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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21
What Wilf Dealers Do with
Vast Stores Of Booze?
No Provisions for Disposal OF
f50,OOO,0OO Gallons.
PROBABLY BE A IOTAL. Loss
May Let Doctors Prescribe Very
Small Amounts.
Bill Makes It Crime To Have
Recipe for Liquor.

washington, June 21.-vast stores
of distilled liquors-estimate at TO-
100000 gallons = may become a
white elephant on the hands of its
owners, If present plans for prohibit
ton enforcement are carried thru.
"Drys" today said their plans do
not include any measures for disposal
of the liquor and VETS declare they
have little hope of mastering enough
strength to pass provisions to allow
owners to dispose of it profitably.
Doctors Loop-hoie?
The only provision for disposal dry
leaders will agree to, according to
Chairman Volstead of the house judi
ciary committee, is to allow physicians
to prescribe not more than one pint
every ten days for persons seriously
i'll. This will be- hedgedt with strict
limitations. Volstead said
Representative Igoe, Missouri, who
has been fighting prohibition, today
said he had, little hope of getting leg
islation to allow export.of the liquor.
THE distilled liquor now held prob
ably will be total loss,'' said Igoe
today. Strict laws against transpor-
tation of intoxicants will prevent its
export. The beer and. light wines held
by the manufacturers very probably
also will be complete loss. Any ma
ter1dI Tor making beer ana WINE can,
of course, largely be used in near
beer and other drinks.
Former Chairman Webb of the
house committee, when the constitu-
tional amendment for prohibition was
considered, promised the liquor inter-
ests- one year to dispose of their
stocks and that is why the amend
naent goes into force one year after
the thirty-sixth state ratified it"
Crime To Have Recipe.
Efforts will be made in the house
committee today to strike out the pro-
vision of the anti-saloon league that
it is crime to have any recipe in
ones possession for making intoxicat-
ing liquor. -1f
This would mean the elimination OF
all the pamphlets now being pub
lished advising how to make all kinds
of drinks in the home.
The plan is ridiculous" said Igoe
because it is almost impossible to
enforce. Housewives would have to
go thru cook books and cut out and
destroy all the beer and wine recipes
as we'll as. looking thru all their old
books to see if the liquor making adj
vice is hidden anywhere"
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Kansas City, June 21.-WHEAT-Cash !:
Market 4c to 41sc lower. No. hard, s.. 30
@2.55; No 2, 81 49G2.54 No. red, S2.2S@
80; No. o. 81. 2S@2.30.
CORN-Mafket Irregular. No. mixed
$1-SS; No. 3, S1sIG1.SS; No. white, $1.s2@
LS3; No. 8, $751; No. yellow, $1.S2; No.
8, s1.s1.
OATS-Market unchanged. No. white,
Tic; No. mixed, $50 74c; No. 2 red, 72@
73c.
RYE-$1.42
KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE-S3 20G3 So
HAY-Market unchanged.
SHORTS-S2. 20d2 81
BRAN-$1. 65@1.07
WHEAT-Receipts Is cars
GORN-zClose: July, sissy; September,
S1.T5aldLT55s December, $153.
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TOPEkAN ON PROGRAM
Rev. Grant Chambers To Be Sunday
: = school Convention Sne,ter

Rev. Grant Chambers To Be Sunday
SIS School Convention Speaker.
Ottawas Kan June 21-The annual
Kansas Baptist summer school and B.
Y. p y. and Sunday school conven-
ton viii be held in Ottawa June 20 to
% inclusive, and it is expected that
500 ministers and young people will
attend the sessions. which will be held
in the chapel and class rooms of OF
tawa University.
The Sunday school and young peo-
pies convention program has for it's
speakers; among others, Rev. Grant
Chambers. of Topeka; DR.. George E.
Burlingame, of Denver; Rev.i H. R.
Chapman. of Atchison: Rev. B. F.. TIL
ley of Emporia; DR.. ]. H. Farmer, of
McMaster university, Toronto, Can. !:
DR.. s., z. Batten, of Philadelphia; Rev.
c. T. Matthews. of Topeka, and Rev.
Guy L Brown, of Wichita.
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IODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, June 21.-CORN-Increased con-
fidence that the peace treaty would be
promptly signed gave fresh strength to-
day to sthe corn market. Buying was also
encouraged a result of a sharp upturn
in the value of hogs, Realizing sales tho
on the part of holders operated some
thing of a check against any tendency
toward a radical advance. Opening quota
lions which ranged from the same as yes
terday's finish to 1 cent higher with July
$1.S1h ito $1.S15s and September $174A
to SITS We're followed by moderate gen
eral gain and then something of reaction.
Week end evening Of trades led to pro-
nounced new upturns in the later trading
Prices closed negvous, ne to use net high
err, with July $1.S2 to $1.921a and September
S1a61s to S1.763s.
OATSs-Oats hardened with corn. After
opening a shade up to &c up including
September at 69bc to T01sc the market
went little higher before beginning to
sag. -
VISIONS-Provisions were lifted by
peace news and by the advance in hogs
and grain. Lard was most in demand.
Offerings were light on the way up. and
there was no important setback in prices.
Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
(Tlfe range OF prices ON grain futures on
Chicago Board of Trade as reported by
Thos. ]. Myers. 301 N. T. Bldg.l
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U. S. READY TO

