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THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN The Bank of Ranger, Texas, with a capital of $25,000, has closed its doors. Declining deposits and failure to realize on loans were given as the cause by bank officials. Fire destroyed more than half a business block at Twin Falls, Idaho, causing a loss of approximately $300,000. The blaze started in a hall in which a dance was held. A nationwide campaign against the use of tobacco was advocated by Mrs. Stella B. Irvine, president of the W. C. T. U. of southern California, at that organization's thirty-eighth anual convention at Long Beach, Calif. Brig. Gen. Frank Taylor, United States army, retired, a veteran of the Civil, Indian and Spanish-American wars, died suddenly at the home of his daughter in Seattle, Wash. He was born 78 years ago in Calais, France, of English parents. Lack of enthusiasm of the San Francisco public over 75-cent hair-cuts prompted a number of the leading tonsorial establishments at San Francisco to announce the 50-cent limit would be maintained, despite a previous publication of the higher tariff. Fire at Portland destroyed the plant Lumber and Box the abandoned the M. number of docks, more 1,of yard tion, Company, the a of North Guy Portland Standifer shipbuilding corpora- than 000,000 feet of lumber and four small dwellings, The loss was estimated at $600,000. As the result of a reported depression in the price paid the producer for beef cattle, the members of the California Cattlemen's Association were advised by their officers at San Francisco to keep the cattle out of the state markets as long as possible. The cattlemen were also urged to ship them a to Montana in the event that such measure produces a feed shortage. WASHINGTON. In an effort to prepare for a recess or adjournment of Congress by June 5, the Senate will meet an hour earlier daily hereafter. The Supreme Court has decided that telegraph companies cannot be held liable for the full amount of losses caused by delays in delivering telegrams. The House bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase $26,000,000 additional of farm land bank bonds has been passed by the Senate. Exports for April decreased $135, 000,000, while imports fell off $30,000,000, as compared with the trade fig. ures of March, it has been announced by the Department of Commerce. minishas post and ter T. to-Honduras, his Sambola resignation Jones, has resigned American been accepted, his His the State Department announced. successor has not been selected. From $60 to $120 per gallon is the ruling price for whisky in illicit trade, Secretary Houston wrote Congress in requesting $1,500,000 for 1,000 watchmen to guard bonded warehouses next year. With gasoline and fuel oil- consumption outstripping production and the underground reserve liable to exhaustion in twenty years, the nation is facing a liquid fuel crisis calling for drastic action, according to Dr. Van H. Manning. director of the Bureau of Mines. President Wilson has signed bills providing for an examination and report on the conditions and possible irrigation developments of the Imperial valley in California, for enlargement of the boundaries of the Oregon national forest and for disposition of public lands withdrawn and improved under the provisions of the reclamation laws and which no longer are needed for reclamation purposes. A committee appointed by the Socialist party called on Secretary Baker to present a memorial asking for the release of conscientious objectors still held in prison. Secretary Baker told the Socialist delegation that there are not now and have not been any political prisoners in the army prisons, and none are in custody whose conscientious objections to war were based on religious grounds. The House passed a bill setting . aside approximately 260,000 acres of land in the Hawaiian islands for homestead purposes, available to native Hawaiians only. The territorial Legislature urged the step, which was t expected to rehabilitate the Hawaiian I race, said to be fast dying out. t Members of the Tobacco Merchants' Association of the United States, in e convention at Washington, were assured by President Charles Elsenlohr,