, 1919-05-01
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o I G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper Union news Service.

WESTERN
Err G. Eagleson was elected mayor
of Boise, to succeed S. II. Hays. John
Mcmillan, the defeated candidate, lost
the election by 81 votes.
George A. Roberts of Omaha has
cleared $4,000 900 profit in corn in the
last five days, according to current re-
ports. Roberts is said to have broken
a pool of Chicago market manipulators
and to have beaten Jesse Livermore of
New York.
Lieutenant Ralph KOontz, radio of
ficer at Post field, Lawton, Okla, fell
to his death at Call field, his machine
going into a side slip as he was leav-
ing the field and falling about 200
feet. He had been with "A party do
ing c"ross-country work.
Frank Brush, former cashier of the
Santa Rosa National bank, was indict-
ed at Sacramento on a charge of EN-
bezzlement. The Indictment, which was
returned by the United States grand
jury, contained thirty counts, alleging
e~mbezzlement amounts ag%gregating
100000
An incomplete service record of the
students and faculty members of the
University of Oregon recently COM
piled by Emily Wootton Hall, secre-
tary of military affairs, shows that
1,430 served in the Il In his num-
Der SIS are commissioned officers, at
the head of which are two colonies
and three lieutenant %colonels.
Exclusion of about $3.50 acres of
land from the Inyo national forest for
restoration in part to homestead en-
try has been announced by Secretary
Lane. The tract includes 6S,075 acres
IN Mono and Basin counties, Califor-
MIA, and 1896 acres in Esmeralda
county, Nevada, all of semi-desert
character. 1t will be subject to home
stead entry at and after o O'Clock a.
In. July 1, and to other disposition on
and after July s.
WASHINGTON
The bureau of aircraft production
has withdrawn cancellations of con-
tracts to the amount of $~2,640,0OO, it
has been announced. Contracts out
standing on November 8, 1918, for all
war department bureaus aggregated
49, 100000. These have now been
reduced to $3.50, 100000.
Prices received by the war depart
ment in the sale of surplus supplies
totaling $40, 100000, the war depart
ment announced, averaged 81 per cent
of the initial cost. Military railway
material disposed of brought S71,000,-
600; exactly what these supplies cost
the government. Aircraft production
material was sold at 90 per cent of
its cost and ordnance supplies brought
81 per cent.
All bids received by the shipping
board for four steel reconstructed lake
steamers were rejected as being too
low and the steamers again advertised
for sale. 1t vas stated that the board,
in it's sale of the war-built merchant
fleet, did not intend to sacrifice IN
vessels merely in order to dispose of
them. ''The prices offered were about
40 per cent of the appraised value of
the vessels, appraisement having been
made by the ocean advisory commits
sion"
General Pershing notified the war
department of the decoration of the
following American organizations by
the French government: Fourragere
of colors of ribbon of Croix de Guerre,
One Hundred and Third aero squadron
and ambulance units $50 n 625 ;
fourragere of colors of ribbon of
medaille militaire, ambulance unit GAG.
The statement of the Japanese en-
bassy at Washington that only 331 per,
sons had been killed and 735 wounded
up to date in the suppression of the
Korean revolution. was declared to be
"incredulous" in a statement issued by
DR.. Byngman Rhee, secretary of state
of the provisional Korean government.
DIR. Rhee characterized the announce
ment as a diplomatic statement"
Determination Of the shipping board
to cancel contracts for an additional
1000, 900 tons of steel ships contracted
for during the war has been an
nounced by Chairman Hurley. At the
same time the chairman said cancel.
letion of all contracts where keels had
not actually been laid was under con
sideration in order to build at peace
prices instead of at high war figures,
Announcement vas made in New
York by John Barrett, director general
of the Pan-American union, that the
pan-American commercial conference
will be held in Washington from June
2 to 3. Representatives from twenty
one American republics r expected
to attend.
On the eve of his trial on n criminal
charge in the superior court of King
county, Orville Billings, reputed to be
one of the wealthiest men of Tacoma
and at one time a candidate for gov
ernor, accidentally shot and killed