, 1920-05-06
NEWS TO DATE
In PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDEMNED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.
ed still to be in eruption. Flames and
ashes are reported spouting from the
volcanoes crater, which can be seen
from a distance of thirty miles.
Everett Morgan and Ole Marsh lost
their lives In a fire which burned the
rooming house in which they were
sleeping at Mitchell, Neb. The fire
is supposed to have been caused by
the upsettlng of a lamp.
Sacukuku, chief of the Hopi Indians,
formally welcomed the pale face to his
domains and directed a number of In
dian campfire dances symbolic of
peace and good will in a special cere-
monial at Grand Canon, Ariz., to mark
the dedication of the Grand Canyon
National Park.
Charles R. Crane, newly appointed
United States minister to China Mrs.
Crane and Miss Dorothy Reed, q cou-
sin to Robert Lansing, former secre-
tary of state, were passengers on the
China Mail Company steamer Nan
king, which steamed from San Fran
cisco to Hongkong recently.
Imprisonment for from one to three
years was the sentence imposed at
Phoenix in the Superior Court on
Harry Hurley, business man and
rancher, convicted on a charge of
grand larceny in connection with the
taking Of 1000 sacks of cement be-
longing to the State Highway Commits
sion.
Organization Of a committe of 100
''to rid the community of radicals"
has been completed at Tonopah, New.
This action followed the return to
work of miners of the Tonopah dis
trict who walked out after a handful,
stating that a strike would be called
the next day, had been circulated
among them. No disorders have been
reported.
Kansas wheat growers raised their
1919 wheat crop at an average loss of
43 cents an acre, J.. c. Mohler, secre-
tary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture, announced in a report compiled
from questlonnaires returned by 2,040
farmers ON 491,062 acres. The only
gain was in the western division,
where there was IN average profit Of
$1.S9 an acre.
According to Project Manager L. E.
Foster, there will be over 1900 acres
of cotton planted in the Carlsbad, N.
NJ, section this spring and 95 per cent
of the crop will be long staple. About
90 per cent of the crop Is yet to be
planted. The season is o on in real
earnest and it is expected that there
will be at least $4,000 acres of land
under irrigation before the season is
over.
WASHINGTON.
Judgments against the Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad Company for approx
mately $750,O00, resulting from the
Black Tom explosion of war munitions
in the company's yards on New York
bay in 1916, will stand as a result of
the refusal of the Supreme Court to
review appeals brought in thirteen
separate proceedings. Sixteen hun
dred claims a~ggregating $11.622,000
have been instituted as a result of
the explosion.
The House bill appropriating $780,
100000 for deficiencies In government
operation of railroads and $9,000,O00
for miscellaneous deficits has been
passed by the Senate and sent to con-
ference.
Henry J. Orr, ~19-year-old soldier In
the transport corps, confessed, the po-
lice said, that he killed his wife, Mar
garet, in New Haven, Conn, Septem-
Der 21st. Orr was ready to sail for the
Hawaiian islands from San Francisco
when he made the confession.
The average cost of living for wage
advanced Z per cent between
November. 1919. and March. 1920. ac-
cording to a report made public by
the national Industrial conference
board. This makes a total of 94.8 per
cent since July. 1914, and Of 81 per
cen within one year., the report said.
Government revenues since Septem-
Der, 1917, about equalled revenues for
the fifty-five years prior to that year.
The Internal Revenue Bureau an
nounced, that In the two and one-half
years of wal taxation, revenue receipts
aggregated $11,4S1, 100000. while for
the fifty-five rear period they were
$11, $3.50, OO0. 900.
Collection of the nations axes last
year cost the government SO cents for
each 500 in revenue, according TO a
statement by the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. Total collections for the
year were $3.50, 150. 1000. and total ex-
pendItures in collecting that amount
of $685. 73. 900. the statement declared.
Van H. Manning. director of the
bureau of mines. has Resigned. effec-