The Raymer enterprise., 1920-11-18
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WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
Fire, which swept the department
store district Of Sacramento, Calf,
caused loss estimated at $1,5O0, 900.
Four flremep were injured fighting
the flames, one perhaps fatally.
The robbers who plllaged the Bur
llngton railroads transcontinental fast
mail at Omaha and secured loot vari-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to ST.
100000, have dropped completely out
Of sight.
Carles Young, declared by Omaha,
Neb., physicians TO be afflicted with
ieprosy, has disappeared from Madison
county farm where he was placed by
the State Board Of Health. Efforts to
find Young have been made without
avail. No guard to prevent Young's es-
cape was maintained.
The legal standing Of 5000 Indians
on the White Earth reservation In Min.
nesota was determined when Judge
Page Morris, In United States District
Court at Fergus Falls, Minn., approved
blood status roll" prepared by n
commission authorized by Congress.
The action Is expected to end much lit.
igation pertaining to lands sold by the
Indians.
Following the effecting of perma-
nent organization Of the National Park
to-Park Highway Association on new.
broad basis, Denver was designated as
the permanent headquarters of the or
ganizatlon, and Salt Lake City was
chosen as the place for the next annual
convention. Eleven states are included
In the organization: Colorado, Wyo,
ming. Montana, Idaho, Washington.
Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mex
leo, Nevada and Utah.
Seventy.six counties 10 Colorado,
Wyoming. South Dakota. Nebraska,
Michigan and Minnesota viii share in
the distribution of S2l3,632 derived
from national forest business In the
Rocky Mountain District OF the Y. )
Forest Service during the fiscal year
1920 This amount Is % per ceuI OF
the total receipts received from tim.
ber sales, grazing. water power, spe-
cial uses, etc, which by act OF Cou-
N aunn Ln road and
school funds Of the counties IN which
the national forests are located
WASHINGTON
Approval Of government loan to
the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific rail
road OF $7,S82,0o0 for improvements.
has been announced by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The internal revenue bureau con.
firmed reports that crusade against
home brewing of alcoholic beverages IS
planned by the governments prohlbi-
lion enforcement agencies
John Burke, treasurer Of the United
States, n former governor Of North
Dakota, has submitted his resignation,
TO become effective Jan. |, when lie
will become president OF an automobile
body manufacturing company.
Homc.brewlng was brought actively
under the prohibition ban when 1t was
learned that entorcement officials had
ruled against the sale Of hops and
malt to others than bakers and con.
fectiOners. Great secrecy surrounded
the prohibition bureaus action.
The Washington government has
been advised that the presidents of
Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador are
in conference AT Amalpa, Honduras, to
consider boundary disputes and the
problems arising from use of adjacent
.erritory of one as a base Of revolution
Try operations by political refugees
rom another.
President Wilson has directed Sec
'etary Colby of the State Department
10 visit Brazil and Uruguay In ac-
tnowledgement Of the recent visits to
his country Of the presidents OF those
republics. The President also said he
would be gratified II Mr. Colby took
he opportunity to visit Buenos Aires
n response to the recent invitation re-
,elved from the Argentine govern
nent.
Organized workers will strike In.
itantly at the first attempt Of any en-
ployer to cut wages In union shop
N violation Of existing contracts, Vice
President James Duncan Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor warned upon
leaving the opening session Of the fed.
pration's executive council at Wash
lngton. 'The American Federation of
Labor will back them up" Vice Presi-
dent Matthey Vol added.
Decision Of the War Department to
authorize the maintenance OF only four
permanent cemeteries In France has
been announced These will be at Su.
resnes, on the outskirts Of Paris; ut
flomagne, In the Argonne region: at
Belleu wood, where American soldiers
and marines met the Germans in the
first important engagement, and at
Bony, In the department Of the Aisne,
which shall be known as FLANDERS
Held" A permanent cemetery also will