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MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES
PASSED BY j. S. CONGRESS
TWO billion DOLLAR SESSION ENDS With many BILLS OF
GENERAL INTEREST TO COUNTRY mot ACTED UPON
Biggest Achievement Congress- Opinion of Leaders Of Both Sdes Was
the Preparedness Program Session Greatly Prolonged By Arguments
Over the Issues Growing Out Of the European War and Mexico

The child labor bill places ban on
the shipment of child labor products
in interstate and foreign commerce.
The Philippines bill provides a
more autonomous government for the
Philippine islands. It's passage was
delayed by vigorous fight to declare
for Philippine independence on spe-
cific date.
The vocational education bill pro-
vides for federal aid to the states for
training in agricultural pursuits and
in the trades.
The workmen's compensation bill
fixes the compensation to be paid to
the United States employees injured
or killed
The good roads bill provides $685.
100000 for federal aid to the states
in the construction of good roads.
The emergency revenue bill is de-
signed to raise approximately $780,,
100000 to meet the deficit in the ma
tional treasury.
Rivers and Harbors
The rivers and harbors bill appro-
priated $43,000,000 for improvements
to the harbors and waterways of the
posed as pork barrel measure.
The Nicaraguan treaty provided for
the payment of $3,OO0,0OO to Nicar-
>agua for canal and coaling station
rights.
The Haitian treaty established a
protectorate by the United states
over the Republic of Haiti.
No action was taken on the Colon
bian treaty after Democratic leaders
saw it probably would be rejected by
the senate.
The most important legislation
sidetracked until next session was the
conservation program. The conserva
tion bills will be taken up Immediate
ly after congress convenes next De-
cember.
The session was greatly prolonged
by frequent and bitter debates over
the issues growing out of the Euro
pean war and the Mexican situation.
Repeated attempts, notably the Gore
resolution in the senate and the Nc
Lemore resolution in the house, were
made to force changes in the Presi-
dents foreign policy, but the admin
istration always managed to retain
the whip hand.
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0,00o, 900, 900 is ALLIED BILL;
FINAL COST WILL BE DOUBLE

LONDON, Sept. 18.-It cost all the
united allies forty billions of dollars
to reach the threshold of victory on
the SOmme, in Galicia and at Salonika.
Economists estimate that if the war
lasts another twelve months, in view
of the increasing expenditures of all
countries, the final victory will cost
something like one hundred billion
dollars.
In this connection, an idea of the
magnitude of the stupendous battle OF
three nations on the Somme Is con-
veyed by an estimate of it's cost sup
piled me today 1t is calculated that
the French, British and Germans, COM
bined are consuming wealth at rate
of between $25,0O0,OOO and $3O,000,0O0
daily This figure includes the cost of
the whole wastage of guns, machine
guns, cartridges, air torpedoes, aero
planes, grenades and other war mate
rial The figure would be higher if
the value of the property destroyed in
region thickly studded with towns
and villages were included. / am as
sured that the titanic gun fire accounts
for the largest proportion of the cost,
chiefly because for the first time the
allies are showing Germany what their
united industries are capable of con-
tributing to the war. Their heavy ar
tillery is now superior to that of the
Germans
This was not the case at Verdun,
where Won Falkenhayn concentrated
1000 batterieS that is to say, the
greatest number of shells ever massed
on any battlefield.
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ENGLISH FIRM WINS
GREAT POTASH FIELDS
SAN BERNARDINO. Cal. Sept,

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Sept. 10.
That the California Trona company
is entitled to possession of about 25,-
900 acres of potash deposits at Sesrles
lake was the decision of Judge H. T.
Dewhirst in the famous litigation and
warfare waged by Henry E. Lee, of
Oakland, against the Trona company
and it's British hackers for the posses
sion of the potash fields. Lee is de-
feated on every point, and is scored
by Judge Dewhirst in his decision as
the manipulation of dummy locations.
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latin AMERICAN TRADE IS
over A BILLION DOLLARS
COMMERCE WITH SOUTH SHOWS
ENORMOUS GAIN
Term Latin-America includes Twenty
American Republics Lying South
of the United States-Detaiied
Statement Follows

