The Dolores star., 1920-07-16

crime was committed October ~, 1916.
Two well-dressed boys held W the
bank of Waterloo, Neb-, twenty miles
west of Omaha, bound and gagged
Cashier W. +. Stratton, robbed the
bank of 81, 200 and escaped in AN au-
tomoble.
Pure-bred cattle come high in Iowa.
At a recent sale of forty-odd head of
the Angus variety near ptumwa an av-
erage price of SS.2l0 was paid for each
animal. "Eiluna f." prize COW,
brought $4,000.
Fred CanafeX, an escaped ffegra con
Wet, was shot 10 death by mob of
whites near Centerville, Mo, yester-
day. Canafex is alleged to have as
saulted a daughter of Frank Simmons,
farmer residing near Ellington.
In Il race riot in Denison, Texas, the
outgrowth OF a dispute between II ne
gro and white boy, seven negroes were
beaten and injured by mobs of 100 oI
more white men and boys. The trou-
BILE started over an argument at a base
ball game. None WAS injured seriously.
Francis H Cook, aged 10, publisher
owner Of the first street car in thai
city, died there after a lingering i'll.
ness. He was born in Marietta, Ohio
and came to the Northwest in 1871 H
left widow and eleven grown chill
dren.
John Neff. 16-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Porter J. Neff, fell out of Il
cherry tree at Medford, Ore. and was
impaled upon the thinning shears
which had dropped ont OF his hands,
one blade driving into his chest and
piercing his lung He died an hour
later
A force OF government hunters IN
der direction of J. $. Ligon and in
Guiding J. $. Lilly, noted lion hunter,
has completed a three weeks drive in
the Black range in western New Mex
leo. whereby they bagged fourteen
hear, five lions and two gray wolves.
This catch is said to he the largest
in several years.
Gertrude KiStler. l2-year-e!t daugh-
ter of Sedgwick Kistler of Lock Haven,
Pa. a delegate to the Democratic ma
tional convention, was drowned in the
Merced River at Yosemite, Calf, and
II. J. Pink of Los Angeles, who went
10 her rescue, slipped on a rock as he
entered the stream and fractured his
skull, death resulting Instantly.
WASHINGTON
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines. chief of
the Bureau of Transportation in the
War Department, has been designated
10y Secretary Baker TO head the inland
and coastwise waterways service. es-
tablished under the new transporta-
ton act.
Guided entirely by radio compass
signals, navy seaplane Fol left Nor
folk and flew ninety-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 AbernOn, the newly appointed
British ambassador to Germany, pre-
scented 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 turn 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 enormous deposits of oil shales
which by proper treatment yield gas,
oil, and also, II desired, ammonia, Of
value as a fertilizer" said Mr.. Gavin.
The first settlement with 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 s1,6OO,OOO in
cash, the sum remaining after the bal
ancing of the claims of the railway
company 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
pIaint of unfair competition in the sale
of liquid roofing cement. The charge
is made that false representations were
nnde by the company in its cataIog
when liquid roofing cement was adver-
tiscd as containing no coal tar. 1t is
claimed it did contain coal tar.
Representative Dick l. Morgan of
Woodward, Okla, died at Danville, III
from lobar pneumonia. He had repre-
sentcd the Eighth Oklahoma disiria in
Congrea" f"r the last twelve year-