, 1919-12-04
THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS or
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

The body of Otis Mcclure, who was
being sought after the bodies of his
wife and two daughters were found
murdered, was found today, hanging in
n boathOuse near Blaine, Wash.
An American negro who deserted
recently from the Tenth United Suites
of n band of approximately 300 Yaqui
Indians who raided h eastern part
of the Moctezuma District in Novem-
Der.
Drastic and f~ar-reaching rules for
fuel conservation in Lincoln have been
issued by the fuel conservation com
mittee of the Commercial Club, adopt
ed with the sanction of the mayor
and members of the city council, who
will give their force If necessary.
Two masked bandits entered the of
flee of the American theater at Butte,
Mont, and after beating into insensi-
bility Miss Emma Peterson, the cash
Ter, and John Kelly, the j%anitor, robbed
the safe of all its contents. 1t is es-
timated the robbers obtained S $1,000.
More han 500 cases of smallpox in
iilAi III haNt ptth Z
ported to the ministry of health.
About One-half of them are in Toronto.
All travellers into the United States
must show certificates that they have
been vaccinated within one month.
Guarded by ten armed deputy sher-
ifs headed by Sheriff Rolph, Walter
Thomas Mills, lecturer and writer for
the Nonpartisan League. spoke at
PrOsser, Wash, to an audience COM
posed of sympathizers and about fifty
former soldiers. Mills eulogized the
American government and confined
his speech to Americanism and patriot
ism.
The bodies of a Mrs. Mcclure and
her two young daughters, 10 and u
years old, were found in their home at
Blaine, twenty-five miles north of Bel
bingham, Wash. Mrs. Mcclure and one
child appeared to have been slain with
IN AK. The other child evidently was
stabbed to death. Officers are search
ing for the husband and father.
In what is said to be the first original
case in the history of the United States
in which a conviction has been OBJ
tanned by finger print Identification
alone, Chet Moon, accused of the rob-
berry of the safe of the IRE meat mar
ket at Bisbee, Ariz., about three
months ago, was found guilty by a
jury in superior court at Tombstone.
The verdict was rendered after ten
minutes elaboration.
WASHINGTON
A pardon signed by President VIII
son for Jesse Kohler, a federal con-
Wet, was received at Los Angeles.
When officials went to present it to
Kohler at the county hospital they
learned he had died eighteen days pre-
viouS.
The board of Temperance, prohibit
ton and public morals of the Meth
odist Episcopal church announces that
it contemplates no general campaign
against the use of tobacco, but would
confine its efforts to n fight against
it's use by minors.
A final study of the selective draft
records made public fixes the military
strength of the United States at 49,
OOrOO ~ IN IttDDoMt L
Registrations for the draft, between
the ages of IS and As, totalled 23,90S,-
576. almost so per cent of whom were
listed as physically fit for military
service"
Earnings of the federal farm loan
banks during the six months ending
Nov. 1 were $s5S,033, according to fig
ures made public by the farm loan
board. This was a gain of more than
S250,000 over the previous half year
earnings and an increase of approx
mately S650,000 over profits of the
banks for the corresponding six months
q year ago.
Documentary proof that Venustiano
Carranza knew of the plan of San
Diego and that Carranza's generals
knew of raids planned across the
United States border and participated
In them even while Carranza's recog-
milton by the United States was being
thrashed out in Washington, is now
In the hands Of the American state
department at Washington.
Navy department officials expressed
surprise at the action of the supreme
council in ~allocating n German bat
tleship and destroyer to each of the
allies and associated powers for x
detrimental purposes. The United
States had not asked for any of the
German vessels and said they would
be of little use to this country, even
for experimental work, as 1t is as
serted there vas little the American
navy can learn from the German YES
seis.