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Com-
merce of the United States with Latin
America was over one billion dollars
in the fiscal year 1916 against three
quarters of a billion in 1913, one-half
! billion in 1906 and one-quarter billion
in 1900.
The term Latin America" includes
the twenty American republics lying
south of the United States, Cuba,
Haiti, Santo Domingo, Mexico, the six
republics of Central America and the
ten republics of South America.
The above statement of this enor-
nous and rapidly growing trade, com
piled by the Foreign Trade Depart
ment of the National City Bank of
New York necessarily states the fig
ures in very round terms.
It's more detailed statement, how
ever, puts the trade with these twenty
neighboring republics at $1,150,O0O, 900
in the fiscal year 1916; $766,000,O00 in
1913; $503, 100000 in 1906 and $27S,-
100000 in 1900. The figures for 1916
include an estimate for the month
of June for which detailed figures are
only available for the port of New
York.
Exports to these twenty republics
in 1915 were about $410,000,000 against
1924, 100000 in 1913, $209, 100000 in
1906 and Sill, 100000 in 1900, having
practically quadrupled since 1900. I'm
ports from these countries we're in
1916 about $75O,0OO,O0O against $442,-
100000 in 1913, 294,OOO,O0O in 1906
and $167, 100000 in 1900.
m
Brazil shows the most striking gains
From Cuba the imports of 1916 are ap-
proximately 1925, 100000 against but
$31 100000 in 1900, and the exports to
that island about $2S,O0O,OOO in 1910
against but $26,OOO,O00 in 1900.
From Argentina the imports of 1916
are approximately $100,00O,000 against
but $8,00O,0OO in 1900, and the exports
to that country in 1916 about $65,000,-
600 against 100000 in 1900.
From Brazil the imports of 1916 are
$133, 100000 against $58,000,000 in 1900,
and the exports thereto $41, 100000
against $11 100000 in 1900.
From Mexico the imports of 1916
are approximately $100, 100000 against
$28,OO0,000 in 1900 and the exports
thereto $5O,O00,OOO against $35,0O0,O00
in 1900, the figures for 1916 being
about $16,OO0,00O below those of 1907
Manufacturers form the bulk of the
exports to the Latin America coun
tries:
A close analysis of the trade with
South America shows that about 81
per cent of our exports thereto are
manufactures and this proportion prob
ably holds good to the other countries
suggesting that our exports of manu-
facture to Latin America in 916
amounted to about $3.50, 100000 against
about 100000 in 1900. Of the $780,
G00,000 of imports from these twenty
countries in 1916, sugar was about
$200,000,00O, coffee over $100,0O0,0O0
hides and skins about 100000, wool
about $4O,OO0,0O0 and rubber about
$3O,OOO,OOO.
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LOSS OF BRITISH is
100000 SINCE JUNE I

LONDON, Sept 1S.-From June to
date the British army and navy have
lost more than 250,000 men. For June
the casualties numbered approximate
ly 10000. During August, 36,15O Off
GERS and men are reported killed or
missing, and 96,S38 more wounded.
Although these lists are official, it is
impossible to draw deductions from
them, as they include all fronts, and
cover no special period of fighting.
Certainly the German and Austrian
losses for the same period are infin-
itely higher.
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Imperial Valley Cotton Record

IMPERIAL, Sept. 19.-Promising a
yield of $4,000 bales and revenue of
$5,5O0,000, the Imperial valley cotton
harvest has started full blast and the
valley, with this years increase in
production, is now firmly established
as one of the greatest cotton produc-
ing districts of the country. Besides
holding first place in cotton yield to
the acre, government statistics show
that California's great cotton district
produced both long and short staple
cotton last year that topped the mar
ket for each class.
Last year the cotton acreage in I'm
perial valley was recorded at $4,000
and this year it has increased to 95,-
600 acres. Notable, also, is the fact
that large part of the gain in acreage
is planted to Durango, a long-staple
upland cotton, which is in great de-
mand at top prices.
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MEXICAN ELECTION TO
BE CALLED AT ONCE

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1S.-Mexico is
about to resume her place among the
republics of the western hemisphere,
after four years of revolutionary dis
turbances,
A decree issued by General Carran-
"a on the eve of the celebration of the
anniversary of Mexican independence
prepares the way for the present de
facto government to be replaced by a
substantial constitutional government.
The decree makes provision for the
election of members of a national con-
gress.
Another decree will be issued, call
ing for the election of constitutional
congress on Oct. Is. The first session
of the new congress will be held Nov.
20.
Each state and territory will elect
deputy to congress.
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U. S. WARSHIPs SCORE
HITS AT 10000 YARDS

