firearms have been turned In to the National Guard by strikers in the Carbon county, Utah, coal district. Women took most of the guns to military headquarters. Some of the women called members of the guard to their homes and gave them weapons, while others called at headquarters and naked that militiamen be sent to their homes. Posses are searching in the vicinity of Ouray, northeast Utah, for Bechea guv, a Ute Indian brave, who la al leged to have slain his rival In love, Maroocoop, and to have kidnaped and fled into the mountain wilds with an Indian belle named Wilma Wilson. Ac cording to reports received at the In dian agency at Salt Lake City, Schea guv shot and killed Maroocoop While be was asleep In his tepee Sunday night. Ralph B. Trotter, alias Howard C. Williams, 27 years old, of Youngstown, Ohio, said by pollqp to face charges of cashing $25,000 in forged pay checks in various cities of the United States, Is under arrest In Oakland, Calif. He was masquerading as a Shrlner, ac cording to police. Trotter has been sought since, police say, he disap peared from Youngstown with a pad of blank pay checks stolen from the Trusscon Steel Company of that city. WASHINGTON Canadian and United States author ities are investigating the alleged con fession of William Johnson, alias N. Prlmatcheuk, that he caused the ex plosion of three British ammunition ships in the harbor of Halifax, N. S., in 1017, resulting in many deaths and great destruction in that city. John son committed suicide in a lonely spot on Baon creek, in Skagit county, last month. President Harding has signed the Wadsworth-McKenzie bill, returning the navy, army, marine corps and const guard service to peace time pay stand ards. The bill, effective July 1, slash es $14,154,000 from the pay bill of the four services. It reduces the S3O a month war time pay of private soldiers to s2l a month, but grants many spe cial allowances which might run the enlisted man’s pay as high as $157.50 per month. The Swing bill for construction of the Boulder Cafion dam and develop ment of the lower Colorado river basin at an approximate cost of $70,- 000,000, was approved by Secretary Fall in a letter to Chairman Kinkaid of the House committee on irrigation of arid lands. The purchase of 74,025 acres of land to form the nucleus of the new Allegheny national forest in Pennsyl vania has just been authorized by the National Forest Reservation Commis sion in Washington. Twenty-seven tracts of cut-over and burned lands, on the hendwarters of the Allegheny river In Warren, Elk, Forest and Mc- Kean counties, were contracted for at an average price of $2.75 per acre. An unsuccessful attempt was made recently to set fire to the offices of the alien property custodian in the veter ans’ bureau building, according to of ficial reports to the secret service. Rags soaked with kerosene were stuffed through a hole bored In a win dow sash and a match applied from the outside. Theb laze was discovered by a watchman and extinguished. Of ficials believe that an effort was made to destroy the records. Senate Republican leaders who are opposed to the plan of Chairman Mo- Cumber of the finance committee to side-track the tariff bill for the sol diers’ bonus have the support of Pres ident Harding. The executive, It was stated officially at the ]Yhlte House, regards tariff legislation as most im portant and worthy of the undivided attention of the Senate. Indications in Washington tend to show that prohibition proponents in Congress would,' move through the pending merchant marine bill to stop the sale of liquor on American ships. FOREIGN Imprisonment for an indefinite riod was the sentence imposed In To kio on Rylchi Nakaoka, the Korean lad of 19, w{io assassinated Premier Taka shl In a railway station at Tokio last Nov. 4. Londonderry la facing famine aa the result of the cutting off of the usual lines of food supplies for the city. Supplies are being sent there from Glasgow, but these are insufficient. Incendiaries were again active in Bel fast and a large factory was destroyed by fire. King George and Queen Mary have accepted invitations to. be guests at dinner on June 24 of Ambassador and Mrs. Harvey. Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft, who will be in London at that time, also will be present. Ambassa dor and Mrs. Harvey arrnnged the din ner for the king and queen several weeks ago. When they learned that Mr. and Mrs. Taft would be In Eng land at the time they Included them in the small company invited. The allied council of ambassadors, Including Myron T. Herrick of the United States, recently decided that the situation in Austria was so des perate that they sent pleas to all the governments interested to suspend their claims against Austria for twen ty years In order that the Termeulen scheme of credits may operate. All the great powers, Including America, already have suspended their claims, but a few of the smaller ones have not. Gen. Chen Chiung Ming, formerly civil governor of Kwantung province, whose troops seized Canton, an nounced that the south China, or Canton government, has been termi nated and that henceforth Canton would unite with the north in recog nizing the old republican parliament. Dispatches from Canton describe the collapse of the southern government as complete. Sun's military forces crushed and the former Canton pres ident himself a fuglUve. Quereshi. the noncooperatlonist leader in British India, who suc ceeded Mohandas Gandhi when the latter was arrested and imprisoned on charges of sedition, has been sen tenced to a year’s rigorous imprison ment and to pay a fine of 500 rupees, with a further three months’ impris onment in default of payment. Quereshi was arrested after publica tion of alleged seditious articles in the newspaper. Young India. The publisher and printer ot Young In dia received a similar sentence. GENERAL Assertions that the United States does not need an army were met by Secretary Weeks of the War Depart ment, in an address at the graduating exercises of the United States Mili tary Academy at West Point with a statement that “the civilization of the world rests on no surer foundation than did the civilization of Boston” at the time of the police strike nearly three years ago. At New York City, Morvich, hailed as the successor of Man o’ War, met his master in Whiskaway, a colt that he defeated last year. It happened in the Carlton stakes at Aqueduct be fore a monster crowd that was amazed to see Benjamin Block’s won der colt trailing eight lengths behind H. P. Whitney’s entry at the finish. Whiskaway eased up, came within four-fifths of a second of tying the American record for the mile. Lashed and whipped about by n 120- mile gule more thun four and a half miles above earth, on the verge of suf focation, caused by loss of his oxygen tank, and compelled to cling to ropes and straps attached to a parachute for fear that a whirling cross current might weaken and cause them to break are several of the “mere” details relat ed by Capt. A. W. Stevens, aerial pho tographer. McCook field, Dayton, < >hio, who recently broke the world’s para chute jump record when he descended 24,200 feet. Persons who never pay their hills, generally refeerred to as “dead bents," are rapidly disappearing, according to delegates of the Retail Credit Men’s Association. In their tenth annual con vention at Cleveland, Ohio. Herself slightly crippled from birth, Mrs. Elizabeth Lanlger Howell, who for many years conducted a fashion able boarding house in Newark, N. J., left $289,000 of her $300,000 es tate to the Newark Home for Crippled Children, her will, probated recently, disclosed. Her husband was a cripple for many years and her mother also was crippled. While additional wage cuts swung over the heads of 860,000 more railway employls and awaited only formal re lease by the railroad labor board to slash another $40,000,000 from the pay rolls of the carriers. It was rumored in Chicago that any rail strike grow ing out of present threats may be di rected and financed from Canada us a means of evading the recent deci sion of the United States Supreme Court holding unions liable for dam ages caused by their members. A petition signed by more than 2,000 Tulsa, Okln., negroes asking that a special election be called to permit them to vote on withdrawing their sec tion of Tulsa and Incorporating it ai a new town, was presented recently to Governqr Robertson. The petition was nqt in proper form and was re turned for corrections before being considered. The death toll of the brief, but ter rific, hurricane that swooped down on New York City passed the sixty mark with Indications that the total number of dead might go much higher. rnmjVEinni WELLS RECORD COLORADO STATE NEWS (W«t*r* Nmptpir UbIo« S«** •***•••1 COMING EVENT*. Augr. 2-4—Stampede. Monte Vista. Sept. 6-8— Washington County Jair A Auji 29-Sept. I—Larimer Count> ’'*«. r i., LOV “'*-lrk.n.a. V.11.y F.lr. R gept. F 6-8‘ Boulder County Fair L °Bep l t! on 6 t -8—Intermountain Fair and Stock Show. Grand Junction. Sept. 6-B—Phllllpa County Fair Holyoke. _ . „ Sept. it-15—Delta County Fair Hotchkiss. _ _ . Sept. 12-15—Weld County Fair. Gree ''sept. 12-15—LaPlatta County Fair. Durango. __ . T , Sept. 12-15—Logan County Fair Sterling. _ _ Sept. 18-16 Baca County Fair, B *Sept fle *lB-16—Adams County Fair, Br Sept.° B 'l4-l6—Conejos County Fair, Mnnaisa. _ . Sept 14-16—Elbert County Fair. K Ju"y r *l9-21—Cattlemen’s Days, Gunnl* *°gipt. 19-22—Western Slope Fair. M Sept?