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Mexican bandits held up the paymas-
ter of the Escondido mine, fifteen
miles from Eagle Pass, Texas, in Mex
leo, obtained $4,000 and fled in the
paymasters' automobile.
Gen. Alvaro Obregon, formerly a
member of CaranZas cabinet, and one
time candidate for the presidency OF
Mexico, has announced he would take
the field against the United States in
the event of armed intervention by the
United States.
H. A. Carnes, United States customs
inspector, was badly beaten and left
for dead by Mexican who crossed the
Rio Grande at Yeleta, Texas. The in
jured man was removed to Ell Paso
There were four Mexicans, and they
are supposed to have been smuggling
Several persons are believed to have
drowned at Corpus Christi as the re-
suit of the hurricane there. 1t was said
the water had reached the second
story of some buildings in the bust
ness section and the downtown sec
tion was reported under martial law.
Liberty hall, built as a public meet
ing place in the new court house at Ell
Faso is to be converted into public
market as a means of reducing the
high cost of living The big amphithe-
alter is to be equipped with stalls and
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the county authorities.
Swallowing small piece of tooth
pick was blessing in disguise for
Donald Cuttings of Sioux City. The
toothpick lodged in Cuttings throat
while he was at dinner recently He
coughed violently, choked and nearly
strangled before the bit of wood was
dislodged from his throat. But with its
removal, Cuttings voice, lost after a
gas attack during the st. Mihiel drive,
had returned. Cuttings was gassed at
st. Mihiel Sept. II, 1918. Since that
time he had been forced to speak only
in husky whisper.
WASHINGTON
Great Britain has withdrawn the pro-
hibition on the re-exportation of Amer
lean cotton from her domains. This
has been reported by the American
consul general in London.
Seventeen alien enemy prisoners es-
capped from the war prison barracks at
Fort Douglas, near Salt Lake City. Es-
cape was made through tunnel
which it had evidently taken months to
construct.
Twenty-four hundred sleeping and
parlor car conductors on federal con-
trolled railroads have received a slight
increase in wages, retroactive to May
1, under an order issued by Director
General Hines for the purpose of rec
tifying an error on a previous award.
Fire destroyed warehouse No. OF
the J. G. White Engineering Corpora
nitrate plant, the loss being estimated
at S2,000,000. The major portion OF
the loss was on electrical equipment.
Charging that while the wholesale
prices on meats have dropped, the
prices to the consumer are still high
Senator Harrison of Mississippi asked
the agriculture committee of the Sen
ate to conduct an investigation into the
retail prices of meats.
Ben F. Allen of the Cleveland Plair
Dealer, member of President Wilson'S
party, and James r.. Patterson of Port
land, Oregon, were killed and two 9th
er newspaper men injured in an auto
mobile collision on the Columbia high
way while the presidential party was
returning to Portland from a tour ovel
the highway.
A report of the commissioner of in
ternal revenue shows that total inter
nal revenue collections from al
sources for the year ended June 80
1919. aggregated $3,s39, ,95O,612, an in
crease over 1918 of $145, ,330,973. Tota
collections from the country from in
come and excess profit taxes for 1915
amounted to S2,59600S, 702, as com
pared with s., ,S39, 1927 1888 for 1918, q
decrease of S243,019,235. The original
estimate of receipts from these
sources for 1919 was $4,T07 100000
but the revenue bill of 1918 provided
for the payment of these taxes, if the
taxpayer so elected, in four equal in
stallments beginning with March Is, OF
the date of filing the return, and in
three subsequent installments due on
or before June Is, Sept 10 and
Dec IS.
Total collections of internal revenue
from all sources for the fiscal year
ended June 3o 1919. amounted to $3,-
S39, $50, 600, an increase of S145,330.90O
over 1918, Commissioner Roper esti-
mated. Income and excess profits tax
collections for 1919 amounted to ST.
596,00S, 700, a decrease of $243,019,200
over 1918
An army of 250,0O0 men is adequate
for the United States, Gen. Leonard