he bending every effort to secure the
direct support of the United States in
maintaining his power. This. accord
ing to officials here. accounts for the
ease with which the Juarez incident
was closed. One of the principal pur-
poses of the recent visit to Washing
ton of General Candida Aguilar. SON
in-law of the president and a member
of his cabinet, it is declared, was to
secure this support by the United
lied, according to report. to settle the
oil and other matters that have caused
friction between the countries.
1t is known Aguilar conferred at
length with officials of the state de-
partment about the petroleum question
in particular and it is believed the
question is now nearer settlement than
any time since Carranza issued de-
crees that resulted in a charge of con-
fiscation and Immediate protests. by
the, government of Great Britain,
Holland and France.
Settle OIL Dispute.
Members of the Aguilar mission also
conferred with representatives of the
Oil company in Washington, and it is
said they will see representatives of
the com paEy next week in New York.
1t is known one result of the confer
ences here was that General Aguilar
received an entirely new impression
Of the American side of the oil ques-
ton and gave renewed assurances that
nothing in the.Mexican administration
would tend to soonfiscation or to re-
troactive effect of any new regula-
tions included in the new petroleum
code.
Americans Are Warned.
Juarez, June ,2k-Americans were
warned to leave the Mormon district
CT western Chihuahua when the crisis
arrives by General Manuel Dieguez,
commander of the northeastern mill
tary zone, according to>a telegram re-
ceived last night by American Consul
Dow from American Consul Stewart
at Chihua City
The message stated that General
Dieguez considered the withdrawal of
the Americans from the Casas Grandes
Mormon district advisable until such a
time that he courd send troops into
| that district 10 protect the Americans
The warning was referred to the
American state department.
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GET LOCAL SHOWERS

Continued from Page one.)
in parts of the city while no rain at all
fell in other parts of the city, and the
pavements and sidewalks remained
perfectly dry.
No heavy rains are expected IN the
next twenty-four hours. Showers of
varying intensity may occur. but no
general heavy rains. The rain that
may fall will have. no great effect on
the rivers.
1t was reported today that the
Smoky Hill is out of. its bank at
Abilene. Math had later telegrap hic
report from Abilene denying this and
stating that the stage of the Smoky
Hill was 90 feet The bank full
stage there is 22 feet. Heavy rains
there may have caused damage to
crops but they had little effect on the
rivers a. -.
The extremes on record for this date
were 95 in 1911 and 40 in 1902. At 8
o'clock this afternoon the wind was
blowing at the rate of miles an hour
from the southeast
Kansas Weather Report.
Forxt fheI tyventv-four hours ending az 7
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ANOTHER BREST-LITOVSK PACT
That Is What Bella Kun Is After
Must Negotiate, He Says.

Budapest, June Cove must get
the entente to negotiate with us even
at the price of another tBrest-Litoysk
treaty, which later would be broken
by the proletariat," Foreign Minister
Bella Kun declared today in addressing
the national soviet congress.
1--WE must adopt a practical policy
to bring about a unified conference of
the new states formed from the old
monarch" --. -
The following resolution, presented
by Bella Kun, was unanimously
adopted: sR
I'VE advocate the right of self
determination for the workers of
every nation, and the abolition of all
political and customs frontiers be-
tween the workers of different LAM
guages We consider every proletariat
state a natural ally, under protection
of the international proletariat."
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Kansas city Live stock Market,

