, 1920-02-26


WESTERN
Two heavily armed bandits entered
the bank at Camp Verde, sixty miles
northeast of Prescott, held VI CiIslier
Butler and escaped with approximate
ly 1000.
Major Gerhard Luke Luhn, 80, said
to be the oldest retired officer in the
United States army INT pioneer In
dian fighter of the Northwest, is dead
at his home in Spokane, Wash.
The price of gold in its relation to
the worlds financial situation and the
mining industry was discussed by the
Northwest Mining Association ut its an
nual convention ut Spokane, Wash.
For Il week a wolf pack invaded
nightly the western end of Duluth,
Mimi, and trappers and scores of peo-
pie Lying out" for the pack finally sue
ceeded in killing one, wounding anoth-
err and trapping a third of the pack of
twelve.
Electric operation of passenger
trains over a coast section of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway be
tween Othello, Wash, and Tacoma,
will begin about March l, according to
an announcement by A. N. Farling,
vice president and general manager.
Franklin X. Lane, retiring secretary
of the interior, will become an eXecu-
tive of the Pan-Amerlcan Petroleum
and Transport Company and the Mex
lean Petroleum Company when he re-
linquishes his official position, it was
announced in Los Angeles by f.. l.. Do
heney, president of the two companies.
Christopher C. Cole, federal deputy
revenue agent in charge of prohibition
enforcement at Tucson, Ariz., has been
arrested by United States Marshal
Treaty. on charges of violating the
Mann act by bringing a woman from
Maryland to Arizona. He waived pre-
liminary examination before United
States Commissioner Edwin T. Jones.
Declaration that the time had come
when the medical profession Of the
United States was forced to union'Zc
to protect its own interests and those
of the public" was made at Los An
geles by DIR. Charles L. Reed of Gin
c%innati, formerly president Of the
american Medical Association and of
the Pan-American Medical Congress,
in an address before the Los Angeles
County Medical Association.
WASHINGTON
Naval operation or control of all ra-
dio stations assumed during the war
emergency will De relinquished at mid
night, Feb. 20, under an executive or.
der made public by Secretary Daniels.
Rear Admiral Benson. chief of naval
operations during the war, and now OH
the retired list, has been selected by
President Wilson to succeed John Bar
ton Payne as q member of the ship
ping board.
Capital increases aggregating S15,-
O05, 900 were granted to 10S national
banks during January, John SHELTON
Williams, comptroller of the currency,
announced. This is the largest num-
Der of capital Increases ever granted
in any one month, Mr.. Williams said.
Charters were issued to twenty-one
new national banks with an aggregate
capital Of %$1,175,00O.
Mexican government troops have
routed combined rebel bands at Barra
de Nautla and Paso de Telaya, after
killing more than JOG, advices to the
Mexican embassy, Washington, stated.
Several rebel generals were killed or
captured. Several merchants held for
ransom were released.
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, re-
tired, discoverer of the North pole,
died at his home in Washington after
a two years illpess of pernicious ane-
mia, during which ~thirty-five blood
ors, attaches of the naval hospital and
many ex-service men gave OF their
life's blood in the vain effort to pro-
Ions the life of the country's foremost
explorer.
Adjustment of the nine subtreasur-
les, the offices Of thirteen state survey
o~rs-general and two assay offices is
proposed in the Legislative a%ppropria-
ton bill, reported by the House apprc-
prlations committee. A reduction of
s1S,OOO,O 900 from department estimates
for clerk hire and miscellaneous ex-
penses was made, but the bilrs total of
S1O4, 100, 600 is one of the largest peace
time legislative appropriations on rec
ord.
A constitutional amendment giving
Congress and the Supreme Court joint
power to authorize the vice president
or the ranking cabinet officer to as
sumo the duties of the President during
a disability Of the chief executive has
been prepared by Representative 8. d.
Fess, Ohio, and introduced in the
House.
Liberty bonds of a par value Of $14,-
881,95O were purchased or retired in
January aside from the operations OF
the bond sinking fund, 1t was an