The Benson signal., 1920-02-28
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH EWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS or
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
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WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
Two heavily armed bandits entered
the bank at Camp Verde, sixty miles
northeast of Prescott, held up Cashier
Butler and escaped with approximate
ly $1,000.
Major Gerhard Luke Luhn, 80, said
to be the oldest retired officer in the
United States army and pioneer In
dian fighter of the Northwest, is dead
at his home in Spokane, Wash.
The price of gold irf it's relation to
the worlds financial situation and the
mining industry was discussed by the
Northwest Mining Association at it's an
nual convention at Spokane, Wash.
For a week a wolf pack invaded
nightly the western end of Duluth,
Mimi, and trappers and scores of peo-
pie lying out" for the pack finally sue
ceeded in killing one, wOunding anoth-
er and trapping third of the pack OF
twelve.
Electric operation of passenger
trains over a coast section of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway be-
tween OthelIo, Wash, and Tacoma,
will begin about March l, according to
an announcement by A. N. Farling,
vice president and general manager.
Franklin K Lane, retiring secretary
of the interior, will become an execu-
tive of the Pan-American Petroleum
and Transport Company and the Mex
lean Petroleum Company when he re-
linqushes his official position, it was
announced in Los Angeles by E. L. Do
heney, president of the two companies.
Christopher C. Cole, federal deputy
revenue agent in charge Of prohibition
enforcement at Tucson, Ariz., has been
arrested by United States Marshal
Treaty. on charges of violating the
Mann act by bringing woman from
Maryland to Arizona. He waived pre-
liminary examination before United
States Commissioner Edwin F. Jones.
Declaration that the ''time had come
when the medical profession Of the
United States was forced to unlOn'zc
of the public" was made at Los An
geles by Dr. Charles l.. Reed of Gin
cinnati, formerly president Of the
American Medical Association and of
the Pan-American Medical Congress,
in an address before the Los Angeles
County Medical Association.
WASHINGTON
Naval operation or control of all ra-
do stations assumed during the war
emergency will be relinquished at mid
night, Feb %, under an executive or.
der made public by Secretary Daniels.
Rear Admiral Benson, chief of naval
operations during the war, and now on
the retired list, has been selected by
President Wilson to succeed John Bar
ton Payne as a member of the ship
ping board.
Capital increases aggregating $15,-
O05,000 were granted to 1OS national
banks during January, John Shelton
Williams, comptroller of the currency,
announced This is the' largest num-
Der of capital increases ever granted
in any one month, Mr.. Williams said.
Charters were issued to twenty-one
new national banks with an aggregate
capital of $1,175,OOO.
Mexican government troops have
routed combined rebel bands at Barra
de NautIa and PasO de Telaya, after
killing more than 100, advices to the
Mexican embassy, Washington, stated.
Several rebel generals were killed OF
captured Several merchants held fOr
ransom were released.
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, re-
tired, discOverer of the North pole,
died at his home in Washington after
a two years illness of pernicious ane
mia, during which thirty-five blood
transfusOnS had been of no avail Sail
OrS. attaches of the naval hospital and
many ex-service men gave of their
life's blood in the vain effort to pro
long the life of the cOuntry'S foremost
explorer.
Adjustment of the nine subtreasur-
les, the offices of thirteen state survey
ors- general and two assay offices is
proposed in the legislative appropria-
ton BILL reported by the House apprc-
priationS committee. a reduction of
$18,0000O0 from department estimates
for clerk hire and miscellaneous ex
penses was made, but the bills total of
$1O4, 100000 is one of the largest peace
time legislative appropriations on rec
ord.