The Benson signal., 1919-10-11

WESTERN
Attempting a descent from an air
plane at an estimated altitude of 5000
feet, Edward F. Thompson was in
Stantly killed near Fresno, Calf, when
the parachute failed to open.
Four miners were killed and three
seriously injured at Burke, Idaho,
when a cage in the shaft of the Hecla
mine of the Hecla Mining Company
shot into the sheaves instead of de-
scending the shaft.
A replica of the log cabin in which
Abraham Lincoln was born is being
built at Richmond, Mo. The house,
26X3S, with porches and chimneys, is
an exact reproduction of the famous
cabin, even to the bark on the logs.
Five persons were killed and sixth
so badly injured that his life is de-
SPARED of when an interurban electric
car ran into an automobile at rail
road crossing four miles north of
Nampa, Idaho, on the BOise-Nampa
electric line.
A bench warrant has been issued at
Lincoln, Neb., by the clerk of the Su-
preme Court commanding Warden
Fenton of the state penitentiary to
electrocute Allen V. Grammer within
the walls of the prison between the
hours of 6 a. m. and 6 p. m. Sept. 10
next.
One man suspected of being high
wayman is dead, two others were seri-
ously injured and Detective James
Britton, former chief of police, prob
ably was fatally wounded following a
pistol fight between detectives and
rObber suspects in a restaurant at
Sioux City, Iowa.
Governor Olcott of Oregon has re-
fused to call a session of the Oregon
Legislature to ratify the national wOm-
an suffrage amendment, except on
condition that a majority of the mem
bers of both houses voluntarily request
such a session and agree to bear their
own expense.
A man who said he was Thomas
Moreno, SO years old, but who was ar
rested as being Tom Gaetano, alias
Tom Ascuitto, charged with being i'm
plicated in a robbery at the Winslow
Manufacturing Company's offices in
Chicago two years ago, when the
cashier and guard of the office were
killed, has been arrested at San Diego,
CAL
WASHINGTON
Representative J. W. Ragsdale of
South Carolina dropped dead at the
office of DR.. HOoe in Washington.
A new credit of $157, $40, 900 for France
was established by the treasury,
making a total of $3,O10,026,800 ad-
vanced to that country and total of
$9,615, ,4O0,927 advanced to the allies.
Sorry to leave you, but the mos
quitoes have become too burned ag-
gressive," said a note left for the Jail
er by two minor offenders who escaped
from the county Jail at Willows, Calf.
Two gigantic ocean liners, larger
than any ships now afloat, and de-
signed to cross the Atlantic in four
days, are to be built by the Shipping
Board. They will be 1000 feet long
and of thirty knots speed, and will be
equipped for use as commerce destroy
ers in the event of war.
Two million pounds of horse and
tho Lot
of surplus material to be offered for
sale by the War Department. Sealed
proposals will be opened August 18th.
No bid will be accepted for less than
100 kegs.
Sentences imposed on American sol
diers by cOurts-martial during the war
would aggregate about $4,000 years,
Senator chamberlain of Oregon, rank
ing Democratic member of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, declared
in introducing bill in the Senate pro-
viding for the restoration of military
rank and granting of amnesty to sol
diers, sailors and marines so sen
fenced.
vision provided for in the War Depart
ment plans for the National Guard will
be pushed vigorously, it was said at
the department. There is no anticipa-
ton that sixteen divisions of infantry,
corresponding to the war organization
of the state forces, will be Completed
this year but efforts will be made to
get the cavalry unit, six regiments of
which will be raised in Texas, in condi-
ton to be mobilized against any emer-
gency.
Henry P. Fletcher, American am
bassador to Mexico, told the House
Rules Committee in Washington that
since his appointment three years ago,
about fifty Americans had been killed
in Mexico without a single prosecution
being maGe by the Mexican authori-
ties
Approximately 175 ships with an ag-
gregate tonnage of more than 500,0OJ
will constitute the newly organized Pa