, 1920-09-23
NEWS To DATE
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THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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WESTERN

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WESTERN
Damage estimated at 100000 was
caused at Filler, Idaho, by fire which
destroyed nearly an entire business
block.
Jack Johnson, former worlds
heavyweight champion, was sentenced
to n year and a day in L~eavenworth
penitentiary and fined $1,000 by Fed
eral Judge George A. Carpenter of Chi
cago for violation of the Mann act.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed most of two business blocks
at Ranger, Texas, causing an estimat-
ed loss of S1,0OO,0O0. One fireman was
seriously injured. A blind itinerant
musician named Brockton was injured
seriously.
r. G. Bills, automobile dealer of
Blackfoot, Idaho, was killed when a
racing automobile he was testing out
on the county fair grounds dirt track
threw q tire when the machine was
speeding at the rate of sixty miles an
o
The North Dakota Supreme Court
has issued an order enjoining rail-
roads operating in the state from fur
ther charging increased intrastate
rates which were put into effect on
Sept, L. The order also directs the
railroads to rebate any increase al
ready collected.
Emmett Bancroft, also known as
Neil Hart, was sentenced at Pendle-
ton, Ore, to be hanged Nov. 9th for
the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor in a
Jail delivery Aug. 2Sth. He pleaded
guilty of murder In the first degree
and is the first man to receive a death
sentence since capital punishment was
restored in Oregon.
Montana wool growers, through
their organization, perfected at a
meeting held at Helena, Mont, will
deliver finished blankets Inc cloth
for mems and women's clothing, made
from virgin wool from Montana, to
the at a price that will
eliminate the profits which now pre-
vail between the grower and the ulti-
mate
The body of an unidentified woman,
about %forty-five years old, was found
in the Missouri river at Omaha, by a
laborer who was searching the waters
for the body of u. G. B~ridenbaugh,
COleridge, Neb., banker, who recently
committed suicide by drowning. The
woman had gray eyes and hair, wore
a gray suit and a black hat. Death
had evidently taken place but a few
hours before the discovery of the
body.
WASHINGTON
Controller of the Currency Williams
asserted that the records of his office
confirm Senator Owens recent charges
that certain New York banks have
loaned 100000 900 at extortionate
and burdensome interest rates, run
ming as high as 80 per cent.
Declaration has been made by Pro-
hibition Commissioner Kramer that
dry law enforcement machinery is in
adequate. Coupled with this was a
statement by the Anti-Saloon League
that the "nation is confronted by u
gigantic and vicious conspiracy to dis
credit and ultimately overthrow prohI-
bltion."
The United States Shipping Board
has announced the sale of five Hog
Island-built ships for $685. 23 to the
American Fuel and Transportation Cor
poration.
Contracts for three new air mail
routes, at a total cost of $4,000 a
year, nave been awarded by the Post
office Department to the Lawson Air
Line Company of Chicago.
Few important changes in the forms
for filing income tax returns will be
necessary, the bureau of internal reve-
nue. announced after a conference be-
tween representatives of various bust
ness organizations and a committee on
the proposed revision of income tax
forms for 1920, appointed by Commits
sioner Williams.
Roy H. Kuehling, held by the police
for investigation in connection with
the drowning of his wife, Gertrude v.
Kuehiing, was released after the grand
jury In the District of Columbia court
had voted not to return an Indictment
against hin. Kuehling vas e~xonerated
by a %coroner's jury from blame in con-
nection with the death of his wife,
which occurred while they were canoe
ing on the Potomac river.
Attorney General Palmer has begun
collecting evidence against several as
%sociations of California fruit growers,
1t was learned at the Justice depart
ment, following the institution Of anti
trust proceedings against the Califor-
mia Association of Raisin Growers.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion modified its order prohibiting as
signment OF open top cars to wagon