, 1920-04-15
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
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STORY OF The WEEK
sHoWINo THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANpa.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

WESTERN.
81 didn't know it was loaded"
claimed another victim at Las Vegas,
N. NJ, when Winfield Barnett, 10 years
old, was shot and dangerously wound
ed by George frost, II, while playing
with a shotgun and revolver.
Capt. Lewis p. Schiliing, SO, last sur
vivor of the Alamo massacre, noted
pioneer character and adopted son of
Kit Carson, died at the National Sol
dfers' Home at Sawteile, Calf. Schfi-
ling was a native of Ohio.
Several airplanes, large supplies of
lumber, the engine house building and
the unloading sheds Of the army avia-
ton repair depot, north of Dallas, have
been destroyed by fire. The loss was
estimated by army officers at $1,OOO,-
600.
Approximately 100000 individual in
come a returns were made in the in
ternal revenue district embracing
northern California and Nevada, an in
crease of 10000 over last year, the in
ternai revenue collector announced at
San Francisco.
Five Mexican outlaws, members of
a party of fifteen who recently raided
the mining camp of John Hicks, an
American, near Guadalupe Calno, Chi
huahua, have been lynched by neigh
bOrs Of Hicks, according to word re-
ceived at Ell Paso, Texas.
Four women were drowned at Port
Arthur. Texas, when IN automobile in
which they were riding plunged
through an open bridge and fell into
the ship canal. None Of the bodies
has been recovered and the identity
of the women could not be learned.
The car was from Beaumont and 1t is
presumed all the women resided there.
Now comes Arizona as a cotton
state. The last of the 1919-1920 Egyp-
tian cotton crop has beer picked re-
Gently. 1t will bring $20,000,O00 at
average market price. The cotton was
raised for the most part in the Salt
River valley, which surrounds Phoe-
nix. Nearly $4,000 acres were planted
to cotton in that district.
Fred Repka, who gave his home at
$50 West Ferry street, Buffalo, N. Y,
vas shot and seriously wounded when
attempting to hold up an automobile
on the road between Albuquerque and
B%ernalillo. His companion escaped,
but was caught at Lamy. A bullet
passed through Repka's stomach, but
doctors say he may recover.
Even the air isn't free any more, at
least as far as war tax is concerned,
according to Justus Wardell, collector
of internal revenue of San Francisco,
who announced the receipt of a ruling
from Washington that airplanes en-
gaded in commercial passenger, freight
and express traffic over established
routes in competition with other meth
DDS of transportation must pay taxes on
their traffic.
WASHINGTON.
Approximately 1000 of the 5000
alien reds arrested by the Department
of Justice in the raids on radicals a
few weeks ago are to be set free by
the Secretary of Labor, before whom
the deportation proceedings are pend
ing.
Voluntary instead Of compulsory
universal training, as proposed by the
army reorganization bill, has been
adopted by the Senate. The vote was
40 to 8.
Russia Is prepared to export large
quantities of platinum, gold, silver and
raw materials as soon as tho allies per-
nit the reopening of trade, according
to a statement prepared by v. KOpp,
DAIohapfof commemorative Of pnrItn -