The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-16

WESTERN
Plans have been perfected for
S15O,oO0 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 81 800
600 pesos on Aug. .. This amount does
not include American, British and
French claims, which have not been
filed.
Five large Union Pacific railroad ice
houses and the plant of the Utah Ice
& Cold Storage Company, leased to the
Pacific Fruit Express Company, were
destroyed by fire at Ogden, with =
loss of $4,000.
Jack Heating confessed in District
Court at Des Moines, that he was one
of a gang which robbed the Iowa State
Bank here last March of approximate
ly $4,000 in Liberty bonds and cash
and was sentenced to ten years in the
Fort Madison penitentiary.
Whether a property owner is also
owner of the air above his land is to be
determined through court action
action brought by Frederick Hoene-
mann, a farmer in Kansas. He seeks
10 restrain a company owning airplanes
from using the air above his farm.
Fifteen leaders of the conspiracy to
cause a mutiny in the Chihuahua City
federal garrison last week, and to de-
liver the city over to General Francis
co Villa, were executed following the
discovery of the plot, according to an
American who arrived in Ell Paso from
Mexico.
number of saloons which have
been closed since Los Angeles went dry
in April, 1918, are reported to be open
and selling 2.75 per cent beer, and
many of the soft drink places also
are disposing of the beverage. Under
an opinion by the city attorney, saloon
licenses again will be issued. The city
attorney bases his action on the ia
vorable decision recently given by
United States Judge Bledsoe.
WASHINGTON
The international Labor Conference
provided for in the peace treaty has
been called by President Wilson to
meet in Washington, October Doth.
Request that the secretary of war
declare II surplus of motor trucks and
automobiles held by the department in
this country and to sell them immedi-
ately at reasonable prices, is made in
a resolution introduced by Representa-
tive Goody KoontZ, Republican, West
Virginia. The resolution specifically
calls upon the secretary for "A state
ment as to why no surplus has been
declared heretofore and why the cars
''were allowed to stand out in the
weather.
A cotton production of 100000
bales this year has been forecast by the
Department of Agriculture, basing its
estimate on the condition of the crop
July %, which it announced as 81. L
per cent of normal. The forecast
shows an increase of 10000 bales over
the forecast made a month ago. The
condition of the crop showed n decline
of 30 per cent during the month COM
pared with the average decline of AZ
per cent during the period in previous
years.
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
mehliS SlOulu ne tHheu 10 prevent SUCH
outrages.
Frederick Mears, who acted as gen
eral manager of the American railroad
Lies in France during the war, was
appointed by President Wilson as chief
engineer in charge of the construction
of the government railroad in Alaskit.
He Will be chairman of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission. William G..
Edes has been named consulting en-
gineer to the commission.
Income tax returns were filed by g.
472, 800 persons, about 8 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 S13,652, 3S3, 207. The increase
over 1916, before the law was expanded
to meet war expenses, was 3,035, S54 re-
turns and 81 1853, S05,5S7 in net income.
Taxes paid totalled S675, 249, 450, an av-
erage of $36S.56 per individual, or 6.03
per cent of the income.
The fail campaign of the American
Red Cross to enroll members for 1920
and to raise $15,000,000 to enable the
organization to complete its war OBJ
legations at home and abroad will open
November Bird and close armistice day,
November 18th, 1t was announced by
DIR. Livingston Farrand, chairman of
the Red Cross Executive Committee
Hoarded food stocks will be taken
over by the government and placed
upon the market to help re-establish