, 1919-04-10
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o I q 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union Ne
WESTERN

Approximately 5000 independent
fishermen went on n strike at San
Francisco against the fixing of fish
prices by the state market director.
The Carrie Nation home, on the
Kansas side, established by the fam
u saloon smasher, used for years as
n tenement, has been r%eopened as a
mercy institution by the w. G. 7. u.
of Kansas.
Prices for steers in the Salt Lake
market reached the record mark for
beef cattle at Salt Lake when 42h
cents a pound was paid for a 2-year-
old Hereford entered at the Intermoun-
tain Fat Stock show.
A. A. Sedkwick of Hoquian, WASH,
shot INT killed Sidney NJ. Heath, an
attorney, Louis Sedgwick, his wife,
and then ended his own life. Sedg-
wick, a sufferer from tuberculosis,
had been sued for divorce.
Five men were killed near Mel
bourne, WASH, and three others prob
ably fatally injured when a logging
train on which they were riding be-
came unmanageable on a down grade
and plunged from the rails into a ra-
vine.
A. Korean Battalion of DEATH
consisting of 900 men, fully armed,
has crossed the ~Tumankang river from
Manchuria into Korea, pledged not to
return until Korea is free, according
to a cablegram received at San Fran
cisco by the Korean national associa-
ton from the Rev. Hymn Soon, its
representative in Shanghai.
To learn If it is necessary for
Nebraska to make special provision
for caring for discharged soldiers who
have become mentally ~deranged while
in the service, Governor Samuel r.
McKelvie of that state, sent a COM
munication to Secretary of War Baker
asking for immediate information on
the subject.
Ballots cast in the recent municipal
primary in Butte, Mont, in which
William f. Cults, recently a captain in
the United States army, was declared
the Democratic nominee for mayor
over w. F. Dunn, under conviction of
sedition, were missing from the ballot
bOx of one precinct when 1T was
opened in court in the hearing of the
contest Dunn had instituted over the
election.
WASHINGTON
Members of the special mission of
the Philippine Legislature at Washing
ton seeking immediate independence
of the land were told by Secretary
Baker that he spoke President VIII
sons mind when he said he believed
the time had come to grant the COM
plete independence desired by the Fit
Pine people.
The meat packing industry, which
his been under federal license since
October, 1917, has been released from
food administration control by a pro-
clamation signed by President in Paris.
Under the proclamation ''all persons,
firms, corporations or associations en-
gagged in importing, manufacturing, in
Guiding packing, storing or distribute
ing fresh, canned or cured beef, pork,
mutton or lard" are released from
license by the foot administration.
Charges of gross carelessness and
negligence in preventing and control
ling the spread of typhoid and para
lyDllOlu lCNtlo III Nv army uIt inuut
against many medical officers serving
with the forces overseas In a circular
published by the chief surgeon of the
American Expeditioiary Forces.
mother case of executive clemency
has been announced by the War De-
partment. The President, it was said,
has committed to dlshonorable dis
charge and life Imprisonment the
death sentence of Private james C.
Skiles, Company d. 321st machine gun
battalion, who, on Aug. 10. killed
Sergt. George j. Onken of the same
company at Trondes, France.
First aid instruction for public
school children is to be introduced III
der the supervision of the American
Red Cross in schools throughout the
country. Red Cross headquarters at
Washington announced that arrange
ments had been made for adding the
course to the curriculum Of the schools
of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
California, Washington, Alaska and
New York City and hat the plan had
been endorsed in many other states.
Unusual growth of trade between
the United States and Oceania was
shown In a report In the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. In
the first eight months of the fiscal
year Oceania took St85, $50, 100 worth
of exports from this country, as COM
pared with $S3, $500 in the same pc
riod last year, and sold the United
States goods valued at $139,s71.802, an
increase of $62,000.O00 over last year.
The United States government he's
sold to the Czecho-SIovak military au-
thorities aeroplanes and aeroplane
equipment to the Value of S1.O00.000.