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 19.-Hitting
a target at 10000 yards with fourteen
inch guns probably will put the United
States navy above all other navies,
according to naval officials. That is
what the dreadnaughts Pennsylvania
and Oklahoma did in Chesapeake bay,
according to advices brought ashore
from the former ship, which is now at
anchor at Hampton roads.
The Pennsylvania scored more hits
at 10000 yards than did the Oklahoma,
according to the men on the former
ship, but the Oklahoma outshot the
Pennsylvania at $4,000 yards.
The target was the sunken hulk OF
the San Marcos, formerly the battle
ship Texas, which lies partly SUBJ
merged off Tangier sound, in Chesa-
peake bay.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Import-
ant bills passed by the sixty-fourth
congress since last December include:
Preparedness, rural credits, Philip
pines, child labor, vocational training,
workmen's compensation, shipping,
good roads, emergency revenue, rivers
and harbors.
Other important acts of congress
were the ratification of the Mica
raguan and Haitian treaties, the con-
firmation of Louis D. Brandeis as as
sociate justice of the United States
supreme court, the rejection of the
nomination of George F. Rublee to the
federal trade commission and the de-
feat of the Gore and McLemore reso-
lutions to tie the Presidents hands in
dealing with the submarine crisis with
Germany. Each of these acts involved
warm controversy.
By the far the biggest achievement
of congress, in the opinion of leaders
on both sides, was the passage of the
preparedness program. This program
was divided into six bills, which ap-
propriated total of nearly $780,
100000 for the national defense.
The six preparedness bills were:
The army reorganization bill, the
naval appropriation bill, the army for
tifications bill, and the naval and mill
tary academy bills. The army reor-
ganization bill is designed to increase
the regular army to approximately
$4,000 enlisted fighting men and H.
600 officers, peace strength, and to
raise the strength of the National
Guard to approximately 100000 en-
listed men and $1,000 officers. The
army appropriation bill provides $267,-
100000 to pay for these increases.
The naval appropriation bill au-
thorizes three-year building program
of 157 ships, including ten dread
naughts and six battle cruisers and
provides $313,OO0,00O to pay the first
years installment
The rural credits bill, regarded by
the administration as one of it's big
gest achievements, provided farm
loan system and created a farm loan
board to supervise the system.
The shipping bill created a shippin g
board and provided $50,O00,0O0 for the
purchase of ships to relieve the short
age of freight carrying facilities in for
eign trade
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U. S. PREDICTS BIG
CROP FOR CALIFORNIA

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Bumper
citrus and fruit crops are predicted
for California by the September fore
cast issued by the United States de-
partment of agriculture. The orange
crop predicted is five points greater
than the ten-year average, and the
lemon crop forecast is four points
greater. Part of the forecast follows:
Oranges-State: Sept. 1 condition
93, compared with the ten-year aver
age of SS.
demonstrate: Sept. 1 condition
90, compared with the ten-year aver
age of S8.
Apples = State: Sept. forecast,
100000 barrels; production last year
(inal estimate), 1,563,000 barrels.
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NEW GERMAN U-LINER
TO CROSS ATLANTIC

BERLIN, Sept. 1S.-Reports from
Bremen say that another merchant
submarine is expected to leave that
port for the United States at the end
of the present month.
None of the projected sister ships
of the Deutschland and Bremen has,
however, been completed yet, cacord-
ing to a statement by Philip Heine-
ken, one of the directors of the Ocean
Navigation company, owners of the
Deutschland.
Asked when the Bremen was ex-
pected to arrive in America, Director
Heineken said:
"Only the gods know"
He refused to discuss the matter
further.
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FRANCE SENDS A
GOLD COIN SHIPMENT

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-French gold
coin, amounting to approximately ST.
office by ]. P Morgan & Co. The gold
came from Canada, and is believed to
be part of several large consignments
which arrived at Halifax during the
week.
The presence of French gold in these
British imports to Morgan & Co. is &C
cepted as further indication that the
Bank of England and the Bank of
France are cooperating to strengthen
the credits of the allied nations in this
country.
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INSPECT ROADS OF ..
STATE IN MACHINE

SACRAMENTO, Sept. ia legis-
lative committe composed of Senators
Preston Cogswell of Los Angeles, Ben
Rush of Suisun and w. F. Chandler of
Fresno, State Engineer w. F. Mcclure
and P. J. Tenancy, secretary of the
state board of control, is we'll on the
weeks inspection of state roads out
side of highways. The trip is being
made in automobiles. The party will
report on the condition of the roads
for the purpose of asking the legisla-
ture to aid in their upkeep.
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Tree to Cure Pear Blight

