The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-07-01
THE WORLD

Kansas City-A general reduction
Oh about 10 per cent in timber prices
was made effective today in all the
retail lumber yards in Kansas City.
Tokio-One hundred cases of cho-
iera have been discovered in southern
Japan, some victims of the disease
being found here.
Toronto-Prospects are bright for
bumper grain, fruit and vegetable
crops throughout Canada, according
to reports compiled by the Canadian
Press.
Peking, China-China's ratifica-
ton of the treaty of peace with Aus
trla has been promulgated by the
government. 1t is held this will en-
title China to participation in the
league of nations.
Chicago-Everet o. Brown, of Chi
cago was elected president of the Ma
tlonal Livestock exchange at the clos
ing meeting of the organization, and
Cleveland was chosen for the 1921
convention.
Mexico City-A call for national
elections by the secretary of the in
terror fixes the date for the congress
sional elections Sunday, August 1,
while a new president will be chosen
Sunday, September 5.
Bismarck, n. D.-Cities and towns
OF North Dakota, which received
T. U faXnc in oxnacc Af n 1 n a1-+
increase over those for 1918, must
refund the excess to the taxpayers,
according to a ruling of the state SUI
preme court.
New YOrk-Gimbel Brothers of
New York, operators of a large de-
partment store here and controlled
by interests which own similar es-
adjustments in other cities, have
been indicted on 2O7 counts for prof
iteering in clothing.
Spokane-Danger that the manu-
facture of cider, one of the principal
by-products of the fruit industry in
the Pacific northwest, may suffer ex-
termination through the very factor
that promised to give it national i'm
portance, prohibition, is seen by c.. H.
Freiberg, a cider manufactures of
this city.
indianapolis = New Hampshire
won first prize in the American le-
gion's nationwide membership push
held from May II to %, it was an
nounced at national headquarters
here. The contest was to enroll the
largest percentage of former service
men. Second prize was won by South
Dakota.
Denver-The grandstand at Broad
way park, former home of the Denver
Western league baseball club, was
destroyed by fire. During the height
of the fire, while nurses and order
lies were getting patients in the
county hospital nearby ready to leave
the wards in event of an emergency,
Walter Tobin, 40, a patient, died of
excitement.
Spokane, Wash.-That a number
of lumber mills of the Inland EN-
pire will be forced to close within
months unless the freight car
shortage is relieved was the predic-
ton of L. N. latte, assistant general
manager of the Weyerhauser Sales
company, controlling the output of
IL lumber mills, six of them in
his section.
st. Joseph, Mo.-Walter P. Full
1erson, st. Joseph banker, is building
row of houses for rent to families
n which there are children. Newly
married couples also will be allowed
% occupy the houses with the provi-
sion that if there are no children in
heir families at the end of one years
residence, they will be asked to va
,ate.
New York - Mrs. Nathan Straus
las donated all her jewels, valued
1t $818,500, to the Zionist organiza-
ion of America for the development
If medical and health service in Pa
estine, the organization announces.
At the same time her husband gave
he Zionist organization $1,000 600 for
| health and medical research de-
,artment for the Hebrew university
If Jerusalem.
New York - For the first time
ince its erection a decade ago, the
Noolworth building-the tallest Of
ice structure in the worlds to be
'ncumbered by a mortgage. 1t was
announced that heirs of the late p.
". Woolworth, founder of a chain of
and 10-cent stores, had arranged
o borrow 100000 on the s%truct-
Ire to provide ready funds to meet
tate and federal inheritance taxes
which total SO 000 non