The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-07-02
The WORLD

Kansas City-A general reductio,
OF about 10 per cent in timber price
was made effective today in all th,
retail lumber yards in Kansas City.
TOkfO-One hundred cases of cho
lera have been discovered In southern
japan, some victims of the disease
being found here.
Toronto-Prospec are bright TO,
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
trta has been promulgated by the
government. 1t is held this will en-
title China to participation in the
league OF nations.
Chicago Everett o. Brown, of Chi
cago was elected president of the Ma
tional 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 l..
while a new president will be chosen
Sunday, September 5.
bismarck, N. D.-Cities and towns
n ri !, n@1r 81
1919 taxes in excess of 10 per cent
increase over those for 1918, must
refund the excess to the taxpayers.
according to ruling of the state su-
preme court.
New YOrk-GimbeI 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 207 counts for prof
iteering in clothing.
Spokane-Dange that the manu-
facture of cider, one of the principal
by-products of the fruit industry in
,he Pacific northwest, may suffer ex-
termination through the very factor
hat promised to give it national i'm
".
Fre1berg, cider manufacturer of
his city.
Indianapolis = New Hampshire
Won first prize in the American Ie-
,ion's nationwide membership push
leld from May II to %, it was an
bounced at national Headquarters
lere. The contest was to enroll the |
argest 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
estroyed by fire. During the height
1 the fire, while nurses and order
les were getting patients in the
ounty hospital nearby ready to leave
he wards in event of an emergency,
Walter Tobin, 40, a patient, died of
excitement.
Spokane, Wash.-That a number
t lumber mills of the Inland EN-
ire will be forced to close within
wo months unless the freight car
hortage is relieved was the predfc-
on OF L. N. Tatte, assistant general |
lanager of the Weyerhauser Sales
controlling the output of
lie IL lumber mills, six of them in
lis section.
st. Joseph, MO.-Walter P. Full
erson, St. Joseph banker, is building
row OF houses for rent to families :
| which there are children. Newly
arried couples also will be allowed |
occupy the houses with the provi-
on that if there are no children in
leir families at the end of one years
'sidence, they will be asked to va
tie.
New York = Mrs. Nathan Straus
rs donated all her jewels, valued
$S18,500, to the Zionist organiza-
On of America for the development
medical and health service in Pa
slime, the organization announces.
the same time her husband gave
e Zionist organization 100000 for
health and medical research de-
rtment for the Hebrew university
Jerusalem.
New York - For the first time
ace its erection a decade ago, the .
OolwOrth buildfng-the tallest Of :
;e structure in the worlds to be
numbered by mortgage. 1t was
nounced that heirs of the late F.
Woolworth, founder of chain of
and 10-cent stores, had arranged
borrow 100000 on the struct-
e to provide ready funds to meet
tie and federal inheritance taxes
ich fofo1 go nm mn