, 1920-07-15
NEWS TO DATE
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THE WORLD.
nuDINn TUE DkcT WEEK
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN


WESTERN
Ebert w. Blancett, convicted of the
murder of Clyde Armour, was hanged
in the Jail yard at santa Fe. The
crime was committed October %, 1916.
Two well-dressed boys held up the
bank of Waterloo, Neb., twenty miles
west of Omaha, bound and gagged
Cashier w. II. Stratton, robbed the
bank Of $500 and escaped in an au-
tomobile.
Pure-bred cattle come high in Iowa.
At a recent sale of ~forty-Odd head of
the Angus variety near Otumwa, an av-
erage price of $3,21O was paid for each
animal. "Elluna E." a prize cow,
brought $4,000.
Fred Canafex, an escaped negro con-
vict, was shot to death by a mob of
whites near C~enterville, Mo-, yester.
day. Canafex is alleged to have as.
saulted a daughter of Frank Simmons,
n farmer residing near Ellington.
a. a race riot in Denison, Texas, the
outgrowth of a dispute between a ne
gro and white boy, seven negroes were
beaten and injured by mobs of 200 or
more white men and boys. The trou-
Bile started owe an argument at a base
ball game. None was injured seriously.
Francis H. Cook, aged 10, publisher
of the first newspaper in Spokane and
owner of the first street car in that
city, died there after a lingering i'll
ness. He was born in Marietta, Ohio,
and came to the Northwest in 1871. He
left a widow and eleven grown chill
dren.
John Neff, 16-year-old sol of Mr..
and Mrs. Porter J. Neff. fell out Of a
cherry tree at Medford, Ore, and was
impaled upon the thinning shears
which had dropped out of his hands,
one blade driving into his chest and
piercing his lung. He died an hour
later.
A force of government hunters un-
der direction of j. S. Lyon and in
Guiding J. S. Lilly, noted lion hunter,
has completed a three weeks drive in
the Black range in western New Mex
leo, whereby they bagged fourteen
bear, five lions and two gray wolves.
This catch is said to be the largest
in several years.
Gertrude Kistler, ~12-year-old daugh-
ter Of Sedgwick Kistler of Lock Haven.
Pa, a delegate to the Democratic ma
tional convention, was drowned in the
MERGED River ct Yosemite, Calf, and
81. ]. Pink of Los Angeles, who went
to her rescue, slipped on a ock as he
entered the stream and fractured his
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WASHINGTON
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, chief of
the Bureau of Transportation in the
War Department, has zee designated
by Secretary Baker to head the inland
and coastwise waterways service, es'
tablished under the new t%ransporta-
ton act.
Guided entirely by radio compass
signals, navy seaplane Fol left Nor,
folk and flew n~inety-five miles on a
"bee-line'' to pick up the battleship
Ohio at sea, with no knowledge at the
time of taking the air of the vessels
location. The airplane then navigated
its return to Norfolk entirely by radio
compass.
Lord Afternoon, the newly appointed
British ambassador to Germany, pre-
sented his credentials to President
Ebert at Berlin. He declared that the
world crisis will be overcome only by
general collaboration of which the
basis is maintenance of firm, friendly
alliances and strict execution of the
peace treaty"
The United States must turf to the
oil shales of Utah, Colorado. Wyom.
ing and Nevada as sources of oil sup
ply for the future, according to Mar.
tin j. Gavin, refinery engineer of the
Bureau of Mines. ''These states con
tain enormou deposits of oil shales
which by proper treatment yield gas
oil, and also, If desired, ammonia, OF
value as n fertilizer" said Mr.. Gavin
The first settlement with a railroad
company of all claims arising out OF
federal operation has been announced
by the railroad administration, which
has agreed to pay the Spokane, Port,
land & Seattle railroad $1,600,000 In
cash, the sum remaining after the bal
ancing of the claims of the railway
against the government and
of the government against the railroad
company.
The federal trade commission has
cited Montgomery, Ward & Co., Chica'
20 mail order house, in a formal com
plant of unfair competition in the sale
of liquid roofing cement. The charge
is made hat false representations were
made by the company in its c%atalog
when liquid roofing cement was adver.
tised as containing no conl tar. 1t is
claimed it did contain Goa tar.
Representative Dick L. Morgan OF
Woodward, Okla, died at Danville, Ill,
from lobar He had reDre.