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standardiZe WOrkingmen'S insurance
risks and premiums under measure
introduced by Senator Benedict.
The measure is designed to protect
employers and the employed against
cheap insurance which in the face Of
big disaster fails to stand the test
and does not pay it's risks.
Resources Bureau Proposed
A state department of natural re-
sources, under which would be con-
solidated several commissions having
to do with these resources, is the aim
of a bill offered in the upper house by
Senator Cogswell of Los Angeles. The
measure is backed by the state con-
serVatiOn commission.
Jan. % has been set for a free-for-
all hearing for all kinds of medicos.
There are now before the legislature
large number of medical bills, and
half a dozen plans have been suggest
ed for improving the present method
Of medical supervision. 1t is proposed
to let the various schools thrash it out
at public hearing.
Assemblyman George Gelder of Ala
media county introduced as proposed
constitutional amendment the home
rule in taxation measure which was
Overwhelmingly defeated by the peo-
pie at the late election.
Act Aimed at Promises
Assemblyman Ashley of San Joaquin
presented a bill which is aimed at real
estate companies and concerns which
sell land, lots and tracts under prom
Uses of improvements to come and
never make an improvement.
The measure provides, where it is
not set forth in the contract of pur-
chase, when made, they must be COM
pleted inside of two years.
An attempt is made in bill intro
duced by Assemblyman Rominger of
Los Angeles to amend the state school
law to permit the study of the Bible
in classes. Rominger would add to
the present English courses such Bib
lical chapters as are known to possess
literary merit.
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APPORTIONMENT TO
SCHOOLS INCREASED

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26.-Showing
an increased apportionment per unit
of average daily attendance in the
county's common schools over the 1914
appOrtiOnment, the statement of COun-
ty Superintendent Mark Keppel has
been issued to the governing boards
of the county school districts. The
statement is for the second quarter Of
the school year ending June 80, 1915.
In addition to the statutory allow
ance, an apportionment of $2.75 per
unit has been made, an increase over
the 1914 apportionment of $3.50.
According to the statement of SUI
perintendent Keppel, efforts are being
made to pass an act to provide the
schools with funds taken away by the
abolition of the poll tax last November.
Governing boards of school districts
are asked to appeal directly to mem
bers of the legislature for the passage
of the act.
The abolition of the poll tax reduces
the income available per unit of aver
age daily attendance, as estimated last
September, before the tax was abol-
ished, from $3.50 to $16.65.
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CALIFORNIA; GOLD YIELD
SHOWS GAIN OF 100000
STILL LEADS ALL STATES IN PRO.
DUCTION OF METAL
Increase Reported All Over United
States-SiIver Production in the
Past Year Is Valued at
Over $37 100000

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26-Notable
increases in the production of both
gold and silver in California for 1914,
as compared with 1913, are shown in
the preliminary estimates of the geo.
logical survey and the bureau of the
mint.
The gold mines produced in excess
of 100000 worth of ore more than
was taken out in 1913. While no def
mite figures are given for the silver
mines, the following pertinent state
ment is made in the report: en-
creases in mine production of silver
were notable in Idaho, California and
Arizona in 1914"
An increase in the production all
over the United States also is indi-
Gated in the preliminary report.
Estimates place the increase in gold
production over 1913 at 100000, and
the total yield for 1914 at $92,829,5O0.
California, as in 1913, retained first
rank in gold production in 1914. Fol
lowing in order were Colorado, Alas
ka, Nevada and South Dakota. Gold
was mined in Arizona, Montana, Utah,
New Mexico, other states, and the
Philippines.
The silver production in 1914 was
valued at $37,225,OO0, indicating an
output of 67,929,879 fine ounces of
metal
The imports of gold in 1914 were
ore, bullion and coin from Canada, ia
pan, Mexico and Central and South
America, with a value of $5S,122,000.
The exports of coin and fine bars to
Canada, France and England were val
ued at $242,711, 900.
The imports of silver were valued
at $25, 331, 900, and the exports at $780,
100000.
An approximate value of more than
$5O,O0O,000 is placed by the Indepen-
dent Oil Producers agency on Call
fornia's output Of petroleum during
1914.
Because of the war in Europe, which
has had an i'll effect on the oil situa-
ton, the number of wells completed
last year was cut down. Immediately
after the war broke out, drilling was
stopped generally in all places where
it did not appear to be Advantageous to
bring in any more producers.
The number Of actively producing
wells, though, was only thirteen less
than in 1913. There were, however,
400 more wells that were closed down
or kept idle. In this same line there
is one encouraging feature in the fact
that only 129 wells were abandoned
in 1914, as against 1877 in 1913.
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GEN. NORlEL MUST DIE
JAN. 27, is ORDER

