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| Three of the convicts who escaped
from the state prison. at Sun Quentin,
Calf, were captured near Knoxville,
Calf, after revolver battle lasting
several minutes.
| Seventeen persons are reported dead
and more than eighty injured as re-
suit of tornadoes and rainstorms which
swept from west Texas east into Okla
loma toward Arkansas.
The defense of Roscoe c. (Fatty)
Arbuckle In the three manslaughter
trials in connection with the death of
Miss Virginia Rappe cost more than
$4,000, not including attorneys fees.
The remaining manslaughter charge
against Roscoe Fatty) Arbuckle, who
was acquitted in San Francisco by
jury after six minutes of deliberation,
has been dismissed by the district at
torney.
Gus Erickson, section foreman for
the Northern Pacific railway at Per-
ma, Mont, was robbed of checks, cur
rency and Liberty bonds estimated at
between $4,000 and $4,000, accord
ing to messages received at Mlssoula,
| Mont.
Tse-Ne-Gat, the Piute Indian who
precipitated the Piute uprising In 1915
because of his resistance to arrest, and
| son of Old Polk, Piute band leader,
Is dead, according to advices received
by United States forest service officers
| at Salt Toka Oitv
Pilot B. H. Winslow, driving a
heavily-laden mail plane, set new
flight record for the trip between San
Francisco and Reno recently by max
ing the distance in one hour and twen-
ty-four minutes. The old record was
one hour and thirty minutes.
The efforts being made by Mrs.
Angela Kaufman of Los Angeles to
aid Mrs. Louise Peete. serving a life
sentence in San Quentin penitentiary
for the murder of Jacob G. Denton,
wealthy mining man, probably will be
halted. Inability to verify the new
statement made at the prison by Mrs
Peete concerning the Staying, 1t was
said, may result In Mrs. Kaufman
giving up her campaign in Mrs. Peete's
behalf.
WASHINGTON
Great Britain has Informed the State
Department that she is ready to begin
immediate negotiations looking toward
the funding of the $11 ,OOO, 100000 al
lied debt to the United States.
The steamer Leviathan, now being
reconditioned by the shipping board at
Newport News Ship Building and Dry
Dock plant, has been renamed the
president Harding" Chairman Las
ker announced in Washington.
BY vote Of 103 to 68 the House ap-
proved the amendment added in com.
mittee of the whole to the bill provid-
ing appropriations for the Department
Of Justice expressly forbidding the use
of funds in the prosecution of labor
unions for agreements relative to
wages or conditions of labor The
amendment also prohibits the prosecu-
tion of agricultural producers for CO.
operative marketing of their products.
The United States has officially rec
ognized the new government in Guate-
mala, 1t was officially stated ut the
State Department. The old govern
| ment in Guatemala was OyerthrOwn
last December and the new govern
ment established in February with the
election of General Orelano as presi-
dent.
Woodrow Wilson's blunt and unqual-
ified reputation of the so-called "Wil-
son message" delivered to the Nation
al Democratic Club banquet In New
York by his ex-secretary, Joseph p.
| Tumulty, brought open confirmation
of the fact known to inside Democrat
ic circles in the capital for months
that decided coolness exists between
| Wilson and his former aide.
An accounting of the $35O,OOO, 900
worth of enemy property held by the
government was given the Senate in Il
report filed by Thomas w. Miller, alien
| property custodian, In response to II
resolution by Senator King of Utah.
''The final disposition Of this proper
ty," Miller said, will, undoubtedly,
have direct bearing on the economic
relations between this country and
Europe, with particular reference to
the late enemy powers"
| Secretary Fall has left Washington
for an extended trip through western
states which have large public lands,
to make n personal investigation of
Indian reservations, reclamation pro-
jects and other field activities of the
Interior Department. Before begin
ming his trip of inspection, Secretary
Fall will first go to his home at Three
Rivers, N. NJ, to attend to some per-
sonal business. After two or three
days spent at his home, the secretary
will go to Arizona and then cover as
many states us possible before return
ing to Washington early In May.