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ALL SAYINGS, ACHIEVE. MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES AND FEARS OF MANKIND Van Slyke, cashier of Miners and Merchants Bank of CheWash., drove his automobile off lan, the Chelan gorge bridge and plunged feet his death, soon after the bank had been closed by state aminer. state supervisor of banking. said there was an defalcation of $45,000 in the apparent bank's Voluntary consolidation of railroads of the nation into several systems, with the government maintaining nominal legal control Insure each section of the country railroad competition, was declared in Salt Lake City by Samuel Pyeatt, president of the Denver Rio Grande Western railroad, basic solution to the road problem facing the country day. The deputy constable's badge once worn by Kenneth Gibson of Long Beach, Calif., missing from his chest as the result of report to the county civil service that the man who took all the examinations Gibson supposed have taken to get his apopintment, includan oral and physical not Gibson. but substitute sent into the breach by him satisfy "red and insure good rating. In his first statement since his volvement in alleged deal in which was said to have received $1,250 for delivering pardon, Russell Davis, son of Gov. Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas, declared his father had known nothing of the affair. Young Davis declared he had taken to his own room in the executive manse the $1,000 given him as "first Installment" by Fred Pollman, pardoned forger. His father had not been of the payment, he asserted. The cost operating the government printing office during the last four years has been less than was expended during the preceding four years, George H. Carter, public printer, strted in his annual port, made public few days ago, while in the period unexpended balances amounting to $4,650,218 returned to the treasury. addition, he reported receipts amounting to $1,083,857 from sale of waste paper and useless equipment. These are the offices and the men whose resignations and appointments have been announced indicated in Washington recently. Joseph resigned after years the Supreme Court. Harlan Stone was the Supreme Court, forecasting his retirement as attorney general. Charles B. Warren was named attorney Charles E. Hughes signed secretary of state. Frank Kellogg was selected for secretary of state, making prospective in the to the court James. Oliver Wendell Holmes was said by friends to have decided retire from the Supreme Court before March Indications have been given at the Treasury that an investigation into conditions in several customs offices in different sections of the country under as result of disclosures way in the secret into conditions the agents the Hawaiian among customs office. contest of the election of Senator Smith Brookhart, filed in the Senate on Iowa, was half of Dan Steck, his Democratic The petition was filed by opponent. Robinson of Arkansas, the Senator Democratic will go to the Senate privileges and elections committee. forward at high speed the Driving Senate disposed of two more of the analyzed routine supply bills, bringing calendar in that respect practically up combined treasury postof- and date. The $763,000,000 the cars, fice providing two was disposed of departments, fifteen minutes, being taken thirty past soon the measure appropriating $125,000,000 for the agricultural nounced had been passed after one partment hour and minutes of dischases The resignation of Associate Justice Joseph McKenna announced few 6,400,000 from the bench the Sudays which Court. By virtue the upward preme service on the supreme thirty years' needs bench, Justice McKenna the rankretary of associate justice of the court. He retires because of his advanced age. General Stone has Attorney been appointed to succeed him. In two-hour session the Senate said the passed and sent to conference the for the terior bill. tion by first of the regular supply bills of the ready session claiming Shanghai has been captured surprise attack protest politicactivities Peking. Vincente Blasco Ibanez will be prosecuted in France for his recent against King Alfonso of pamphlet the charge of an offense Spain, on against foreign sovereign. General Guiliaumat, took over command of the Ruhr and Rhineland forces from General Degoutte Maytime made his official some ago, into Duesseldorf in the presence French arms and troops presenting great crowds of Germans. Prompt denial of the entente's right the of the Colprolong occupation the ground of bridgehead on defaults cited in the allied ambassadors' preliminary note handed to the government was volced in the German reply which Paris. Dr. Hans Luther, finance has been selected by President Ebert form new cabinet and the prosof his doing appear bright. pects His ultimate depends on the action taken by the Clerical party, determine the measure of which guaranteed him on the floor support the Reichstag. famous clock room in the The French foreign office at Paris, where Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau and their fellow peace makers prethe treaty of Versailles, assumed pared the aspect of the treaty making days last week when the allied and Ameriand ministers met there can diplomats to settle some of the conflicts of peace. At an important conference now in at the Kremlin between progress soviet officials and representatives of the peasantry looking more complete sovietization of the wider application of Bolshevism and greater privileges and ants, was decided to give the peasmore active part in Russian antry elections, permitting them to name their own candidates as opposed to purely communistic candidates. The United States battleship Utah, Gen. John Pershing board. arrived Valparaiso, Chill, few days from Antofagasta. The forts ago saluted the warship and immediately had anchored. government reception committee went on board to greet General Pershing. The committee Included Carlos Aldunate Solar, minister of foreign affairs: Oritz minister of war, Admiral Salustio Valdes and number of other navy and army officers. Gov. Hiram Bingham of Connecticut resigned less than hours after his and took the as United States senator. Mickey Walker, welterweight champion, gained popular cleancut decision over Mike heavyweight titleholder, in fast and furious bout at the Sussex armory in New York. Total production of oil in the United the year 1924 was about barrels, according to statistics compiled by the On Weekly for publication in Its annual statistical edition of Jan. 16. Compared with the total of 1923, this total represents decrease of 22,346,000 Baavo Nurml, the "Phantom Finn." wrote the epic of Indoor track and field history at Madison Square GarNew York, when he started his den, American campaign with victories in which he shattered three world's records and conquered the pick of his American and Finnish rivals. Nurmi opened his performance racing triumph mile race which he defeated by narrow marhis greatest American rival, Joie Ray. Less than two hours later he turned to the boards to run away from countryman, Willie Ritola, 5,000 meters race fought out exclusively between the two Finns. Mrs. Carrie Johnson, crippled telephone operator, gave her life In the service her fellowmen while fire swept down the main street of Brooks, Mo., virtually wiping out the settlement. Mrs. Johnson and her assistant, Miss Alva Ingraham, mained at their posts, telephoning warnings to residents the doomed area. Detailed testimony in the DolanO'Connell bribery scandal, made lic by Commissioner and also by President Heydler cago the National League in New York, falls to shed any new light which situation existed at the the time of the last World's Series, in the baseball men who have the report. With the purchase steel coal all-steel passenthe total expenditure of the Missouri Pacific railroad during the days has been brought approximately was in Louis by Baldpresident of the system. The purare in addition to that of fifty heavy locomotives effected last month. In 1924 American farms numbered and totaled acres, only per cent artificialdrained and of which per cent Coverdale, the American Farm Bureau told members Na. tional Drainage Congress thirteenth annual meeting in Chicago. He government could do more American agricultural helping to improve lands under than by remote regions.
