, 1919-01-16
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
o THE WAR

city into a second Bolshevik, accord
ing to late reports.
The port of Riga has been cap
tured by the Bolsheviki forces, &C
cording to reports.
LODI and other Polish cities are re-
ported in a state of virtual anarchy,
with the rougher element doing as 1t
pleases.
In Esthonia, the Bolsheviki are
marching on Reval and have reached
Charlotenoff. about thirty miles east
southeast of Reval.
Great Britain, it was learned today.
has informed Turkey that the Darda
nelles forts will be destroyed unless
the Turks in Medina surrender imme-
diately.
All members of the bourgeoisie have
been arrested at Riga by the Lettish
soviet, which has abolished the own
ership of private property, according
to a Riga dispatch.
Lieut.. Arthur Sutton and Privates
NcCauley, Suess and Haston of the
United States signal corps have ar
rived in Berling from Coblenz. They
will take photographs of happenings
in Berlin n vicinity.
At least five persons were killed
and more than a score wounded dur
ing a fight between police and strik-
ers at the Vasena Iron works on the
outskirts of Buenos Aires. A general
strike in the city is probable.
WESTERN
Former Mayor Hiram C. Gill of Sc
attic is dead in that city, a victim of
the flu.
Miss Mary Pickford, the motion
picture actress, who has been i'll with
influenza, is reported improved by her
physician. She was said to be in no
danger.
Bob Taylor, one of the last sur
vivors of the Indian fighters of the
frontier days and a member of Gus
ter's army in the battle of Wichita
with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes,
is dead in Colorado Springs.
Two hundred Inc fifty artillery and
cavalry horses sold at auction at
Camp Bowie remount station brought
an average price of SIS per head, &C
cording to announcement at Camp
Bowie. The artillery horses cost the
government about $3.50 each, 1t was
said; the cavalry mounts about $165.
To outline definite plans to cooper
ate with Secretary Franklin X. Lane
of the Federal Interior Department in
Colorado river reclamation work,
Governor ~Bamberger is asking the
chief executives of Colorado, Wyo-
ming, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexi-
co to send delegates to a convention
to be held in Salt Lake Jan. Is.
John Hance, better known as Cap
tain Hance, known to almost every
tourist who W visited the Grand
Canon of the Colorado, is dead at his
home in Flagstaff of a paralytic
stroke. He was 81 years old. Cap
tain Hance, who always claimed to
have built the first trail down into
the cahon, has for a been chief
guide in the employ of the railroad
and hotel company at the canon.
The body of Patrick ]. Kindelon,
chief special agent of the Southern
Pacific Railway Company, noted man
hunter and tracker OF train robbers,
and one-time president of the Inter-
national Association OF Railway Spe-
cial Agents of Police, was found in
Golden Gate park in San Francisco.
A bullet wound caused his death,
and his revolver was found beside
him. No motive for suicide is known,
ind at his office 1t was thought posi-
BILE that some enemy had taken his
fife.
WASHINGTON
The Navy Department has practi-
cally offered a bonus of thirty days
pay to all men recently discharged
from the army. navy or marine corps
provided they enlist promptly in the
navy.
Road building on an intensive scale
is expected by government officials
this rear. Defined estimates or
amounts to be spent this year include
the following: Iowa, S15,574,0 900;
Texas, 500, DOC, 900; Nebraska, $1,657,-
0S9; North Dakota, $4,000, 900; Wyo-
ming, $653,000; Colorado, $500, 900;
California. $40, 000.0 900; Arizona, $780,
600; Nevada, $1,14S, S49.s0; Idaho, ST.
100000.
An agreement between the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Company and the
thirteen international unions compris.
ing the metal trades department of
the American Federation of Labor,
whereby the unions are recognized as
representing the employees, has been
announced.
The Webb-Kenyon law f~orbidding
shipment of liquor into a dry state is
constitutional and does not violate
the constitution in the regulation of
interstate commerce, according to rul-
ing just made by the Supreme Court
Of the United States.