, 1919-03-20
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

captivity in Salt Lake City last April,
died there of unknown causes. 1t was
found by the keeper when he went to
feed the mother.
The body of a young woman found
In a ravine ear San Mateo south of
San Francisco, was identified at San
Francisco as that of Miss Inez Eliza
beth Reed, n San Francisco and Fort
Riley, Kan, Red Cross nurse.
The bank of Pell, a small town near
Chehalis, Wash, was robbed by a lone
man, who entered when Miss Baxter,
an employee, was alone in the place,
compelled her to show him where the
money was stored, and taking about
$500 left with 1t in ar automobile.
A mass meeting or 1000 Hawaiian
japanese, held In Honolulu, adopted,
a resolution to send a Japanese dele
CATION to Paris to ask that an effort
be made to insert a clause in the
peace treaty abolishing racial discrim-
nation for the sake of humanity and
Justice.
The Senate labor and capital COM
mittee reported favorably the anti-in-
junction bill introduced by Senator
Flaherty in the California Legislature.
The measure is practically the same
as the bill passed by the Legislature
two years ago and vetoed later by
Governor Stephens.
Clarence Legary, "a, identified as
them an who robbed Mrs. Maude Chen
noweth and attacked her daughter,
Ruby, has been freed at Wichita by
the confession of Charles Bennett, 20
years old, who also admitted he fired
the shot that killed Clarence Chandler,
an automobile salesman.
-Four of five doctors who have so
far testified for the state in the case
against Postmaster Joseph E. Swindle-
hurst at Livingston, Mont, charged
with the murder of o. NJ. Harvey, late
chairman of the Montana state Repub-
lican committee, have given 1t as their
opinion hat Harvey's death was due
to blows which Swindlehurst admins
tered.
Construction of a tunnel under Ber-
ing strait, establishing rail trade com
m%unications between the Asiatic and
American continents, is advocated by
JdlhcS WlShcISildIIt aldShhl utleRdle
in Congress, who Is in San Francisco
on business. He is also active in aid
ing Pacific coast firms interested in
leasing government coal fields in
Alaska.
WASHINGTON
Republican organization for the ma
jority control of the next House was
completed with Representative Frank
w. Mondell of Wyoming as floor lead
er.
Development too late for use in the
wal of a motor fuel which adds ten
miles an hour to the speed of aero
planes and has possibilities for use in
automobile racing was announced by
the bureau of mines. The liquid, a
combination of benzol and CYCLIC
hexane, called nectar, costs about 81
a gallon, so while of military value it
is not regarded as practical for com
mercial purposes at present.
Americans have filed claims against
Germany and Austria-H Hungary totaling
$75O,OO0,O00 the State Department an
nounced in Washington.
Italy's loans from the United States
NtIt llCItuStu u S1,t-I.DOO,OOO ny u
new credit of $16,50O,0 900. This made
total credits for all allies $685. 49,
600.
More than 274,O00 acres of land
have been returned to various Mexi-
can communities by President Car
rama, acting under the new constitu-
ton of the republic and executive de-
cree. President Carranza has author
ity to restore the and to former own
ers or make outright grants to new
claimants. In the February list 1t
was noted that of eighty-two tracts re-
turned only nine were by restoration.
Plans of the shipping board for the
establishment in the lei future of
regular passenger and freight steam
ship service between the United States
and South and Central American coun-
tries through the use of twenty-five
12,O00-ton vessels, now under con-
struction, were disclosed by Chairman
Hurley in an address at a meeting at
the Pan-American Union of govern
ment officials interested in Latin
American trade.
Eighty-five thousand German he'll
NETS, purchased by the Treasury De-
partment as trophies in the Victory
loan drive, will be shipped to Wash
ington from New York. The War De-
partment sold the helmets to Frank S.
Wilson, publicity director, for the loan
for 81.
Crime is on the increase in nearly
every large city in the United States.
Everywhere police forces are being
strengthened. Our highways have not
been so unsafe to travel since the
years following the civil war, avs a
Washington report.