IOP OF HEAD
BLOWN Off
Pueblo. June 7.—Ernes; E. With
ers. a prominent citizen of this city,
while driving clown Oraml Avenue,
hail the top of his head blown otT.
It is presumed th.it the shot came
from a riot sun. His young son sit
ting at his side In the machine w;u
uninjured.
Si. CORDOVA
.SB
Seattle. June 7.—The S. S. Cor
dova. sot away for St. Michael yes
terday afternoon. Aboard the steam
ship were eighty-seven Yukon Nav
igation employes, with a large cargo
of freight.
Mineola. June «.—Miss Laura
Iiromwell. the holder of the loop and
speed records for women aviators
was killed yesterday afternoon when
the aeroplane which she was driving
crashed to the ground from a height
of a thousand feet.
SOYIKT t'HIKKS CllKATlV(i
Riga. May.—Moscow Is near star
vation. it is said in reports from that
city, because peasants refuse u> sell
their corn and are keeping it for
seed.
Governmental commissions sent t >
nearby villages to purchase corn arc
said to have returned empty handed.
Several million poods of corn have
been destroyed by rebellious ele
ments in the Caucasus region.
The economic soviet of Moscow has
issued an order that state supplier
will be granted only to working men
and children. Since the first of April
th>s supply, however, has consisted
of only one pound of bread each
week.
Workers are leaving Moscow to
hunt for food in the villages. A
pound of bread sold for 1.S00 rubles
two ago. and it is declared thetao
two weeks ago. and it is declared
the price today is 3.000 rubles.
Sugar is selling at IS.000 rubles a
pound.
The high soviet officials import
large quantities of food for their
own use twice a week by diplomatic
couriers from Latvia and Ksthonia.
These shipments are made in the
guise of "diplomatic baggage" and
sometimes amount to whole carloads.
They are treated with contempt by
the population of the Baltic states
and when a certain box of "diplo
matic baggege" containing eggs was
broken at a railway station recently
the crowd cheered lustily.
Chicago. III., May.—Hugh losses
through industrial waste are being
saddled upon the nation, it was de
i San Francisco. June i.- l.yil -i
i t-'oi'thard. who wis placed tinker ar- ,
r.-i t in Honolulu, charged with ill" .
I kil'ing of tour h:isl>aivU reached this I
riiv yesterday. She is being taken
i to Twin Fall-!. Idaho, to answer tlie j
! i i.argo of nituderinr four of her five j
I (unhands.
San Francisco, Juno 7.—Senator
Short ridge. will present to Secretary
of the Navy. IKnhy, the proof for ]
charges that the officers of the Mare j
Island Navy Yard are dlscrimiuat-.
ins against former service men in
that yard.
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Valley Forge. June tl.—President j
Harding spoke from the pulpit of |
the Wood!. :ul church yesterday. The j
church overlooks the historic camp- |
ing ground of General Washington. !
at Valley For ■ Harding in his ad- i
dress spoke of civilization being be-1
set by vandals. He urged the nee-1
essiiy of faith in established Araeri-j
can institutions and a hopo for the |
day of i - ace and good will thrnou:
t!.e world.
dared today at a :i ' n.il forum held
lu connection with the meeting of;
the Aemrican Society of Mechanical
Engineer . Leading engineers, man
ut'aciurers. t. ..nologbt-s and educa
tors heard a sharp indictment of
methods i:i American industry by I.. ,
W. Wall: . •. of W." '.in. ton, execu
tive secretaary of the American En-j
gineeri:. con:: .1 of tiie Federated
Arm rii ::-i Engineering Societies.
The American people, he said
"were paying ;• stupendous subsidy"
through changing styles in women's •
bats, shoes and Ulnary. Every time
fashion decreed .. -light style change
: in the cut of a lapel of a man's j
! coat, more '_iv.it waste occurred, lie
said. Knack of effective planning of
I elevators in Mvat centers like Chi-■
I cago and Now Vork, industrial de-1
(sign of locon.M'ives and the commis-;
sion system in 1 ousing and building ■
were ailing to the peopb 's burdens, j
lie said.
New York, May.—Informal dis-1
cussions regarding the Dominion of
Canada financing in tills market are ,
going on in New York banking cir
cles. it is siated by the Tribune. I
which adds: "The opinion is ex- j
pressed that a loan of 940,000,000 j
on a 7 per cent, basis likely will be |
arranged in New York before July 1
to take care of securities and to j
replenish the Dominion's United j
States balance.
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.PAYING THE FUTURE. *|j
Many a man has mortgaged the future fur two or three years in
just one illness in It is home. .You know some of them—follows pi
with all tho courage and ambition knocked out of them by "hard a
luck."
