, 1920-09-09
THE World in
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIoN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union New. servio.-
WESTERN

WESTERN
DIR. George L. Miller, Omaha's first
practicing physician, and founder of
h Omaha Herald, later made part of
the World-Herald, is dead at OTaha.
In the Pacific coast states theIe
were $4,000 motor vehicles and 1000
tractors five years ago, whereas to-
day there are 100000 motor vehicles
and 10000 tractors.
Whisky. estimated to be worth
$1,000, some of which the police said
they believed was struggled from
Canada, was seized by officers from
an automobile found at Omaha. nae
driver of the car was not located.
More than $1,000 acres of heavily
t1mbered areas along the Canadian
border. particularly in Montana and
Idaho, have been swept by somes1,5oO
forest fires for the past month. More
than 50, 10 700 worth of fully ma
tuyed timber has been destroyed,
Farmers near La Crosse, Wis, com
plain that, harvesting oI.isIrbeing seri-
ousiy haIapered by"i cr4ckets eating
binder twine.r on 'inahy bundles the
Irvine is entirely consumed. Farmers
who soak the Irvine in poison declare
the crickets eat is quicker than the
untreated Irvine. . -
Col. Malvern Hill Barnuiim, cavalry,
now stationed at San francisco, has
been detailed commandant of the
United States disciplinary barracks at
Fort L~eavenworth, succeeding Maj.
Gen. ]. II. McI,ae. who has beer as
,ta,,nI " th, a.,,J ..
vision ataamp Iruyis-- :
The climax of the police depart
lment's war against speeding and reck-
less driving was reached at Sioux
City, Iowa, when Judge Sam Page
sentenced James Wilson and A. C..
Anderson to three days each in the
county jail after they had been found
guilty of speeding through the heavy
traffic. --
Eight hundred ploys. harness for
1000 mules, two tractors, twenty NOW
ing u 2caines, two threshing machines
and thousands of dollars worth of adj
ditional agricultural implements pur-
chased in the United States are ex-
pected to complete the s%ubjugation of
Francisco Villa, erstwhile Mexican
bandi and guerilla.
For brevity the will filed at Seattle,
WASH, for William H.. Gordon, former
insIuctor in penmanship in the Uni
verSkty of Colorado. author of text
books and originator Of the free-hand
method of card writing, is unique i'll
the superior court records there. 1t
reads: Leave everything l own to
my sister, Mrs. Douglas Mckay, 1923
Center street, Peru. Ill"
WASHINGTON
Maj. III. S. Green. officer in charge
of the Quantico, Va, marine barracks
post exchange, was knocked uncon-
scious at his quarters in the camp by
Il robber, who escaped with $4,000 of
the funds in his possession. His as
sailant abandoned $1,000 in checks
and silver which was included in the
exchange receipts. and took all the
currency. Major Green is now in the
post hospital, but will ecover. A
board of inquiry Is investigating the
circumstances.
Cotton production this year has
been forecast at 12,7S3,0OO bales by
the department of agriculture, which
based its estimate on the condition of
the crop on Aug. %, which was an
nounced as So per cent of a normal.
Gen. John ]. Pershing will tour the
principal countries of South America
at the end of this ear, as the per
sonal representative Of President Will
SON. If present plans of the state de.
partment are carried out.
Organization of u flying unit thai
is expected to prove the nucleus of
All American reserve to be organized
by the army will he begun mt a meet
ing of former aviators in Chicago. The
meeting has been called by a group of
wealthy Chicagoans acting under a
purely patriotic impulse whose iden-
tity has not been disclosed
There will be no Woman's party
ticket in the political field this year
and the chance that there ever will
be one is exceedingly remote, judg.
ting from the views as to the party's
future activities, which have been I'm.
der animated discussion at the ma.
tional headquarters ever since the
suffrage amendment passed definite.
Iy into the constitution.
In an attempt to get u baby panther
as a mascot, members of the One Hun
dred and Fourth aero squadron fought
q mother panther and four cubs in n
cav near Sanderson, Tex, according
TO war department advices tnTWash,
instony Thes med err hithef defentsa
Combined federaI and1 SAFE expendf.
lures for o building nsy rsGch "a
total of $780, 900. 1904 dufhfR tme FtGf,
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