The Benson signal., 1919-12-27
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
RHOWlNG THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Approximately $S,00O,OO0 is NOW
available for highway construction IN
Nevada up to the end of 1921 through
such sources as state revenue, state
and county bond issues, federal aid,
etc.
The Chicago National League base
ball club will leave Chicago for Pasa-
dena, Calf, to begin it's spring train
ing season Feb. %. This is the earliest
date the team has left ON its spring
training in four years.
Fire destroyed fifty government
trucks, loaned to the Nebraska high
way commission, when "a building In
which they were stored at the state
fair grounds at Lincoln burned. Ihe
total loss is estimated at 100000.
Federal Judge Lands sentenced
Samuel C. Pandolfo, organizer and
head of the Pan Motor Company, ST.
Cloud, Mimi, convicted of using the
manails to defraud, to serve ten years in
Pa federal penitentiary and fined him
$4,000.
Gold dust worth approximately
: es$4OO,OOO, brought by dog trans over
the winter trail from the Kuskokwin
and 1ditarod regions of Alaska, are at
Seward awaiting shipment to Seattle.
The gold was the product of clean
ups" in the districts since winter set
in.
Famed by heavy gale and with the
temperature close ito zero, fire that
started in the basement of "a four-story
building occupied by the National Tail
Ors in Cleveland, defied the efforts OF
the fire department for hours to con-
troll it. Damage was estimated at $780,
900.
The county agent announced in CHI
cagO that 1926 Christmas baskets OF
food for the poor this year cost only ~
cents a basket more than in 1918. The
principal increases noted were raislns
which more than doubled, and pota-
toes, which advanced :$l.45 IA hundred
pounds.
The ashes of the late W. C. Bosch
en- of New York, famous as a sWordflsh
angler. were thrown on the waves
twelve miles from Avalon, Calif one
day recently by Capt. George e. Farms
worth, his former bOatman, to whom
he devised legacy of $4,000 ThlS
was in accordance with wishes ex-
pressed by Boschen.
WASHINGTON
The urgency deficiency bill provid-
ing $33, 100000 for miscellaneous sub
jects including $3O,0O0,OOO for in
creased war risk insurance allowances
have been passed in the United States
Senate.
The Federal Reserve Board has adj
viSed all federal reserve banks which
nave not yet begun their building op-
arationS to perfect their plans i'm de-
all, but to postpone, for the present,
letting contracts for construction.
Enactment by Congress of legisla-
ton ito continue government control
over sugar during 1920 is assured, Sen
ator McNary, Republican of Oregon, in
charge of the control bill in the Sen
ate, announced after compromise had
been reached with opponents of the
measure limiting extension of the Ii
censing powers ito June63O, 1920.
The Indian appropriation BILL re-
ported to the House was reduced by
the House committee from SIT, Al 600
asked by government officials to $13,-
10000, which is approximately $1,000
600 less than the amount for the cur
rent fiscal year.
Forest green has been made the of
ficial color of the American Red Cross
field uniforms in an order issued by
Secretary Baker. The change was de-
cided on a year ago but to utilize the
large amount of light gray cloth on
hand the order was withheld.
The War Department has announced
that requests from relatives of Ameri-
can soldier dead buried abroad that
they be allowed to disinter the bodies
at their own expense will be refused,
except where relatives desire to inter
the bodies in cemetries of their own
choice in Europe.
Three and a half million pounds of
sugar belonging to the Utah-Idaho Su
gar Company, seized Dec. under libel
proceedings brought by the govern
ment, will be distributed in cities of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and west
ern Montana at once at wholesale
price of 1912 cents seaboard basis.
The War Departments service and
information bureau has undertaken a
campaign to inform former service
men that all in need of medical or sur
gical treatment because of illness or
injury contracted in the army or navy
can enter an army or public health
service hospital or local civilian sani-
tarium, with all expenses paid by the
government. Discharged service men
should apply to the nearest army hos
nita1 or lOc1 representative of the