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Three persons were killed and more
than hundred were injured when an
interurban car from Beaumont, Texas,
to Port Arthur turned over, according
to information from Port Arthur.
Constitutionality of a state law de-
signed to curtail use Of foreign IAN
guages in Nebraska schools as an
Americanization measure was upheld
by the State Supreme Court of Ne
braska.
]. H. Patten, a ranchman employed
on the Cummings ranch near Dalhart,
Texas, was shot and instantly killed
by David B. Wright, owner of an adj
joining ranch. Arguments over a line
fence are said to have caused the
trouble
That approval of a 1,28O-acre site
for an army ordnance and ammunition
depot near Ogden has been given by
the War Department and that Congress
will be asked in January to appropriate
$4,000 to pay for the site was an
nounced in Ogden, following word that
Utahs senator's and representatives
were united in supporting the War De-
partment plan.
A silver service, consisting Of more
than 100 pieces, was presented to the
battleship Arizona on behalf Of the cit
~ Ar;o hxv IoIa tfnp oatipU
for Governor Thomas E. Campbell and
various organizations that had part
In the purchase and designing The
service included a large bronze piece
representing a copper miner, emblem
attic of the state seal.
"A train loaded with $4,000 gallons
OF gin, valued at $7,OO0,00O, was
shipped from Peoria, Ill, to New York.
The gin must be beyond the three-mile
limit at sea by midnight, Jan. IA, 1920,
when the bonds expire. The gin will
90 :" H~~~ns- Cuba, In the train there
was tWenty-Seven cars. Ea.s. ca~ xvill
contain fifty-nine barrels Of fifty-eiye
gallons each.
-, ig an elk rane'. for
the Yellowstone Park herd to be es-
tablished in Park county, fit en- miles
north of the park, is contained in a
letter to the Livingston Enterprise
from Stephen Mather, director of ma
tional parks. The elk each winter have
crossed the park boundaries and were
killed by hunters or starved to death.
Governor D. w. Davis has ordered
a special one-day session of the Idaho
Legislature for the purpose of ratifying
the national suffrage amendment. The
formal call for the session stipulates
that no other legislation may be taken
up. The date is Feb. IL, and the gov
ernor will ask the Legislature to con-
fine its appropriation for expenses to
the actual amount expended by each
member, not the lawful allowance of 90
cents a mile.
WASHINGTON
Work for the establishment Of the
United Americans, national organ
ization with proposed membership of
100000, to combat the activities of
for six months. Among the officers, it
was announced are Cardinal Gibbons,
Otto H. Kahn, Daniel Willard, H. H.
Westinghouse and DIR. David Jayne
Hill.
The Shipping Board has under con-
sideration the sale of all former Ger
man passenger ships with the stipula-
ton that the vessels be run under the
American flag, it has been announced
In Washington.
The shipping board has located the
George Washington, the vessel which
twice carried President Wilson to
France, to the American line for SER
vice from New York to Brest, Cher
bourg and Southampton.
A man giving the name of Leo Julof-
ski, alias Leon Jules, wanted by the
New York police on charge Of having
stolen $141, 900 in Liberty bonds from
e. D. Levinson & Co., of 80 Broadway,
New York, has been arrested at Los
Angeles.
Successful tests Of a motor fuel de-
clared to be not only more economical
than gasoline, but also easier on motors,
have been announced by Otto Praeger,
secohu asSistahl postmaster general III
charge of the air mail service. The
fuel consists of thirty eight parts alco-
hol, thirty gasoline, nineteen benzol,
seven and one-half ether and four toll
uol. Ingredients making up the re-
nss..ifing one and one-half parts were
not given.
Organization, of number of large
foreign banking corporations for the
purpose of facilitating the financing of
export trade is looked for within the
next few weeks as result of the sign
ing of the Edge bill by President VIII
son.
Frances national credit loan was
on the first day, ac-
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