River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-08-05
Northwest

| Northwest
/ Vancouver Canadian government
railroads will accept the schedule OF
wage increases granted to railway men
in the United States.
| Butte, Mont.--Only six mining COM
panies operating in this district made
any money for the year ending May
| 81, according to the annual state
ments filed with the county assessor
Vancouver, b. C.-The Canadian ma
tional railways will accept the sched-
ule of wage increases for railway
| workers granted by the American Rail
| way labor board, j. d. Reid, minister
of railways, announced.
Pendleton, Ore. After pursuing
| blind leads and false clues for more
than 4S hours, every posseman search
ing for the five men who escaped from
| the Umatilla Jail, after one had killed
a deputy sheriff, returned here.
Winnipeg Caroline Jackson and
William Dunlop, said to be from Min
neapolis, were arrested here on COM
plant of man who said he was the
woman's husband. He came here from
| Minneapolis and charged the woman
with bigamy. The police alleged both
are wanted in Minnesota.
| Seattle, Observation-Disclosures of one
million japanese laborers into the
northwest for stated period of time
to clear logged off lands now lying idle
/ was asked by Frank Torrance, White
| River Valley farmer, before the house
of representatives investigation COM
mittee on immigration and naturaliza-
tion.
Ironwood, Mich.-In statement
| published here, Mrs. A. W. McClaran,
mother of Lee v. MeClaran, travelling
salesman, who was killed by James
Griller, alleged white SLAYER, appealed
to the people of Ironwood to prose-
cut Griller to the full extent of the
/ law The statement recalls that Mrs.
McClaran's parents were killed by a
burglar in 1888 while the family was
living in Wisconsin.
/ Calgary, Alta-Gen. Critchley, we'll
/ known in Canadian notary circles, has
recruited and taken into Mexico three
1 battalions of British and Canadian
/ war veterans to settle them on 1,000..
| 900 acre estate according to news re-
ceived here The settlers, it was stat
i ed, are organized on thoroughly mill
| tary basis, including four fully equip
met by the British government with
an appropriation of 100000 pounds
sterling.
Lansing, Mich.-Developmen of a
/ wool pooling system similar to that
established in Michigan and few 9th.
er midwestern states this year on a
scale that will embrace practically all
the large wool producing states in the
country, thereby enabling farmers to
deal directly with manufacturers, is
part of the American Farm Bureau
Federation program as announced by
President j. r. Howard, at meeting
of representatives of midwestern state
farm bureaus at Lansing.
Chicago-Automobile accidents tooh
toll Of 10 lives in Chicago and vic.
unity in one day. There have been 2e5
deaths since Jan. l. resulting froLs
automobile accidents.
Personal
Misunderstanding G. B. Ames will
retire Aug. 81 as first assistant to the
attorney general. 1t became known he
had submitted his resignation to Presi-
dent Wilson and would resume his law
practise in Oklahoma City.
st. Major d. G. Jones, form
er mayor of Topeka, Kan, and for IS
years chief surgeon in the National
| Soldiers homes at Leavenworth, Kan,
and DanviIle, ILL.,, died here after an
illness of several months. He was 80
years old.
| Foreign
Rome-Pope Benedict has named
Aug. 20 as Knights of Columbus day
at the Vatican.
LQndon-Americans have offered
the Persian government a large loan,
according to an unconfrmed report
sent by the Daily Mails Teheran cor
respondent.
Warsaw-The Lithuanian govern
ment has delivered an ultimatum to
the soviet government demanding the
immediate evacuation of Lithuanian
territory by Red troops.
Warsaw-Representa of Poland
and Russia. are in conference over
the term of an armistice, hostilities
between the two countries being sus-
pended in the meantime.
Nome, Alaska Road Amundsen.
Norwegian explorer, will remain in
Nome for two weeks and then will
steer his vessel into the Arctic ocean
for five year expedition, he announc
ed here.
Tokio-Major General Tanaka, min.
lister of war, has informed the cabinet
that withdrawal of troops from Trans.
kaikal has been delayed owing to
deadlock in the negotiations for the
creation of a buffer state.
Tokio-Baran Takahasm, minister