, 1920-01-15


quarters of the mining branch of the
1. w. W., was reported to the police,
union officials stating the headquar-
tiers was ransacked and records re-
moved.
Three indictments against Thomas j.
Mooney, two against Israel Weinberg
and two against Mrs. Rena Mooney,
wife of Mooney, were dismissed at a
Francisco. All were on charges of
murder growing out of the bomb explo-
sion during the preparedness day par
d in July, 1915.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Payne, Sc years
old, first cousin of Abraham Lincoln,
was buried in Ogden, Utah. She died
of heart trouble. Mrs. Payne, who was
a daughter of William Hall, was born
in Louisville, Ky. Her features bore a
striking resemblance to those of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
A decrease of $S,063, 1852, or 26 per
cen in the output of the metal mines
of California in 1919 is shown by pre-
liminary figures made public by the
geological survey. Gold, silver, copper,
lead and inc produced in 1919 was val
ued Mt $23, 124 ,045, as compared with
$31,1S7, S07 the year before.
A score of persons travelling in day
coaches We're injured about fifty miles
west of Morridge, S. D., when the west
bound Columbian passenger train on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
road broke through a small bridge near
Watauga. Ter are quite seriously in
s,,o1 l,,l Ill ,,ol,I1r will .ornrar
A New Year gift of $1,000,000 to
Throop College of Technology, condi-
tional upon an equal amount being
raised from other sources, was an
nounced by President James A. B.
Scherrer. The name of the donor was
withheld. The donation was said to
be the largest Individual n ever made
to an institution in Southern Califor-
MIA.
Ezra Perrin Savage, former governor
of Nehraska, died at Tacoma, Wash,
at the age Of n. He had lived quietly
in Tacoma for the past sixteen years
after a long career as a legislator in
Nebraska, where he was in the grain
and cattle business. "A boyhood asso-
ciate of William f. Cody buffalo
BID, he served with the famous
plainsman as a scout in the Civil war
and as a soldier in the armicT~sf &raht
and Sherman.
WASHINGTON W
An appeal to the American Pe6bIG&t e
extend aid to 100000 AastffaRs
threatened with anarchy and 6hlftheby
starvation during the winter ltas Seen
forwarded to Washington byeyBehuf
Eichoff. who is head of the AHpEc;h
peace delegation. 4 the p
1t may require S175,OOO to 100000
to send the American athletes QniR
Antwerp Olympic games. The(EVA
will include track and field athletes,
swimmers, cyclists, markSmen, fqe58zA
players, horsemen and fencers and
will sail early in July. The games, as
at present planned, are to start ubout
Aug. 10 and continue three or four
weeks.
BY a vote of 6 to 5, the House mill
tary affairs committee refused to APP
prove of a bill giving the rank of lieu
tenant general to Major Generals
Liggett and Billiard. Proposals for
that rank for Major General Crowder
and General March have not been acted
upon.
There will be no summary action by
the House to eject Victor Berger,
elected from the Fifth Wisconsin dis
trict after being barred from the House
last fall because of alleged ~disloyalty.
Representative Mann of Illinois an
nounced he would object to summary
action and would demand that the Ber-
ger case be given committee consider
alton in order to protect the rights of
the voters Of Wisconsin.
Minimum salaries of $4,000 for am
bassadors and $4,000 for ministers,
with government-owned embassy build
ings and allowances for upkeep were
recommended to the House foreign af-
fairs committee by Secretary Lansing.
The committee is holding hearings on
the annual diplomatic and consular
service appropriation bill. Ambassa-
doris now receive ST. 500 and ministers
$4,000.
+The sum of $4,000 0 900 was realized
from the sale of American stocks re-
naming in France after the departure
of the American army, said Brig. Gen.
w. d. Conner, chief of staff of the
American department of supplies. He
estimated the value of the stocks at
S1,7OO,O 600, 900 and declared it would
have cost $75,000,000 to take them back
to America.
Some Of the changes in railroad OPP
Grafton adopted during the period of
government control will be continued
after the roads are returned to private
operation on March 1.