The Benson signal., 1920-01-03
AN EP|TOME OF
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CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
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SAYINGS, o DIN q 9, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
Three persons were killed and more
than a hundred were injured when an
interurban car from Beaumont, Texas,
to Port Arthur turned over, according
to information from Port Arthur.
COnStitutiOnality of state law de-
signed to curtail use of foreign Ian
guages in Nebraska schools as an
Americanization measure was upheld
by the State Supreme Court of Ne
braSka.
Purchase of 25O,OOO acres of Montana
grazing land with $4,000 head of cattle
has been effected by the Hill Land
Corporation, organized by Walter J.
Hill, son of the late James ]. Hill, JUS
tice Oscar Hallam of the Minnesota
Supreme Court, r. p. McClennan, wide
ly known Montana stockman, and f. S.
Dalrymple of New York.
A silver service, consisting of more
than 100 pieces, was presented to the
battleship Arizona on behalf of the cit
liens of Arizona by delegation acting
for Governor Thomas e. Campbell and
various organizations that had part
in the purchase and designing. The
service included large bronze piece
representing copper miner, emblem
attic of the state seal.
A train loaded with $4,000 gallons
of gin,. valued at $7,0O000O, was
shipped from Peoria, ILL.,, to New York.
The gin must be beyond the three-mile
limit at sea by midnight, Jan. IA, 1920,
when the bonds expire. The gin will
go to Havana, Cuba. In the train there
was twenty-seven cars. Each car will
contain fifty-nine barrels of fifty-five
gallons each.
Announcement that the national gov
ernment is planning an elk ranch for
the Yellowstone Park herd to. be eS-
tablished in Park county, fifteen miles
north of the park, is contained in a
letter to the Livingston Enterprise
from Stephen Mather, director of ma
tional parks. The elk each winter have
crossed the park boundaries and were
killed by hunters or starved to death
Governor d. w. Davis has ordered
q special One-day session of the Idaho
Legislature for the purpose of ratifying
the national suffrage amendment. The
formal call for the session stipulateS
that no other legislation may be taken
up. The date is Feb. II, and the gov
ernor will ask the Legislature to con-
fine its appropriation for expenses to
A0I hv nh
member, not the lawful allowance of 20
cents a mile.
WASHINGTON
Japanese yards are building two
ships for the shipping board to be
launched in March, according to the
monthly construction report published
in Washington A 1O,50O deadweight
ton freighter is being built by the Har-
ina company and 5,OO0-ton carrier
by the Osaka company
Work for the establishment of the
United Americans, a national organ
ization with proposed membership OF
100000, to combat the activities OF
radicals, has been proceeding quietly
lOI SlA (AlhOhSs ChO OAAiNNA'', ~
was announced are Cardinal Gibbons,
Otto H. Kahn, Daniel Willard, II. H.
Westinghouse and DR.. David Jayne
Hill.
Successful tests of a motor fuel de-
clared to be not only more economical
than gasoline, but also easier on motors,
have been announced by Otto Praeger,
second assistant postmaster general in
charge of the air mail service. The
fuel consists of thirty weight parts alco-
hOl, thirty gasoline, nineteen benzol,
seven and one-half ether and four toll
uol. Ingredients making up the re-
naming one and one-half parts were
not given.
Large increases in the export of
breadStuffs were noted in the NOvem
ber report of the Department Of Com
merce, but exports of meat and dairy
products decreased $10,000,000 as COM
pared with the same month year ago.
Breadstuffs exported in November val
ued at $71, 3S,929 as compared with
S66,271 ,644 for November, 1918 For the
eloVoH InOIllIlS cnucu Will NOVcIuUeI
the total was 1865, ,552, ,94S against
$7OS, 127, ,113 for the corresponding pc
rod of 1918. Meat and dairy products
exported in November were valued at
SCI, ,94S, 800, and those sent out Of the
country for the eleven months period
were worth 81 ,O97, ,724,942 against $S53,-
10000 for the corresponding period
the year before.
Frances national credit loan was
over-subscribed on the first day. ac-
cording to cable advices received in
Washington from Paris by the French
commission. The advices added that
the Over-subscription had exceeded the
most optimistic expectations of the
government