Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-10-11
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Investigation of wholesale and re-
tail prices of sugar by the federal
trade commission was ordered by the
house this week through adoption of
a resolution introduced by Representa-
tive Ttnkham, republican of Massa-
chusetts.
Boris Bakhmeteff, the Russian am
bassador, informed the state depart
ment Friday that General Rozanofr,
the superior Russian commander IN
Siberia, had apologized to Major Gen
eraI Graves, commanding the Amerl-
can forces in Siberia, for the incident
at Imam, Siberia, Sept 5, involving
the arrest by Cossacks of an American
officer and enlisted man and the flsg-
ging of the latter.
An appropriation of at least $1,000
900 fer the destruction of predatory
at the department of agriculture this
week by Representatives Hudspeth Of
Texas and Hayden of Arizona. The
governments appropriation or its eX-
penditures in the states would be met
with an equal expenditure on the part
Of the states. Recent activities of the
department, Mr.. Hudspeth says, has
resulted in more free use of the
ranges and destruction of animals that
prey upon live stock has tended to
enhance the value of the land.
Without a record vote the senate
| Thursday passed the house bill ap-
propriating $4,000 600 additional for
the completion of the Alaskan rail
I road.
REGARDLESS of whether any addition
al nations ratify the peace treaty in
| the meantime, there will be no post
ponement of the international labor
| conference called for Oct. 20 in Wash
ington by President Wilson under au-
thority conferred by the treaty. This
! announcement was made Friday by
E. H. Greenwood of the department
| of labor, who is in charge of the ar
rangements for the meeting.
| Without a record vote the senate
! Tuesday confirmed the nomination of
! Brand Whitlock of Ohio to be ambas-
! sador to Belgium.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
A special prayer for the complete
and rapid recovery of President Will
| son was said Friday at Salt Lake City,
| Utah, at the opening of the nineteenth
-semi-annual conference of the Mormon
| church, held In the tabernacle, in
| which President Wilson spoke Sept. IS.
| United States Senator Hiram w.
Johnson addressed two audiences Fri
! day, at Los Angeles, California, in
opposition to the peace treaty and the
league of nations.
Because Of the great dissatisfaction
and confusion incident to the settle.
ment and adjustment of war risk in.
surance, a representative of the bu.
reau at Washington will be sent to
Texas and will have a desk in the of,
flee of the adjutant general at Aus
tin. Approximately 174,000 men were
in the service from Texas and all OF
them had insurance. The new official
will be able to deal directly with many
of the matters and thus cut out some
of the red tape and delay.
The Sinclair Gulf OIL Company's C.
P. Jones No. /, three miles north OF
Ranger, Texas, after being shot the
second time with a hundred quarts
of nitroglycerine at depth Of 341e
feet, made a 100-barrel flow Of oi
Friday.
A drop in retail prices Of porl
products within a few days is looked
forward to by the Chicago housewives
following the descent to the lowest
price level since July, 1917, of th'
average price paid for hogs, $15.15 &
hundred.
O.
John Mitchell, former president o.
the United Mine Workers of America
left an estate of $250,000. mostly IL
stocks and bonds, according to peti
tion for letters of administration filet
In the surrogate's office of Westches
ter County, N. Y, Tuesday. In a vii
written In hts own hand shortly be
fore his death, but believed to be In
valid because it lacked witnesses, tn,
labor leader beQueathed all but $1,000
OF his estate to his wife and children
The $4,000 was to be divided amonl
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