The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-09-23
THE wORLD

( OaC0 pOpQllSt CduulddtO III PlOoAaShS
was shown to have won the democra-
tic nomination for United States sen
; ator in complete unofficial returns
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 night
Waterman of a lumber plant, was ia
ken from the Jail at Quitman by q
small party of men, carried two miles
into the country and shot to death.
Paris-A permit for the removal
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.
Neutrality-suspicious. 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 bushe1
at country elevators, it was
ed, following a wheat growers con-
ference here.
HonoIuIu-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, CaI.-Well No. Z on
the Carman lease in the Elk hills,
owned by the Standard Oil, is a flam-
ing torch, having come in with a
r0oo f1ro,pr I < nm An0 a,,Lso f11x 20
gas through it's casing with such a
force that friction caused a spark,
igniting the gas. This is the third
big gas we'll to catch fire during the
last year.
Bismarck, N. D.-The North Da-
kota supreme court denied a 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 bali
lot at the November election the
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 MAJ
tional Retail Lumber Dealers as
ISOLATION. Charles A. Bowen of De-
troit, secretary of the organization.
opined that prices would soon reas-
cend.
Houston, Tex.-After coming to
life nine times in the last year after
he had been pronounced dead, M. l..
Cranberry, unknown except to police
records, died here last week and
was officially pronounced dead by
at the municipal hospital.
number of times.
st. Paul-Organization of a de-
partment of immigration and indus
try, to cooperate in the development
of sections of the northwest through
it operates, was announced
here by the Northern Pacific railway,
effective October first, E. F. Benson,
Washington state commissioner of
agriculture, will be department ma
mayer, with headquarters in st. Paul.
Paris-In accordance with a wish
expressed in the will of William K.
his racing establishment
at st. Louis de Poissy has been sold.
The new owner Is Leon Mantachefe
Of Russian oil fame, who only re-
resumed horse racing in Paris.
The price paid was said to have been
$4,000, 000 francs or about $1,000 s
700 at the present rate of exchange.
Washington-Mexico promises to
the oil reservoir of the west
,rn hemisphere, the department of
commerce declared in a review of the {
industry. With increased t
consumption in the United States {
likely to exhaust producing fields
within 20 or 25 years, Mexico,
he statement said, Golfers the most ,
Encouragement to the American oil
industry. both for present production
nd geographical situation" :
New York-Throngs of sightseers
o chinatown" were provided with
Unexpected thrills when police raided 1
n alleged opium den in Doyer street, c
hopping away doors to gain en- I
rance and pursuing inmates across c
oofs. A trayful of opium and pipes
Vas thrown into the street from a I
Tindow, showering a crowd of on q
a
Racine. Wis. Death ondod fhoI d