The Dolores star., 1919-04-18
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number of others seriously injured and
many houses and barns We're demol-
ished in IA storm which swept through
Durant, Okla
Believing that nine out of ten men
do not know how to propose to girl,
the manager of school of expression
opened class in San Francisco to
teach bashful swains to express them
selves at that vital moment.
Property valued at S25,oO0 was de-
stroyed and blooded livestock, includ-
Ing twenty span of horses and mules.
burned to death, when big barn on
the Malcoma Moody ranch at Tysh
Ridge, near The Dalles, Ore, was
burned.
Cattlemen, mining men and other
Americans operating in northern Mex
leo are preparing a protest to the
State Department against further
shipments of arms, ammunition and
horses through Ell Paso to Mexico for
use of the Mexican federal army.
Charles Elmer Jenney, noted Cali
fornia poet and naturalist, died sud
denly at Colfax, Calf. Jenney was
the author of several volumes of pO-
etry and was a frequent contributor
10 periodicals. He was recognized
authority on the natural history of
California
Russell Newman, perhaps the oldest
man in Idaho. and reported to be the
oldest odd Fellow in the United States,
is dead at Midvale, Idaho He was an
active member of both the odd Fellow
and Rebekah lodges. Mr. NewmaH was
born in Kentucky March 20. 1911, and
was pioneer in Missouri, Colorado
and Idaho
Fifty years ago, May 10th, the I'm
ion Pacific Railroad building toward
the Pacific coast and the Central Pa
cific building toward the east met at
Promontory, near Ogden. On the day
the two great lines were united many
notable persons visited the spot and
the last spike driven in completion of
the road was one of gold.
So long as the railroads remain un-
der government control it is improb-
able that homeseekers' excursion rates
will be put into effect, according to
letter Secretary of State C. l.. Stew
art of Montana, has received from Ed
ward Chambers, director of traffic, un-
der the railroad administration. The
letter was in response to a memorial
of the Sixteenth Montana Assembly
asking that such rates be restored.
WASHINGTON
Approximately 1900 officers and
men will be engaged under Rear Ad-
miral Strauss in the dangerous task of
removing the $1,000 mines which
American naval forces laid in the
North sea anti-submarine barrage.
Eighteen mine sweepers will be used
and attached to the fleet as tenders.
An appeal from three until recently
exiled Catholic bishops of Mexico to
the people of the United States and
Mexico to be patient and forebear-
ing the one with the other lest the
amity which just men desire to pre-
serve" should be disrupted by evil
forces, was made public in Washing
ton by the Mexican embassy.
Out of a total of $50 Oregon draft
registrants reported to the office of
the adjutant general as deserters or
delinquents, 450 still are under inves--
tigation by Department of Justice Op-
eratives.
Mexican newspapers reaching Wash
ington report a revival of banditry in
the state of Vera Cruz, immediately
south of Tamptco, and record six seri-
puc ATTACKS nm trains Snpa tba r,iJJIn
of March.
Exchanges between the United
States and Japanese governments re-
garding the recent clash at Tien Tsin,
China, between American soldiers and
japanese, are expected to result short
ly IN satisfactory understanding,
closing the Incident.
The War Labor Board decided unan-
imously for the adoption of a forty
eight hour week for the silk mills in
the metropolitan district or New York
district Nearly 10000 workers in 4Stj
mills are affected. Representatives of
the employees asked for establishment
of fortyfour-hour week. The mills
have been working fifty-rwo and fifty
four hours.
Lieutenant Colonel Ansell, former
acting judge advocate general and one
of the leaders in the controversy over
courts martial procedure, has been di-
rected by Secretary Baker to prepare
and submit bill which in his opin-
ion would correct deficiencies in the
existing military justice system.
Putting into effect the policy of re-
moving wartime restrictions as fast as
possible on enemy aliens, the Depart
ment of Justice has ordered the re-
lease from parole and cancellation of
bonds of more than 10000 of these
aliens throughout the United States.