•. Make up your mind right now to pay for tlie future as you go— B«
store up a little of your income against the time when fate calls h
upon you to sign over your liberty and happiness to debt.
< After you bar* gotlen started you will be surprised how much
better you feel.
Bank of AlasRa j
TO HUME
SKIT IREAir
t
Washington. June .7.—President
ii., il. - !.i, • been requester to nego
tiate a treaty with (.Jreat Britain 0:1
account of the Salmon industry. The
aid of the treaty is the protection of
the industry from unnecessary de
struction through wasteful practices
in the devices and methods of cap
ture of the salmon in the waters of
the Pacific, off the coasts of the I nlt
s'd States including Alaska and the
Dominion of Canada.
Under the terms of the resolution
nft'ered in the senate yenerdav af
ternoon by Senator McXary, and
passed by the senate the treaty will
concern the Dominion of Cinada, the
Territory of Alaska and Bering Sea,
and the waters of the l.'aiteil States.
II HUM II
Seattle. June T.—The Seattle head
quarters of the United States Bureau
if fisheries announced that seventy
ane million dollars were invested iu
Alaska fisheries in the year of 1920.
rho value of the products of the
Rshing season are given as follows:
rho value of the total salmon pack
ivas $41,192,124. for 4.429,4fi3 cas
w packed. One hundred and forty
,ix canneries were in operation. The
lialibut were value! at $1.726,79S.
rho herring $1,305,614. The cod
fl. 117.484.
HIGHEST AM) LOWEST
POINTS IN WOK LI)
The difference between the higli
^-t and lowest points of land in the
it il States is 14,777 feet, accord
!•; to the United Slates Geological
irvi . Department of the Interior,
lount Whitney, tiie highest point, is
14."i'.'l feet above sea level, and in
Peaih Valley, is a depression that
lies 2 7l> feet below sea level. These
mo points, which are both in Cali
fornia. are less than 90 miles apart,
ri.is difference in height is small,
however, as compared with the dif
fn't-noe in Hie height and depth of
land in Asia. Mount Everest rises
2''.''02 feet above sea le*el. whereas
tTi<- shores of the Dead Sea lie 1.290
feet below sea level, a total difTer
sce in height of 30,292 feet. Mount
Everest lias never been climbed.
The greatest depth yet found iu
any ocean is 32.OSS feet, the depth
at a point about 40 miles north of
t'e island of Mindanao, in the Phil
ippine Islands. The bottom of the
sea at this point is therefore more
than 11'j miles below the summit
of Mount Everest.
JV'OME TAX MAKING
NATION OF LIARS,
SAYS 1! \RV.\RI> EXPERT
According to Dr. Charles .1. Bul
lock. professor of economics at Har
vard university, the United States is
likely to become "a nation of liars,"
unless the present income tax bur
den is lightened.
RETTING ON RACES
BECOMING STENCH
Louisville, May.—Publication to
day of an appeal to the citizens of
Kentucky to "rid the state of its dis
grace and the people of the state of
this moral curse," begins the active
campaign of the committee of Louis
ville citizens to have pari-mutuel
gambling machines at race tracks
brought under the ban of the state
anti-gambling laws.
The committee estimates from fig
ures published in a sporting-paper
that more than $42,000,000 was bet
on horse races through "pari-mu
tuels" in -Kentucky last year.
London. June 6.—Lloyd George,
the Premier has been taken ill with
chills.
London, June 7.—America was |
given another admonition in the
House of Commons yesterdav. The I
admonition comes with reference to j
Ireland. America is to leave Ireland
alone and mind her own business.
"Washington, June 7.—Men who I
are interested in the announcement
of the federal appointments for Alas
ka have been informed that the ap
pointments are being held ufr'uniil
the arrival of Governor-elect I?one,
from New York. When the new gov
ernor arrives he will confer with Sec
retary of the Interior, Fall, on Alas
kan affairs and he is also to confer
with the President by special ap
pointment as soon as he is confirm- j
ed.
The Senate committee on Territor-|
ies has reported favorably on his ap
pointment and it is reported that ha
will lie ready to leave for Alaska j
soon after his confirmation.
The Senate committee on Terri
tories will hold a hearing on the I
Curry bill beginning with the first j
of next week.
#
iff'»I
Scat lie. June 0.—Ralph GrolT. a
former soldier and Mrs. H. E. Gil-1
user a poetess, of some ability, were |
arrested and charged with counter- j
feiting.
Cable Brief
Washington, .Ititie 7.—J. II Hos-1
siler. of San Kram-isio, speaking j°f-'
terday for tiie American ship owners I
informed the President that the!
S!iii> Owners will sign no nrgeenient i
with the Marine Engineers.
