The Benson signal., 1919-10-11
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NE WIS
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o IN q s, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

WESTERN
The strike of miners in the TOnOpah,
| New, district, which tied up operations
| for six weeks, has been settled salts
| factorily, according to reports.
Twenty-Five negroes were killed in
| race clashes at Elaine and Hoop Spur,
| according to stories told by many of
the negroes arrested by federal troops
at Helena, Ark.
A reduction of 20 cents word on
| ordinary cablegrams to Japan from
| San Francisco was put into effect by
| the Commercial Pacific Cable Company
at San Francisco according to an an
announcement by the company.
J. E. Canfels, a farmer near Had
den, Kan, is dead of injuries suffered
when bull gored him. The bull
| charged him and he threw a bucket
over his horns, but the bull felled him
| with his front feet and then gored
| repeatedly.
Charles Jesse Jones, known thruout
America as Buffalo Jones, famous
cowboy and big game hunter and
friend of the late former President,
| Theodore Roosevelt, died at Topeka,
| Kansas, as result of jungle fever,
contracted during his last trip to At
| rica in 1914.
Thousands of British subjects will
| immigrate into Mexico about the mid
| die of October, according to Excelsior,
| newspaper of Mexico City. The
| cOlonists will settle in Durango and
| Chihuahua. Arrangements for their
| passage into Mexico are to be made
| by Gen. L. Gritchley of the British
army.
Passport regulations Of the United
States, which prevent hundreds of
| MexicanS in Sonora from crossing to
this side of the international line to
do their trading, have caused consid-
cradle complaint among the mer-
chants of Arizona border towns who
have heretofore reaped a harvest from
Mexican patronage.
The king and queen of Belgium will
visit San Francisco Oct. Is, going from
there to the Yosemite valley and
thence to Los Angeles, Senator Phelan
of California announced, after a con-
| ference with Assistant Secretary of
| State Long Senator Phelan said it was
| thought that only one day would be
spent at San Francisco.
WASHINGTON
10 In fhn c.iH n1 6III.-
| ing the war averaged so to 1000, rank
ing next to the infantry, which suf-
| fered 262 to the 1000, Gen. George
| o. Squier told the House military ar
| fairs committee
With disposition of the peace treaty
expected by Nov. 1, congressional
| leaders are discussing the prospects
| of closing the extraordinary session,
which began May 10, so as to have a
months rest before the regular De-
| cember session begins.
Favorable report was unanimously
| ordered by the Senate irrigation COM
| mittee upon the bill by Senator Jones
| of Washington to appropriate $780,
| 100000 for the completion Of reclama-
| tion projects now under way as well as
| for the construction of such new ones
| as the reclamation service may think
| feasible
A resolution favoring an internat;on-
| al union Of all Latin-American repub-
lies for maintenance of the integrity
| and sovereignty of each nation has
| mi fho
| lombian Senate, according to a dis
| patch to the State Department.
| The United States trade with foreign
nations has grown enormously and
reached $1O,5O0,OOO,OOO a year, with
| q balance in favor of this country
amounting to $4,182,OOO,OOO Statistics
for the year ending Aug. 81, just issued
| by the department OF commerce, show
| that the years commerce exceeded
| that of last year by more than 81 ,50O,-
| 100000.
The number of women employed by
railroads in heavy work while the
war was on and when men could not
be obtained is being reduced steadily,
Director General Hines announced
| Women employed in all occupations on
federal controlled roads July 1, were
| 40 per cent fewer than on April 1, but
those working in round houses had
been reduced 23.6 per cent and in shop
work 18 per cent. The total number
| of women working on railroads July
1 was 1924, most of them in clerical
positions.
The sentence of twenty-five years
meted out by cOurt-martial to Capt
David A. Henkes Of the 16Sth infantry,
who on May 26, 1917, sought to resign
from the army rather than oppose his
fathers kinfolk in Germany, has been
commuted by President Wilson to not
more than five years, it is announced
at the War Department.
Investigation Of wholesale and retail
prices of sugar by the federal trade
| commission Was ordered by the house