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Lower California and instructed to
take over the state administration
from Governor Salazar, according to
an unofficial announcement from
Mexico.
| William II. Duckworth of Clovis, n.
Mex, has been selected by the Repub-
lican executive committee as the nom
inee for lieutenant governor. He re-
places Herman X. Grille of Albu-
querque, who was found to be in
eligible and resigned.
Max Short and Victor Alsop, avia-
| tors of Salina, Kan, wese seriously
injared at Lincoln, Nebr, when the
plane in which they were riding fell
from a considerable height. Both men
| were pinned under the machine. They
were taken to the Lincoln hospital.
@. Il. Mills, manager of one of
Omahas best known hotels, and a
number of other hotel men announced
reductions of twenty-five per cent in
restaurant prices In that city. Lower
costs of coffee and vegetables Were
| given among other reasons for the re
ductions.
Five hours after they had attempted
to hold up Thomas Kelly, cashier of
the Neosho Rapids, Kan, State bank,
two men, who gave their names as
Zones" and smith," were on the way
to the state penitentiary TO serve inde-
terminate sentences of ten to twenty
years each.
Two men were seriously injured In
accidents at automobile races at the
| f,r fatt Nd nn1l
car of Leo Leaden turned over on
curve and he sustained broken arm
and other minor injuries. j. II. Willis,
who was taking pictures of the race,
was run over by one of the cars ard
both legs broken, his shoulder dis
located and his head and face cut and
| bruised
A strike of about 1900 bituminous
coal miners in Texas ended when the
strikers at Strawn, Thurber and Lyra
| voted to accept an offer by operators
of an increase of twenty-five cents
per ton. Mines in the Bridgeport
fields already had accepted the offer.
In making this announcement, the
miners operators conferees said they
would meet again to work out details
of the agreement.
WASHINGTON
Inquiry into the source of the recent
shipment of Russian gold to the United
States has been ordered by the de-
partment of justice. Belief exists at
the department that the gold may be
a part of the Russian Bolshevik prop
| aganda fund.
| Fred Roberts, president of the
United Cotton Growers Association of
America, issued a call to Texas farm
ers to join in the national gathering
of farmer organizations to be held in
Washington, Oct. IL and 13, to con-
slider the cotton situation
Postal service between France and
Brazil under the supervision of the
French ministry of public works has
been provided for by decree of the
French government, according to a re-
port from Paris to the department of
Commerce at Washington
United States mints during Septem-
Der coined 100000 pieces of silver
money for Cuba and 640,000 pieces of
silver for Peru, Director of the Mint
Baker announced No gold coins were
executed for the United States during
the month, but coinage from other
metals amounted to 61,615,O0O pieces
aggregating S2,7S0,930.
Investigation by the Postoffice De-
partment of recent postal airplane
accidents in which pilots lost their
lives when the machines caught fire
In air has shown that the primary
cause was defective gasoline feed
system. Charges that the accidents
| were attributable to carelessness of
employees were repudiated by the de-
partment's announcement.
The 1920 census will show that
the population of the United States
is 105,750, 900. If the present rate of
the increase shown in the count is
sustained, according to the census
bureau. With the figures nearly
complete. the population of 1920
shows an increase of fifteen per
cent over 1910. when the total num-
Der of persons in the country was
91,972,266.
West Virginia, with population of
1,463,610, an increase of 242,491 or
nineteen and nine-tenths per cent over
1910, has passed Maryland in the
relative standing of the states. West
Virginia stood twenty-eighth in 1910
and Maryland twenty-seventh.
Superseaplanes, with a cruising
radius sufficient to enable them to
cross the Pacific ocean, now are un-
der construction and probably will be
available for use by the navy depart
ment early next spring, said an an
nouncement In Washington by the
Manufacturers Aircraft Association.