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WESTERN
Forly-four aliens who forfeited first
citizenship papers to escape military
service during the war were denied
citizenship rights by Superior Court
Judge Il. ]. TaHman at Seattle.
California will launch referendum
movement against national prohibition,
Was announced in San Francisco by
he executive committee of the Cali
'ornia Grape Protective Association.
y band of several hundred Yaqui
Indians was defeated in a battle with
Mexican federal soldiers near Idsbor-
regoa, Sonora, forty miles south of No
gales. Ariz., according to word re-
ce,ved.
Discharged soldiers and sailors will
be urged to go back to their own
''home town" whenever possible by the
new state veterans welfare commits
tion, James H. Powell, chairman, an
nounced at Seattle.
City and county authorities at St
attic are centering their energies in
search for Leon Green, whose real
name is said to be Leon .Butouetsky,
Russian, and one of the recent labor
agitators during the general strike
there.
The Hawaiian Pineapple Packers
Association has voted to expend $780,
900 in the establishment of Il sixty
acre experiment station. The principal
object is to develop different varieties
of pineapples which may be grown in
Hawaii.
The search and seizure law, which
the prohibition forces of the state of
Montana have been trying to have
enacted into law by the present State
Legislature as an adjunct to the pro-
hibition statute, was killed in the
house of representatives.
The Senate of the Oregon Legisla-
ture has adopted joint resolution to
extend the Legislative session to sixty
days, instead of forty, and increase
the pay of lawmakers from So to 81
day. The measure will be voted on
at n special election in June.
Employees of the American Smelling
and Refining Company and other large
American concerns operating in the
state of chihuahua have been ordered
to concentrate in Chihuahua prepara-
tory to leaving for the United States.
Persistent rumors of impending ban
dit raids and rebel threats to destroy
property are responsible for the pro-
posed exodus of American mine and
smelter men.
WASHINGTON
BY order of President Wilson, Amer
lean troops in Russia will be returned
to the United States as soon as possi-
BILE, possibly before June l.
An appropriation of $750,0OO,O00 for
the operation of railroads under gov
ernment control was approved by the
House Appropriations Committee.
The Senate has passed the House
bill directing the war risk insurance
bureau to resume payment of allot-
ments to enlisted men of the army
and navy, which 1t discontinued last
July. Because of minor senate amend
ments the bill was sent to confer
ence. The cases of more than 10000
men in the service are affected by the
measure.
Fifty million gallons of fuel oil will
be required by the army during 1919
according to an estimate furnished Il
legislative committee at Washington
\ bill for the repeal of the war
time prohibition law, which becomes
effective July /, introduced by repre-
Of Oh, &c,
will be considered by the House agri
cultural committee within the next few
days
Representative Fess OF Ohio, chair
man ot the Republican congressional
campaign committee. announced his
withdrawal from the Republican con
test for the speakership of the Hous,
In the next Congress. His action lef
the race between Representatives
Mann of Illinois and Glllett of Massa
chusetts.
The House agreed on the confer
ence report In the postofflce appro
printion bill without a record vote
AS amended by the Senate and agreed
to by the House the bill carries ap
propriations agregating 5000, ,0oO, 900
Four hundred millions of this amour
is for strictly postal purposes an,
S200,o0o,o0o, put in the measure b!
the Senate. is for federal aid in roat
building.
Short-tern notes maturing In from
one TO five years would be offered II
the forthcoming Victory Loan cam
paign instead OF long-tern notes un
der n tentative agreement reached b,
the House ways and means committee
to fix the terms of the loan by legls
lation.
in foreign securities, the government
has taken steps TO gather extensive In
formniIan nn credit cnndltinns In afha