Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-04-04
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CHICAGO. - Wilson & Company's
annual report shows a sales increase
to s275.00O,0O0 and operating profits
twice Of those Of the previous year,
according to Thomas e. Wilson, pres
ident.
PEKIN.-The british foreign Office
has transmitted demand to the Chi
nese authorities for the trial Of Col.
Chen Kuo-hsien, who is declared to
have attacked a British subject of
the name Of Bessel, railway official
at Fengtai. It is demanded that the
trial take place In the presence Of two
British observers. The Chinese gov
eminent had previously reported that
Colonel Chen had been contaminated
and sentenced to eight months i'm
prisonment for tn assault on Bessel.
The British legation, however, later
was informed that the sentence had
been committed to % days and Col.
Chen only held in nominal custody,
BEND, Ore.-A wagon drawn by the
same power that moved pioneers west
ward across the continent in early
days, slow but reliable oxen, was in
Bend on the final lap Of a 3,0O0-mile
trip from Connecticut to Oregon. The
oxen were driven by ]. c. Berrang,
who is accompanied on his slow trek
across the United States by his wife.
Berrang said he had headed the oxen
toward the western prairies and noun
tains on December /, 1920. The Rocky
Mountains were crossed last year in
December, Berrang said. the deepest
snow encountered being four feet. The
trip Of the Berrangs will end at Med
ford, where they intend to make their
home.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska Sergt. HUI
bert Thorne of the Canadian mounted
police arrived recently at Fort Yukon,
Alaska, $50 miles north Of here, and
reported that he executed two Eski-
mos at Herschel Island, in the Arctic
Ocean, near the mouth of the Mac
kenzie River, February 1, for the muir
der of two white men. The Eskimos
met death without fear, said advices
received here from Sergeant Thorne,
and declared on the scaffold that the
police had long been enemies Of their
people. They remained in good spir-
it's until the hour of death. Men who
assisted Sergeant Thorne In the exc
cution remained at Herschel Island to
go out by way of the Mackenzie River,
after navigation has opened.
| MONTREAL, Quebec. - The crack
train of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
the Trans-Canada, run every summer,
will make the trip from Montreal to
Vancouver in 80 hours, instead Of 90
hours, the schedule run for last year.
Previously the 92-hcIr run was the
fastest continental run in North Am
erica, and the two hours cut off this
time adds to it's superiority for travel
between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
PAEIS.-The introduction of Amer
lean cigarettes on the French market
is considered by many to account in a
small degree for the largely increased
sale of tobacco France during the
month of January.
According to advices received by the
Bankers Trust Company of New York
| from it's French information service
the sales of tobacco in France during
the month of January exceeded sales
for the same month last year by Frs.
1928, 900, the amount of sales having
risen from Frs. 133,983,00O to Frs.
161, 5000
| LIVINGSTON, Mont.-Calvin Coo.
idge, president Of the United States,
was formally invited by the Living
ton Chamber of Commerce to off.
:iate at the formal opening of Yellow.
| tone Park to take place at the north
| ern gateway at Gardiner, Mont, June
| 20.
NGTON.-Measures for cop
ing with what he described as the in