The Raymer enterprise., 1919-07-24

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The jury in The ease NJ Roy Emerson
Of treston. la. charged with heating
his mother To death with an iron brace
aud throwing her body down an cle-
sator shaft, returned verdict Of
guilty of murder IN the second degree.
i'orrslcd areas in the eastern sec
iion of tlir Thunder mountain rc-,nn
Of southern Idaho are II caudr1n Of
smoke. aud there * uo Way 10 estimate
how many ncw fires are eating Int"
The timber Of Iliut Region underneath
the hazy pail.
Henry NJ Garcia. prominent San
lose business man. received probably
fatal injuries and Lieut.. j, II. Stanley
Of Minneapolis, the pilot of a passeii-
ger-carrying airplane. WIS badly hurt
when their machine fell IN the resi-
dence section OF San Jose, Calf.
southern California mountain
streams. which heretofore have main.
talned at least Il "tfickle" during The
summer. are g"ing dry, and many
trout are dying as a result, according
To :. W. Sopp. engineer Of the United
States forest service, with headquar'
iers at Pasadena.
Dr. Charles H. Kruger aud party,
travelling by automobile TO California
We're attacked by band Of timber
wolves on the transcontineulal high.
way east Of Flagstaff They Killed
three Of the animals with their reyol-
yers and wounded five others before
the band was driven off.
= ]. Taylor, travelling salesman
Of Los Angeles, was severely injured
aud Sgt Oscar Hottie was badly
bruised when the army airplaue which
Hottie WIS plotting fell several hun
dred feet In East Bakersfield The
plane struck The edge Of a house and
tree, which broke the force of the
fall
Jud W. Tobias, said by The police
Ia be- bandit, was henrtbroken oh his
deathbed when told he had shot his
hoyho0d ehum, Detective Frank Muir
ply, in u revolver duel with detectives
at Omaha. Tobias died In few hours.
Murphy was shot in the right chest
lie will recover. Murphy and Tobias
hadn't seen each other for several
years until they met al the hospital
WASHINGTON
lcggmen blew the safe IN poslof-
flee on the outskirts Of the national
HpItal and got haul of $1,000 In
cash and war savings stamps
Secretary Daniels said that he ex-
poets to leave Washington for The Pa
eific coast about Aug. |, arriving in
san Diego Aug. u 10 meet the Pacific
fleet which is due there the morning
of Aug. /. The President, IL Is under
stood. will arrange To be on the Pa
efic coast In mid-August and probably
will review the fleet In San Francisco.
The British government has begun
the construction of the largest dIrlgi.
bile that has yet been undertaken, ac-
cording TO word received by the air ex.
perts Of the American government.
The dirlgible will cost S9,OO0,00O. Ii
will carry an equipment of six air
planes for II own protection. Ii will
have capacity Of 100000 cubic feet
and will be LOO feet long
Germany increased her stock of gold
during the war but lost Sl22,0O0,000
between January LIST and May 9TH OF
this year according TO information oh
tanned by the Federal Reserve Board.
The loss was due to PREPARATIONS made
Belgium and Kumunla for gold stolen
from those countries and by shipments
10 neutral countries for food. Begin
ming with SOS. 100000 In gold at the
outbreak of the war,
The railroads of the United States
hauled 4,276,9i9 troops on special and
regular trains for an average of 66D
miles each in the first six months of
1919. according TO statistics made pub
lie by Director General Hines. In ad'
dition, probably 2,0000o0 officers ana
men made railway trips while on fur.
Tough and another million were trans
ported from camps TO their homes af
Ter discharge, making a total of 1,22J0,-
pO0 military passengers accommodated,
in addition To the usual civilian travel.
The military traffic In six months re,
qured 9.000.0W train miles aud n
much OF the equipment had Ia be Sent
empty In one direction. This figure
should be doubled 10 express the az
rregnle transportation demand by The
military forces.
CARRYING Increased appropriations
for the rehabilitation and edu-
cation of disabled soldiers, saiI.
ars and marines. The S6l3.
NO.OO sundry civil appropriation hill
vas passed by The Senate II now goes
10 the President, who vetoed The orig.
lnal bill because IL limited funds for
raining wounded service men
Lieut.. Charles q. Mausy OF Fowler.
ind. an army aviator from Rockwell
field, San Diego, was killed MT Los
Anvalps when his airplane caught fra