, 1920-07-29

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
Two passenger steamships, costing
s4.OOO.O0O each, are to be constructed
for service between Los Angeles and
Puget Sound, the Pacific Steamship
Company announced at Los Angeles.
The schooner Blanca, long overdue
OF u voyage from Vancouver, b. c., to
South Africa INT given up for lost, put
in at Port Natal, Africa. according to
a dispatch received at San Francisco
by the Marine Department of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Thirteen persons were injured at
Athol, Kansas, when three sleeping
cars of a Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific train, east bound from Colorado,
were derailed. Among those reported
as having received severe injuries was
Albert NJ. McQuilliver of Denver.
In the District Court at Lincoln,
Judge Morning issued an injunction di.
rected to Secretary of State Amsberry
fOrbidding him placing on the Novem.
Der ballots a referendum on the pro.
hibition amendment. The injunction
was not opposed by Secretary Ans.
berry.
Union butchers were permanently
enjoined by District Judge ]. w. An
derson at Sioux City, Iowa, from pick
citing meat markets which the union
men consider unfair to organized la
Dor. The markets obtained a temper
airy injunction a month ago The Mo
men will appeal to the State Supreme
Court.
Mayor e. A. Book of Salt Lake, re-
signed following his confession of the
shortage of about $4,000 created in
his accounts while auditor. His resig-
nation was accepted by the city COM
mission and Commissioner C. Clarence
Neslen was appointed acting mayor. A
check was previously presented to
cover the discrepancy.
Fred Delmar, owner of a wild anima
act, suffered a badly lacerated arm and
other injuries when attacked by a lion
I'm a cage at the fair grounds in Sioux
City, Iowa. The attack was made after
Delmar had jabbed the lion with q
fork. While the lion was chewing Del
mars arm, the trainer gave a mighty
lunge. throwing the animal off, and
then ran from the cage.
Mrs. William Sherlock, aged So, wife
of a prominent pioneer farmer neal
Alliance, Neb., ended her life by pour
ing kerosene over her clothing and set
ting it on fire. She is said to have
been suffering from q mental disorder
due to worry rel her two sons while
they were serving overseas with the
American army. Both boys have re-
turned.
WASHINGTON
The American Legion's plans to as.
sist in the distribution of Victory
medals nov being issued by the War
Department remains as outlined in
press dispatches published throughout
the country.
Bonds valued at $4,000. confiscated
by authorities at Detroit, have been
identified as a part of $1,000 o loot OBJ
tanned by bandits in a recent holdup
OF the First National Bank of Finley
Vile. Pa. according to the police. who
are holding two men for Pennsylvania
authorities.
Bids to supply 100000 pairs OF
shoes for American bluejackets at
prices ranging from S5.79 to $500 per
pair were opened by the Navy Depart.
ment. Twelve companies returned
bids. Action was deferred.
More than $4,000 arrests of ~violators
of prohibition were made during the
first six months of constitutional pro
hiDItion just closed. Prohibition Com
missioner Kramer's annual report,
this estimate.
Oil from nearby plants will be seized
IL necessary to operate the Mare Isl
and navy yard at Vallejo, Calf, when
its present two weeks supply is ex-
hlusted, Capt. Q. ]. Cheatham, naval
supply officer, announced. On acco'
Of differences over price, no oil is be
ing delivered by oil companies to the
yard.
Senteri Nuorteva private secretary to
Ludwig @. A. X. Martens. soviet agent
In the United States, who recently ar.
rived in England as a sailor on a
merchant vessel, has been deported, of
fetal advices received at Washington
said. He is now en- route to Russia,
via Libau, on n British steamer, in
charge of British officials.
In an effort to combat the high cost
Of living the War Department soon
Is to place millions OF dollars worth
of canned meats on the market ut
prices below even pre-war quotations.
said an announcement from the office
Of the division of sales.
Plotted by Admiral Hugh Rodman,
eommander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet,
the destroyer on which Secretary Dan
iels and Secretary Payne left Seattle,
reached Ketchikan, Alaska, in the rec
ord time of thirty-six hours, cutting