White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-02-20
Worlds News
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Of promotion to the peerage were con.
confirmed recently. The passing Of
Mr.. Asquith to the upper house with
the title of Earl Of Oxford terminates
the anomalous situation which arose
at the last general election when the
leader Of the liberals failed to obtain
seat in the house of commons. Ac-
ceptance Of a peerage which Mr. AS
| quith SO many times has refused IN
the past may almost certainly be
taken as meaning that the active
leadership of the liberal party passes
to Lloyd George
SAN FRANCISCO-Th late Presi-
dent Wilson, on January rs, 1915, en-
gagged in the first transcontinental
| telephone conversation, when at the
White House he talked with President
Moore Of the Panama Pacific EXPOSE
ton at San Francisco. That was ten
years ago. DR.. Alexander Graham
Bell on that date also talked from
New York to Thomas A. Watson, then
in San Francisco. At that time less
than forty years had elapsed since DR..
Bell, working in his studio on the in
vention that developed into the tele-
phone, spoke the first word ever
transmitted over wire. Mr.. Watson,
who in 1915 stood on the Pacific Coast
and again listened to DR.. Bell speak
ing from the Atlantic Coast, was the
same man who had heard that first
word transmitted. Alexander Graham
Bell has since died, but Mr.. Watson Is
still alive. The development and ex-
pansion of telephone facilities has
during the last ten years been even
more rapid throughout the country
than it was in the earlier periods.
| NOME, Alaska-Joseph Sale, s.
years old, pioneer miner of Kourga-
rok on the Kougarok River, 60 miles
northeast Of here, was found dead in
his cabin recently by James Carrigan.
} Carrigan said that Sale was dressed
! for work and was not iii when last
, seen alive. Corrigan declared he be-
| lieved Sale was slain. Sale is sur
yived by two children in Brooklyn.
FLORENCE, Italy.-The Malone
says that the Italian Grand Lodge of
Free Masons has decided Upon the
dissolution Of Italian Free Masonry
: without waiting for the approval OF
the bill in secret societies recently
presented by Premier Mussolini. The
newspaper adds that it is understood
only Domizio Torrigiani, the grand
master, will retain his post in order
to keep in contact with foreign free
masonry and also act as representa-
tive of the Italian order at the inter
national Masonic Council in Paris.
VICTORIA, B. C.-Francis Ker.
made, curator of the provincial mu
scum here, declines any longer to be
custodian Of Miss Ursus Kermodei
: the little white bear which has at
tracted wide continental interest. M
: B. Jackson, chairman of the game con
: servation board, has assumed charge
of the bear. The board will not en-
Z terrain the proposal Of the transfer
} Of Ursus Kermodei to the Eastern
! states. The New York Zoo authori
: ties have sought the bear ever since
the animal was captured.
CLEVELAND, O.-Deposition from
Office was determined as suitable
sentence for the Right Reverend viii
liam Montgomery Brown, retired bish
op of Arkansas, by the Protestant
: Episcopal Church board Of review re
Gently, after Bishop Brown had spo
ken in defense of his beliefs. The
penalty carried with its affirmation
} Of the trial last May when Bishop
Brown was convicted Of heresy. The
sentence cannot be put into effect UNI
til approved by the house of bishops
which meets in New Orleans next au
tumn.
!, NORRIS, Ill.-Ten head Of blue rib
bon horses and ponies, entrants OF
/ Harry Gorham of this city in the stock
shows OF Denver and San Francisco
were burned to death in fire on the
ldlm 'AOC0ALAys "A LOdnA VI
ponies valued at $4,000 also was lost
The fire destroyed the barn where the
horses were kept and the loss is esti.
mated at $4,000.
LOS ANGELES.-Two new pageants
will be staged this year in national
parks, according to an announcement
made in this city recently by Garnet
Home, director Of pageants for ma
tional parks and forests. The two ma
tional parks for which pageants will
be arranged to become an annual
feature during the season when they
are open, are Yosemite and Yellow
stone. The nature Of the programs
was not disclosed. Mr.. Home is in
Los Angeles while completing ar
rangements for the opening Of the am
nual mission pageant at San Juan
Capistrano, which will be held in the
old mission ruin in June. Six other
annual pageants held in the state
during various months of the year, are
conducted under Mr.. Homes man
agement.
i TEHERAN, Observation-Disclosures has