The Dolores star., 1920-10-22

date at nn average cost OF five cents
per rat. Not trace of bubonic
plague has been found among those
examined
James Hess, twenty-three, pleaded
guilty at Joplin, Mo-, to robbing the
bank at Avilla. Mo, Sept "a, and was
sentenced to fifteen years in the peni-
tentiary. Most of the $500 taken
was recovered.
All banks OF Los Angeles have joine.l
in an arrangement to finance the cot
ton crops OF California, Arizona and
New Mexico to the extent of $2,50O,-
600, according to an announcement by
J. Dabney Day, vice president of the
First National Bank
Attempts of three military prisoners
to escape on an improvised log raft
from the army disciplinary barracks
on Alcatraz island, in San Francisco
bay, failed when they were rescued at
dawn by ferry boat, nearly senseless
from sIbmersion and all night expos
ure.
H A Dykstra of Topeka, a Ca
madam citizen, has filed suit in the
federal court at Topeka, Kan, to col
lect $4,000 damages from the city of
Hudson, Stafford county, alleging that
he was seized by a mob. beaten and
rushed out OF town His attorney
stated that similar suits will be filed
against Dodge City and st. John.
Victor l. Nelson, seventeen, OF
Omaha, who confessed to robbing eigh-
teen homes, three of which he sci
afire, told police he robbed the houses
'.for practice" After he got enough
experience he intended 10 become q
famous robber, he said He made no
attempt TO sell his loot, burying ii
like they do in the movies"
WASHINGTON
State department officials said that
it is not expected that the United
States would be represented in any
manner at the first meeting of the as
sembly of the League of Nations to
be held in Geneva, Nov. Is.
The resignation of w. s. Chapman,
secretary of the federal reserve board,
effective Nov. /, has been announced.
He will enter private business and be
succeeded by w. w. Hoton, executive
sttTelaIS OI iue DoaFu lOr lne past
year.
Approximately $500 acres of home
stead and desert land in the Eureka
and Sacramento land districts of Cali
fornia, will be opened to entry Dec. 3,
the Interior Department announced.
The land is classed as non-agricultural
mountain grazing land, and entry viii
be reserved to ex-service men for sixty
days after the opening as provided by
law.
World peace, universal and per
petual," can be purchased with the
$4,000, 600, 900 the allied governments
owe the United States, w. J. Bryan
declared in an address at Washington
before the World Brotherhood Con
gress. He suggested that cancellation
of the war debt would go far towards
the building up of a spirit that would
remove the chief causes of conflict be
tween the nations.
Stocks of wheat in the United
States on Oct. / totaled eos, S,0O0,O 900
bushels, the department of agriculture
has estimated. This compares with
-747 100000 bushels in the country on
the same date last year.
Prosecution of anthracite coal oper
ators for profiteerng has been de-
cided upon by Attorney General Pal
mer, who ordered that evidence be
gathered against mine owners in the
central Pennsylvania field
The governments suit against the
United Shoe Machinery Company un-
der the Clayton act will be reheard
by the Supreme Court on Jan. 3. The
company is charged with restraint of
trade in enforcing clauses in its con
tracts with purchasers of its products.
A saving of 100000 tons of coal
annually, representing S15O,O00OOO in
value and the labor of more than thirty
thousand miners and the release of
vast railroad carrying capacity for
other freight We're pictured as among
the possibilities to result from the pro
jected eastern industrial region super
power electric system, in an address
by w. S. Murray, before the Water
Power League at Washington.
Financial conditions in Cuba are
not considered serious by officials of
the Department of Commerce, who de
ciared that of the governments action
I'm declaring moratorium was neces.
sary to protect responsible traders
during the present slump in business.
Charges of irregularity in the award
of $2,200,000 to the Standard Steel
Car Company in settling and cancel.
ing war contracts are not sustained
says report of a special committee |
of Investigation appointed by Secre
tary Baker made public at the war
department