Arizona state miner., 1919-08-15
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH Ne WS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

WESTERN
Plans have been perfected for
S150,000 motor speedway at Dalworth,
midway between Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas, and construction will
start Immediately.
Claims for damages inflicted during
the Mexican revolution totaled 21,50O,-
900 pesos on Aug. 2. This amount does
not include American, British and
French claims, which have not been
filed.
Stranger Ed. Lewis won two of
three falls in his match here last night
with Ivan Grandavich, Russian. Lewis
won the first fall in forty-siX minutes
and tWenty-nine seconds and the Sec
ond in thirty-six minutes and fifty
five seconds.
Whether a property owner is also
owner Of the air above his land is to be
determined through a court action
action brought by Frederick Hoene-
mann, a farmer in Kansas He seeks
to restrain company owning airplanes
from using the air above his farm.
Loss from forest fires in Montana
and northern Idaho this season, up to
July 81, amounted to $755,000, it was
estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant
district forester Heavy rains have re-
moved the fire menace in Montana,
though fires in Idaho still are threat
ening. A total of $815000 has been
spent in fighting forest fires in Mon
tana and northern Idaho this season.
Thirty-six thousand dollars belong
ing to the Alamo National Bank of
San Antonio, which Fl. ]. Brown, bank
messenger, reported as having been
stolen from him, has been recovered
by detectives. Brown and A. ]. Glenn
ents are being held for grand jury ac-
tiOn. Brown, according to the police,
has confessed that the robbery was a
"frame up" by Clements and himself.
WASHINGTON
Without opposition or debate the
Senate adopted a resolution authoriz-
ing the foreign relations committee to
make a sweeping investigation of out
RACES against Americans and property
in Mexico and to report what, if any
means should be taken to prevent such
outrages.
A cotton production of 11,O16,000
bales this year has been forecast by the
Department of Agriculture, basing it's
estimate on the condition of the crop
July %, which it announced as 81 L
per cent of a normal. The forecast
shows an increase of 10000 bales over
the forecast made month ago. The
condition of the crop showed a decline
of 90 per cent during the month COM
pared with the average decline Of AZ
per cent during the period in previous
years.
Income tax returns were filed by g.
472,890 persons, about per cent OF the
population, for the calendar year of
1917, according to final reports just
completed by the bureau of internal
revenue. They showed total net in
come of $13,652, 1888, ,2O7. The increase
over 1916, before the law was expanded
to meet war expenses, was 3,035,S54 re-
turns and 81, ,353, ,SO5, ,587 in net income.
Taxes paid totalled $675, 5,249, ,45O, an av-
erage Of $368.56 per individual, or 603
per cent Of the income
A four-story garage, from any story
of which entrance and exit is directly
from the street, is one of the archi-
tectural landscape oddities of "auto-
mobile row" in Los Angeles. The ex
planation is simple: The garage is
built on a hillside
A joint resolution declaring that a
state of anarchy exists in the United
States and authorizing the President to
free interstate mails and traffic from
further unlawful interference and ade-
Quately protect citizens in their prop
erty rights" was introduced by Repre-
sentative Blanton, Texas.
A protest against the policy Of the
Navy Department which, it was
charged, compelled California oil in
terests to sell to the navy at tidewater
at 80 cents a barrel, "plus a vague
promise of final adjustment, crude
oil, for which producers received 81 %
at the well, was embodied in a state
ment sponsored by the executives of
several of the leading oil companies of
the state. Under contract which ex-
pired July 1 the companies had been
supplying the navy with crude oil at
$1.47 a barrel, at an aggregate loss, the
statement said, to the oil interests of
the state of $500,000