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WESTERN

| Two Iucu were ShOl anu luJuIcu DS
one member of posse of citizens fol
lowing an alleged attempt to rob a gen
eral merchandise store at Louisville,
Neb.
Stricken with paralysis, Albert
Brooks, aged 72, called the states At
and confessed he had killed his wife In
Columbus, Ohio, twenty-five years ago.
The trustees Of Stanford University
added $4,000 to the fund for payment
of faculty salaries, it was announced at
Palo Alto, Calf Tuition amounting to
S12O college year is to be charged
each student at the university.
Facial reconstruction has been 30
successful that there il not an Ameri-
can soldier wounded in the war with a
repulsive face, according to a report
made to the convention of the assOcia-
tion Of military surgeons of the United
States in St Louis
Mayor John Q. Brown of Sacramen-
to has sent invitations to the mayor in
each of IA cities in California, Wash
ingtOn, Arizona, Oregon and Nevada to
meet in Sacramento Oct. 80, to "con-
| slider means to institute boycott
against certain commodities in an eff
fort to reduce the high cost of living
Three beautiful young women in Ell
PasO, Texas, hired n service car driven
by James J. Nabham, held him up af-
ter he had taken them a few blocks
relieved him of SIS, implanted kisses
| on his mouth commanded him to hold
up his hands and look the other way
for three minutes and then made their
escape.
A gift of $4,000 to Dartmouth Col
yer, Colo, has been announced. The
| money is to be used to establish the
Richard G. Campbell, Jr. fellowship in
English, in memory of Mr. Campbell's
son, a member of the class Of
| 1919, who died of influenza last win.,
1 ter
Raymond A. Callander, Of Sioux
City, former army flyer, was killed
when his airplane went into a nose
| dive at an altitude of 400 feet and
crashed to the ground Other aviators
who were on the field watching Cal
lander are of the opinion that he faint
ed and when his body pitched forward
held the controls in such a position
as to direct the machine to the ground.
WASHINGTON
Director General Hines of the rail
road administration served notice upon
express teamsters, chauffeurs and
freight handlers now striking in and
about New York City that no negotia-
tions would be held with them by the
government until they return to work
Maj. Gen Joseph L. Dickman, former
commander of the First Division at
Chateau Thierry, but now ranking of
ficer of the Southern Department, and
Maj. Gen. John Biddle, commander at
Camp Travis, Texas, have been men,
toned in orders for demotion to the
rank of brigadier general. The orders,
it is stated, are in line with the War
Departments plans of returning to the
regular grades officers who We're pro-
noted during the war.
The Senate Military Committee vot-
ed unanimously to recommend an addi-
tional appropriation of S15,00O,000 for
army aircraft construction to carry out
plans of the air service to establish
routes to Panama, Alaska and even to
Asia.
Formal recommendation that Repre-
sentative John f. Fitzgerald of Massa-
chusetts, former mayor of Boston, be
ousted from his seat in the House, was
presented by an elections committee,
headed by Representative Goodall of
Maine.
To keep thousands of radicals and
other undesirable aliens out of the
country, the House foreign affairs com
mittee fayorably reported a resolution
extending for one year after the ratifi-
cation of peace the wartime passport
restrictions
A number of persons, including sew
flremen from the American Forestry
Associations building in Washington,
which was damaged by flames. one
roman was overcome by smoke and
the records of the association were
damaged both by fire and water. The
cause of the blaze has not been cete,-
mined.
julius Barnes, director of the United
States Grain Corporation, has asked
President Wilson to raise the export
and import embargo on wheat, the
House was informed by Representative
Young, North Dakota Mr.. Young in
troduced bill levying a duty of 25
.fe.n h.,,1 ,1s.N
Fall of kolchak and Bolshevist rule
in Siberia in year were predictions of
American doughboys, veterans of
northern Asiatic camps, discharged at
Camp Dodge. Iowa, on their return
from Siberia.