The Dolores star., 1919-08-22
VOREIaN

capped.
Eighteen million eggs alleged to be
held in storage in St Louis were
seized by the United States marshal
Officials refused to give out informa.
tion as to who owns the supply.
Postal authorities at Winnipeg have
| been notified that $4,000 was stolen
some night recently from the interior
| deposit vaults of the postoffice at Ed
monton, Alta. No clew TO the thieves
has been found
In the second raid on food supplies
stored in the Detroit Refrigerating
Company's plant at Detroit, agents of
the Department of Justice seized
T,4O4 900 eggs and approximately 300,-
| 900 pounds of butter.
Charges of "extortionate profits" by
| Dallas retail merchants were made by
T. Fl. Spencer, chief of the bureau OF
| investigation of the Department of
Justice, and w. b. Burrell, assistant
| United States district attorney at Dal-
| las.
Six Bolshevist battalions were de-
| stroyed in a successful Anglo-Russian
| offensive on the Dvina river on Aug
| 10, the war office announced in Lon
don. More than 1000 prisoners,
! twelve field guns and many machine
guns We're captured.
Jack Dempsey heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, will meet Willie Meeham
in an eight-round. no-decision bout in
the East in November, according to n
Stn I'll
he had the promise of Jack Kearns,
Dempsey's manager, for the match.
So many English women have be-
come confirmed smokers that in re-
cent months railway employees have
| heSitated to enforce the rules against
smoking in certain carriages and 1t
has come TO be accepted that if the
women passengers dc. not object, every
compartment becomes smoking
| car"
Charles Downs, night editor of the
Ell Paso Morning Times, died follow
| ing an accident when he was struck by
street car while returning to his
| home. His skull was fractured and
he suffered internal injuries He never
dlltT lie WIS
| injured. He was well known in New
Mexico, where he was a practicing at
| torney, member of the Legislature and
newspaper editor for n number OF
years before going to Ell Paso.
SPORT
Bobby Green was knocked down
twice in the concluding round of his
| ten-rOund fight with AL McManus at
Tucson, only the gong saving him from
| knockout at the end of the tenth
round.
Fred Gilbert, well-known profess
,sional shooter of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
| broke the worlds record for continu-
Gus target breaking at Hampton, Iowa,
| according to telegram. Gilbert
cracked $50 consecutive targets with
| out a miss.
Announcement has been made in
| Salt Lake by the directors of the Salt
| Lake City Baseball Club of the Pa
| cific Coast League that $4,000 would
be divided among the players If they
| succeeded in winning the league pen
nant this season.
GENERAL
Three children were killed in Pat.
| tersOn park, Baltimore, Nd, when an
airplane of the SSth areo squadron,
stationed at Langley field, Va, crashed
inta a fence behind which were several
| hundred spectators Seven were in.
| jured.
| Profiteering by the government in
| the sale of millions of pounds of army
| foods has been charged by J. A. Ulmer,
| president of the National Retail Gro
| GERS Association, at meeting called
| by Mayor Cornell Schroeder to discuss
food prices. Ulmer charged that the
| government is holding 100000 pounds
| Of prunes at % cents a pound which
| it bought, he declared, for 51a cents n
pound.
Moose hunting, duck shooting and
fishing are included in the itinerary
| of the prince of Wales trip through
| Canada, a seventy-day journey cover
ing $500 miles.
More than million eggs, hundreds
| of thousands of tins of canned foods
seized at Jacksonville, Fla, in raid
on wholesale food warehouses and
cold storage plants by federal author.
| tiles.
Convicted Of bigamy on his confes.
sion that he has seven living wives,
one of whom he married twice, Charles
Hugh Wilson, 4S years old, former Y.
N. G. A. secretary, evangelist and trav-
cling salesman, was sentenced to three
years and six months In Sing Sing
prison, where he announced he will
take up prison reform work
One of the few American women
who gained the French croix de guerre
| for bravery and heroism under fire in
France, was Miss Oril Elsie Hen
thorne of Portland, Ore, who has re-
turned from France. She, with her