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WESTERN
Elbert w. Blancett, convicted of the
murder of Clyde Armour, was hanged
in the Jail yard at Santa Fe. The
crime was committed October 23, 1916.
Two well-dressed boys held up the
bank of Waterloo, Neb twenty miles
west of Omaha, bound and gagged
Cashier W. Z. Stratton, robbed the
bank of $1,000 and escaped in an au-
tomobile
Alfonso G. Bernard, United States
immigration officer stationed at Cam
DO, sixty miles from San Diego, Calf,
was run down and killed by an auto
mobile when he attempted to halt the
machine in a search for smugglers.
Lieut. Frank Stanford was killed and
Homer Adams. deputy sheriff, serious
iy injured at Independence. Kan,
when an aeroplane they were flying
fell 100 feet Stanford was u candi-
date for representative in the August
primaries
Reports from the lower Yakima val
ley, in Washington, which was flooded
by clOudburst, indicate an estimated
damage of $25O,OOO Railroad tracks
were washed out between Mills Sid
ing and Granger, reclamation canals
broken, and many fruit ranches flooded
and trees uprooted.
The first reported fatalities in con-
nection with the airplane patrol of gov
ernment forest reserves have been re-
ported at Alturas, Calf, when plane
piloted by Wayman Haney fell about
400 feet, killing Haney and two pas
sengers, Antonio Salcedo and Harold
Robie. The latter was civilian OBJ
server employed by the forest service.
Prediction that Nebraskas corn pro-
duction this year will exceed last
years yield by 4O55,OOO bushels is
made in a joint crop report by the
United States Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates and State Department of Ag-
riculture The report estimates 1885,
% 900 bushels will be produced, as
red to 1874, $4,000 bushels in
ATE o. Farmers Bank of Page, Neb.,
7. Hte institution, was closed on the
advice of former State Senator James
A. Donohoe, counsel for the stock
holders, and the State Banking Board
was requested to take charge. Eugene
Smith, president of the bank, was
found dead in COW pasture near Page.
Experts from O'Neill banks who have
been going over the banks books said
they had found apparent irregularities
and were unable to state its condi-
ton.
WASHINGTON
Five thousand draft evaders have
been convicted in Federal Courts and
given sentences of from thirty days to
one year in prison, according to reports
compiled at the Department of Jus
tice. Thirty thousand cases remain to
be investigated.
Railway executives have under con
sideration the question of approving
the consolidation of express companie.
as effected during the period of fedora
control or of seeking return to tn,
old system of competing companies
Whether it would be advisable for tn,
railroads to handle the express servic,
themselves also is under discussion.
Extension for thirty days of the or
der giving preferential distribution o
open-top cars to coal mines east o
the Mississippi has been ordered b.
the interstate commerce Commission
in an effort to solve the coal trans
portation problem. The original orde
would have expired July 81.
John Freedman, British subject
was executed, and several American
barely escaped death at the hands o
an anarchist band of Russian bolshe
visits known as the "red black guard
during the reign of terror at Niko
laievsk, Siberia. according to a repor
to the State Department from tn
American consul at vladivostok.
Felix Gouled, convicted of defraud
ing the United States government
through contracts for army raincoats
will be permitted to go to Poland il
the interests of his cotton goods busi
ness, through decision by Fedora
Judge Fl. B. Howe. Gouled is at libert
on $4,000 bond pending decision b,
the Supreme Court as to the legalit
of a seven-year sentence imposed upol
him.
Bituminous coal production in tn
United States from the first of tn
year to July 4 totaled 262,2T2,000 tons
an increase of 44,173,000 tons over thu
production figures for the same perio'
in 1919, the geological survey an
nounced at Washington.
Justice Bailey, in the District Su
preme Court, dismissed proceeding
hrnnpht by Charles EnirchildS of Nnv