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tral powers will be unable 10 import
needed supplies.
4 committee to regulate the cost oil
living at Juarez, Mex, by the fixing
OF prices and profits was appointed
by Gen. Gabriel Gavira, Carranza
commandant, who also announced
that the bodies of Rodriguez and
Rivas, Villa chiefs. shot after the
force of Rodriguez had been defeated
at Pearson, would reach the border so
Americans might verify the report OF
their execution.
SPORTING NEWS
The baseball season will open April
22nd.
Mike Gibbons of st. Paul knocked
out Young Ahern in the first round
st. Paul. MINI.
Jess Willard began preparation to
go to Excelsior Springs to train for
his ten-round bout with Frank Moran
next April in New York.
Formal transfer of the Chicago Ma
tional League Baseball Club from
Charles p. Taft of Cincinnati TO
Charles H. Weeghman of Chicago was
completed in Chicago with the pre-
sentation OF a certified check for
100000, the purchase price, by Mr..
Weeghman to Charles Schmalstig,
personal representative of Mr.. Taft.
Tex Rickard and Samuel McCrack
en-, who made the original offer of S45,
900 for ten-round Bout in New York
between Jess Willard and Frank Mo
ran, increased that offer to s49. 500.
They have come to an agreement with
Moran by which the Pittsburg mans
end of the purse will be SIT, 900 instead
c. $500, and have wired to Willard
and his manager that they will give
the world champion sS2. 500. the orig
inal offer having been $4,000
Miss Loula Long of Kansas City,
champions of the tanbark have tri
umphed in Denver, St. Louis, Chicago
and New York time and time again
over the greatest stables OF the coun
try, met her match at the stockyards
stadium in Denver as Miss Katherine
Williams, tiny Denver girl, who
drove the blue-bloodeG equines of John
L. Bushnell of Ohio, snatched the
coveted ribbons from the reach of the
Kansas City woman.
GENERAL
Strikers in the Arizona mines have
made an offer to return to work.
Oscar Hammerstein, former grand
opera impresario, was adjudged a
bankrupt at New York
Governor Whitman at Albany, N. Y,
perintendent of prisons.
Blackmailing operations carried on
at the seaside summer resorts, net
ting more than s250,000 We're revealed
by two arrests in New York.
Enrique Perez Rul, secretary to
Gen. Francisco Villa, escaping through
the lines of the Carranza government,
was in Ell Paso and renounced further
revolutionary activities in Mexico.
J. A. Melee & Sons, tunnel con-
ed s75o,000 verdict against Foley
Brothers. contractors representing the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, by judg-
ment of the Priyy Council OF Eng
land.
Madame E. Lanel, wife of the
French minister to Brazil, who died
in Rio Janeiro. was Miss Amy Mckee,
the daughter of Mrs. Sam Bell Nc.
Kee of Oakland, Cal. She Is survived
by her husband, mother, a brother
and two sisters
Using a saw made from a knife
stolen from the dining room and cut.
ting through boards eight inches thick,
twenty-four white convicts whose
terms range from one year to life sen.
tence, escaped from the state convict
fa,m at Cummins, Ark.
With denunciation Of what he
termed Germany's cynical disregard
of the obligations of international hu.
manity,'' on the one hand, and with
high praise for German national eff.
ciency'' and care Of its workers on thu
othcr. Theodore Roosevelt delivered
the principal address, before the Na.
tional Conference on Amerfcanisa.
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