The Dolores star., 1919-01-17
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ABOUT THE WAR

Paderewski, Polish leader, has been
wounded by a would-be assassin, who
entered his room in hotel where the
Pole leader had his headquarters.
Great Britain. il was learned today,
has informed Turkey that the Darda.
nelles forts will be destroyed unless
diately
All members of the bourgeoisie have
been arrested at Riga by the Lettish
soviet, which has abolished the own
ership of private property, according
to Riga dispatch.
Hindenburg, as commander in chief
of the German army, is trying to
build small but assuredly depend
able force. 1t is believed from the
wording of an order for this purpose
that this artillery is intended for use
to maintain order within Germany.
WESTERN
st. Louis, Jan. 12.-The wholesale
price of beer made new high record
in st. Louis when it went to $50 a
barrel.
A remarkable hen that laid 30S eggs
in a year is feature of the Ma
tlonal Poultry show which opened at
the stockyards in Chicago last week.
The remarkable disappearance of
S250,O0O in Liberty bonds consigned
by the First National bank of Detroit,
Mich, to the Studebaker corporation
at South Bend, Ind, remains a mys-
terry.
Members and delegates attending
the forty-eighth sessions of the Kan
sas state board of agriculture adopt
ed resolutions at Topeka declaring
that they opposed compulsory mill
tary training.
To outline definite plans TO cooper
ate with Secretary Franklin X. Lane
OF the Federal Interior Department in
Colorado river reclamation work.
Governor Bamberger is asking the
chief executives of Colorado, Wyo-
ming, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexi-
co to send delegates to a convention
to be held in Salt Lake Jan. is.
John Hance, better known as Cap
tain Hance, known 10 almost every
tourist who ever visited the Grani
Canon of the Colorado, is dead at his
home in Flagstaff of paralytic
stroke. He was 81 years old Cap
tain Hance, who always claimed TO
have built the first trail down into
the canon, has for years been chief
guide in the employ of the railroad
and hotel company at the canon.
WASHINGTON
By vote of five to three the house
rules committee declined to give priv
ileged status to the bill appropriating
500, 900 for European relief work.
Figures made public by the ord
nance department of the inter-allied
bureau of statistics show that the pro-
duction of munitions in this country
had grown SO rapidly that in the last
months of the war the United States
was far ahead of Great Britain and
France. Average monthly production
OF machine guns and machine rifles
for July. August and September, 1918,
in the United States was 27,27O,
against 10,947 for Great Britain and
1926 for France.
A credit of S3,25O,00O in favor of
Belgium was established by Secretary
Glass. This makes a total of $685.
$4,000 in loans for Belgium and a
total for all the allies of $685.
773,702.
Road building on an intensive scale
is expected by government officials
this year. Defined estimates OF
amounts to be spent this year include
the following: Iowa. $15,574, 900 !;
Nah 81 q
0s9; North Dakota, 100000; Wyo.
ming, S653.00O; Colorado. $4,000, 900: !:
California, 100000; Arizona, $500.
600; Nevada, $1,14S,s49.SO; Idaho, ST..
100000.
Final statistics of the American
cotton crop of 1917, announced by the
census bureau, places production at
11,24s,242 running bales, equivalent to
1l,3O2,375 bales OF 500 pounds each
gross weight and worth 1852 $50, 900
to the growers. Production of cotton.
seed amounted to 100000 tons
worth $333 3,550,000. For the cotton
year" ended last July 81, 1918, con.
sumption amounted to 6,566, ,4S9 bales
exclusive of linters; exports amounted
to 4,288,420 bales; net imports, 217,.
3S1 bales; stocks on hand at the be.
ginning of year 2,720,173 bales, and
at the end of the year. 3,450,18S bales
According to estimates compiled by
the department Of agriculture, Amer.
lea in 1919 will export 100000 tons
Of beef, pork and dairy products to
the American expeditionary forces
neutrals and allies, it was learned
Friday. This is an increase of $780,
900 tons over the previous year.
An agreement between the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Company and the
thirteen international unions compris.
ing the metal trades department Of
the American Federation of Labor,
whereby the unions are recognized as
representing the employee, has been
announced.