MANILA, P. l., Jan. Ex-Governor
General Francis Burton Harrison, in
an order, directed that General Noriel,
the insurgent leader, who is one of the
most prominent natives of the prov
tince of Cavite, be put to death on Jan.
27. The execution originally was set
for Jan. IL, but Judge Revilla, ma
tive jurist, issued stay. Influential
Filipinos exerted every effort on be-
half of General Noriel, but General
Harrison overruled Judge Revilla's or
der staying the execution, and direct
ed that the death sentence be carried
out. The pending measure abolishing
capital punishment offers the only
hope for the general
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U. S. SALE OF ARMS
Anglers GERMANS

BERLIN, via The Hague, Jan. 25.-
A semi-official statement issued by the
government protesting against Amer
lean manufacturers selling arms to
the allies was applauded by all the
newspapers here. The statement
charged that the spirit, if not the let
ter, of American neutrality was being
violated by such sales.
Some of the more radical newspa-
pers displayed a strong anti-American
tone in their editorials commenting on
the statement. Some charged that it
had been revealed that the terms I'M
der which the allies have been pur-
chasing arms in America made the
purchases nothing short Of subsidy to
the United States under the veil of a
trade war.
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WHOLE WORLD Will FACE
SUGAR DEFICIT DURING WAR
WAR PROBABLY WILL CAUSE A
SHORTAGE OF 100000 TONS
Beet Fields Are Ravaged-Output From
France HaIted-Other Areas Ru-
ined by Armies-France Car
ries Five Months Supply

PARIS, Jan. 25.-In the general in
f1ation of prices after the outbreak of
the war, it was predicted that sugar
would become very expensive and
would remain So because of small eX-
listing stocks and the fact that the beet
root region of France was within the
zone of actual hostilities. At the be-
ginning of October brown sugar was
still selling in Paris at only As francs.
The price then rose rapidly until it
reached 62 francs in the middle of No
vember, but returned almost to nor
NAL by Dec. 1. Sugar is now worth
around 46 francs ($9.20) per 210
pounds.
Two months ago the stocks in
France did not exceed 100000 tons, or
enough to supply the minimum needs
of the country. for five months. At
the end of five months it was estimated
that the colonies should be able to fur
nish 100000 tons.
If the public had been willing to sup
ply it's need from day to day, there
would probably have been no oppor-
tunity to initiate the price. But every
one was anxious to take precautions.
The wholesalers and the small grocers
all laid in larger stocks than usual,
and three housewives out Of four tried
to buy UP enough sugar to last them
until the end of the war. AS to the
government, fearing that the army
might run short, it requisitioned all
the sugar in sight, and also made
large purchases in New York, Java,
Italy, etc.
The immediate result was an arti-
fetal and fantastic advance in price.
This was followed by offers from every
part of the world. Even China flood
ed the French market. That country
had imported 100000 tons of sugar
during 1913, as against 100000 tons
in 1912, and endeavored to sell its sur
plus stock at large profit. Offers
were received from Holland, where
more beet sugar is produced each year
than can be consumed locally. Italy,
with her access to German and Aus
trian beet sugar, was also anxious to
do business.
Of total of 206 refineries in France,
seventy-five are now in operation, and
a production of at least $1,000 tons is
anticipated next year, as compared
with 100000 in 1913. With stocks still
remaining on hand and imports from
the colonies, at least 100000 tons
should be available for local consump-
ton, without buying from foreign
countries. This will meet all ordinary
demands, but it is nevertheless true
that the world at large will face a
serious deficit in sugar this year which
will make it's effect felt for many years
to come The total deficit is expected
to be around 100000 tons, of which
Europe will be responsible for more
than 100000 tons as a result of the
occupation of the best beet root re-
gions by warning armies.
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REFUSES AN ORDER
FOR AIRMEN'S DARTS

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-William G.
Collins, president of the keystone
Steel and Wire company, with fac
tories at Peoria, admitted in this city
that his firm had received the offer of
an order from the French government
for 100000 steel arrows to be used by
aviators to drop on their enemies. The
price was to be $4,000, or % cents for
each arrow. If the first lot was salts
factory, other orders would follow, &C
cording to the statement by George
Laloge of Bordeaux, acting for the
French government.
The offer was refused by the Peoria
firm on the ground that its manufac-
ture would be an infraction of neu-
trality. Mr.. Collins thinks the order
will be placed elsewhere in the United
States
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UNEMPLOYED PAY
FOR FOOD BY NOTE

