, 1920-10-21
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News service.
WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News servics.
WESTERN
More than 1900 rats have been
killed at Corpus Christi, Texas, to
date at an average cost of five cents
per rat. Not II trace of bubonic
plague has been found among those
examined.
james Hess, twenty-three, pleaded
guilty at Joplin, Mo, to robbing the
bank at Avilla, Mo, Sept. "a, and was
sentenced to fifteen years in the peni-
was recovered.
All banks of Los Angeles have joine'l
in an arrangement to finance the cot
ton crops of California, Arizona and
New Mexico to the extent of $4,000
600, according to an announcement by
/. Dabney Day, vice president of the
First National Bank.
Attempts of three military prisoners
to escape on an improvised log raft
from the army disciplinary barracks
on Alcatraz island, in San Francisco
bay, failed when they were rescued ut
dawn by a ferry boat, nearly senseless
from submersion and all night expos
ure.
H. A. Dykstra of Topeka, a Ca
madam citizen, has filed suit in the
federal court Mt Topeka, Kan, TO col
lect $4,000 damages from the city of
Hudson, Stafford county, alleging that
he was seized by n mob. beaten and
rushed out of town. His attorney
stated that similar suits will be filed
against Dodge City and st. John.
Victor L. Nelson, seventeen, OF
Omaha, who confessed to robbing eigh-
teen homes, three of which he sci
afire, told police he robbed the houses
'for practice" After he got enough
experience he intended to become Il
famous robber, he said. He made no
attempt to sell his loot, burying ii
'like they do in the movies"
WASHINGTON
State department officials said that
1t is not expected that the United
States would be represented in any
manner at the first meeting of the as
semDly of the League of Nations to
be held in Geneva, Nov. IS.
The resignation of w. S. Chapman.
secretary of the federal reserve board
effective Nov. 1, has beer announced
He will enter private business and be
succeeded by w. w. Hoton, executive
secretary of the board for the past
year.
Approximately $500 acres of home
stead and desert land in the Eureka
and Sacramento land districts of Cali
fornia, will be opened TO entry Dec. 3.
the Interior Department announced.
The land is classed us non-agricultural.
mountain grazing land, and entry VIII
be reserved to ex-service men for sixty
days after the opening as provided by
law.
World peace, universal and per-
petual," can be purchased with the
SO, 900, 1000 the allied government
owe the United States, w. ]. Bryan
declared in an address at Washington
before the World brotherhood Con
gress. He suggested that cancellation
of the war debt would go far towards
the building up of a spirit that woul,
remove the chief causes of conflict be
tween the nations.
Stocks of wheat in the United
States on Oct. l totaled Cos, 0O0, OOC
bushels, the department of agriculture
has estimated. This compares witt
TAT 100000 bushels i'm the country on
the snme date last year.
Prosecution of anthracite coal opc-
A..- zoo nr.ffeanuFn I,. -. IL
cided upon by Attorney General Pal
mer, who ordered that evidence be
gathered against mine owners in the
ceptrul Pennsylvania field.
The governments suit against tho
United Shoe Machinery Company un
der the Clayton act will be rehear,
by the Supreme Court on Jan. 3. Tn,
company is charged with restraint of
trade in enforcing clauses in It's con
tracts with purchasers of its products
A saving OF 3O,OO0,OO0 tons OF coa
annually, representing S15O,000,OOO II
value and the labor of more than thlrt,
thousand miners and the release q
vast railroad carrying capacity 70
other freight We're pictured as amont
the possibilities to result from the bro
jected eastern Industrial region super
power electric system, In an addres,
by w. s.. Murray, before the Water
Power Lengue at Washington.
Financial conditions in Cuba ar,
not considered serious by officials o
the Department of Commerce, who de
clared that Of the governments actiof
In declaring a moratorium was neces
sary TO protect responsible trader
during the present slump In business
Charges of irregularlty In the awnr,