The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-05
THE WORLD

TlluSUufS-IHo price OF feHhSy
vania and other grades of crude OF
was advanced from 10 to rs cents
l barrel, it was announced here.
/, Lincoln, Neb.-Governor McKelvi'
has signed the alien land bill. l
prohibits all aliens from acquiring
title to land in Nebraska.
:. Washington-The oath of offic'
was administered to Colonel Georg'
L. Harvey, as ambassador to Grea'
Britain at the state department. Ht
Is expected to leave for his post mex
week.
St. Paul-Michael J.. Bowling, 6
banker of Olivia, Mimi, famed fol-
his success in life after losing botf
legs, an arm and part of his remain
ing hand in his youth, died at a hos
pital here. He was SIS years old.
st. Paul-William Cairncross, pho
neer Mississippi river man, died al
his home here. He was born In
Scotland in 1929. Ten sons AND
daughters, 40 grandchildren, AZ
great-grandchildren and n great
great-grandchild survive.
Salt Lake City-Twelve hundred
head of sheep which had been re-
lCCbtiy OhOAu, HCiO L " Ooe
at Milford, Newhouse and Black
Rock, Utah, in a blizzard, according
to word brought here by DR.. w. A.
Stephenson, state veterinarian.
The Dalles, Ore.-In the backyard
of the family home here, ~4-year-old
Clifford Watson fell into a shallow
pool of rain water which had accumu-
lated in a depression, and was
drowned. The body was recovered
Is minutes later.
WESTINGHOUSE the first step of
the fight in congress to tighten up
the Volstead prohibition enforcement
law, a bill designed to prohibit the
sale of beer to the sick on a doctors
prescription, was introduced in the
house by Chairman Volstead of the
judiciary committee.
Tokio-Because of Japanese acti-
vities in Siberia there is great inter
est here in the announcement that
James F. Abbott, commercial attache,
and Major w. J.. Davis, military at
tache of the American embassy at
Toxic, have left for Chita to investi-
gate conditions.
Pitcher, Okla.-A five year old girl
was killed and five persons were in
jured when a race horse dashed
through the track fence into a crowd
of spectators. The police are in
vestigating a report that the horse
had been given a stimulant to in
crease it's speed.
San Francisco - Superior courts
adjourned and a number of business
establishments suspended for a time
as a mark of honor to John P. Young,
veteran managing editor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, while his funer-
al was taking place. Officials of
banks, newspapers and press %associa-
lions acted as honorary ~pallbearers.
Valencia, Spain-Eighteen gigan-
tic fossilized turtles have been found
near Valencia. They are five feet
in length and will be placed in the
museum of natural sciences in Ma
drid. Professor Hernandez Pacheco
says the turtles are of a species hith-
erto unknown.
Washington-The house agricul-
ture committee started public hear
lation of grain exchanges which per-
NIT trading in futures. Members
from the cotton growing states indi-
Cdl6u d SEPARATE OlIl uodllu5 WIFI
cotton exchanges probably would be
introduced.
Chicago reduction of three
cents a gallon in the price of both
gasoline and kerosene was announced
by the Standard Oil company of Ind
lana last week. The new prices be-
come effective tomorrow. The pres
ent price of gasoline is % cents at
the tank wagon and 25 cents at the
filling station.
Portland-Dr. Robert G. Yenney,
lieutenant colonel, who COM
manded base hospital As overseas,
died here suddenly of heart disease.
hospital As was composed of
or Oregon doctors, nurses
and enlisted personnel. The national
Elks order appropriated 500, 900
for equipment for the organization.
Dallas, Texas-Sentenced to death
for attacking a 1~4-year-old white girl
near Paris, Virgin Sampson, negro,
who was brought to Dallas from
Paris to avoid possible mob violence,
confessed that he murdered Mrs.
Blanche Wadford and her ~six-year-
Did daughter near Bairdstown, Texas,
more than a year ago, according to
local officers.
Salem-"Poppy Dorothea," world
three year old Jersey COW,
lied at the farm of Frank Lynn, her
owner, near Perrydale, Polk county,
Ore. Dorothea had a record of 994
pounds of butter fat and 1900
pounds of milk in a years time. She
caves two daughters and a bull, her
'ull brother, from which Lynn be-
ieves he can develop a COW that will
the noted champions record.
Fresno, Cal.-The reading of a
elegram from President Harding of
icially opened the eighteenth annual :
convention of the Western Retail :
Iumbermen's association and Lum-
,ermen's Mutual society in a three
lays session here with an attendance
If more than 400 delegates from
Western states. B. J. Boorman, OF
treat Falls, Mont, president of the
.ssociation, presided.
Wellesley, Mass.-Increased trade
nd closer relations with Spanish
peaking countries during the last