The Benson signal., 1919-08-16

WESTERN
$15O,0O0 motor speedway at Dalworth,
midway between Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas, and construction will
start Immediately.
Claims for damages inflicted during
the Mexican revolution tOtaled q, ,5OO,-
900 pesos on Aug 2. This amount does
not include American, British and
French claims, which have not been
filed
Stranger Ed. Lewis won two of
three falls in his match here last night
with Ivan Grandavich, Russian. Lewis
won the first fall in forty-six minutes
and twenty-nine seconds and the Sec
cOnd in thirty-six minutes and fifty
five seconds.
Whether property owner is also
owner of the air above his land is to be
determined through court action
action brought by Frederick HOene-
mann, farmer in Kansas. He seeks
to restrain a company owning airplanes
from using the air above his farm.
Loss from forest fires in Montana
~&nd northern Idaho this season, up to
July 81, amounted to $755, 1000, it was
estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant
district forester. Heavy rains have re-
moved the fire menace in Montana,
though fires in Idaho still are threat
suing. A total of $815,OO0 has been
spent in fighting forest fires in Mon
tana and northern Idaho this season.
Thirty-six thousand dollars belong
ing to the Alamo National Bank OF
San Antonio, which III. ]. Brown, bank
messenger, reported as having been
stolen from him, has been recovered
by detectives. Brown and A. J. Glenn
ents are being held for grand jury ac-
ton. Brown, according to the police,
frame up" by Clements and himself
WASHINGTON
Without opposition or debate the
Senate adopted a resolution authoriZ-
ing the foreign relations committee to
make sweeping investigation of out
RACES against Americans and property
in Mexico and to report what, if any
means should be taken to prevent such
Outrages.
A cotton production of 11,O16O00
bales this year has been forecast by the
Department of Agriculture, basing it's
estimate on the condition Of the crop
July %, which it announced as GIL
per cent of a normal The forecast
shows an increase of 10000 bales over
the forecast made a month ago. The
condition of the crop showed decline
of 90 per cent during the month COM
pared with the average decline of 42
per cent during the period in previous
years.
Income tax returns were filed by s.
472,890 persons, about 3 per cent of the
population, for the calendar year OF
1917, according to final reports just
completed by the bureau of internal
revenue. They showed total net in
Xeome of S13,652, ,3S3, ,207. The increase
IOver 1916, before the law was expanded
to meet war expenses, was 3,O35,o o54 re-
turns and 1888, ,SO5 5S7 in net income.
Taxes paid totalled $675, 5,249, ,450, an av-
erage of $368.56 per individual, or COB
per cent of the income.
A fOur-story garage, from any story
of which entrance and exit is directly
from the street, is one of the archi-
tectural landscape oddities of "autO-
T
PLANTATION is simple: The garage is
built on hillside.
A Joint resolution declaring that a
state of anarchy exists in the United
States and authorizing the President to
free interstate mails and traffic from
further unlawful interference and ade-
Quately protect citizens in their prop
erty rights" was introduced by Repre-
sentative Blanton, Texas.
A protest against the policy of the
Navy Department which, it was
charged, compelled California oil in
terests to sell to the navy at tidewater
at 80 cents barrel, 'plus a vague
promise of final adjustment, crude
oil, for which producers received $1.23
at the well, was embodied in state
ment sponsored by the executives of
several of the leading oil companies Of
the state. Under a contract which eS-
pired July 1 the companies had been
supplying the navy with crude oil at
$1.47 a barrel, at an aggregate loss, the
statement said, to the oil interests Of
the state of $500,OOO.
The State Department has been ad-
vised of efforts on the part of Japan
ese oil companies to acquire properties
in the Tampico oil fields of Mexico and
that American companies have been
approached with a view to selling to
the japanese.
/One new atIicle of war and changes
In thirty others have been recommend
ed by the special board of officers ap
pointed early rs the war to investigate
the army courtmartial system. In max