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will WASHINGTON NEWS.
WsT A series of treasury certificates
without the circulation privilege and
not acceptable in payment OF taxes
bills was announced Monday by Secretary
Jury Houston The issue will bear date OF
iga- April / and will mature July and
the will be for $2OO,OO0O0O or more, with
we're interest at the rate of Az per cent
7 as o
heu The fuel oil situation has become so
Ugh doanonato - Con- Antonio Taxas that
NV the fuel committee of the Manufac-
turers Association Friday telegraphed
,or. Attorney General Palmer stating that
Ieo 1t is imperative that the manufacture
,iua ers have immediate relief
the
and The original position OF the Ameri-
ef- can government that the Turks should
cor. be expelled from Europe is restated
of in note to the allied supreme coun-
clss Gil. which has been prepared at the
state department, and is to be trans
mitted SOON The communication is
zen in reply to an inquiry from the
.ens Eranch and British governments as to
clal this country's views on the Turkish
VIII settlement
ries
~ With warning against profiteering,
~" President Wilson Tuesday ordered
the abandonment of government con-
troll over bituminous coal prices and
., asked miners and operators to nego-
cbo tiate new working agreement on the
,o1d basis of the majority report of the
me coal strike settlement commission.
mos The president ordered the termination
tba of price control on April l, when the
full new working agreement becomes 81
AZ fective.
tur- resolution asking President Will
tied son for information as to the recent
in announcement by the British foreign
pro- minister that the island of zap, in the
els. Pacific ocean, was to be given to
nys Japan, was adopted Monday by the
e senate without debate 1t was offered
by Senator Lodge.
has STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
a. A snowstorm, accompanied by a
n l1 high wind, swept across Central and
~ LIS Western Kansas Sunday, covering the
-. wheat belt.
Tornadoes that struck In half doZ-
en- states Sunday caused death list
of that may pass three score, caused
,om property damage reaching many mil
H. lion dollars and played havoc with
vice wires and railway service in state
Cur wide areas. The greatest damage was
eral done in Chicago suburbs and Elgin,
the ILL.,, where the known death list was
% and number of other persons were
missing.
an %
any, An increase Of more than 1000, 000,-
lam nm IN cron nroduction was made nv
few states NJ the lower Mississinni Valley
INK in the ten years from 1910, according
to estimates by the Southern AlluVial
IA Land Association Of Memphis. The
T ~ development is attributed to the rec
A lamation and cultivation of thousands
=. of acres Of low lands, and to the fact
- that the farmers are getting away
from one-crop system, producing
general farm crops and live stock in
ank addition to cotton
the %
,all- A big rabbit drive was held in the
eps Highsmith community east of Luling
rom few days ago in which % men took
ish. part In the neighborhood of $50 rab.
bits were slain
ing %
u. In the interest of public health and
TIL in order that the state board of health
OF may more fully appreciate the prob
aar- lens confronting Texas municipali-
ties, Dr. C. w. Goddard is taking steps
DON to find out the sanitary condition in
49, every town and city in the state by
-" mailing out missionaries about gar
Ian bage collection and disposal, mosquito
on, control and water supply.
o.
Representative w. ]. Browning of
''0t Camden, N. j., dropped dead Wednes-
way day in the barber shop at the capitol
" %,
lelo Unusually high winds, accompanied
by rainfall that was in general fairly
are heavy, swept over portions of South
the east and South Texas Thursday. The
al precipitation was needed to soften the
Lhat ground for corn about ready to sprout
es' and will make it possible for farmers
now to 90 ahead with their cotton
ono planting in much of the area visited.
,are Spring gardens will be benefited con-
uits siderably by the moisture, which va
ried from heavy doWnpours to light
rainfall