MARYSVILLE, Sept. 19.-Pear
blight, for years the menace to the
Bartlett pear industry in California,
soon may be conquered through a
hardy Chinese pear tree, discovered
through the government plant intro
duction garden at Chico.
The root of the Chinese tree is re-
sistant against pear blight and the
Bartlett pear can be budded to the
resistant root.
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TELEPHONE TO HAVANA
MAY BE ESTABLISHED

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Direct tele-
phonic communication between this
city and Havana, Cuba, may soon be a
fact. Telephone wires, it is under
stood, will be laid in a cable to be run
between Key West and Havana.
This was learned following an an
nouncement that the Cuban Telephone
Company has paid two years of back
dividend on certain stock, and also
that the directors have approved
contract with the Spanish bank and
Upmann & Company for the immedi
ate sale of $2,5OO,0O0 worth of bonds.
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LONDON, Sept 1S.-In a dispatch
from Berlin to the Daily News Rut-
ledge Rutherford says:
Germany has decided to declare a
blockade against England, effective on
January /, next. For this purpose a
powerful fleet of submarines is being
completed and plans are being worked
out to make the blockade stringent
one.
The movements of the submarines,
it is said, will be guided to some extent
by Germany's high-fying Zeppelins.
These submarines and Zeppelins will
be equipped with extra sensitive wire
less apparatus.
One high in the councils of the Ger
man naval administration said:
by the end of the year and perhaps
little sooner, Germany will have in
fighting trim 80 submarines of the
most efficient type and no vessel car
rying food or munitions will be per-
mitted to reach England.
"Ours will be a. real blockade, not
coercive or illegitmate one, such as
England presumed to institute against
Germany
No compunction will be felt regard
ing the revival of submarine warfare
because it is felt that England's abro-
cation of the declaration of London
has left Germany free of restraint in
the matter of her promise to America.
Walter Forstman, Germany's most
skilled submarinist, is on the program
to command the squadron of submar-
ines. He recently received the order
of merit for sinking more than hun
dred vessels, which included trans
ports, patrol vessels and merchant
men,
The return of the great submarine
Deutschland from the United States
has encouraged further undersea ef-
forts. Many new submarines will be
equipped with improved devices, one
of which will enable submarine COM
manders to detect and destroy nets
which England has laid and will lay
in great numbers.
Mystery enshrouds the whereabouts
of the submarine Bremen. That it
has suffered damage to it's engines
or that it has been sunk by British
destroyers is denied by naval men
here.
The Bremen should have reached
Baltimore, however, before the Deut-
schland started on it's return trip.
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SACRAMENTO SALMON
SHIPPED TO OREGON

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 19-That the
ten tons of salmon caught daily in
the Sacramento river are being
shipped for the most part to Astoria
canneries to help maintain the Colum-
bia rivers reputation for the output
of that fish is a charge made by local
fish interests. 1t is presumed that the
Sacramento river salmon are canned
at Astoria and sent out from there as
Columbia river salmon.
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AUSTRIANS' WAR LOSS
PLACED AT 100000

ROME, Sept. 18.-The Austrians
have lost 100000 men in killed,
wounded and prisoners since the be-
ginning of the war, said Zurich dis
patch. Of this number, 100000 are
said to have been lost in campaigns
against the Russians, 215,O0O in fight
ing with the Italians, 100000 in oper-
ations in Serbia, and the rest in fight
ing in Montenegro and Albania.
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stefansson Finds New Continent

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 19.-Vil-
hjalmar Stefansson, leader of the Ca
madam Arctic exploring expedition
has found a new land in the north
and some blonde eskimos, according
to Ole Andreason, first man of the
Stefansson expedition to reach the
outside world.
Great copper mines on the shores
of the Arctic extending over an area
of more than four miles with an out
put large enough to supply the entire
civilized world have been found.
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FIy to N. Y. in 48 Hours

LONDON, Sept. 18. Lieutenant
Poiner, young Danish military avi-
ator, according to a Copenhagen dis
patch, is planning to cross the At
lantic in an aeroplane of $50 horse
power.
Lieutenant Poiner expects the dura-
tion of the flight, from Farce island
to Newfound, to be thirty hours, and
the whole trip to New York forty
eight hours.
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U. S. to Aid keIp Industry

LONG BEACH, Sept. 19.-Prelim.
mary steps have been completed to es-
tablish a governmental experimental
kelp products station costing $175,OOO
in this city. The object of the station
will be to develop processes which will
place the kelp industry on basis of
competition with European prices.
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Germany Considers Evacuation

