The Ordway new era., 1919-08-15


Plans have been perfected for
$4,000 motor speedway at Dalworth,
midway between Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas. ana construction will
start Immediately.
Claims for damages Inflicted during
the Mexican revolution totalod 21.JOO-
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
ond In fhirty-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 company owning airplnnes
from using the air above his farm.
LOSS from forest fires In Montana
md northern Idaho this sensOn. up 10
July 81, amounted to S755.000, 1t was
estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant
district forester. Heavy rains have re-
moved the fire menace In Montnnn,
though fires in Idaho still nre threat
enlng. total of $4,000 has been
spent IN fighting forest fires In Mon
tRnH and northern Idaho this season.
Thlrty-slx thousand dollars belong
ing to the Ammo National Bank of
san Antonio. which H. j. Brown, bnnk
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 nc-
slon. Brown, according to the police.
has confessed that the robbery was
frame up" by Clements and himself
WASHINGTON
Without opposition or debate the
Senate adopted resolution authoriz-
Ing the foreign relations committee to
mike sweeping investigation of out
RACES against Americans and property
In Mexico and to report whnt, II amy
means should be taken to prevent such
outrages.
A cotton production of 11,O1G.OO0
bales this year has been forecast by the
Department of Agriculture. basing Its
estimate ON the condition OF the crop
July %. which II announced as 07.1
per cent OF normal. The forecast
shows an Increase OF 10000 bales over
the forecast mnde u month ago. The
condition OF the crop showed decline
of 20 per cent during the month COM
pared with the average decline Of AZ
per cent during the period In previous
years.
Income tax returns were filed by s.
472, 800 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
come OF Si3,652, ,3S3, ,207. The Increase
over 1915, before the law was expanded
TO meet war expenses, was 3,O35,S5i re-
turns nnd S7.3D3, sO3. .5s7 In net income.
Taxes paid totnlied S675,2i9, ,450. an nv
erage of S36S.56 per individual, or 0.03
per cent of the income.
A four-story garage, from any story
of which entrance and exit Is directly
from the street. III one of the nrchl-
tectural landscape oddities of auto
mobile row" In Los Angeles. The ex-
PLANTATION is simple: The garage Is
built on hillside.
A joint resolution declaring that a
state of anarchy exists In the United
States md 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 Blnnton, Texas
A protest against the policy OF the
Navy Department which, 1t was
charged, compelled California oil in
tcrcsts to sell to the navy ut tidcwatei
at so cents q BARREL plus n vague
promise of final adjustment crud,
oil, for which producers received ST.
nt the well, was embodied In n state
ment sponsored by the executives o
several of the leading oil companies %
the state. Under a contract which ey
pired July ! the companies had beel
supplying the navy with crude oil II
s1.fT barrel, at nn aggregate loss, th'
statement snid, to the oil interests q
the stntc of S500,000.
The State Department has been nd
viscd of efforts on the part of Japan
ese oil companies to acquire propertie
fn the Tampico oil fields of Mexico an,
that American companies have beer
approached with view to selling Il
the japanese.
One new article of war and changes
In thirty others have been recommend
ed by the special board of officers ap
pointed early In the war TO investigate
the army court-mnrtial system. In max
ing this announcement, Secretary Ba
ker said he soon would transmit tbs