, 1920-04-29

WESTERN.
Federal officers at T%evarkana, Tex
as, seized twenty stills, found in a box
car billed out of Chicago for Mexico
via Laredo. The boxes containing the
stills were labelled "tin s~heeting."
Mrs. Mary Dean, charged with hav-
ing murdered her husband, was de-
clared insane by n jury in Superior
Court at San Luis Obispo, Cal. She
will be committed to the State Hos
pital for the Insane at Agnew.
Frank Smith and Mrs. Marshall
Neallea were drowned in West Main
Canal, eight miles south of Yuma,
Ariz., when an automobile in which
they were riding plunged from a
bridge into eight feet of water.
Sheriff c. X. Wyman of Beaverhead
county, Montana, was shot and killed
on the main street of Monida by an
alleged horse thief for whom the au-
thorities at Idaho Falls, Idaho, had
requested the Montana sheriff to
search.
Calvin Souls, 20, an overseas vet
eran, shot Naomi Souls, his divorced
wife, at a schoolhouse near Chickasha,
Okla, where she was teaching, and
then shot himself. Several school
children who had just left the build
ing witnessed the shooting.
The name of Governor Ben w. Oh
colt of Oregon was included among
signatures to a pledge circulated
among officials and employees at the
State Capitol building to buy no new
outer garments other han overalls I'M
til mex November.
The United States Supreme Court
holds unconstitutional the New Mex
leo act of 1919 levying an excise tax
upon the sale and use of gasoline in
sofar as it affects gasoline still in the
original containers in which it was
shipped into the state.
Blue denims made their first appear
ance as churchgoing garb at st. Louis,
being introduced by the members of a
Methodist church Bible class eighty
five strong. A local hotel announced
that overalls for bellboys and khaki
for maids would hereafter be "regula-
tion."
Sheriff. Mcpherson, six-pound son
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Mcpherson of
Usage, Wyo., was born In the drawing
room of the Pullman Deptford in train
No. AZ of the Burlington railroad,
which was stalled in a snowdrift for
forty-eight hours thirty miles west of
Alliance, Neb.
Two girls were burned to death in
a fire that swept three blocks of
frame buildings at Newton, in the
Burkburnett oil field in Texas. Six
oil wells were damaged and a guam
tity of oil was also burned. The prop
erty loss will probably be more than
$250.O0O.
WASHINGTON.
By unanimous vote the House
passed q bill increasing by $50 a month
the war risk insurance payment of the
government to $4,000 disabled soldiers
and sailors now receiving vocational
rehabilitation. Under the measure,
which now goes to the Senate, single
men would receive 500 a month and
married men S120.
Rear Admiral Carlo B. Britain,
chief of staff for Admiral Henry b.
Wilson, commander of the Atlantic
fleet, committed suicide by shooting
himself while on duty with the fleet
In Cuban waters.
In greeting their friends, officers
and men of the army may raise their
hats or caps under orders issued ut
Washington by Secretary Baker. A
regulation of 1918 requiring that the
greetings be by salute only was re-
scinded.
Presidential third terms would be
prohibited under a resolution intro
duced by Representative Humphrey,
Democrat, Mississippi. proposing n
constitutional amendment limiting the
term of any person as president to
two terms.
Gold imports from England jumped
to nearly $3.50 900 during the first
ten days in April. according to figures
made public by the Federal Reserve
Board. The great increase in gold
movement from England was shown
by the further statement that for the
first three months of the year less
than SI2. 10000 was sent to this coun-
try.
A resolution appropriating $4,000
for participation by the federal gov
eminent In the observance this year
of the Booth anniversary of the land
ing of the Pilgrims at Provincetown
and Plymouth, Mass, has been adopt
ed by the House and sent to the Sen
ate.
The House bill increasing pensions
TO Civil war veterans to $50 monthly
and those of the widows of veterans
to $50 monthly has been passed by
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