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TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSY READERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN H. C. Bigelow, prominent business man and president of the Ogden State Bank, died at his home in Ogden. Mr. Bigelow was 78 years old. Robbers broke into the Olympia, Washington postoffice and blew open stamp safe after drilling their way a into two vaults. A check showed ad$27,000 worth of stamps stolen in dition to $374 in cash and several hundred dollars taken from registered mail, according to Postmaster Frank S. Clem. A daylight robbery of between $25,- in 000 and $30,000 in cash occurred residence district of Los Angeles the when three men in an automobile seized the automobile of Clarence Dale, collector for the Sam Selig cash chain of grocery stores. The was in a e ombination locked strong box bolted to the collector's car. The Allen canyon band of renegade Indians are agan on the war path. Blanding, Utah is isolated, the Red- and men having cut telephone wires bethe last word from the Indian a leagured village was brought by of courier asking for the formation the armed body of men to aid inhabitants an of the town. The Indians, in according to the courier, engaged pitched battle with ranchers Mon- from a day in an attempt to rescue custody Dutch's Boy and Bishop's for Boy, Indian youths being held the robbing of a sheep camp recently. The outbreak started when Dutch's Boy and Bishops Boy were convicted Saturday of robbery before a justice of the peace. Immediately the news taken to the band of renegades was members of their band who had by attended the trial, the Indians could be seen taking points of vantage. Lashed along by wind that ranged from forty-five miles an hour speed in in Denver to 100 miles an hour velocity at Corona, Colo., at the "top diof the world' on the continental vide, the worst blizzard of the winter the Saturday swept Colorado and Rocky mountain region. Snowfall was general throughout the region, accompanying rapidly descending temperatures. Examination of the bodies of Mrs. Cleopatra Karas and Gust Karas, her the brother-in-law, found dead in Home Bakery at Everett, swept by fire Saturday, revealed that both killed had been beaten about the head and probably before the fire started, telCoroner Charles Pickle said in a 0 ephone message from Everett. GENERAL t Four bandits at Toledo, Ohio held $25 Wade Cleland, robbed him of g and up jewelry and carried away Fran- in D Newberry, his girl companion the c ces automobile. Two hours later, M girl an was found lying in a ditch been near tl Sylvania, a suburb. She had t criminally assauited, physicians say p and is in a critical condition at a hisa in pital. Two men were killed and several injured at Wilkesbarre, Pa., n when were the packing house of the Belin fi mills of the Dupont Powder mill the the blew up, completely destroying is D mill. Fourteen girls were injured, some in to reported seriously, when a elevator the building of Murdock, Kerr and Ir company, at Pittsburg dropped three the floors. The girls were rushed to de co Mercy and Allegheny General hospith tals. They were employed in various parting departments of the big printing establishment. A spectacular fire marked by flares Sa of gas and explosions of numerous sa gasoline tanks endangered the ChiL Union Stock Yards. The flames H cago wiped out the plant of the Mercury Manufacturing company and caused G damages estimated between $200,000 and $300,000. Governor Len Small of Illinois, by is ki accompanied wherever he goes four armed guards as a result of to threats upon his life attributed to in Chicago gunmen, it became known at di Chocago. Private detectives have been assigned to investigate the F1 fr threats. The Sixteenth Street State bank of in Chicago with deposits of $580,000 was exordered closed by the state bank m aminers after all its officers resigned. ho Examiners were ordered to appraise te books at once to determine how off cr its much money there was to pay na depositors. Mrs. Paulette Saludes, convicted of of the murder of Oscar M. Martelliere, pa insurance broker, was sentenced st to an from twenty years to life imprisonpr ment in the woman's prison at Autr burn, New York. Eight persons were killed and 50 of more recked the village of Savage injured in a storm which in