The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-09-24
THE WORLD

Atlanta, Ga.-Thomas E. Watson
( once populist candidate for president
Twas shown to have won the democra
' tic nomination for United States sen
r ator in complete unofficial RETURN
. from last weeks primary, compiled
by the Atlanta Journal.
Meridian, Miss.-Will Echols,
negro, recently convicted of the muir
der of Henry w. Davis, an aged nigh
, Waterman of a lumber plant, was ia
ken from the Jail at Quitman by &
small party of men, carried two miles
into the country and shot to death.
Paris-A permit for the remova,
of the body of Olive Thomas, the
American motion picture actress who
died suddenly at Neuilly, was grant
ed by Judge Pamart. The body will
be sent to the United States on the
first available boat.
Tokio-Omo Tokyo, the new mys-
FERROUS religion of Japan, is merely
an extreme form of socialism, aimed
at the destruction of the existing So
cial order, according to Kakuji Kato,
a merchant, who made a secret pill
grimage to Ayade, the village head
quarters OF the sect.
| New YOrk-Forty thousand dol
lars, including a $4,000 bill, and
more than $4,000 in jewelry was
stolen in a 10-minute daylight rob-
berry by two gunner who beat Philip
| S. Smith, wealthy merchant, into in
sensibility in his office here and es-
capped.
WashingtOn-Paper suits import
ed from Germany by the department
of commerce will go on an exhibit
ton tour of the country. Represen-
tatives of the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce in the principal
cities of the country are to show the
suits which cost from Is cents to
$2.65 to manufacture.
Kansas City-The wheat growers
of the spring wheat producing area
of the northwest are to be urged to
engage in the movement of the win
ter wheat growers to hold their
wheat until it brings $2.75 a bushel
at country elevators, it was announc-
ed, following a wheat growers con-
ference here.
Honolulu-Poi, the staple dish of
the Hawaiians, made from taro roots,
continues to soar in price along with
other food products and within the
past two weeks jumped from 20 to
40 per cent upward. Scarcity of
labor and high wage demands are as
signed as reasons for raising the
price of poi.
Bakersfield, Cal.-Well No. z on |
the Carman lease in the Elk hills, |
owned by the Standard Oil, is fIam- |
inc
roar forcing 100000 cubic feet of |
gas through it's casing with such a
force that friction caused a spark, |
igniting the gas. This is the third
big gas well to catch fire during the /
last year.
Bismarck, N. D.-The North Da-
kota supreme court denied motion
to open up and reverse its decision of
four years ago, (which, if granted,
would have permitted the residents
of New Rockford to place on the bal
lot at the November election the 1
question of removing the state capt.
tol from Bismarck to New Rockford. !
st. Louis-There is no prospect of
an immediate decline in the price of
lumber, according to delegates to the
fourth annual convention of the Ma
tional Retail Lumber Dealers as
ISOLATION. Charles A. Bowen of De- :
.roit, secretary OF the organization,
,pined that prices would soon reas-
,end. Is
Houston, Tex.---After coming to h
ife nine times in the last year after ]
lie had been pronounced dead, M. l.. s
Cranberry, unknown except to police ]
ecords, died here last week and ]
vas officially pronounced dead by ]
surgeons at the municipal hospital ]
cranberry has been all but buried a ]
lumber of times. Is
st. Paul-OrganiZati of a de- {
artment of immigration and indus /
ry, to cooperate in the development J
# sections of the northwest through 6
which it operates, was announced |
ere by the Northern Pacific railway, \
Elective October first, e. F. Benson, T
Washington state commissioner of 7
griculture, will be department ma \
ager, with headquarters in st. Paul. S
Paris-In accordance with a wish c
expressed in the will of William X. IN
Tanderbilt his racing establishment A
t st. Louis de Poissy has been sold. L
he new owner is Leon Mantachefe Y
f Russian oil fame, who only re- c
emily resumed horse racing in Paris lR
he price paid was said to have been F
4, 100000 francs or about $1,000 S
90 at the present rate of exchange. X
Washington-Mexico promises to Y
ecome the oil reservoir of the west
IN hemisphere, the department of h
ommerce declared in review of the d
etroleum industry. With increased I'll
in the United States O.
kelly to exhaust producing fields
ere within 20 or 25 years, Mexico, I
lie statement said, "offers the most j
Encouragement to the American oil =.
ldustry, both for present production n
nd geographical situation"
New York-Throngs of sightseers
Chinatown were provided with
nexpected thrills when police raided u L,
/ alleged opium den in Doyer street, =. ~
topping away doors to gain en- - =.
ance and pursuing inmates across u
'ofs. A trayfuI of opium and pipes -
as thrown into the street from "
indow, showering crowd of on ~
okers. al
Racine, Wis. - Death ended the -
)neymoon of John A. Jones, Chi o. o.