, 1919-08-14
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western NewpaT
WESTERN

midway between Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas, and construction will
start Immediately.
Claims for damages inflicted during
the Mexican revolution totaled u, 300
900 pesos on Aug. .. This amount does
not include American, British and
French claims, which have not been
filed.
Stranger Ed. Lewis won two of
three falls in his match here last night
with Ivan ~Grandavich, Russian. Lewis
won the first fall In f~Orty-siN minutes
and tw~enty-nine seconds and the sec
ond in thirty-six minutes and fifty
five seconds
Whether a property owner is also
owner of the air above his land is to be
determined through a court action
action brought. by Frederick Hoene-
mann, n farmer in Kansas. He seeks
to restrain a company owning airplanes
from using the air above his farm.
Loss from forest fires in Montana
and northern Idaho this season, up to
July 81, amounted to $755,000, it was
estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant
district forester. Heavy rains have re-
moved the fire menace in Montana,
though fires in Idaho still are threat
ening. A total of $4,000 has been
spent in fighting forest fires in Mon
tana and northern Idaho this season.
Thirty-six thousand dollars belong
ing to the Alamo National Bank of
San Antonio, which Fl. J. Brown. bank
messenger, reported as having been
stolen from him, has been recovered
by detectives. Brown and A. ]. Glenn
ents are being held for grand jury ac-
ton. Brown, according to the police,
has confessed that the robbery was a
frame up" by Clements and himself.
WASHINGTON
Without opposition or debate the
Senate adopted Il resolution authoriz-
Ing the foreign relations committee to
make "A sweeping investigation of out
RACES against Americans and property
in Mexico and to report what, if any
means should be taken to prevent such
outrages.
A cotton production of 11,016,OO0
bales this year has been forecast by the
Department of Agriculture. basing its
estimate on the condition of the crop
July %, which it announced as 81
per cent of a normal. The forecast
shows an increase of 10000 bales over
the forecast mad a month ago. The
condition of the crop showed u decline
of 20 per cent during the month COM
pared with the average decline of AZ
per cent during the period In previous
years.
Income tax returns were filed by g.
1880 persons, about 3 per cent of the
population, for the calendar year of
1917, according to final reports just
completed by the bureau of internal
revenue. They showed total net in
come of S13,652, 1855, 207. The increase
over 1916, before the law was expanded
to meet war expenses, was 3,035,S54 re-
turns and S7,353,SO . ,5S7 in net income.
Taxes paid totalled 1915, 249,4 $50, an av-
erage of $685. 90 per Individual, or 6.03
per cen of the income
A four-story garage, from any story
of which entrance and exit is directly
from the street, is one of the archi-
: tectural landscape oddities of auto
/. mobile row" In Los Angeles. The ex-
/, PLANTATION is simple: The garage is
I built on a hillside.
, A joint resolution declaring that a
; state of anarchy exists in the United
States and authorizing the President to
4 free interstate mails and traffic from
!. further unlawful interference and ade-
Z. quately protect citizens in their prop
erty rights" was introduced by Repre-
3 naptotfxa pInntAn Taxag
A protest against the policy of the
Navy Department which, it was
charged, compelled California oil in
terests to sell to the navy at tidewater
at so cents a barrel, plus a vague
: promise of final adjustment" crude
/, oil, for which producers received $1.23
at the well, was embodied In a state
ment sponsored by the executives of
several of the leading oil companies of
the state. Under a contract which ex-
pired July 1 the companies had been
supplying the navy with crude oil at
e s1.47 a barrel, at an aggregate loss, the
statement said. to the oil interests of
the state of 100000.
The State Department has beer ad-
vised of efforts on tho part of Japan
csc oil companies to acquire properties
In the Tampico oil fields of Mexico and
that American companies have been
approached with a view to selling to
the japanese.
One new article of war and changes
N thirty others have beef recommend
= I'd by the special board of officers ap-
pointed early in the war to investigate
The army court-martial system. In max
ing this announcement, Secretary Ba-
ker said he soon would transmit the
soard's report to Congress.