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Fortyfour aliens who forfeited first
citizenship papers to escape military
service during the war were denied
citizenship rights by Superior Court
Judge B. J. Tallman at Seattle.
| A band of several hundred Yaqui
| Indians was defeated in a battle with
Mexican federal soldiers near Idsbor-
regoa, Sonora, forty miles south of No
| gales, Ariz., according to word re-
| ceived.
| The Public Utilities Commission of
| Utah has issued an order to all tel
| ephone companies that the rates and
charges of service as stipulated by
Postmaster General BurlesOn should
| not be recognized.
| Discharged soldiers and sailors will
| be urged to go back to their own
| ''home town" whenever possible by the
| new state veterans welfare commits
ton, James Fl. Powell, chairman, an
nounced at Seattle.
| City and county authorities at St
| attic are centering their energies in
q search for Leon Green, whose real
name is said to be Leon Butouetsky,
| a Russian, and one of the recent labor
| agitators during the general strike
| there.
To help solve one of the most per-
| picking postwar problems, what to do
with our vast shipyards and merchant
marine, the Los Angeles-Pacific Nav1-
cation Company has been organized by
financiers and business mensof South
! ern California.
| The search and seizure law, which
| the prohibition forces of the state of
Montana have been trying to have
enacted into law by the present State
Legislature as an adjunct to the pro-
hibition statute, was killed in the
| house of representatives.
The Senate of the Oregon Legisla-
ture has adopted joint resolution to
extend the legislative session to sixty
days, instead of forty, and increase
the pay of lawmakers from So to So
day The measure will be voted on
at special election in June.
Harry A. Wheeler, president of the
| United States Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, told 1000 delegates to the
Transmississippi REIMBURSEMENT con-
| gress in Omaha that better railroad
service is obtainable under private
ownership of the railway lines than
under public ownership. There has
been a sluffing of enthusiasm, ingen-
uity and initiative under government
CONTROL" he declared.
WASHINGTON
BY order of President Wilson, Amer
lean troops in Russia will be returned
| to the United States as soon as pOssi-
BILE, possibly before June 1.
Col. c.. Mason Pendleton, one of the
last of Mosbys raiders and pictur-
esque fighter of the Civil war, is dead
at his home in Washington.
Representative Fess of Ohio, chair
man of the Republican congressional
campaign committee, announced his
withdrawal from the Republican con-
test for the speakership Of the House
in the next Congress. His action left
the race between Representatives
Mann of Illinois and Gillett of Massa-
| chuSettS
An appropriation Of $75O0OO,0OO for
operating the railroads under govern
ment control have been approved by
the house appropriations committee.
To encourage American investments
in foreign securities, the government
has taken steps to gather extensive in
| formation on credit conditions in other
countries, to be placed at the disposal
of prospective purchasers of private
securities.
Uncle Sam, ever alert to serve his
millions of investors, is putting out a
new postage stamp. 1t is of the 49,
cent denomination and is issued pri-
marily for use in preparing single
rate of letter postage and special de-
livery fee, or for postage and registry
fee. 1t may be used, however, for
other purposes for which ordinary
stamps are used.
Philippine foreign trade showed a
steady and encouraging increase dur
ing the calendar year of 1918 with the
United States the dominant nation,
the bureau of insular affairs of the
War Department announced at Wash
ington. Total imports amounted to
$95, 500, ,2OO-an increase Of so per cent
over 1917-while the export total in
creased from $685. 300 to $135, 5,682-
500.
Short-term notes maturing in from
one to five years would be offered in
the forthcoming Victory Loan cam
paign instead of long-term notes I'M
der a tentative agreement reached by
the House ways and means committee
to fix the terms of the loan by legis-
latiOn.
A bill for the repeal of the war
time prohibition law, which becomes