The Colorado statesman., 1919-07-05
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dacy of General Alvaro Obregon for
the presidency of Mexico at the cleo
tion in 1920 was made public this
week.
Six persons were killed and one
badly injured a mile west of Oxford,
Nebr., when an automobile carrying
a party of seven was struck by fast
Burlington passenger train at grade
crossing.
Twelve miners are known to be
dead and three more are expected to
die as a result of an explosion in
mine of the Rock Island Coal Com
pany at Anderson, Okla, five miles
east of McAlester, Okla.
Governor McKelvie tentatively de-
cided to call the Nebraska Legislature
in special session Monday, July 81, for
the purpose of ratifying the woman
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
tion of the United States.
AS means of reducing delays in
cideutal to making change in war tax
payments, the San Francisco mint is
working twenty-four hours daily max
Ing 100000,000 pennies monthly, to
go as far east as Chicago.
Altho the supply of men for work
In the harvest fields of Kansas is nor
NAL, it must increase Immediately, and
5000 workers can be placed at once,
according to an announcement by A.
l.. Barkman, director of the United
States employment service at Kansas
City.
Crops on 700 acres of Yakima valley
land, most of it belonging to the Union
Orchards Company and planted to ap-
pies, were endangered when the con-
crete standpipe by the Wenas dam was
blown up by dynamite. The perpetrat-
or is not known. There has been high
feeling IN regard to the water rights of
the Wenas valley for several years.
The Kansas winter wheat crop, now
being harvested, was estimated at $780,
217,00 bushels in the monthly report
issued by ]. G. Mohler secretary of
the State Board of Horticulture. This
is an increase of more than IL 900, 900
bushels over Mohler's May report and
1t is approximately 33,000000 bushels
greater than the last federal monthly
report.
Wichita, Kan.-Two brothers, John
and Edward Fitch, both veterans of
the Civil war, who had not seen each
other for more than thirty-seven
years, met in Wichita for the first
time during the recent G. A. r. en-
campment. Both enlisted in Iowa regi-
ments, John with the Thirty-first Iowa
infantry and Edward in troop G. First
Iowa cavalry.
Several British airplanes will start
across the Pacific on October 18th,
from San Diego, bound for Australia,
according to statement made by
Capt. William Mcdonald of Mel
bourne, formerly in the Canadian fly
ing service, who is on his way to
southern California, via Seattle. He
stated that while full details of the
trip have not been decided on, the
date of the start has been set and
that the trip would be made with
stops at Honolulu, a small British
island near Guam and Nagasaki.
WASHINGTON
The United States employment SER
vice will not be forced to go out of
existence entirely. An appropriation
of 100000, enough to maintain an or
ganization in Washington, but not suf-
ficient for a field service, was de-
cided upon by conference on the sun
dry civil bill.
President Wilson furnished Ameri-
bn
received from the steamer Great
Northern, as it passed the George
Washington in mid-Ocean the railroad
deficiency and Indian appropriation
bills. He read the bills, signed them
and made them laws.
Western and southern senators and
representatives, pressing for water
power legislation to unlock resources
of their states, now expect to win their
fight in Congress during the next few
weeks after years OF effort. Senator
Jones OF Washington, chairman of the
commerce committee, author OF one
of the pending water power bills in
the Senate and who will take charge
of legislation on the floor, announced
that "after a long delay Congress is
about to act"
Evidence that Nikolai Lenine, pre-
mier of the Russian soviet republic, is
the master brain" directing radical
propaganda in this country, was SUBJ
mitted before the Lusk committee in
vestigating alleged Bolshevism in New
York.
The War Department announced
award of the distinguished service
cross by General Pershing to Capt AL
bert II. Baxter, Fairmount, Neb.
Corp. Thomas Stirling, Denver, Colo.
Privates Clifford c. Kidd ana Fred S.
Smith, Denver, Colo, all members of