The Benson signal., 1920-01-24
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH Jews
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
eHOWiN0 TIE PRo0REeS or
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
%EoREicN LANps.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
J. B. Evans, 33 years old, son Of
Congressman Robert E. Evans of Da-
k0ta City, Neb., was instantly killed
in an automobile. accident at Sioux
Falls, S. d.
Ward McCrill, serving a ninety-day
sentence in the county Jail at MinOt,
n. d., on bootlegging charge, shot
and killed Ernie Thompson, the jailer,
and escaped.
Theodore Bell counsel for California
wine interests, has announced that
some of his clients would submit to
prosecution in order to test the valid
ity Of constitutional prohibition. Manu-
facture and sale of wine for purposes
of testing the law would take pia.e
soon, he said.
Bank notes worth $4,000 were
stolen from the mailroom of the
steamer Cheloshin just before the
boat entered Vancouver harbOr from
Prince Rupert, B. G. The mailrOOm
was broken into and mail sacks were
cut open. Police did not reach the
A dense fog, the first in the history
of Douglas, AriZ, ObScuring objects
only a few feet away, caused almost
total suspension of business for one
day. A heidOn street-car collision, re-
sulting in the injury of both the mo-
or l1tA
liSion, in which one man was injured
occurred.
American automobile manufacturers
have decided to spend $5,OO0,OOO in
building good roads in China as pre-
limnary to an automobile sales cam
paign in that country, according tO\R.
J. Moore, sales manager for several
American automobile concerns, who
arrived in San Francisco from the Far
East on the liner TenyO Maru.
Production of oil from California
fields amounted to 1O1, ,221, ,784 barrels
in 1919, the daily average being 277,-
800, according to figures announced by
the Standard Oil Company. Total
crude stocks amounted to 32,O42, ,923
barrels on Dec. 81, 1918, and 80, ,4S0,3 1913
on Dec. 81, 1919, a decrease of 1852, 900
in the crude Oil reserve. Wells to the
number of $50 were completed and rs
wells were abandoned during the year.
WASHINGTON
Payment to soldiers and sailors of
differences between their civilian in
comes at the time of entering the
service and their military pay during
the war, has been proposed in bill
introduced by Representative McGlen-
non, New Jersey.
The largest pOstOffice appropriation
bill ever presented, carrying $46O,977,-
S6S for maintenance of the department
during 1921, has been passed by the
House The original estimate was
1891, 1853, but the House added
$75, 1888, 900 for increases in salaries
, provided for in previous legislation.
President Wilson may go to Hon
olulu at the expiration Of his term of
office. At least Alexander Hume
Ford rendered the President an invi-
tation to become active president OF
the Pan-Pacific Association and to
consider residence and leadership in
a land where there is no race preju-
dice"
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs.
Lane have announced the engagement
of their only, daughter, Nancy, to Phil
lip c. Kauffmann, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Victor Kauffmann. The wedding will
take place in the late spring.
General revival Of war in Europe if
Poland is unable to withstand the Rus
sian Bolshevist armies is not ''improb-
able" General Bliss, who was a men,
her of the American peace delegation,
told the House ways and means COM
mittee.
Suffragists are specializing which
state will give the Susan B. Anthony
amendments the vote necessary to rati-
fication. Twenty-six notifications have
been achieved four special sessions
have been agreed upon-Wyoming,
New Mexico, Idaho and Arizona. Three
full suffrage stateS-Washingt Ne
yada and OklahOma-and West Vir-
ginia, where the legislature is pledged
and the governor has declared he will
call a session sooner or later-bring
the number to thirty-fOur leaving the
thirty-fifth and thirty-siXth to be won
from Delaware, New Jersey, Missis-
sippi. Maryland, Vermont and Con-
necticut