The Raymer enterprise., 1920-07-08
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND AeouT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Between 5000 and $4,000 worth of
Liberty bonds and S5,1SG In cash was
the loot obtained by five bandits who
held up the Great Northern State Bank
ut 81. Paul.
Ten persons were killed and nine
injured, probably fatally, when truck
carrying load of picnickers was
struck by passenger train one mile
west Of Huntingburg, Ind.
Passenger train No. SO on the Great
Northern railroad, running between
Sioux Falls, :. D.. and 81. Paul. MINI,
was totally destroyed by fire near
Plpesione. MINI. the seyenty-fiye per
sons aboard escaping with only minor
Injuries.
Governor Larrazolo OF New Mexico,
decided against the plea OF Ebert W.
BlaDcett for executive elemency and
Blancett will be hanged on July o.
Blancett soht and killed Clyde Ar
mour Of Sioux City. Iowa. In Santa Fe
county in the fall Of 1915.
Following "A rejection Of his proposal
Of marriage, William +. Smith shot and
killed Miss Thelna Gutke. II years old,
at Douglas, Ariz. As the girl fell Smith
turned the weapon on himself. A bul.
let entered his heart and he fell dead
on the pavement beside his companion.
His home is In West Virginia.
Frank Hanson, a parachute jumper,
Jumped 400 feet to his death from an
sirplaDe at Casper, wyo.. when de-
feetiye snap on his harness released
nim from his parachute. A large
crowd was given a thrill as Aviator
Bert Cole attempted to dive his plan.
beneath the man and break his fall.
Cole missed him.
Lieut.. Stanley VI. Ames, commanding
the Nlnety-four aero pursuit group ut
Kelly field, is held by Mexican author.
tiles at Matamorns, just across the Rio
Grande river from Brownsville, Tex.
according TO reports at san Antonio.
Ames WIS forced 10 land on account of
running out OF gasoline The landing
was made safely.
The Navajo Indian tribe in north.
rastern Arizona numbers 7,sII, said II
BE- the largest single tribe of Indians
remaining In the United States. ac.
tordiDg to an announcement at the dis.
irict census office, Phoenix. With this
enumeration completed. District Super.
visor Sam Brander said his task was
finished and his office closed.
Detective william Goodenhour was
lstantly killed In pistol battle with
} bandit In the II. Marx clothing store
II Waterloo, Iowa. and the bandit was
tilled by Officer William Wilson, who
.ushed to the detectives assistance.
The bandit was attempting To cash an
American Express money order, stolen
In Bertha, MINI, when the officer ap-
peared on the scene
WASHINGTON
Brig. Gems. J. NJ. MeAndrew, John
/. Pines. Henry \, Allen and David G.
Rhanks have been given recess eommis-
tions us major generals In the regular
trmy by President Wilson, IL has been
announced by Secretary Baker. Seven
major generals are yet to be appointed
under the army reorganization act.
Increased passport rates, authorized
under bin passed at the end Of last
session Of Congress, providing for n
charge OF 50 instead OF 81. Is now In
rffect. Representative Porter Of Penn
sylyania. chairman Of the House for.
.ign affairs committee, who drafted
the original measure, was the first
person TO pay the increased rate.
That Sl,l91. 100 was loaned TO 204
farmers Of the United States by the
Federal Land Banks on long time
first mortgages during the month
of May, 1870, is shown by a report re-
Gently made public by the Federal
Farm Loan Bureau. OF these the Fed.
eral Land Bank Of Omaha leads In the
amount Of loans. This bank reported
t269,200 Loans closed by other banks
In May are as follows: st. Paul, S2I3,.
100: Berkeley, $4,000; Wichita, S76,.
hoo; Spokane. s75,200: Springfield,
Hs,3U; Baltimore. $4,000; Houston,
G,400. On the last day OF May there
were operating In the United States g.
e63 farm loan associations and the to-
tai mortgage loans made by the FEEDER.
al Land banks through these associa-
tions to ~. .29S farm borrowers amount.
ed to ss47, ,se0,94l.
The War Department has avalla-
bic quantity Of condemned guns,
mortars and howitzers for donation to
municipal corporations, posts OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic and Sol.
diers' Monument associations. Col. A..
w. Maish, ordnance officer of the east.
ern department has announced. Appli-
cations may be made to the office OF
chief " ordnance, War Department.
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The 102O population Of Delaware is
222,Ola an Increase Of 20dsl since