**i9-31 Trlnldad-Las Animal County Fair. Trinidad. Sept. 20-21 —Kiowa County Fair, Del Norte. „ . Sept. 21-22—Pueblo County Fair Goodpasture. _ . _. . Sept. 21-28—El Paso County Fair 3 —Lincoln County Fair H Sept. 20-23—Huerfano County Fair W Bept? 26-30—Colorado State Fair. Pu eblo _ . Oct. 2-6—Kit Carson County Fair. Burlington. „ . _ . Oct. 3-6—Douglass County Fair. Castle Rock. Fort Collins—The delegates to the Colorado Christian Endeuvor Union conference numbered more than 500. Denver.—Fire Inflicted damage esti mated at SIO,OOO to the steam power plant and planing mill of the Denver & Rio Grunde Western shops In Burn ham, West Denver. Pueblo.—A committee of eighteen Pueblo business men Is to he appoint ed at once to serve as a promoting agency for the 1922 Colorado State Fair, to be held Sept. 25 to 30. Fort Collins.—Degrees were con ferred upon ninety graduates of Colo rado Agricultural College at Fort Col lins. The animal husbandry depart ment headed the list with twenty-sev en, home economics being second wltb twenty-three. Cripple Creek. —Thomas Bailey, 20 years old, the son of Jack Bailey, for mer superintendent of the Portland mine, and Murray Colgin. 28 years old, machine operators in the Cresson mine, were killed when they were caught be neath a rock slide in u stope in the sixteenth level. Denver. —Lieut. Gov. Earl Cooley has taken over the reins of the gtutf administration again following the de parture from Colorado of Gov. O. H. Shoup for Dartmouth College to at tend the graduation of his son. The chief executive will be absent from the state for six weeks to two montns. Arvada.—“Baby Weeks*’—when the tots will be coddled and weighed and measured to ascertain their state ol well-being—are to be held at Golden. July 4 to 7; at Arvadu, July 11 to 14, and In the Evergreen school house. July 18 to 21. This announcement wai made by persons Interested in infant welfare work. Colorado Springs.—Skidding in the sand on the Denver-Colorudo Springs road near Husted, twelve miles north of here, an automobile driven by Thomas A. Ryan of Denver, turned over, pinning him beneatli the wreck age, und injuring two women, Marjorie and Minnie Hickey, tourists from Mo bile, Ala. Felix O’Neill, Denver attor ney, was In the car, hut escaped In jury. Boulder. —Lee Willard, star athlete of the University of Colorado and one of the greatest ever developed in Colo rado. lias signed a contract to play with the Chicago Wldte Sox. He Is to receive a salary of SBOO a month and expenses and should he make good will be given SI,OOO a month for the re mainder of the season. Lafayette.—The fan house of the Standard mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company here was destroyed by fire recently, despite the efforts of La fayette citizens, who turned out in a body to fight the flames. The fire la said to have been caused by a short circuit in the electrical wiring. This mine has been idle since April 1. Colorado Springs.—The Colorado Dental Society's annual convention, held in Colorado Springs, closed with the election of officers as follows: A. C. Withers, Denver, president ; Z. T. Roberts, Rocky Ford, vice president; H. W. Wilson, Denver, re-elected sec retary, and William Smedley, Denver, re-elected treasurer. More than 250 dentists attended the meeting, it li likely that the 1928 meeting will again be held here. Denver.—Copies of an initiative and referendum petition calling for amend ments to the state constitution to ere ate a state printing commission and the construction and equipment of a $250,000 public printing plunt, have been filed with Secretary of State MUllken. Denver.—There are in Colorado more than 8,000,000 acres of land un der control of the State Board of Land Commissioners, according to compila tions made at the statehouse. This vast property Is appraised at approx lmately $30,000,000, officials-said. , COLORADO NEWS NOTES. ne nv er —With a favorable sensoi tl,Stigh harvest time Colorado shouM take aedond rank among the sta ea l l year In the production of lettuce, lng aurpuased only by Cullfornn. 1819, according to the report United States census bureau, Cohn “d ranked eighteen In acreage devoted to this crop. This surprisingly rapid ad vancement In lettuce production here Is due to the development of a new In dustrv In Colorado, the growing of head lettuce at high altitudes. The In dustry was born In Chnftee county In *B2O, nnd It was discovered tlult an ercetlent quality of head lettuce could bo produced to go to market at a time when almost no head lettuce was be lng shipped. The demand for the pro duct was excellent and the Industry developed In 1921 In a number of oth er mountain conoties. Denver.