, 1920-10-14
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
WESTERN

western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
ii. McCheasney of Huron, S. d. was
killed and three other workmen in
iured at the plant of the Farmers Co
Operative Packing Company when an
elevator cable broke and preclpitated
The men to the basement.
Il. b. Leady, recently appointed pro-
hibition enforcement group chief for
North Dakota, has beer arrested on a
tharge of violating the prohibition
Avs. He was placed in the Cass coun-
ly Jail in default of $4,000 bail.
The body of w. L. Pierce, aged -,
Of Salt Lake City, was found in the
Mushroom of n train when it reached
Havre, Mont. His throat was cut and
conditions led to the belief that he
had taken his own life.
Deputy District Attorney Richard
Diech announced that eileen T. Aid
rich, former assistant paymaster in the
aavy. with the rank of lieutenant, had
confessed to forgeries in Chicago ag-
gregating $1,000. Aldrich is under ar
rest at Portland, Ore, charged with
having passed spurious checks on mer-
chants.
The Luders gin, fifteen miles south
east of Stanford, Texas, was burned,
making the second gin burned within
the last few nights by fire apparently
of incendiary origin. In each instance
the owners had received letters warn
Ing that the gins would be burned I'M
less they closed until cotton reached
forty cents a pound.
After hearing the plea of 10000 Jap
snese farmers of California, transmit
ted through President Samuel Gompers
Of the American Federation of Labor,
he t~wenty-first annual convention of
the California Federation of Labor at
Fresno, Calf, unanimously adopted a
resolution favoring the alien land
amendment on the November ballot.
The action was taken without debate.
Gen. Felix Diaz arrived in Vera
Cruz from T~lapacoyan, virtually the
prisoner of Gen. Guadalupe Sanchez.
An effort will be made. 1t is said, to
convince Diaz that he should leave the
country, Provisional President de la
Huerta having declared public opinion
would not permit him to remain as a
free citizen because of distrust of his
attitude toward the government.
WASHINGTON
The states of Arizona and North
Carolina were shown in population an
nOuncements by the Census Bureau to
have had during the last ten years the
largest numerical increases in their
history.
The crop reporting board of the
bureau of crop estimates, Department
of Agriculture, made public the fol
lowing estimates, based upon Oct. l
reports of its correspondents: Winter
wheat, production $50, 641 900 bushels d;
yield per acre, 1876 bushels compared
with December estimate of 14.7.
United States minis during Septem-
Der coined 100000 pieces of silver
money for Cuba and 100000 pieces of
silver for Peru, Director of the Mint
Baker announced. No gold coins were
executed for the United States during
the month, but coinage from other
metals amounted to 81, 900 pieces
a%Ggregating S2,TS0,93O.
President Wilson has directed that
on Sunday, Nov. ii, the American flag
be displayed at half-mast on all pub
lie buildings and naval and military
posts "as a token of the nations par.
ticipation in the memorial services
held for the heroic American soldiers,
sailors, marines and others who gave
their lives to their country In the
World war;"
The total population OF continental
United States is 105,8S3, 1OS, an in
crease of 1~3,710,SI2, or 14.9 per cent
This figure does o include approx
mately 12,250.O 900 people living In the
country's outlying possessions. The
population of Alaska and the total
classed under the military and naval
service abroad are yet to be an
bounced.
It was minated at the State De
partment at Washington that negotia-
tons with Japan over the alien land
and immigration controversies is pro
crossing and that there are signs of
an agreement being reached in the
near future. Whether the agreement
would be reached before the California
referendum on the amendment to the
alien land law to which Japan objects
was regarded as doubtful.
The question whether Congress will
continue the present basis for repre-
sentatiOn, one member for each 211, S77
population and thereby Increase the
membership Of the house about fifty,
or whether the ratio win be increased
80 as to conflne the membership to Its
present number. ABS, will be decided
by an act OF Congress.
President Wilson has received u
chaplaln's war medal from the Fed
eral Council OF the Churches of Christ