Kansas City Live Stock Market.
ozd HanSss City, June 2al,HoG5s.Reeeiptts
held over.
CATTLE-Receipts none Market for
others 50c and 81 lower: butcher cattle,
calves 5oa75c higher; stockers and feeders
sHEEPGReceipts none Market for
week: Fat sheer. and goats. 81 lower breed
ing ewes, 75c to- $3.50 higher. -
Kansas City Stock Yards June 2o-Live
stock prices which were higher Monday
Hogs reached a new high record position
Monday. top Spills. the highest price. ever
paid. and in the past three days fell back
were up ipa Is to Is cents Monday a and at dee
c1ined sharply in the past three days. show
cents. Sheep were down so to as cents
THIS WEEKS RECEIPTS.
Live stock receipts this week were liberal
in cattle, and moderate in hogs and sheep,
and NOT primarily the cause of lower prices.
$40 calves, 67,4Ot hogs, 3o3s1 sheep, com;
pared with $500 cattle, 6.423 calves and
500 cav ss 5Ss55 hogs p and $500 sheep sheep
BEEF CATTLE.
Cattle receipts Monday were moderate
Tuesday with no more than normal sup
plies the market turned down abruptly and
the general situation showed no signs
the net decline for the week was 50 to IS
cents, and the loss from Monday 20 cents
to 81 The exemption to this was offer
straight grass fat cattle and they declined
only % to 40 cents. No far western cattle,
South Texhs- quarantine division. at SO to
steers sold at SIT $3.50 early in the week
p pound "! Taar ii sod ap e si55 the TOP
price of the season. Cows are quoted at
sc, 30 to s11.25 ana heifers 50 to s14,50. Veal
s15.25
SToCKERs AND FEEDERS.
Prices for stockers and feeders were
higher in the first two days of the week
down later and trade Decame duh at irreg-
ular prices In most cases. declines of 70
moderate. Feeders are quoted at so to s1a.
stockers $3.50 TO S12, and stock cows and
heifers 81 to $3.50.
HOGS.
known. top s21.15, and bulk Of sales $50 10
to $21.05 Tuesday the market started
down rapidly. and continued to decline
cents from Thursdays low level occurred,
At the full decline Thursday. prices were
81 to s1.1O under Monday and below. the 20
cent level. Today the best hogs sold at 500
to s2o25 and the. palmer kinds at s1a.Go
notice is the fact that every time in the
mast ten weeks hog prices have reached
SCI, sharp break has occurred. and when
quotations fell to $40 there has been a
quick rebound.
SHEEP AND LAMBS.
Sheep and lamb prices are down so to
rs cents for the week. and the lowest for
some time past. Spring lambs are quoted
$1,000; clipped wethers $3.50 to $11. %. and
goats S625 to $3.50 Comparatively few
stock and feeding sheep were offered. A
few punches Of breeding ewes sold at $12
to SIT. CHARLES NJ. PIPKIN.
Market Correspondent.
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Chicago. June 21.-Big advances in the
corn market this week have been largely
due to estimates that planting for 1919
showed sensational drop to the smallest
total acreage in the last ten years. Com
pared with week ago prices this morning
were SIC to sac higher for corn, oats were
up 1asc to 2Ac and provisions unchanged
to 20 cents down.
Even before the estimates were out that
a giant reduction had been made in the
acreage of corn land. bulls in the corn
market had the advantage owing to wide
spread belief that the new crop was not
going to turn out right and that there was
danger of old stocks becoming premnturely
exhausted. Besides, the fact that hog
values had jumped to the topn1ost point
ever known operated as further element
of strength.
Oats were governed chiefly by the
strength of corn.
Provisions felt the bearish effects If an
increase in stocks on hand In warehouses
here but recovered more or less on peace
talk
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COMMISSION TO POLAND
Morgenthau and Others to Investigate
Polish Program.

Paris, June 21.-President Wilson,
it was learned here, has decided to
appoint commission to investigate
reported programs in Poland. 1t will
consist of seven members headed by
Henry Morgenthau, former ambassa-
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Chicago, June 21-BUTTER-Market low
err Cream ry, 45G4915c.
EGGS-Market lower. Firsts, 39G41c
storage packed firsts. 411@42c; extras,
421s@42Ac.
POTATOES-Old, demoralized; Northern
white L. S. No /, car lots, 81. GOAL. IS cwt !;
new. steady: Bliss Triumphs. best No. i.
car lots. S2.T5@3.00 cwt lCobblers, best,
sc. lO6I 4. 30. barrel.
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Kansas City, June 321.


