, 1919-02-27

service during the war We're denied
citizenship rights by Superior Court
Judge b. J. Tallman at Seattle.
A 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-
ceived.
The Public Utilities Commission IF
Utah has issued an order to all tel
ephone companies that the rates and
charges of service as stipulated by
Postmaster General Burleson should
not be recognized.
City and county authorities at St
attic are centering their energies in
n search for Leon Green, whose real
name is said to be Leon B~utouetsky,
n Russian, and one of the recent labor
agitators during the general strike
there.
To help solve M of the most per-
picking postwar problems, what to do
with our vast s%hipyards and merchant
marine, the Los Angeles-Pacific Nayl-
cation Company has been organized by
financiers and business men of South
ern California.
A Flathead Indian council, said to
be the first held in western Montana
since the white a arrived there in
large numbers, was held last week at
the mission, and it was learned that,
as u result of it the Indians, backed
by Major Sharp, the agent, will ap-
peal to Washington for the right to
administer their own financial affairs.
Under a provision of a bill intro
duced in the Washington House of
Representatives, any public employee
who joins a strike movement will lose
his position and face a maximum term
of Imprisonment of ten years, or a
maximum fine of $4,000, or both. The
bin is a result of the general strike
at Seattle n Tacoma. A Senate bill
would make sabotage a felony.
Harry A. Wheeler, president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, told 1000 delegates to the
Transmississippi REIMBURSEMENT IN
gress in Omaha that better railroad
service is ~obtainable under private
ownership of the railway lines than
under public ownership. "There has
beer a sluffing of enthusiasm, ingen-
uity and initiative under government
CONTROL" he declared.
WASHINGTON
By order of President Wilson, Amer
ica troops in Russia will be returned
20 the United States as soon as posi-
BILE, possibly before June l..
Col. C. Mason Pendleton, one of the
last of Mosby's raiders and a pictur-
esque fighter of the Civil war, is dead
Mt his home in Washington.
Uncle Sam, ever alert to serve his
millions of investors, is putting out a
new postage stamp. 1t is of the 13-
cent denomination and is issued pri-
marily for use in preparing n single
rate of letter postage and special de
livery fee, or for postage n registry
fee. 1t may be used, however, for
other purposes for which ordinary
stamps are used.
An appropriation of $780, 10000 for
the operation of railroads under gov
nme control was approved by the
House Appropriations Committee.
Trial by court-martial of two naval
officers in connection with charges of
bribery and graft in the third naval
district have been ordered by Secre-
tary Daniels.
Philippine foreign trade showed a
steady and encouraging increase dur
ing the calendar year of 1918 with the
United States the dominant nation,
f1o human ~ ing,,Io. nff,f,, 80 Al,
Wal Department announced at Wash
ington. Total imports amounted TO
500, 500, 200-an increase of 30 per cent
over 1917-while the export total in
creased from $95,604, 300 to $135,6
800.
The House agreed on the confer
ence report in the postoffice appro-
priation bill without a record vote.
AS amended by the Senate and agreed
TO by the House the bill carries APP
preparations agregating 5000, 100000.
Four hundred millions of this amount
is for strictly postal purposes and
$500, 1000, put in the measure by
the Senate, is for federal aid i'm road
building.
Short-term notes MATURING in from
one to five years would be offered in
the forthcoming Victory Loan cam
paign instead of long-term notes I'M
der a tentative agreement reached by
the House ways and means committee
to fix the terms of the LOAF by legis-
lation.
To encourage American Investments
in foreign securities, the government
has taken steps to gather extensive In
formation on credit conditions in other
countries, to be placed at the disposal
Of prospective purchasers of private
securities.