Washington. .Iiino 7.—Albert D.
Lasker, of the Lord and Thomas ad
vertising agency, and a member of
the American Jewish committee has |
been appointed chairman of the Ship
ping Hoard.
Vancouver, June 7.—William D.
Grant, will have to stand trial for
manslaughter. Grant is the son of
a wealthy contractor and was run
ning the machine, when Gertrude
Garland was killed in an accident.
In the party with which Miss Gar
land was riding was Madge Sawyer, j
who was recently tried and acquit
I ted of murdering her husband. The
: other parties. in the auto were:
i Madge's sister. Mrs. Al. Hewitt, and
young Mr. Smith, son of C. J. Smith,
tho Seattle hanker. The coroner's
jury found that Grant was under the
influence of liquor.
ENGLAND PICKS OFF A
GIGANTIC NITRATE DEAL I
Santiago, Chille May.—Announce
ment is made of the sale of 2,000,
000 tons of nitrate by the Chilean
Xitrate Producers association to a
nitrate pool in Louden, the price be
ing fixed at 14 sterling per ton.
Should the pool be forced to sell be- j
low this price, the loss will be borne
equally by the pot>l and the produc
ers,.and payment of export duties to
the Chilean government are guaran
teed, even in the event there are no
sales by the pool.
Ice Cream is considered one of the
best of foods. Have a brick deliv
ered by Keller Brothers for your
Sunday dinner.
OKI II WHICH
6REATER IK IMIED
RELIEF TRAINS ARRItfllG DAILY
Pueblo, June (>.—The cloud-j
hurst of Friday night in which about j
a hundred lost their lives in this
city, with the damage of much prop-!
erty was but the beginning of trou- J
bles for the people of Pueblo. The |
later trouble and loss of life follow-;
ed when things began to look bright
er in the city. The upper reaches of j
Arkansas, river were in flood from |
the cloudburst and when the city:
thought the worst of the trouble was 1
over, the Skagway dam between
Florence and Victor gave way and
within an hour the swollen torrent |
of the Arkansas river had again in-;
undated tiie lowlying sections of the
city. Two hundred lost their lives
in the Hood: a hundred undertakers
arrived from Denver and other cities
to care for the' bodies. The loss of
life was heaviest in the alien sec
lion of the city. Many thousands
are homeless, but relief supplies are
pouring in. The city is under mar
tial law. The properly loss is esti
mated at ten million dollars.
Washington—Secretary of War
Weeks announced that the War De
part mem woulld co-operate in giv
ing aid to the stricken city of Pueblo.
Washington.—President Harding
wires Governor Shoup, that federal
aid would lie sent to the city of Pueb
lo.
Pueblo, June 7.—After days of
searching in the debris of the flood
ed section of the city, fifty-two bod
ies of those drowned were discover
ed.
Washington, June 7.—President
Harding Issued a request to the peo
ple of the United States for assist
ance in contributions to the llood
sufferers in Colorado. The Ameri
can Red Cross is rendering aid to.
the people of Pueblo.
Pueblo, June 0.—The wator in the
Arkansas river is rapidly recooJ:.i;;.
The military is restoring order. Dur
ing the night rangers with riot guns
patrolled the devastated area. Much
looting was done in the earlier stag
es.
Pueblo, June C.—Governor Shoup
today sent word asking for federal
aid. He asked that the government
place twenty millions at the com
mand of the state lor flood relief.
Denver, June 6.—A portion of
eastern Colorado and western Kan
sas are menaced'by the floods caused
by the cloudburst near Pueblo.
London. June C.—N'o Bolshevik |
will l»e admitted from this time forth i
to tho land of Palestine. This is the j
ruling which Sir Robert, the Com
missioner of Palestine has promul-.
gated. The news of the ruling came ■
as a despatch to the Times.
Oxford, Penn., June 6.—Harding
attended the exercises at Lincoln
Memorial University here today. In
a speech made to tlie students and
guests the President said that Edu
cation is iho solution of the race
problem. referriug to the Tulsa riots
the President said. God grant that
there shall never lie another such j
spectacle In tills country.
EKlflClED
IS PAVE i«T
Washington, June 6.—Elmer Dov
er, of Tacoma. has been commission
ed and sent to Mexico City by Presi
dent-Harding. His mission it is ex
pected will pave the way for a rec
ognition of the Mexican Republic.
Seattle. June C.—Joft're and Mar
quis De Chambrun, a grandson of
Lafayette, will participate in the for
mal opening of the peace portal on
the Canadian boundary near Blaine,
on September sixth This is the an
nouncement made by Samual Hill,
the internal! :.ily known highway
builder. .. Hill has just return
ed from .. trip to Europe in which
these ai r: ; cements were made.
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