Chicago, June 21.-CoRN..Close July,
December, $1.521a@1.52%.
oATs-July. 71ss Q719sc: September, 7oAt
QIPS 9Rk DfG9mD SCI ~ s @a%sb SAFE
LARD-July, 1892; September S35.O5.
SHORT R1BS-July. $2s.22; September.
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tCouti6ued from Page one.l
sembly, had been asked 20 assume the
task.
Asks Mueller to Do 1t.
Paris, June 21.-Presfdent Ebert
has requested Herman Mueller, ma
jority Socialist leader. to form a new
German cabinet, according to advices
received by the American peace dele
cation.
Matthias Erzberger probably will
head the German peace delegation, the
advices indicate.
The opposition attitude of the
Democrats and German nationalists
on the question of the treaty probably
will exclude Count Won Brockdorff
Rantzau and Count Won Bernstorff
from the government. The German
provincial press is strongly urging the
speedy signing of the treaty.
Germany Favors Acceptance.
Berlin advices to the American dele
CATION summarizing the situation in
Germany up to midnight show the
sentiment thruout Germany to be in
favor of accepting the peace terms.
The advices cover Leipzig, Dresden,
Chemnitz and other representative re-
-Eions.
Geographically analS zee, the ad-
vices indicate that all the southern
acceptance of the treaty while the
Prussian regions are maintaining some
opposition.
New Cabinet VIII Sign.
Weimar, June 20.--The new German
cabinet, now in process of formation.
will sign the peace treaty. according
10 the plans of political leaders today.
Afterward the German people will be
"a sked to ratify this action in a nation
wide referendum,
The national assembly. scheduled to
meet tomorrow saturday. for final
tho QIraa ho ir1di~
Gated thru party caucuses a strong
sentiment in favor of signing. While
the Nationalist party members voted
unanimously against acceptance. the
hdominant coalition of majority Social
lists, Centrists and Democrats regis
tered its approval of signing.
Kaiser Says Sign!
Paris, June .21.-Travelers ARRIVING
here from Germany today reported
that the former kaiser and Field Mar
shall Won Hihdenburg had advised the
German government to sign the
| treaty.
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Forf Che, twenty-four. hours ending at Z

twelve hours.
Widely scattered showers occurred over
Kansas in the last "a hours. Temperatures
were about normal.
Roads-See table above, last column.
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Wall St, New York. June 21.-SToCKS-
Foreign Developments Influenced today's
brief stock market session, further heavy
buying proceeding on the theory that the
peace treaty will soon be ratified. Gains
of . to s points were made by motors and
related shares, shippings rose one to four,
food, leather and. tobacco issues l to and
coppers an average of. one point. Steeis
and equipments were to 21s points high
er with popular specialties and low priced
rails advance to ~. Selling for profits
caused occasional reactions but these were
largely overcome later. The closing was
strong. Sales Appropriated 10000 shares.
TIE week end session of the stock market
opened with ansaesive resumption of yes
terday's general upward movement. Ad-
vances ranged from 1 to 5 points In the
first half hours operation. Oils, motors,
shippings and equipments were the prom
inent features. supplemented by numerous
specialties, including rubber and food
shares, feathers and textiles. tebaccos. cop
pers and chemical issues. u. s. steel gain
ed a point and rails were again dominated
by Texas and Pacffic and other western
and southwestern issues.
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Kew York, june R1-Liberty7 bonds final:
s1A's, @; 40; first As, % %; SECOND IS, 600:
4N's, 1924; fourth 4A's, 9426; Victory
3%'s, 100.02; Victory ANS, 99.96.
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banks. 45sA : commercial, 90 day bills.
4.5s; demand, 1905; cables, 4.615s Francs,
demand. 6.3S: cables, 6,36- Government
bonds and rai1fead bonds. steady. Bar
silver, 111A Mexican dollars, S5Ac-.
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FURNISHED by Darby Grain Co. corner
Kansas Ave anr Cnrtts ST.
Topeka, Kan, June q.
YELLOW CORN-S1.SO.
WHITE CORN-s1.S0
OATS-Tfc
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FURNISHED by wnchey Poultry Egg
Co. h17 Qnincy.D
Topeka, Kan, June p.
We are paying deiiVrrrd IIeaVy hcns
ID. 25c: sight hens ID. 24c: stays. 14c: cocks
III. 13c: hroilers. 1919 IL ID. to lbs. 7ch.
Csc per lb. Loose fresh eggs per .doz., SIC.
Eggs in new cases, $10.5o.-
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Chicago, June MISUNDERSTANDING 5000
mixed and light butcher hogs fully 5or
saes SO s s5aioo: b a1g '0 s2o4o2 o
medium. $20.40619.5o; :. pigs, S17.O0@1S.o0.
CATTLE+Reeeipt 500. Market for week :
Choice heavy steers. steady medium and
light mostly 25c to zoe higher choice heif-
ers, SOC to roc higher: other she stock ESQ
Soc higher: calves. 50dT5c higher: light
weight feeders and ,stockers, 25c higher !;
SHBEP-Receints 5000. All. direct TO
packers for week ;-lambs and aged sheep
Zoe TO 81 lower. yearlings &around $3.50
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TAKE VOTE ON TREATY
German States PoIIed on Attitude
Toward Signing Pact. c''tE

