The Dolores star., 1920-12-03
GENERAL


Bonus checks aggregating more than
100000 for employees of the Ford
Motor Company are now being written
and their distribution will start Jan. l
next, according to announcement at
Detroit by Edsel b. Ford, president of
the Ford Motor Company.
The hog markets of the country
have been practically demoralized by
the continued sharp decline in quota
tions. Heavy receipts caused by dump
ing of poorer grades of hogs on the
markets by growers and lack of pur-
chasing has caused the continued de-
cline
Constructing the will of the late
Marshal Field cost the estate of the
multimillionaire merchant prince $780,
600 for attorneys fees alone, when
Judge Charles NJ. Foell of the Supe-
riOr Court at Chicago allowed that
amount to attorneys for the parties in
the suit to contest the will.
Two more North Dakota banks have
closed their doors as a result of de-
pleted reserves, bringing to fifteen the
number of financial institutions that
have shut down for similar reasons in
the last few weeks. Those that closed
are the Farmers and Merchants Bank
at Sherwood and the Farmers State
Bank at Rhame.
Mrs. Charles Garland of New Bed
ford, Mass, agrees with her husband in
his determination to refuse his inher-
itance of S1,0OO,OO0. She said so, smil
ing cheerfully, this afternoon, and add
ed: II am quite willing TO be II poor
mans wife, and If my family in Ded-
ham leave me any money-they have
plenty of it-I will turn it down" Nor
do the couple have any fear that they
are doing an injustice to their baby,
Margaret, just month and half old.
Prospective builders were given no
ray of hope for lower lumber prices
by lumbermen of the Pacific North
west, discussing market and price CON
ditions at Portland, Ore The CON
sensus of opinion among both whole
sale dealers and manufacturers was
that higher instead of lower prices are
the prospect.
r. d. Edwards, Methodist minister,
was convicted in Federal Court at
Harrisburg, Va, of bigamy and viola
tion of the Mann act and sentenced TO
four years imprisonment in the Fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta. Edwards,
married and the father of two chill
dren, cloped with Ruth Bailey of
Staunton, Va, last August. They were
married in Cincinnati some time later.
The Chicago police have made an
investigation into the death of d.
Harris Cook of Plattsmouth, Neb.,
who dropped dead after fraternity
initiation. Officials of the coroner's
office said death probably was due to
heart disease, superinduced by alco-
holism. Cook was being initiated into
secret interfraternity organization,
which is barred in many colleges. Stu
dents denied that he had been treated
roughly in the initiation. They said
quantities of liquor were served.
Federal Judge X. NJ. Lands issued
injunctions against seventy-two saloon
keepers restraining the men of violat-
ing the prohibition law. Attorney Cen
eral Edward J. Brundage of Illinois,
who has filed suit against the saloon
men, had asked that their places be
closed.
The French authorities at COnstanti-
nOple have arrested more than 100
Russian Bolshevists, who had man
aged to obtain passage to Constantine
pie among the refugees of General
Wrangel's south Russian army from
the Crimea.