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trict and San Francisco naval operat-
Ing base. He relieved Rear Admiral
A. S. Halstead, who has been ordered
TO Washington TO become president Of
the naval board Of Inspection and sur
vey.
Damage TO private and municipal
property estimated from 100000 to
$4,000 was done at Great Falls,
Mont, recently, by flood resulting
from cloudburst. Two inches Of rain
fell In an hour and half, turning the
streets into rivers and flooding large
sections Of the south side residence
and warehouse districts.
Governor Richardson, OF California,
allowed the bill to raise the legal age
OF girls from IS to q years to die by
pocket veto because, he said he be-
lieved girls between those ages not
only should have the opportunity to
marry but he thinks early marriages
promote better home life and i'm
prove citizenship generally. ITO pre-
vent girl Is years Of age from mar
rying," said the governor, would be
contrary to the laws Of nature and
science"
Victor NJ. Place, former football
coach at the University Of Washing.
ton, and In his college days at Dart.
mouth member Of the mythical "All-
America" football squad, was killed
in logging accident at Brooklngs
Ore, Place coached football ut Ohio
Wesleyan College from 1903 to 1905.
and at the University Of Washington
in 1906 and 1907. He was succeeded
at the local school by Gilmour Dobie,
now coach ut Cornell University.
Later Place practiced law In Seattle.
Flights which army aviators hope
will eclipse any achievement Of the
mir since aviation began will be at.
tempted in San Diego, Calf, by Rock.
we'll field pilots. The ayiators who
have been selected to 80 after the rec.
ords are Capt. Lowell II. Smith and
Lieut.. Johns b. Richter. Captain
Smith and Lieutenant Richter hope
not only to pass the world endurance
record held by Lleutenants Kelly and
MacReady. but to stay In the air
three times as long as did those two
armen. This they hope to accomp-
lIsh by taking aboard gasoline, oil,
water and food while in mld-alr.
WASHINGTON
George Peo-Peo-Tah-Likt, Joe Black
Eagle and COrbett Lawyer, members OF
the Nez Perce Indian tribe, have signed
n contract In the District Court OF Ida.
no authorizing II Washington, D. c.,
law firm to represent the NeZ Percc
tribe in suit brought under a treaty
made between the United States and
the Indians on Oct. II, 1855.
The government has accomplished
the task of living within its income
in the past twelve months and has
accumulated n surplus of 500, 100000
in addition, President Harding said in
speech ut Il meeting Of department
heads and bureau division chief, con-
st!tutIng the government business or
ganlzation.' Further reductions, he
said, would be made in expenditures
Successful development Of new
powder for use In small arms and ar
tillery, which possesses all the driving
power of the type now used and at the
same time Is sn0kcless, fashleSs and
imperviouS to moisture, was announced
by the War Department.
Fraud orders were issued by Post
master General New Against the Shall
cross 800 per cent syndicate and the
smackoyer 500 per cent syndicate oil
companies at Fort Worth, Tex, and El-
dorado, Ark, and against s. Shall
cross, S. Shalcross, Trustee, and s.
ShalIcross, bonded trustee. The order
charges that the syndicate promised
500 per cent dividends at 100 per cent
monthly.
Appointment by President Harding
OF Shade Fallen of Vinita. Okla, as su.
perintendent Of the five civilized
tribes, was announced by the Interior
Department He succeeds Victor NJ.
Locke, resigned, and will have offices
at Muskogee. The department also
announced that George Washington
Hill Of Muskogee had been appointed
principal chief Of the Creek Indian ma
ton, succeeding Washington Grayson,
resigned.
Director Seobey, Of the mint, an
nounced the acceptance of tenders of
100000 ounces OF silver, offered
under the Pittman act, including oil
tenders up to June 2. The total Of
accepted offerings under the act was
brought up to 200,520,0OO ounces
which, 1t was said, Is expected to
Iatisfy requirements Of the law.
The San Francisco Sacramento rail-
road asked the Interstate Commerce
to permit the abandon.
nent Of Its branch line from Saranac
o Diablo In California, which has
niled to pay y'operating expenses.