The Benson signal., 1919-07-26
coNDENs-o RECORD OF TIL e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DO IN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGS, HOPES
AND FEARS or MANKIND.
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WESTERN

WESTERN
The jury in the case of Roy Emerson
of Creston, Ia, charged with beating
his mother to death with an iron brace
and throwing her body down an ele-
vator shaft, returned a verdict of
guilty of murder in the second degree.
FOreSted areas in the eastern sec
tion of the Thunder mountain region
of southern idaho are cauldrOn OF
smoke, and there is no way to estimate
how many new fires are eating into
the timber of that region underneath
the hazy pail.
Henry NJ Garcia, prominent. San
Jose business man, received probably
fatal injuries and Lieut. j. NJ. Stanley
of Minneapolis, the pilot of a passen-
ger-carrying airplane, was. badly hurt
when their machine fell in the resi-
dence section of San Jose, Calf.
South hern California mountain
streams. which heretofore have main
tanned at least ''trickle" during the
summer, are going dry, and many
trout are dying as result, according
to S. w. Sopp, engineer of the United
. States forest service, with headQuar
ters at Pasadena
Dr. Charles r. Krueger and party
travelling by automobile to California
were attacked by a band of timber
wolves on the transcontinentaI~ high
way east of Flagstaff. They killed
three of the animals with their revol-
vers and wounded five others before
the band was driven off. -
S. J. Taylor, a travelling salesman
of Los Angeles, was severely injured
and Sgt Oscar Holte was badly
bruised when the army airplane which
Holte was plotting fell several hun
dred feet in East Bakersfield. The
plane struck the edge of a house and
a tree, which broke the force of the
fall.
Jud w. Tobias, said by the police
to be bandit, was heartbroken on his
deathbed when told he had shot his
boyhOod chum, Detective Frank Muir
ply, III a revolver duel with detectives
at Omaha. Tobias died in a few hours.
Murphy was shot in the right chest.
He will recover Murphy and Tobias
hadn't seen each other for several
years until they met at the hospital.
WASHINGTON
Yeggmen blew the safe in pOstOf-
flee on the outskirts of the national
capital and got a haul of $1,000 in
cash and war savings stamps.
Secretary Daniels said that he eX-
poets to leave Washington for the Pa
cific coast about Aug. 1, arriving in
San Diego Aug. 6 to meet the Pacific
fleet which is due there the morning
of Aug. Z. The President, it is under
stood, will arrange to be on the Pa
cific coast in mid-August and probably
will review the fleet in San Francisco.
The British government has begun
the construction of the largest dirigi-
BILE that has yet been undertaken, ac-
cording to word received by the air eX-
perts of the American government.
The dirigible will cost $9,O0OO0O. 1t
will carry an equipment of six air
planes for it own protection. 1t will
have a capacity Of 100000 cubic feet
and will be LOO feet long
Germany increased her stock of gold
during the war but lost $122, 100000
between January 1st and May 7th of
this year according to information OBJ
tanned by the Federal Reserve Board.
The loss was due to reparatiOnS made
Belgium and Rumania for gold stolen
from those countries and by shipments
ming with $29S, 100000 in gold at the
outbreak of the war,
The railroads of the United States
hauled 4,276,949 troops on special and
regular trains for an average Of 660
miles each in the first six months Of
1919, according to statistics made pub
lie by Director General Hines In adj
dition, probably 100000 officers and
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 $780,
in addition to the usual civilian travel
The military traffic in six months re-
quired 100000 train miles and as
much of the equipment had to be sent
empty in one direction. This figure
should be doubled to express the ag
gregate transportation demand by the
military forces.
Carrying increased appropriations
for the rehabilitation and edu-
cation of disabled soldiers, sail
-.rs and marines, the S613,-
100000 sundry civil appropriation bill
was passed by the Senate. 1t now goes
to the President, who vetoed the orig
final bill because it limited funds for
training wounded service men.
Lieut.. Charles G. Mausy Of Fowler,
ind, an army aviator from Rockwell
fold San Diego was killed at Los