, 1919-03-06
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HoME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o @ 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERiNas, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union Rev, Service.
WESTERN

IL ItDuIltu- No uulUuSt.
California will launch a referendum
movement against national prohibition,
I was announced in San Francisco by
he executive committee of the Cali
'ornia Grape Protective Association.
William ii. Thompson was renomi-
mated for mayor in the Republican pri-
mary in Chicago by an estimated plu-
rality over Judge Harry Olson, the Re
publican harmony candidate, of ap-
proximately 10000 votes.
Twenty-six men are in Jail at Seattle
awaiting trial in the state courts on
charges of criminal anarchy in connec
lion with the recent general strike of
organized labor. The arrest of six adj
dltional men is sought on similar com
plants.
a masked and armed man wearing
a soldiers uniform, who was hot and
fatally wounded in Oakland by a po-
ticeman in what was said to ave been
an attempted vault robbery, was iden-
titled a short time after the shoot
ing as Thornton u. Rollins, former
student of the University of Chicago.
The women of America must fight
for a league of nations which will put
an end to all wars and world suicide.
This was the keynote of an address
delivered to several hundred women
of Idaho, Wyoming and Utah at a
luncheon in Salt Lake by Mrs. Philip
North Moore, president Of the National
Council of Women.
Six Japanese have Incorporated the
Japanese Cotton Factory Of Hawaii
\ with a capital of $4,000 and have be-
gun operations On n small scale, hop
ing to encourage the production of cot
ton in the islands. Cultivation of cot
tor was started seven years G on
the island of Hawaii, but owing to the
fact that manufacturing facilities were
lacking the industry languished.
The Cheyenne River reservation In
dams in South Dakota at a general
council have voted to oppose a move
ment to open their reservation to set
tiers. The movement was i~naugurated
by Indians who AVE beer granted full
citizenship. The majority at the gen.
eral council decided that the opening
of the reservation would affect the tri-
bal relations and customs of the In
dians.
D%espondent because of trouble with
relatives, Miss Gertrude Beatty, %, of
Omaha offered DIR. Willard Quigley
$1,000 If he would give her some med
icine so she could go out in the woods
and peacefully and painlessly' end
her life. DR.. Quigley told the police,
who arrested Miss Beatty. They found
S1,014.50 on her person. She told the
police she had worked at the Union
Pacific shops as a mechanic during
the war and had saved the money
IL of her earnings.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson has signed the bill
providing S%100,000.O0O for food relief
In Europe and the urgent deficiency
appropriation bill.
Hugh Campbell Wallace of Tacoma,
. Wash, was nominated by President
Wilson to be American ambassador to
France to succeed Ambassador Sharp.
Loss of the big seaplane, No. 3,495,
with three ensigns of the naval re-
serve and two machinists, off the Vir-
ginia coast has been announced off,
/, cially by the Navy Department.
Col. Benton Halstead, said to be the
inventor of the first working typewrit-
er and a membe of the staff of Gen
eral Sherman during the march TO the
sea-" died at his home in Washington.
Capitalization of all government in
-surance organizations under the direc-
tor of war risk insurance bureau is
provided in an amendment to the war
risk insurance act passed by the SEN
ate. 2
The bill appropriating S750,000, 600
for the railroad administration revolv-
ing fund in addition to the $500 1000
900 carried in the act which provided
for federal control, was passed by
the House with fifteen negative votes.
President Carranza has called a con
ference of Mexican consuls stationed
in border states of the United States
to be held in Ell Paso. Tariff regula-
lions INT legislation in the United
States affecting Mexican interests will
be discussed. Consul General Andres
G. Garcia of El Paso will preside.
After adding an amendment for the
repeal of the daylight saving act the
Senate agriculture committee ordered
favorably reported the $31, 200, 900 an
nual agricultural appropriation bill
with committee amendments aproprl.
ating $5,OOo.O00.
Final legislative action was taken or
the $500, 100000 postoffice Appropriation
bill, which carrier 5000. 700 for roat
construction during the next three
years. The Senate adopted the confer