The Benson signal., 1919-03-29

With Mayor Frederick T. Woodman
and two others under indictment for
bribery, the probe of vice conditions in
Los Angeles continues with startling
developments.
Utah's thirteenth biennial Legisla-
ture adjourned after having worked
four days past the legal time by
adopting the tipe-worn method OF
stopping the clock.
Louis Young, 10, boy burglar was
shot and instantly killed following a
revolver battle with four detectives,
who caught him and a companion rob-
bing barber shop in Omaha
Suspected of knowing something Of
the bomb explosion which killed Mrs.
George D. Greenwood at her home in
Oakland, Oakland police are closely
questioning man whose identity they
refuse to reveal.
BY vote of eight to four, the Sen
ate of the Nevada Legislature refused
to pass resolution indorsing league
of nations "of which the United States
shall be a member" The resolution
was passed by the assembly early i'll
the session.
Sixteen thousand or more officers
and men of the Fortieth Sunshine"
division will go to Camp Kearny for
demobilization by April 10, according
to word received at San Diego by Maj.
J. C.Dooley, intelligence officer of
the division.
"A detachment of 1,8OS casuals the
largest number yet to reach San Fran
cisco from Vladivostok, arrived on the
transport Sherman. Most of the cas-
uals, which included sixty-eight men
listed as patients, were from the ST.
berian expeditionary force.
A herd of between 300 and 400 buff
falo, all of them said to be as wild as
when they roved the Western plains,
are rulers of Antelope island, in great
Salt Lake. Antelope island contains
approximately $4,000 acres and is the
estate of the late John DOoly, West
ern pioneer.
Addition of two steamers to the
present fleet of the South American
Pacific line, operating between Seat
tie, San Francisco, San Pedro, Calf,
and Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and
Chile, was announced by Bjarne Lind
yig, general agent of the line at San
Francisco. <
WASHINGTON
Collections from the first quarterly
installment of income and profits
taxes amounted to $1,0O1, ,224,OOO in
sixty-three of the sixty-four collection
districts Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Roper announced in Washing
ton.
Statistics made public by the War
Department showed that the govern
ment has. on hand or contracted for,
4S7,1OO,54O pounds of wool remaining
to be disposed of. Wool purchased or
contracted for amounted to 722, ,45O, 1853
pounds, valued at more than $50O,OOO,-
OOO 1t included 1O,000,0O0 pounds of
domestic clip yet to be delivered, A.
100000 pounds to come from South
America, and 94,OOOOOO pounds con-
tracted for with the British govern
ment.
Census report shows the cotton
crop of 1918, excluding linters, to be
IA, 1888, 1873 bales, counting round as
half bales, compared with II, ,249,242
for 1917
Substantial reductions in the prices
of pigiron and finished products of
steel were announced at the close of
the. conference of steel manufacturers
with the United States Industrial
board at Washington.
Although food prices showed de-
cline of per cent during the month
ending last February 18th, the prices
were per cent higher than those pre-
vailing in February, 1918, and about
70 per cent higher than the average
price of 1913.
Six hundred and forty-four distin-
gliished service crosses have been
been awarded to men of the American
Second division who stopped the Ger
mans at Belleau wood. A War De-
partment statement shows that of dec
orations awarded infantrymen of the
division up to March II, the Fifth reg
iment (marines) won 206; the Sixth
(marines), 1877; the Ninth (regulars),
124, and the Twenty-third (regulars),
66.
Naval yeowomen hereafter must
wear either their regular uniform or
complete civilian outfits. An order
made public forbids mixing Some of
the hundreds of young women at the
navy departments, officially known as
''yeowomen CD" have been brighten
ing up their plain garb with coIored
silk stockings, a bit of hat trimming
and other ornaments.
Persons who neglected to pay the
first installment of income taxes have
lost the installment paying privi-