—The Colorado hay crop has Improved its prospects about 200,1KK) tons during the past month, and will amount to 2,88\000 tons, according to the State-Federal Cooperative Crop Report Just issued for June 1. This estimate is based on a condition or 94 per cent, compared with 05 per cent last year, when the crop amounted to 2,014.000 tons. The acreage this year lg slightly greater than last year. Ac cording to the report alfalfa acreage is increased about 3 per cent and amounts to 797,000 acres. The area devoted to all tame hay this year is 1,194,000 acres. Wild hay covers 411,- 000 acre*. Denver.—Not before In its history has Colorado had such promising pros pects of large crops of all kinds of fruit ns this year, according to the June state-federal crop report just is sued. All fruit crop* are In excellent condition and far above the ten-year average, peaches leading with a condi tion figure of 99 per cent of normal, compared with 00 last year nnd 59 the ten-year average. With a continuation of good conditions, Colorado's peach crop will amount to 974,000 bushels, compared with 722,000 bushels report ed by the census In 1919. Denver.—State-owned property has elncreased in value by more thun s<{.• 000,000 In the last twelve months, thus pushing the total valuation of Colo rado's public property to $180,090,000 according to estimates made by State Auditor Mulnlx. Tide property In cludes state educational institutions, armories, the capitol, new state office building nnd the like. The state itself. Ineluding private and public property and available resources, is now worth more than $1,000,000,000, It wus said. Gunnison.—The summer session o! the Colorado State Normal school opened here wljh the largest attend nnee in the history of the school. The total attendance for the sytnmer will reach 800. In order to make it possible to house this increased attendance, cit izens financed the building of High land Village, a group of thirty summer cottages adjoining the campus. Durango.—Motorists now may have no fear In traveling In southwestern Colorado as far as the conditions of the highways are concerned. Wolf Creek pass over the Continental di vide Is open to traffic and according to highway officials is In good condi tion. Loveland.—Battling against the rag ing rapids of the Big Thompson river, near the Half Way place, west of here, A. I„. Soderberg of Loveland rescued Mrs. Arthur Schoffner, who had fallen from the foot bridge at the municipal auto camp grounds. Fort Collins.—Active warfare against the common barberry bush, destroyer of Imlf a million bushels of gruln in Colorado in recent years, will he opened by the Department of Agricul ture July 1, E. A. Lungren, state direc tor, lias announced here. Eaton.—One hundred Congregational pastors from Wyoming, Utali and Colo rado recently held their annual conven tion here. Pueblo.—The Colorado state fair will be foremost among organizations of the kind in the use of radio for mak ing announcements to fair visitors and furnishing concerts and addresses to them by the same means. When the Colorado fair opens on Sept. 25, the buildings and ground will be equipped with a radio station and every fair vis itor will be in the vicinity of a loud speaker from which the announce ments, addresses nnd music will ema nate for this entertainments. L« Junta—Dr. Italph S. Johnston of La Junta was selected president of the newly organized Arkansas Valley Med ical Association formed at a meeting of physicians and surgeons held In this city. Dr. R. E. Holmes of Cafion City is vice president and Dr. H. T. Low of Pueblo Is secretary of the association, which will meet twice a year, and In cludes medical men from Cafion City to Holly and from Trinidad to Ord way. Arapahoe.—Mall bandits stole a pouch of registered mall of undeter mined value from the railroad station here Friday, it became known when money orders known to have been In the sack were cashed at Llmon. Boulder.—The University of Colo rado gradusted 300 students, the larg est class In Its history. The week of festivities surrounding commencement ended in exercises In Macky auditor ium, where former Gov. Frank O. Low den of Illinois delivered the grnduutlon address, and President George Norlin of the university presented diplomas. Pueblo. George Bates, 12 years old, wus I turned to deutli while asleep in his home when fire caused by a defec tive flue completely destroyed the two rooni house occupied by his father an .uncle and himself. ANNUAL NAVAL BILL IS PASSED BENATE APPROVES NAVAL AP PROPRIATIONS IN BILL PRO VIDINQ 86,000 MEN. VOTE $29M5f1,000 AMENDMENT TO WITHDRAW U. 8. MARINES FROM HAITI IS REJECTED. (Wasters Newspaper Union News Heroic#.) Washington.