KENOSHA, Wis, Jan. 26.-Kenosha
has found way to solve the problem
of unemployment
A municipal grocery and market is
to be established. There the man out
of a. job will go and get food for him
self and his family. He will not accept
charity. He will go there like the free
born citizen he is and calmly order
what he needs.
In return, he will give "time Slip
This will be his promissory note-a
note not for money, which he does not
possess, but for time, which is his cap
ital.
For value received" the working
man will promise to pay to the city
of Kenosha, on demand" specified
number of days work.
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LASSEN BELCHES IN
CONTINUOUS UPHEAVAL

REDDING, Cal, Jan. 25.-Lassen
peak yesterday broke out again in ter
rife eruption. This is the biggest dis
turbance of the mountain on record.
Rumblings for an hour preceding
the outbreak we're heard plainly at
the Volta power house, twenty-five
miles away. A slight tremor of the
earth was noticed there also.
Ashes were failing at Macomber
Flat, fourteen miles away.
The eruption appears to come from
a new crater on the eastern slope.
The main crater and the crater at the
north peak are quiet.
The spectacle is the most awe-in-
spring of any yet given. A black
cloud is boiling up to height of sew
eral thousand feet.
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New Highway Into Yosemite

OAKDALE, Jan. 26.-The recent ac-
ton of the supervisors of Stanislaus
county in voting to take $4,000 worth
of state bonds, in order that work may
be started Immediately upon the lat
era1 from Sonora to Oakdale, and
through Riverbank to Salida, where it
connects with the main highway, will
insure a new free highway into Yo-
semitic.
The state has already started work
on the lateral from Sonora, and it is
now approaching Knights Ferry,
where the Tuolumne and Stanislaus
county lines meet The highway will
be approximately twenty-seven miles
long, and will cost, it is estimated,
$4,000.
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SETTLE DISPUTE
OVER STATE FUND

VISALIA, Jan. 26.-Acceptance of a
compromise offer of the state highway
commission for change in the loca-
ton of the state road through Tulare
county by the board of supervisors
ended a controversy which had been
Waged for two years, and closes the
last gap in the road through San Joa-
quin valley.
The county agrees to construct
bridges over the line, provide the
necessary right of way and finance the
sale of approximately $475,000 of state
bonds in consideration of the change
in the road which makes it run past
Mooney Grove, situated midway be-
tween Tulare and this town.
About $125,0OO will be apportioned
for the construction of bridges.
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Paws Bet With Funeral

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. 26.-The
body of Walter Campbell, negro bar
Der, was borne to the grave encased in
the most costly casket that the largest
local undertaking establishment con-
tanned. The hearse was followed by a
dozen carriages, provided by the I'M
dertaker.
Just before the Jeffries-Johnsonf fight
Campbell made bet with the white
undertaken If Jeffries won, Campbell
was to shave the undertaken free as
long as they both lived. If Johnson
won the undertaken was to provide an
elaborate funeral for Campbell. The
undertaken conscientiously carried
out the terms of the bet
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Cahuenua Pass Is Smoother

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26.-County
Road Commissioner F. H. Joyner has a
gang of men repairing the highway
through Cahuenga pass. The road has
been thoroughly scraped, all wrinkles
taken out of it, and wherever there
were any holes the repair gang has
filled them with gravel and asphaltum.
In addition to this work, the county
has furnished employment in Oahu
enga for approximately fifty men in
widening and leveling off the Shout
ders of the road on both sides of the
macadamized portion.
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TO HOLD EXAM NATIONS
FOR STATE POSITIONS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26.-Examina-
lions for state positions will be held
by the state civil service commission
in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San
Francisco during February for the fol-
lowing places: February 6, parasitic
logical entomologist; February IS, as
sistant bacteriologist; February 1920,
civil engineer (grade ~; February
1921, engineering draughtsman. The
salaries range from $1,000 to $4,000.
Applications must be made to the state
civil service commission, state capital,
before February -.
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PEARY o. KS PLANS IN
STEFANNSSON SEARCH

