The Benson signal., 1919-11-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o IN q 3, ACHIEVE
MENTS, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
w eSterO NeWSpal
WESTERN

WESTERN
Division officers of the Northwest
ern railroad at Mason City, Iowa, an
nounced that two passenger trains had
been annulled and that way freight
service had been curtailed because of
the coal strike
Hugh B. Miller of Phoenix, driving
with remarkable skill and steadiness,
Outclassed all competitors and won in
record time the transdesert classic, the
Ell Paso to Phoenix automobile road
race.
Five unmasked bandits escaped in
an automobile after lOoting the Farm
ers and Mechanics State bank of Av-
eryville, a Peoria suburb of $21, ,719.
The bandits abandoned the automobile
on the outskirts of Peoria. No trace
of the five men has been found.
All of Fort Yukon's white trappers
have left for their winter trap lines
scattered over hundreds of miles of
Arctic mountains and plains. The men
will spend the entire winter in the
white lands beyond the Arctic circle.
and will return when the winter
breaks in the spring.
Robert E. Thomas of Ell Paso,
speaker of the House of Representa-
tives of the Texas legislature, official
ly announced his candidacy for the
governorship in 1920. He has served
two terms in the legislature from Ell
Paso county and was formerly district
attorney at Gainesville, Texas.
+ Charles Stevens, a messenger of the
Union Bank and Trust Company OF
Helena, Mont, was sandbagged and
robbed of a package containing cur
rency which was reported at $5O,OOO
He was found half an hour after the
robbery in a shed in the business Sec
tion of the city, unconscious and
bound and gagged.
Occupying a position that was i'm
pregnable against assaults by arms,
but forced to submission thru lack of
water and provisions, the last remain
ing forces of Emiliano Zapata's army
surrendered to Mexican federal forces
under General RovelO, according to
official advices received by Mexican
Consul Meade Fierro
Miss Esto BrOughton, representing
Stanislaus county in the California
assembly, returned to State COmptrOl-
Ter John S. Chambers a warrant for
$25, representing her per diem and
mileage for attendance at the recent
oi11,
fled the federal woman suffrage
amendment. Miss Broughtnn said she
could not accept pay or mileage for at
tending this session.
The Tonopah and Divide Miners and
Mill Mems union have signed con-
tract with the mine owners. 1t has been
announced at TOnOpah that the 81
cents a day advance granted the min
erS is to stand unless the cOmmiSSary
and boarding house to be established
by the operators succeeds in reducing
the cost of living by the amount of
the raise The union members are to
vote on ratifying the contract.
WASHINGTON
Chile has given Bolivia an outlet to
the Pacific ocean by ceding strip
of land north of the Province of Ar
lea, according to official advices re-
ceived in Washington.
Col George H. Emerson of the Amer
ican Railway Mission has ordered the
withdrawal of the American Railway
Corps from Siberia. The withdrawal
will coincide with the evacuation of
the Czech forces for repatriation to
CzechO- -SlOvakia, November 4th.
Only three states in the Union have
a larger organized National Guard
than Colorado at the present time, ac-
cording to an announcement of the
war department in connection with the
miners strike. The four leading states
in number of National Guard troops at
present time are: Texas, 11,796; Min
nesota, 1924; Oklahoma, 3,O56; Colo
RADIO, 1866. Twenty-three states have
no National Guard.
Senator McNary, Republican, Ore
gon, introduced by request a bill au-
commercial messages by navy radio
stations, when commercial stations
have inadequate facilities. Rates
would be fixed by the secretary of the
Navy, with maximum of cents a
word on messages to and from the
Philippines, Hawaiian and Pacific is
lands, and cents word to and from
Asia
) Six employees were murdered and
more than $71 ,895 in American gold
stolen from oil companies operating
in the Tampco oil region during July,
August and September, according to
an official report just compiled. Six
bandits implicated in two of the out
RACES were arrested, and two of them
publicly executed.
Expectation of print paper would be
prohibited under bill introduced by
REPRESENTATIVE ChrStODherSOn RpDuh-