The Raymer enterprise., 1920-12-16
ooNpgNogD RECORD OF THE
pRooREss or EvGNTs At
HONE AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
DAYikos, poIkos, ACHIEVE.
MRRIs. svFFERlhos. HoPgs
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
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WESTERN


Sonoma county jail ut Santa Rosa,
forcibly seized George Boyd, Terence
Fits and Charles Valento, alleged slay-
ers OF Sheriff James A. Petray, Miles
Jackson and Lester Dorman, and
hanged them from the limb Of q tree In
a cemetery.
Forty.One fraternlties and sororitles
Of the University Of Nebraska at Lin
coin, whose membership includes 1000
students, have agreed to boycott all
soda fountains, theaters. cafes and
banquet halls who do not reduce prices
to scale fixed by fair-price com.
mittee.
Lieut.. Command. p. S. Thesis, In
charge OF the Denver navy recruiting
station, has issued orders to all sub
stations throughout Colorado, Wyo-
ming and eastern New Mexico to fur
nIsh transportation TO applicants for
the navy. In case Of rejection, re-
turn transportation will be furnished.
One company will handle the bust
ness of the Bell Telephone Companies
of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota after next Jan. !,
instead of three, as ut present, II ap-
proval for such plan is obtained
from public service commissions In the
states affected, it was announced ut
the office OF the Nebraska Telephone
Company.
A speed officer was indicted ut Los
Angeles for perjury, the specific
charge being that he swOre In court
a motorist had exceeded the speed
limit when he hadn't. l.. Bert Wayne
of Venice was the defendant. The
charge against him was that he
recently swore that local man had
driven at thirty miles an hour when
the speed trap records clearly
showed that he had travelled at less
than twenty-five.
The city administration Of Yoncnlla,
Oregon, is being entirely directed by
women. Mrs. Mary Burt Is the new
mayor, and the members of her council
are Airs Edith Thompson, Mrs. Jennie
Lasswcll, Mrs. BerI!ce Wilson and Mrs.
Nettie Hannah. The women, who were
elected at the recent election, would
have regularly assumed their official
duties Jan. l. but Mayor Lasswell, hus-
band Of one Of the cOunclwomen. and
his aldermen resigned so that the new
officials could start their contemplated
civic improvements Immediately.
WASHINGTON
One patient. Sergeant Alzin Mes
sengcr, formerly OF the Seventh coast
artillery, Is believed TO have burned
TO death, and several other patients
were injured, none seriously, in fire
that destroyed two Of the psychOpathlc
wards OF the Walter Reed Military
hospital.
THE widow of the late lord mayor of
Cork, Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, has pre-
sented to the commission Of the com
mittee OF 100 investigating the Irish
question her story Of the hunger strike
In Brixton prison. London, of her hus.
band, and OF his death and the de-
tails, us she had witnessed them of
attempts by the Irish republicans to
gain freedom for their country.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has stirred up hornets net In
Congress with Its notice that the prac-
tlce OF permitting senator's and repre-
sentatives to send messages from any
office In the counry with the govern
ment settling for the bill monthly
would be abandoned on Jan. !.
The net cost Of the war to the Amer
lean government was fixed by Secre-
tary Houston Wednesday Mt S24OlO,-
100000. This, he said, represented the
adjusted" expenditure Of the treas
ury, excluding all other outlay which
had no relation to the actual rrosecu-
tion OF the war during the period from
April g. 1911, to June 80 last, which he |
said covered the extremes of the GOV.
ernment's war time fiscal operation.
Wholesale prices OF meats continue
their downward trend, n statement Is
sued by the Institute Of American
Meat Packers declared. Fresh pork
showed declines Of from 10 to 20 per
cent, the statement said. although II |
was less marked near the packing cen
tiers than In the East. Boiled hams and
all smoked meats, the statement said,
also showed declines, while the price
of lard hns fallen approximately Is per
cent.
A total Of 3,s0S persons were killed
IN automobile accidents. or died us |
result Of injuries therefrom, during the |
last year, the census bureau has an. |
nounced. An automobile accident
death rate Of AL out Of every 100000
of population was reported for 1913, an
increase over every year since 1915,
when the rate was so, and an increase
Of 245 In the total number Of deaths
over 1918.
An explosion. followed by a fire. has
destroyed the Kearney.
Neb.. gas plant. The loss Is estimated
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