Arizona state miner., 1919-10-24
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Thomas Fitzgerald, who on July %
murdered Janet Wilkinson, aged 6, has
been hanged in Chicago. He said he
killed her because she screamed when
he took her into his room to give her
candy.
To keep thousands of radicals and
other undesirable aliens out of the
country, the House foreign affairs COM
mittee favorably reported a resolution
extending for one year after the ratifi-
cation of peace the wartime passport
restrictions
Facial reconstruction has been so
successful that there is not an Ameri-
can soldier wounded in the war with a
repulsive face, according to report
made to the convention of the associa=
ton of military surgeons Of the United
States in st. Louis.
A lone highwayman who attempted to
hold up L. v Stanley Of Sioux City, Ia,
was shot to death when Stanley, in
carrying out a command to throw up
his hands shot the robber between the
eyes, Stanley, in carrying out COM
mand to throw up his hands shot the
robber between the eyes. Stanley
raised his left hand so as to hide pis-
tOl in his right, and when he had the
gun on level with the highwayman's
head he fired.
Mayor Wallace NJ Short of Sioux
City, Iowa, announced he had secured
backing to enable him to start opera
ton of a dairy company to combat
high milk prices The fight is aimed
particularly at the Roberts Sanitary
Dairy Company, which increased it's
prices to Is cents a quart for milk in
quart bottles and 10 cents for pints.
The Roberts Company has a monop-
oily of the city's milk business. The
mayors company will use an aban-
doned police station as it's main dis
tributing station.
Something new in the line of Mexi-
can taxes has come to light with the
arrival at Ell Paso of Gen. M. NJ Die
guez, commander of the state of Chi
huahua for Carranza, on what was
supposed to be trip Of inspection to
Juarez, Casas Grandes and other cities
in his military district. Heretofore the
mines in Mexico have been taxed on
their output. The output is assayed,
and the taxes are based on assay re-
port of value. The taxes have always
been paid after the ore is out of the
oh
prepared for shipment.
WASHINGTON
gress an appropriation of $20,0O0,0OO to
enable the federal board for vocational
training to carry out the purpose of the
vocational training act.
The Supreme Court refused to re-
view the conviction of the Rev. Will
helm Schumann, Of Pomeroy, Iowa, un-
der the espionage act, resulting from
statements made by the defendant dur
ing the war.
Formal recommendation that Repre-
sentative John F. Fitzgerald of Massa-
chusetts, former mayor Of Boston, be
Ousted from his seat in the House, was
presented by an elections committee,
headed by Representative Goodall of
Maine.
'The peace treaty will actually be
effective when the former kaiser of
Germany is placed on trial." says Pre-
mier Clemenceau's newspaper, L'Hom-
me Libre, eve must be unwavering in
his punishment"
A number of persons, including sew
eral women clerks were rescued by
firemen from the American Forestry
Associations building in Washington,
which was damaged by flames. One
woman was overcome by smoke and
the records of the association were
damaged both by fire and water.
The nations war debt which, exclu-
sive of foreign loans, is now about
$15,OO0,000,OOO, ought to be paid off
over period of fifty years, because
of the large expenditures the govern
ment must make during the coming
years, Representative Good of Iowa,
chairman of the special House budget
committee, declared in opening debate
on the bill putting government fl
nances under budget system. Good
declared that the annual appropriation
for several years will be close to S4,-
00,000,00O and that the estimate for
next year which the departments will
submit to Congress early in December
will be more than $5,0OO,OOOOOO.