, 1921-05-26
TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Patrick Hurley, A, choked to death
in a restaurant in San Francisco when
a piece of steak which he was eating
became lodged in his throat.
William Beasley, charged with
breaking Jail at R~ockport, Mo-, who
was shot by Sheriff Fischer at Nebras-
ka City, Neb., while attempting to
evade arrest, died in hospital at that
place.
Jake Schaefer of San Francisco won
a 4,000-point match at 1872 billiards
from Edouard Horemans, Belgian
champion, at San Francisco, 1000 TO
1852. He made a new grand average
record for the match and set n mark
believed to be a new record for a high
total for three innings.
The sentence of Private William Il.
McDuffy, who was found guilty by an
army courtmartial of the murder of
Private Oscar c. Mailman, on the
night of Sept. Z last, has been COM
muted by President Harding from
death by hanging to life Imprisonment,
according to orders received from
Washington Mt Eighth corps area head
quarters in San Antonio, Texas.
Flames which shot from a stove and
burned Mrs. Alfred L'Ecuyef's arm
when she replenished the firebox with
coal which had been stored in the
basement, resulted in the discovery of
oil seeping into the excavation beneath
the L'Ecuyer home in the heart of
Spokane's residence district. Several
gallons of the fluid were baled from
the basement in a day, according to
Mrs. L'Ecuyer's account, conveyed by
neighbors.
The number of Canadians resident
in the United States during the last
ten years has decreased by S7,501,
compared with an increase of $1,000 in
he previous decade, according to sta.
tistics just given out by the United
States census bureau. The report
gives the total number of Canadians
in the United States as 1,117,136
French-Canadlans number 307,6S1, ant
show a loss of 77,402 in the ten years
while Canadians of other origin mum
Der S09,455 and show a loss of 10000
WASHINGTON
The Senate bill authorizing prest.
Dental control over cable landings was
ordered favorably reported without
amendments by the House
committee.
Uncle Sam has $685. DOC, 900 of seine
peoples money waiting in the treasury
for them to come and get it, according
to the latest official figures of out
standing temporary Liberty bonds.
Poland's request for American sup
port. in the settlement of the DISPOSE.
ton of Upper Silesia has evoked q
formal answer from Secretary Hughes
that the American representatives
abroad would take no part in the dis
%cussions concerning the Silesian ques
ton. Poland was informed further in
the reply delivered to Prince Lubo.
mirski, the Polish minister. that $50
far as at present may be SEEM the
American representatives on the su.
preme council, the council of ambas,
sailors and the reparations commission
would not so much rs express an opln-
ion as to the settlement.
Allowing but s~1oO,6so,427 of the
SCOOPS ,765 estimated by department
heads as necessary In deficiency ap.
preparations TO run the government for
the year ending July l, the house ap.
preparations committee completed the
SECOND and final deficiency a~ppropria.
ton bill for the fiscal year 1921.
Appeals to the state department by
persons having friends or relatives
detained in Russia show 100 Amerl-
cans are held by soviet authorities, n
much larger number than indicated In
official reports. The situation has
served to strengthen the admlnlstra.
TONS determination not to deal with
the government at Moscow until the
status of Americans in Russia is rem
edied, II was said In Washington.
Resolutions of the Hawaiian Legis-
lature requesting Legislation by Con.
gress to permit immigration of suffl-
Client persons to remedy an acute la
Dor shortage" In the islands have been
presented to the Senate and referred
to the territories committee. They pro-
posed that allen immigrants admitted
should not exceed % per rent of the
total insular population, a restriction
designed, It was understood, to ex-
clude Japanese.
Establishment OF noncotton zones In
pink boil worm infected areas in west
Texas and New Mexico was recon-
mended TO Secretary Wallace by the
conference Of representatives from the
cotton growing states, who met in
Washington TO devise the best meth.
DDS OF stamping out the menace TO the
cotton crop.