The Colorado statesman., 1919-05-24
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STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
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WESTERN
A jury in the breach of promise case
of Mrs. A. p. Van Delinder against ).
Richmond, wealthy ranch owner at
Vancouver, awarded $1,000 damages.
An increase of 80 cents day, from
$4.25 to $4.75, became effective In
mines of the Occur d'Alene district in
idaho according to bulletins posted In
the principal mines.
An act authorizing issuance of $10,-
100000 worth of good roads bonds has
been passed by the Legislature of Ore
gon. An emergency clause makes the
money Immediately available.
A pool of 5000 pounds of mohair
was sold at Lebanon, Ore, for GA cents
a pound, the highest price paid this
season for Oregon mohair. The fig
ure is 315 ce:ts above last seasons
price.
"i5lond Eskimos," discovered by Viii
hjalmur Stefansson, the explorer, in
the far northern Arctic are to be left
alone in their unciviliZed aboriginal
state, according to Leo Wittenberg,
trader and whaler.
Final tabulations showing San Fran
ciscos subscriptions to the Victory
Liberty loan had exceeded the city's
quota of $79,31S $50, give the Twelfth
federal reserve district clean slate
with every major division of the dis
trict lover the top"
Gov. John J. Frazier of South Da-
kota has called a special election for
June &c to permit the people to vote
on seven measures enacted by the las,
legislature included in the Nonpartisan
league program, and which are asked
to be referred by petitions circulated
by the Independent Voters Associa-
ton.
WASHINGTON
Corsets are taxable under the fed
eral luxury law, according to ruling
from Washington.
Authority to increase rates between
the United States and Canada was
asked by the American Railway Ex-
press Company in petition filed with
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Charles f. Hoffman of Brooklyn, n.
Y, sergeant in the marine corps, was
decorated with the congressional med
al of honor by Secretary Daniels for
exceptionally meritorious conduct in
the battle of Soissons.
The repeal of the luxury taxes is pro-
vided in a bill introduced in the Sen
ate by Senator Wadsworth of New
York. A similar measure was intro
duced in the House by Representative
Moore of Pennsylvania.
An increase of unemployment is re-
ported by the United States employ
ment service. In total of eighty
three cities, only twelve had shortage
of labor; in twenty-nine supply and
demand balanced and forty-two report
ed an increase from 127,S50 to 135,3S0
persons out of work.
With the ordering of twelve large
steamers into the lumber trade from
South Atlantic and Gulf ports, the
shipping board at Washington took
steps toward material expansion of
the shipping facilities of the South
and toward building up of trade be-
tween that section and South America.
Recommendations of the general
staff that the course of instruction at
West Point be reduced permanently to
three years has been approved by Sec
retary Baker. The change is expected
to go into effect with the next class,
but no change from the present en-
trance requirement will be made.
The navy will have removed all but
400, 900 men from overseas by July l.,
Secretary Daniels announced at Wash
ington. 1t would be possible, he added,
to remove an additional 100000 during
the month of July, but that the num-
ber to be kept in France for emergen-
CIV purposes and in the army of occu-
nation was to be decided in Paris.
Official records of the War Depart
ment show that the Seventy-seventh
division made larger advance
against the enemy than any other of
the American divisions in France. The
New York City national army men
went forward total of seventy-one
and one-half kilometers. The Second
(regular) division advanced total of
sixty kilometers, and the Forty-second
(Rainbow) division, fifty-five kilome-
ters.
The foreign mail service, interrupt
ed by the war, has been restored to
normal, and the foreign parcel post
has been considerably extended beyond
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