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Damage estimated at 100000 was
caused at Filler, Idaho, by fire which
destroyed nearly an entire business
block.
Two unmasked men entered the
jewelry store Of Peter Shulla, in Kan
sas City, bound and gagged him and
then rifled the safe ut their leisure.
They took diamonds. bracelets and
watches valued at $4,000.
II. G.. Bills, automobile dealer of
Biackfoot, Idaho, was killed when
racing automobile he was testing out
on the county fair grounds dirt track
threw tire when the machine was
speeding at the rate of sixty miles an
hour.
A serious scourge of flies and in
sects is attacking cattle and horses In
western Oklahoma counties, according
to reports received at Oklahoma City
by the State Board of Agriculture
Autumn plowing with animals has been
discontinued in some sections, it was
reported
Telephone and Telegraph Company OF
Cumberland, Tenn: the Nashville
Light and Power Company and an
Anglo-French war loan, to the total
value of $4,000, were located in
lodging house at San Francisco with
the arrest of Jem Smith on statutory
charge.
Montana wool growers, through
their organization, perfected at a
meeting held at Helena, Mont, will
deliver finished blankets and cloth
for mems and women's clothing, made
from virgin wool from Montana, to
the consumers at "A price that will
eliminate the profits which now pre-
vail between the grower and the ulti-
mate consumer.
Mrs. Irene Root Gordon of San
Francisco has obtained an annulment
of her marriage to James NJ. (Blue
beard) Watson, confessed murderer
of nine women whom he had married,
and who is now serving a life term in
San Quentin state penitentiary. Mrs
Gordon said she was married to Wat
son at Sacramento, March 1S, 1919,
and that he left her shortly there
after.
which was announced by the census
bureau as 3,426,536, an increase of L.
04S,987, or AL per cent in the last ten
years, has outgrown Indiana and Geor-
gia. California, which ranked as the
twelfth state ten years ago, will rank
in tenth place or above. The numeri-
cal increase OF the state is the largest
In its history.
WASHINGTON
The state department at Washington
has been advised that Rumania had de-
posted Its ratification of the peace
treaty, bringing the number of sigma
tories up to twenty-six.
In defense of the American occu-
patton of Haiti, the state department
asserted that "the work which the
United States government undertook
to do Ia nearing completion and upon
Its completion this government hopes
to withdraw and leave the administra-
ton of the island to the unaided eff
forts of the Haitian people,"
Contracts for three new air mail
routes, at a total cost of $S5,OOO a
year, have been awarded by the Post
office Department to the Lawson Air
Line Company of Chicago.
First reports of an analysis of Amer
lean freight traffic on railroads, be-
gun this year by the Interstate Com
merce Commission have been issued,
and show that during the first quarter
of 1920, railroads moved S007, ,435 cars
Of freight, aggregating 275,931 ,6O3 |
tons
Attorney General Palmer, it was de-
clared at the department of justice, |
would use the Wall street explosion |
outrage as a lever upon Congress for |
legislation to strengthen the arm of |
the department for handling "Red" agi-
tators in the country who seek to over |
throw the government.
A pronounced drop in the general |
level of wholesale prices during Aug |
ust has been reported by the, depart
ment of labor Measured by changes |
In the index numbers of the bureau of |
labor statistics, the decrease was Az |
Per cent. Foodstuffs showed the great
est price recessions, the decrease aver
aging more than 10 per cent Farm
products declined nearly per cent
The total population of the United |
States, exclusive of outlying posses
sions, will be found to be in the neigh |
borhood Of 105,769,1 ,1oe, according to
preliminary and unofficial estimates |
of .statisticians of the United States |
census bureau. This will mean an in
crease over the 1910 population of the
United States. which was 91,972, ,266,
of 13,795,S40 persons.
Premier Alexandra Millerand has
agreed TO be a candidate for the presi- |
dency of the republic of France to |