—The annual naval ap propriation bill, carrying approximate ly $21)5,450,000, and providing for an enlisted personnel of 80,000 men, has been passed by the Senate and sent to conference with the House. Action on the enlisted personnel, now about 115,000, is final, as the Sen ate accepted the House decision, and the question will not come before the conferees, who will deal principally with Senute Increases of about $44,- 000,000 over the House bill. There was no record vote on final passage and no effort was made to reduce the enlist ed personnel. Unsuccessful efforts to end Ameri can occupation of Haiti, the Domini can republic and Nicaragua, and to launch u congressional Investigation of navy administration, marked the final day’s debate. An amendment by Senator King, Democrat, Utah, provid ing for withdrawal of American ma rines from the two republics and Nicaragua, Dec. 31 next, was rejected. Investigation of naval administra tion was proposed by Senator McCor mick, Republican, Illinois, but his reso lution drew objection from Senator Dial, Democrat, South Carolina, and was referred to the naval committee. It contemplated a survey to abolish useless navy yards and stations. Sen ator McCormick declaring that there was a navy “pork barrel,” and one tldrd of its establishments were un necessary. Controversy on the Halt inn and Dominican intervention policy divided both parties. Five Republicans supported Sen ator King’s withdrawal amendment and four Democrats voted in its be hnlf. Another amendment by Sen ator King, to cut the marine corps from 10,500 men to 17,500 men, waa rejected without a record vote. Germans Warned Against Exports- Paris. —The interallied reparation! commission’s recent note to Berlin, made public here, instructs Germuny to negotiate immediately with a com mittee from the reparations commis sion regarding receipts and expendi tures of the German government Furthermore, Germany is warned against the exportation of capital Germany Is requested to give furthei statistics on her economic position nnc is told that she must bring about a forced loan during the current year tc raise 40,000,000.000 paper marks. Hughes Scores Foes of Peace. Ann Arbor. Mich. —A plea for a “new sense of civic responsibility in matters of international concern,” In the United States, as the most certain basis of promoting peace In the world, was made here by Secretary Hughes at the commencement exercises of the University of Michigan. “Sound pub lic opinion was most necessary to sup port the nation's peaceful diplomatic aims,” lie said. "It must frown upon the constant efforts to create suspi cion, distrust and hatred,” he con tinued. Indicted for Aiding Sinn Feiners. Trenton, X. ,I.—A federal indict ment was made public here, charging Lieut. Col. Marcellus H. Thompson, son-in-law of George Harvey, ambassa dor to the court of St. Jumes, with conspiring to violate the neutrality laws by attempting to jdilp arms to Sinn Feiners, abroad the freighter East Side, In whose bunkers were found 495 machine guns when she was seized at Hoboken a year ago. With Colonel Thompson, was Indicted the Auto Ord nance Company of which he Is presi dent. Auto Bp«adway Raxed By Fire. San Francisco, Calif.—The Greater San Francisco speedway at San Car los, twenty miles south of here, an automobile racing course of wooden construction throughout, was de stroyed by fire with an estimated loss of $200,000. The fire was discovered on the wooden track a short distance south of the grandstand. The fire de partments of Son Carlos, San Mateo and other nearby points were sum moned, but there was no water avail able and the flames soon swept Into the grandstand. Labor Convention Against Bales Tax. Cincinnati, Ohio.—Opposition to a retail sales tox, with a warning that effort can be expected to have It writ ten Into the bonus bill, and the re declaration of a policy opposed to un- . restricted immigration, marked the ac tion of the American Federation of La bor convention here. By unanimous vote, the convention directed officers of the federation to wage the fight against the sales tax with “unabuted force.” FROM GIRLHOl TO WOMANHOfl Woman Relied ujx* IJ EL Plnldham’a Vegatdd Compound I stored me to normafhealtj ]J have occasion and do recommoiS Vegetable Compound to mv tried have troubles similar to my owiM may use these facta as a testtmmufl Eva Aldrich, a8 Union SmSI Kanana There are mamr women rtofcsJ our Vegetable Compound diritrS girlhood days. They found Its Si elp during trying periods. years they use it whenever thnl those annoying symptoms which often have. j Lydia E. Pinltham’a Vegetable III pound ia a woman’s medicine. lti] pared carefully from the bestnLJ medicinal plants, whose propertH especially adapted to correct theaj women have. J No Whisker*! 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Edgeworth, Larus & Brother pany will gladly send you P parcel post a one- or two-dozen of any size of Edgeworth Plug « ;Ready-Rubbed for the same pn<« would pay the jobber. --s . W. N. U., DENVER, NO.