Arizona state miner., 1919-11-14
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Using chloroform to overcome their
victims, thieves entered the rooms OF
Mrs. NJ e. Salter of Waterloo, Iowa,
at a Dallas, Texas, hotel, and took
from her fingers rings valued at 81, 600.
Division officers of the Northwest
ern railroad at Mason City, Iowa, an
nOunced that two passenger trains had
been annulled and that way freight
service had been curtailed because OF
the coal strike.
Hugh B. Miller of Phoenix, driving
with remarkable skill and steadiness,
outclassed all competitors and won in
record time the transdeSert classic, the
Ell Paso to Phoenix automobile road
race.
With water standing between the
wide rows, and no prospects for cessa-
tion of rains, a farmer near kempt,
Tex, hitched a mule to boat, loaded
in his children and picked 4O-cent
cotton.
The Cremo cereal mill Of the Gould
Elevator Company was in ruins at
Minneapolis as result of fire starting
from spontaneous combustion. Damage
estimated at 100000, completely
covered by insurance.
Five unmasked bandits escaped in
an automobile after looting the Farm
ers and Mechanics State bank of Av-
eryville, a Peoria suburb, of $21, ,719.
The bandits abandoned the automobile
on the outskirts of Peoria. No trace
of the five men has been found.
Charles Stevens, a messenger of the
Union Bank and Trust Company of
Helena, Mont, was sandbagged and
robbed of a package containing cur
rency which was reported at $4,000.
He was found half an hour after the
robbery in a shed in the business sec
ton of the city, unconscious and
bound and gagged.
Occupying a position that was i'm
pregnable against assaults by arms,
but forced to submission thru lack Of
water and provisions, the last remain
ing forces of Emiliano Zapata's army
under General RovelO, according to
official advices received by Mexican
Consul Meade Fierro.
Jose Garcia and Miguel Cordova
were executed at Nogales, Sonora, fol-
lowing their conviction on charges of
theft One was hanged and the other
shot by a firing squad. The men were
executed in an effort to stamp out a
wave of crime in both Nogales, Ariz.,
and Nogales Sonora, authorities have
had difficulty to cope with.
WASHINGTON
Chile has given Bolivia an outlet to
the Pacific ocean by ceding a strip
of land north of the Province of Ar
lea, according to official advices re-
ceived in Washington.
Only three states in the Union have
larger organized National Guard
than Colorado at the present time, ac-
cOrding to an announcement of the
war department in connection with the
miners strike. The four leading states
in number of National Guard troops at
present time are: Texas, 11,796; Min
nesota, 1924; Oklahoma, 3,056; Colo
RADIO, 1866. Twenty-three states have
no National Guard.
Six employees were murdered and
more than $71,895 in American gold
stolen from oil companies operating
in the Tampico oil region during July,
August and September, according to
an official report just compiled Six
bandits implicated in two of the out
RACES were arrested, and two of them
publicly executed.
Continued pressure is being brought
on officials of the United Mine Work
ers of America to call off the strike of
bituminOus coal miners. Definite as
surance has been given union officials
that President Wilson and Attorney
General Palmer stand ready to attempt
an adjustment of the controversy that
led to the walkout as soon as the
strike order has been rescinded.
With the completion of the present
construction program of the shipping
board, there will be under the Ameri-
can flag 1,731 oil-burning steamers of
an aggregate of nearly 100000 dead
weight TONS Fuel stations now are be-
ing established along the trade routes
in both the Atlantic and Pacific so that
the American ships will be able to
make a complete circuit of the world
without taking fuel at other than
American-OWned stations.