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Rear Ad-
miral Robert E. Peary approved plans
submitted to the Aero Club of Amer
lea by Burt M. Mcconnell to seek Viii
haljumar Stefannsson, the missing
Arctic explorer, by means of hydro
aeroplanes. The expedition will start
from Alaska next June
Mcconnell was meteorological with
the Stefannsson expedition. He is
convinced the explorer, with ten of
the crew, is still alive on drifting ice
in Behring straits.
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SMOKE BOMBS USED TO
VEIL GERMAN ATTACKS

LONDON, Jan. 25-"Smoke bombs
are the newest agency of warfare in
troduced by the Germans on the battle
front. An officer of the royal engineer
corps, writing from West Flanders,
says:
''The Germans fire these bombs so
that they will explode just in front of
our trenches. Consequently we can
not see what the Germans are doing,
but volley of these explosives is al
most invariably followed by a German
attack, with the soldiers charging
through the thick, black fumes"
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Citrus Scale Remedy Ineffective

REDLANDS, Jan. 26.-Disbelief in
the efficiency of a new treatment for
the eradication or control of black
scale on citrus, olive and pepper trees
is expressed in a report by B. R..
Jones, deputy horticultural commits
sioner, to William Wood, commission
er for Los Angeles county. Mr. Jones
states that he has made thorough in
vestigation of the treatment, and that
the results show the scale still con-
tinues it's work of destruction unless
other methods are applied. Mr. Jones
states that specimens of the trees in
oculated by the treatment have been
submitted to the pathological depart
ment of the state university, and the
response has been that it had no effect
on the black scale. Commissioner
Wood has approved the report.
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SIS, 1863 ,253, 900 UNITED STATES
FARM ANIMALS VALUE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The total
value, Jan. 1, 1915, of all animals on
farms and ranges in the United States,
such as horses, mules, COWS, cattle,
sheep and swine, was 9,253, 900,
as compared with 1891 ,229, 900 Jan. 1,
1914. This is the estimate of the crop
reporting board of the department of
agriculture.
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u. S. WILL EXHIBIT

WASHINGTON, Jan. ga kitchen
equipped with every appliance, utensil
or convenience that can or should be
used by any housewife IS being sent by
the department of agriculture to the
San Francisco exposition. The object
of the department is to illustrate the
essential principles of kitchen arrange
ment and to present Samples of every
make and kind of kitchen machinery
with carefully descriptive labels at
tached
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CANADA WILL DEFEND
ACCUSED MILITIAMEN

TORONTO, Ont, Jan. 25.-The do
minion government has advised the
Ontario authorities that it has decided
to defend Corporal Archie Kay and
Privates Leslie Kinsman and Edmund
Mcintosh, the three Canadian militia
men concerned in the shooting, last
month, of the two American duck
hunters, Smith and Dorsch, of Buffalo,
the former of whom was killed.
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New Auto Rates in Bill

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 26.-Assembly-
man Mouser has introduced new auto
bill 1t provides that no one under 16
shall drive an auto, no one under Is a
motorcycle, and no one under 13 any
vehicle. The tax on autos is as fol-
lows: Under thirty horsepower, $3.50
to $40; forty horsepower, $40 to $40;
sixty horsepower, $40; over sixty
horsepower, $50. All money is to be
spent on the upkeep of highways, and
none on buildings.
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U. S. TO BUILD AIRSHIP
ON ZEPPELIN PATTERN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-Bids for
the construction of the Zeppelin model
airship and number of new-type aero
planes will be asked for soon by the
navy department, it was learned here
today. All will be constructed by
American firms.
Naval officials for some time have
been anxious to obtain an airship of
the Zeppelin pattern.
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congressman to Wear Badge

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-Indignant
that a number of Washington gam
blers caught in raid on pool room
in Maryland represented themselves
as members of congress, Representa-
tive Carey of Wisconsin introduced
resolution providing that each mem
Der of the house shall in future wear
a badge bearing. the insignia Mem
Der of Congress-
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PORTER CHARLTON SENT
TO INSANE ASYLUM

COMO, Italy, Jan. 25.-Porter Charl-
ton, who was extradited from the
United States to be tried for the MUIR
der of his bride, Mary Scott Castle
Charlton, at their villa here, June g.,
1910, was committed to the insane
asylum. He was examined by Pro-
fessors Valvorta and Faciola, who
were appointed by the judge of the
court to determine whether or not he
was insane when he murdered his
wife.
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1913 STATE BANK ACT
TO BE TESTED IN SUIT

