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WESTERN
Designer" yearling Poland China
boar, was purchased recently for $780,
900 at Omaha. This, it is declared, is
a record-breaking price for II hog.
Burned to death, presumably through
an explosion of gasoline, the bodies
of Fideli Ambrosini and Antonia Gay,
wood haulers, We're found in the cab of
their motor truck near TonOpah, New.
A hundred dollar bonus is paid by
Samuel Phillipson & Co. of Chicago to
any employe who can show proof of
the birth of new baby in his family.
The idea is to encourage marriages.
The Chicago National League base
ball club will leave Chicago for Pasa-
dena, Calf, to begin its spring train
ing season Feb. 2S This is the earliest
date the team has left on its spring
training in four years.
Los Angeles, Calf, was awarded the
next annual convention of the Phi Del
tn Phi fraternity to be held in Decem-
ber, 1920, at the closing session of the
sixteenth annual convention of the fra
ternity at Bloomington, Ill.
Swarms of hungry magpies are at
tacking half-famished range cattle in
some sections of Montana, according
to reports. Hundreds of range cattle
are said to be dying from starvation
since the severe weather set in.
Two veteran engineers grown old in
the service of the Union Pacific and
driving different sections of the Over
land Limited, We're stricken with par
alysis while at the throttle and both
are in a critical condition in Omaha
Jack Dempsey is willing to fight
Georges Carpenter either in Europe or
America, Jack Kearns. Dempsey's man.
ager, said the decision as to the scene
of the expected battle depending en-
tirely on what promoter makes the best
financial offer.
WASHINGTON
Daylight saving would he re-institut
ed under bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Dallinger, Republican, Massa-
chusetts, providing for an annual
change in time on the last Saturday in
April and September respectively.
Congress was warned that II the rail-
roads We're turned back to their own
ers without enactment meanwhile of
legislation for protection of the prop
critics, two-thirds of the roads would
he in the hands OF receivers within
thirty days.
BY unanimous decision, constitutions
ality of the wartime prohibition act
was sustained by the Supreme Court
The opinion, given by Associate JUS
that the war-invoked dry period still
may be terminated by presidential
proclamation OF rehabilitation.
New York hotels have S5,0O0OO in
liquor stocks, and the hotels in Chicago
and other large cities have proportion
ate stocks. representing n similar cash
outlay, all of which will be practically
n dead loss to the hotelkeepers unless
wartime prohibition is repealed or de-
clared unconstitutional by the courts.
Representatives OF the hotels made this
revelation to the House agricultural
committee
The minting business is profitable
one TO be In, according to the annual
report of Ray Baker, director of the
United States mint, made public by the
Treasury Department. During the
1919 fiscal year, the report shows. the
government made SS,3j90Tl ON its
minting operations. OF this amount
Si,136,700 was made through the man
ufacture of nickel and bronze coins,
Omissions in submitted estimates
for the coming fiscal year bring the
proposed expenditures of the govern
ment up to S5,2i9,4T0,03l instead OF
Si,SG5. 100000, Representative Good,
Republican, Iowa, chairman of the APP
preparations committee, told the
House. Items omitted from the esti-
mates, Mr.. Good said, included $751;
Oo0,o06 for road construction, already
authorized; Sl50,300,0O0 for redemp-
tion Of War Savings certificates, re-
serve notes and miscellaneous public
debts, proposed by Secretary Glass In
b : report; $50 100000 TO continue the
$40 annual bonus to government
workers, S40,000,000 for salary in
creases of postoffice employees, $780,
100000 for supplemental estimates
and S50,000000 for deficiencies.
The total value of the country's i'm
portant farm crops this year aggre-
gates $14,092,Ii0,000 the Department
of Agriculture estimated In It's final re-
port. That compares with S12,G00, SO
600, the aggregate value of last years
crops as finally revised. The total
area planted In these principal crops is