The Raymer enterprise., 1919-08-14


midway between Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas, and construction will
start Immediately.
Claims for damages inflicted during
the Mexican revolution totaled 2l,50O,-
600 pesos on Aug 2. This amount does
not include American. British and
French claims, which have not been
filed.
Stranger Ed. Lewis won two OF
three falls In his match here last night
with Ivan Grnndayich, Russian. Lewis
won the first fall IT, forty-six minutes
and Twenty-Five seconds and the sec
ond In thirty-slx minutes and fifty
five seconds.
Whether property owner Is also
owner OF the air above his land Is to be
determined through court action
action brought by Frederick Hoene-
mann. farmer In Kansas. He seeks
TO restrain company owning airplanes
from using the air above his farm.
Loss from forest fires In Montana
and northern Idaho this season. up to
July 81, amounted to ST55.0OO, 1t was
estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant
district forester. Heavy rains have re-
moved the fire menace In Montana,
though fires in Idaho still are threat
ening. A total OF $4,000 has been
spent In fighting forest fires In Mon
tana and northern Idaho this season.
Thirty-slx thousand dollars belong
Ing TO the Alamo National Bank OF
San Antonio, which ii. j. Brown, bank
messenger, reported MS having been
stolen from him, has been recovered
by detectives. Brown and A. j. Glenn
ents are being held for grand jury ac-
tion. Brown, according to the police,
has confessed that the robbery was Il
frame up" by Clements and himself.
WASHINGTON
Without opposition or debate the
Senate adopted resolution authoriz-
ing the foreign relations committee to
make sweeping investigation OF out
RACES against Americans and property
In Mexico and to report what, II any
means should be taken to prevent such
outrages.
A cotton production Of 11.0l6,0OO
bales this year has been forecast by the
Department OF Agriculture. basing Its
July %, which It announced as 81
per cent of normal. The forecast
shows an Increase OF 10000 bales over
the forecast made month ago. The
condition OF the crop showed a decline
Of 20 per cent during the month com
pared with the average decline Of AZ
per cent during the period In previous
years,
Income tax returns were filed by B..
472,S90 persons, about per cent OF the
population, for the calendar year OF
1917. according to final reports just
completed by the bureau OF internal
revenue. They showed total net In
come OF Sl3.652, 3S3,20T. The increase
over 1916, before the law was expanded
TO meet war expenses, was $685. So re-
turns and S7,353, 500, 5sT In net income.
Taxes paid totalled S675,2io, i5o. an nv.
erage of S36S.56 per individual, or Cos
MOI. rapf % tho In
A four-story garage. from any story
of which entrance aud exit is directly
from the street, Is one of the archl-
tectural landscape oddities of auto
mobile row" in Los Angeles. The ex-
PLANTATION Is simple: The garage Is
built on hillside.
A Joint resolution declaring that a
state OF anarchy exists in the United
States and authorizing the President to
free interstate mails and traffic from
further unlawful Interference and ade-
quately protect citizens In their prop
erty rights" was introduced by Repre-
sentative Blanton, Texas.
A protest against the policy Of the
Navy Department which, II was
charged, compelled California oil in
terests to sell to the navy at tidewater
at 80 cents barrel, plus vague
promise OF final adjustment crude
oil, for which producers received Sl23
at the well, was embodied In a state.
ment sponsored by the executives OF
several OF the leading oil companies OF
the state Under contract which ex.
pired July | the companies had been
supplying the navy with crude oil nj
STAT a barrel, at an aggregate loss, the
statement said, 10 the oil interests OF
the state OF $4,000.
The State Department has been ad.
vlsed Of efforts on the part of Japan.
csc oil companies to acquire properties
in the Tamplco oil fields of Mexico and
that American companies have been
approached with n view to selling Il
the japanese.
One new article Of war and changes
In thirty others have been recommend
ed by the special board OF officers mp
pointed early In the war to inyestigat,
the army court-martlal system In max
ing this announcement. Secretary Ba
ker said he soon would transmit the
boatd . report 70 cnasress