Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-30
Worlds News

The population of New York in
1920. was 5,620,04S and that of Chi
cago was 2,701,705 There are 545,-
173 Italians in New York State and
81, 4O7 in Illinois.
A bulletin, lately published by the
League for Protection and Evangel-
ization of the Blacks, charged ILL
treatment Of negroes in the Belgian
Congo, which newspapers have repro
duced with a demand for inveetiga-
ton.
While hunting at Spooner Lake,
men were drowned when their boat
capsized. The names of the dead are
Verona La Page. 26; his brother
Billie, IL; and Harry Guiding, IS.
Recently there have been severe
earthquakes in Southern California;
the Ipermial Valley has felt the
shocks very keenly; building foun-
dations have been dislodged; REIN
forced concrete pillars twisted, and
much glass has been shattered.
Japan has also been visited again
! by sharp earthquake shocks.
The Claims Commission upheld
broadly the 278 Lusitania claims,
aggregating approximately $22.600,-
600. The commission dismissed
$3.50 claims totaling about $345,000,-
900 for the recovery of insurance
premiums paid by Americans for pro
| two ~ rdo Tr Ito-
missing the claims for war risk
| premiums paid, the commission held
that they were not class for which
Germany was financially liable.
Manuel Herrera Dominguez Jones,
the Oldest living man in California,
lately celebrated his 114th birthday,
by serving a many course Mexican
dinner to his countless relatives who
gathered for the festive occasion.
Jones was born in Mexico, son of a
Mexican woman and an American or
English advanturer He is active
and in full possession of his facul-
| ties, and lives a life of leisure.
Mary Seymour, the last of the
Wasco tribe of Indians which bnce
inhabited the basin where The Dalles
is now located, and from which
Wasco County was named, died in
113 years. Mary Seymour was her
Christian name. Among her, Indian
friends however, she was known as
Daughter of the Swift Water"
On November 10th, martial law had
been proclaimed in Bavaria, and any
death sentences pronounced by
court martial were to be executed
within three hours. The ex-Crown
Prince has returned to Germany and
Ludendorf was prisoner because of
his part in the abortive monarchist
revolt in Bavaria.
M. S. Hershey's entire fortune
has been placed at the disposal of
the Hershey Industrial School, near
Harrisburg, Penn. M. S. Hershey,
the chocolate king and his wife es-
tablished the school in 1909, on the
site Of the old homestead where he
was born. The estimated value of
the allied Hershey companies, placed
in trust for the school, is $4,000, 900.
The ashes of Andrew Bonar Law
were entombed in Westminster Alb
hey. He was for seven months prime
minister Of Great Britain. He was,
perhaps, the most modest man upon
whom that honor ever was conferred.
S. Davies WarffeId, of Baltimore,
president of the National Associa-
tion of Owners Of Railroad Securi-
ties, speaking at the convention of
the National Association of Mutual
Savings held at Buffalo recently,
asked that committee be appointed
to cooperate with his Association
on the subject of railroad valuation.
do not forget" said he that the
proposals made before Congress by
that Association leading to the in
clusion in the Railroad Act of the
provisions for equitable adjustment
of railroad rates, have their founda-
ton in the true value of the proper
ties, and if pulled down through an
inequitable readjustment of values,
your whole credit and security struc-
ture falls with 1t. Not only will
these valuations form the bases for
the acquisition Of the securities OF
the properties to be considered into
the few large systems, but they will
also be the bases for all future rail-
road rates"
The French Ministry Of Agricul-
ture has issued official figures which
show that the actual yield Of i'm
portant cereal crops in France in
the present year considerably ex-
ceeded the crop yield in 1922. The
net yield Of the wheat and oats
crops in fact exceeded the minis
try's preliminary estimates and rye
and barley were only slightly below
the estimates according to official re-
turns received by the Bankers Trust
Company, from its French Informa-
tion Service.