London, June 21.-A poll of the,
various states of Germany with regard
to their attitude on the peace tern.
was taken at Weimar, an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhag IN
says. Hamburg. Bremen and Lubbock
voted against signing. Wuerttem burg
and Baden were in favor of signing,
while Bavaria and Saxony were un-
decided
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New York, June 21.-BUTTER-Marke
easy. Creamery higher than extras, SIG
521hc: extras (92 seorel, size
EGGS-Market irregular; fresh gathered
extras. 50G51c; fresh gathered storage
packed extras firsts, 49M 1910.
CHEESE-Market Irregular.
POULTRY-AIive, steady: broilers. z5d
60c; fowls. 33c; turkeys. 25G30c; dressed,
steady; fowls, frozen, 2Sd37c.
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Kansas City, June 21.-BUTTER-Mark et
ss-
EGGs-Market &c higher. Firsts, SOC;
seconds. 33c.
POULTRY-HeDs, &c higher, 2JiAc; 9TH
er poultry unchanged.
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pany. corner of Laurent and Madison1
Topeka, Kan, June q.
Springs over 2 lbs. 30c: old roosters lie j:
broiiers, . lbs and under. Sc: hens. over
81 lbs. 25c; hens under 3l5 lbs. &c ;
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New York. June 21-MoNEY-Merca
paper, 5hd5Z PEE cent Sterling, 60 day
bills, 4.5s1z, commercial, 60 day bills on
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prices furnished nv Wifi Packing Col
/. Topeka. Kan, June p.
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Kansas City Grain Market.
THE range of prices on grain futures on
Kansas City Board of Trade as reported
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New Orleans Cotton Market.
New oriean-, June 2I.--COTTON-Spo
quiet, 25 points off; middling, 3275.
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. Paris, June .21.-Travelers arriying
here from Germany today reported
that the former kaiser and Field Mar
shall Won Hihdenburg had advised the
German government to sign the
treaty.
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Relieve Indigestion

Relieve Indigestion
WITH HORSFORD'Sl ACID PHOs-
PLATE -
Taken before meals, tones the stom-
ach. promotes appetite and prevents
distress. Buy bottle.--Adv.
= 5000 new customers by July1. ADV.
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70 New York June 21-COTTONSSpo
# quiet; middling, 10.
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: 5000 new customers BY July / AN.
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READY TO SIGN?

tCouti6ued from Page one.l
sembly. had been asked 20 assume the
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SHEEP AND LAMBS.

Sheep and lamb prices are down 80 Il
rs cents for the week. and the lowest fol
some time past Spring lambs are quoted
$1,000; clipped wethers $3.50 to $11. %, ant
goats $6.25 to $3.50. Comparatively few
stock and feeding sheep were offered. A
few punches Of breeding ewes sold at 81.
to SIT. CHARLES NJ. PIPKIN.
Market Correspoudent
The Washington herald., 1919-10-25
CRASH OF GLASS
ENDS TAXI RIDE
fhestersoers See Strange BrawI
In Car Wind Up When Pane
Is Smashed.

A strange brawI staged in a NOV
ing taxicab driven by Albert Der
ringer. a public hackman. thrilled
the homewsrd bound tkeater pa
irons on Fifteenth street, near C.
last night
When one of the passengers
crashed a pane of glass. Derringer
brought the car TO a halt. The
fares. tIe men and two women,
quickly left the car. and disappear
ed up street. leaving a SIS bill in
payment for the ride and damage.
According to Derringer. the party
hired the car late in the evening
and drove around the Speedway for
nearly an hour. One of the men
suddenly ordered him 10 drive TO a
downtown hotel but before the des-
tination was reached the group en-
tered into a heated argument. re-
sulting in the fight.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-25
CONTINUE EFFORTS TO
RELEASE AMERICAN

The State Department yesterday
continued its efforts TO effect the re-
lease Of William o. Jenkins. American
consular agent at PuebIa. Mexico. who.
on October ls. was captured BY Mexi-
can bandits. He is now being held for
sl5O.OOO ransom.
The Department teIegraphed the
American Embassy at Mexico City to
send an attache al once TO Puebla,
and make representations to the Mexi-
can government. N is believed that
the Mexican government may offer to
pay the ransom. but no word to tlis
effect was received here. The depart
-ment also telegraphed Mrs. Jenkins.
who is in Mexico City. assuring her
that everything possible was being
done to bring about the release Of her
husband.