, 1920-11-25
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

WESTERN
The robbers who pillaged the Bur
llngton railroads transcontinental fast
mail at Omaha and secured loot vari-
ously estimated at from 10000 to ST.
100000, have dropped completely out
of sight.
Louis Daniel Giroux, son of Joseph
l.. GirouX, millionaire mining operator
Of Los Angeles and Marietta, Nevada,
has been arrested on n charge of hav-
ing attempted to eyade the selectlve
draft in 1917.
Edward Kurdish, being taken from
Omaha to the state %penitentiary at
Lincoln as a parole violator, jumped
from a passenger train near Gretna,
Neb. He was captured an hour later
and placed in jail.
Resolutions protesting against in
reference with importation of Mex
lean labor to work on the cotton
lands of the Southwest were APP
proved at Los Angeles at a meeting
of the International Cotton League
of the West.
B~loodhounds from Albion, Neb., have
been used in an effort to run down
Dennis Chester, who escaped from a
Burlington train near Broken Bow,
While en- route from Great Falls,
Mont, to Kansas City, where he is
wanted in connection with the shoot
ing TO death of Florence Barton,
daughter of a wealthy shoe manufac-
turer.
Thu lose In tha ItrIfnrfnn mai ms
robbery at Council Bluffs. Iowa, will
total at least $3,500,000, it was made
known when additional p~ostofflce Of
ficials came to assist in investigations
and n check of the insurance on the
pouches was made. The sack which
was found had been ripped open con-
tanned 100000 in government bonds,
the investigators said.
WASHINGTON
Orders withdrawing from service
twenty ships totaling more than 10000
dead weight tons, nave been issued by
the shipping board. They viii be tied
UP at Norfolk, Baltimore and on the
Pacific coast. The largest vessel with
drawn Is the Western Scout, S,422 tons,
to be tied up at Baltimore.
A decrease of 8 per cent In retail
food prices in October throughout the
United States was noted in statistics
on the cost of twenty-five articles of
food made public by the department
of labor. Greatest decreases were in
prices of sugar, "a per cent, and po-
tatoes Is per cent. The price of eggs
increased IA per cent.
Benjamin J. Salmon, conscientious
objector, on hunger strike in Wash
ington, d. c.. has been transferred
from st. Elizabeth's hospital for the
insane to the Walter Reed hospital,
Washington. Salmon has been at
st. Elizabeth's hospital since July
20. when he was transferred from
Fort Douglas, Utah. He was de-
clared sane by a board of twenty
five physicians at st. Elizabeth's
after two months observation. He
will remain at Walter Reed hospital
until court proceedings to secure his
release are disposed of. or until the
War Department releases him with
out court action.
The Japanese population of the
three Pacific states-CalIfornia, Ore
gon and Washington-hns increased
ut n lower rate since 1910 thar 1t did
between 1900 and 1910. figures an
nounced by the nsu bureau show.
In Hawaii. however, there was a de-
cided Increase and nearly half the
total population OF the islands is made
up of japanese.
An insurance policy on the life of
a person who commits suicide is pay
able, IL all conditions OF the policy are
complied with. the supreme court
ruled Mt Washington, In sustaining
lower court DEGREES In q suit brought
against the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company by Isabel IL. John
son. beneficiary under n policy OBJ
tanned by her husband.
The 1919 death rate in the death
registration area of continental United
States, embracing 81 per cent OF the
total population, was shown In sta
tlstics made public by the Census Blu
reau to be the lowest recorded for
any one year. The rate of 1910 per
1000 OF population showed a drop OF
81 per 1000 from the unusually high
rate Of 1918, resulting from the cpl
demic of Influenza.
Temporary admlttance to the United
states has been granted by the de-
partment Of labor to George Balkan
off. Russian baritone Of the Chicago
Opera Company, who. on his arrival
from Europe, was detained at Ellis
island and ordered deported by n spe-
claI board OF inquiry. The respite
from the deportation order will be for
three months and was Issued, the de-
partment said, to nllow Bnklanoff to
fnl his engagement with the Chicago
Onern ComnnnY md MISC 10 nllow In.