LONDON, Sept. 18.-The allied cap
itals were electrified with the astound-
ing news that Germany is considering
the evacuation of Belgium and those
parts of France held by the Teutons
in order to conserve the resources OF
the central powers.
The Rome wireless press service to-
day transmitted the following:
Berlin newspapers are discussing
the possibility of shortening the Ger
man front, which shows the gravity
of their situation, 1t is believed that
this is intended to prepare the Ger
man people for the evacuation of
France and Belgium"
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5000 Cars to Aid Growers

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 19.-To re-
lieve the car shortage existing in in
terror California, 5000 empty cars will
be brought to the coast before Sep
tember 80, according to announcement
made here by G. w. Luce, freight
traffic manager of the Southern Pa
cific,
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ship Arizona has passed it's tests sat-
isfactorily and will be put in commits
sion at the New York navy yard Oct.
Is. The Arizona, which is of the
Pennsylvania class, is declared the
--latest word" in battleship construc-
ton.
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New Dry Dock at Canal

PANAMA, Sept. 10. = Important
steps in the militarization of the canal
and making it an important naval base
we're made with the virtual compile
tion of the new 1000 foot dry dock at
Balboa in conjunction with the shops
and foundries here, and of the 4S5, ,OOO-
ton coaling plant at Cristobal.
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SHIP BUILT OF CONCRETE
LATEST NORWAY CREATION

CHRISTIANIA, Sept. 1S.-A new
type of ship has arrived here from the
shipyards of Christianiafjord. The
ship, which resembles a huge barge,
constructed entirely of concrete, ex-
cept for the ribs, which are steel, is
the first stone vessel ever f1oated 1t
is said that the hull will resist dam
age better than steel or wood, and
that the ship is therefore SAFE
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LAND RESTORED BY
ORDER OF WILSON

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-An exec
utive order restoring 14O,564 acres in
the Monterey national forest to public
domain has been issued by President
Wilson, it was announced at the de-
partment of the interior About 106,-
GAO additional acres will be subject to
settlement under the homestead laws
after Nov. T.
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Elephant Hanged

ERWIN, Tenn, Sept 19.-"Mary,"
the big $4,000 circus elephant which
killed her trainer at Kingsport, Tenn,
Tuesday, was hanged here.
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Fisheries Must Pay Tax

SAN FRANCISCO, September 19.-
Alaska fisheries must pay taxes to the
United States government as well as
the Alaskan Territorial government,
according to the United States circuit
court of appeals.
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PARIS, BIGGEST LINER
OF FRANCE, LAUNCHED

PARIS, Sept 18.-The giant french
liner, Paris. was launched at Saint
Nazaire. The liner is destined 1or
New York service. 1t displaces 31OOO
tons, and is 233 meters long and ~
meters beam. It's horsepower is 4o'-
600, and it can carry 5000 passengers.
The Paris is the biggest boat ever
built in France.
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INDIES SALE BILL is
GIVEN TO LANDSTHlNG

COPENHAGEN, Sept. 18.-Premier
Bahle submitted in the landsthing
bill having as it's object the settling OF
the question of the sale of the Danish
West Indies by a plebiscite, after
parliamentary committee has exam
ined into and considered the matter.
The first reading of the bill is expect
ed to take place on Friday.
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BUYS $15o,ooo,0oo Gun Cotton

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 19.-Gun cot
ton to the value of $150,O00,000 is
to be supplied the allies by the Dupont
Powder company. Most of this explo-
sive will be made at Hopewell, Va,
and as a precaution the guard around
this large plant was doubled. 1t is
stated $4,000 men will be employed
to make the explosive and prepare it
for Shipping.
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CONDENSATION OF
CURRENT EVENTS
CLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SECTIONS
OF BOTH HEhISPHERES
Dispatches PiGtwing Developments From the Oa.
side World Stripped Of Unnecessary
Details and Presented IN Brief
U. S. Represents Roumania

BERLIN, Sept. 18.-The United
States ambassador in Constantinople
has taken charge of Roumanian in
terests in Turkey.
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Hen Lays 1900 Eggs

WINSTED, Conn, Sept ia white
hen owned by G. N. Foote of Lee,
Mass, sixteen years since it was a
chick, died few days ago. Mr.. Foote
said she laid 5000 eggs, which at thirty
cents a dozen amounted to $50. She
raised 16O chickens, which at seventy
five cents each amounted to $12O.
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WILL COMMISSION
WARSHIP ARIZONA

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Acting
Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roose-
velt announces that the new battle
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Breaks Air Record

TURIN, Sept. 16.-Aviator Repini,
with two passengers, beat the worlds
height record, rising $500 metres
(more than 10000 feet).