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26.-W. R. Will
liams, state superintendent of banks,
has asked an injunction against the
Southern Title and Guaranty Com
pany of San Diego to prevent it's act
ing as trustee without having COM
piled with the state bank act of 1913.
1t will be test Of the act. The appll-
cation for restraining order probably
will be made before Judge G. N. An
dreWs in a week.
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POINCARE INSPECTS
PAINTINGS FOR FAIR

PARIS, Jan. 25.-President Poin-
care, accompanied by Albert Sarraul,
minister of public instruction; CASTOR
Thomson, minister of colonies, and AL
bert Daimler, under secretary of fine
arts, visited the Petit Palais to inspect
the collection of French art, sculpture,
Gobelin tapestry and lace and Lafay-
cite and Rochambeau furniture which
is to be sent to the Panama-Pacific eX-
position art San Francisco.
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Estimate 1915 Citrus Crop

RIVERSIDE, Jan. 26. = Estimates
made by citrus men here place the
production of oranges and lemons in
Southern California for 1914-1915 at
81, 800 cars. The estimate on lemons
is $3.50 cars. The total estimate for
the state is placed at 1880.
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Way to Stop BOOSTERS GROWING

LOS ANGELES, Jan. ga new de-
vice to prevent roosters from Growing
at night has been adopted. A board
has been devised which fits down close
to the heads of the sleeping chickens,
which can be lowered by a. rope from
outside the pen. When the rooster
raises his head to crow, the board pre-
vents him from Strengthening up, and
he settles down to sleep again.
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U. S. TO LOSE THIRD
NAVAL POWER PLACE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. = The
United States will drop from third to
fourth place among the worlds sea
powers with the completion of all
ships under construction up to July 1,
1914, according to the calculations in
the navy year book, issued by the SEN
ate naval committee. France will
move from fourth to third place, &C
cording to the official table.
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SEEK TO MAKE 81
LOVE YOU" STATE SONG

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 26.-To make
81 Love You, California; the official
state song is the plan of Senator Will
liam Scott of San Francisco, who has
mayoralty aspirations. Scott looked
over the songs, and chose this one,
which was written by Frank B. Sill
verWood of Los Angeles.
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GERMAN FASHIONS TO
COPY SOLDIERS GARB

COPENHAGEN, Jan. 25.-German
tailors and dressmakers have met at
Frankfort to decide on the new spring
fashions. They decreed that the pre-
vailing color should be the field olive
gray of the German uniform, and, in
regard to cut, the military stlye will
be followed
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WOMAN FAVORS SMOKING
IN SENATE CHAMBERS

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 26.-While
the lower house of the legislature has
inhibited smoking at the instance of
one woman member, Mrs. Rachel Bar
ry, the upper house, at the urgent in
sistence of it's one woman member,
Mrs. Frances w. Munds, is enjoying
it's cigars during session.
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LARGEST Submarine Launched

BOSTON, Jan. 26.-The largest sub
marine ever built by the United States
government was launched at the
Quincy plant of the Fore River Ship
Building company. The vessel will be
known as Ii, and is the first of seven
vessels of it's type authorized. 1t is
of $50 tons displacement, and 165 feet
over all.
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HELP! FREIGHT TRAIN
AND 35 CARS STOLEN

HAMMOND, Ind, Jan. 26.-Thieves
stole a freight train of thirty-five cars
in Baltimore & Ohio yards at Indiana
Harbor. The cars were wrecked and
stripped to the trucks.
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Favors Post at Panama

PANAMA, Jan. 25.-General Clar-
ence R. Edwards, U. S. A., has recon-
mended the construction of a $4,000
900 concrete army post to accommo-
date 5000 men at Corosal, two miles
north of here.
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WEEKS NEWS FROM
NE|GHBORINC CITIES
BRIEF OUTLINE OF Current EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Condensed Resume Of the Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
PIaGeS---Wil Allow Rapid Scanning
Wheat for ENGLAND

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. ga rec
ord-breaking wheat cargo of 26S,600
bushels has been taken on board the
British steamer Devon City for the
United Kingdom.
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Rural Credit Bill

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The Dem
ocratic senatorial caucus has adopted
a resolution demanding action on a
rural credit bill. 1t is believed that
this bill will make an extra session I'M
aVOidable.
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Urges CONSUMPTION

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 26.-Adjutant
General Forbes of California, in his
annual report, asks for compulsory
military service by all young men in
the regular United States army.
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Millions Paid for Horses

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Jan. &c.
Eight million dollars. has been paid UP
to date by the warning European ma
lions for horses, with no diminution
of sales in sight.