, 1921-06-30

WESTERN
Unofficial details of IA fight between
Mexican federal troops and about fifty
alleged bandits near I~uisaChito, south
of Nuevo Laredo, give the number of
soldiers dead as eight and 200 wound
ed. Bandit casualties are unknown
and no further trace of the band has
been found by pursuing federal troops,
reports ut Laredo, Texas, said. =
Two army aviators, sent from Ma
Their field, Sacramento, Calf, ut the
request of the coroner of I'll Dorado
county, located the bodies of two
young women and Il man that had been
drowned in Fallen Leaf lake. In the
search for the bodies the aviators. Har-
old Zufall, cadet aviator, and Private
Kraut, twice narrowly escaped death
in two 1,400-foot falls.
Because, he said, John Schnier,
farmer, couldn't or wouldn't pay
him S115 he claimed was due him, VIII
Maddox, farm hand. shot and killed
the former at his farm neal Fender,
Neb. Maddox then forced George
koin, Schnier's uncle, who was visiting
the farm, to drive him toward West
Point, but n posse overlook them near
Fender and Maddox surrendered.
The Paulsen ranch at Lewiston, the
best farm in Trinity county, California,
has been sold for $4,000 to Lewis Gar
della, an Oroville gold miner, who will
turn the alfalfa fields of the ranch
upside down to get the S1.500,OO0 in
placer gold which the log of the pros
pectOr's drill holes says is there. The
farm of 300 acres is split by the Trim
ity river; which will furnish water for
the dredging operations.
Latest efforts to obtain some trace
of the missing tug Conestoga have re-
suited in failure, with the return to
San Diego of five torpedo boat de-
stroyers that have beer engaged in an
extensive search for a derelict reported
TO have been sighted off the lower
California coast. The d~estroyers left
following a report by officers o. the
steamship Floridlan that a derelict of
about the same length as the Conesto-
ga, had been sighted about $50 miles
south of there. A thorough search of
the coast and Of the ocean for a dis
lance of 100 miles from land failed to
find the derelict.
WASHINGTON
Permission to make the first photo
graph of President Harding seated In
his desk in the executive offices has
been granted to Benjamin Grey of
New York, n wounded soldier, trained
in photography by the federal voca-
tional educational system. The az
pointment was made by Chairman
Kahn of the House military commit
tee.
The new Volstead bill designated to
make the eighteenth amendment air
tight, appears to be blocked by an ar
ray of opposition composed largely of
dry" congressional leaders who are
fearful that prohibition enforcement, If
carried to extreme, may defeat its own
ends. The bill not only would prohibit
the prescription of beer as medicine
but would lay down new and drastic
regulations for the use of industrial
alcohol.
Congress will be virtually on a sum
mer vacation schedule soon. taking
three-day recesses under agreement
that no important business shall be
transacted until fiscal legislation is
ready. Meanwhile work on perfecting
the tariff and taxation measures will
continue in committee rooms.
At least S500,0oO will be required for
the relief and rehabilitation" of the
stricken people of Pueblo, Governor
shoup of Colorado declared in a tele-
gram TO Secretary Weeks, made public
M Washington. He protested against
the impression which, he
said, had been created by a recent
statement of Mr.. Weeks summarizing
activities of the War Department in
the flood area.
Instructions have beer sent to all
federal prohibition directors to rein
state all reliable and trustworthy en-
forcement agents, It has been an
nouneed by the prohibition bureau. Be
cause OF lack Of funds about 700
agents were laid off in May, but with
the deficiency appropriation of $780,
600 made available by Congress, II was
explained hat the bureau would be
able to fill out its force.
Austria has signed the protocol Of
the permanent court OF international
Justice under the League of Nations.
She was the thirty-elghth slguatory.
Seven have accepted the clause for
compulsory Jurisdiction Of an nrbltra-
tlon Of international disputes by the
court.
Maj. Gen. Peyton G. March. chief Of
staff Of the army, viii retire from nc
tive service on Nov. L. He win be sue
ceeded by General Pershing on July ]
and will go IN leave ut that time until
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