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FREIGHT LIRES
TAXED $ 16,548
The State ef Montana Figures Up Tax
Due for Nine Menthe of
Freight car companies operating
equipment through Montana, whose
business for nine month# of 1924. total
$827,343, will pay $10,348.87 Into the
Montana state treasury in taxes levied
according to figures completed by D.
R. Stone, chief clerk of the state board
of equalization. In compliance with
the new law. the levy is made for the
nine months following April 1, to com
plete the calendar year, ending Dec.
81, 1925. Under the old law the state
collected about $28,000 last year when
5 per cent of the gross revenue was
taxed. Under the new statute the tax
is 5 per cent of 40 per cent of the gross
revenue.
The tax on private freight car com
panies is levied on freight cars opérât
Ing on railways throughout the state.
It ranges from 10 cents to $3,500
the 175 companies Included.
among
largest contributor to the fund is the
Western Fruit Express company, whose
tax has been set at $3,076.
The American Railway Express com
pany will pay a tax of 4 per cent on
$87,240.27, Its gross earnings In Mon
tana last year, or a total contribution
to the state treasury of $28,817.72.
Cobb to Have Lodge
Old Roasting Stick, a member of the
council of the Créés at Fort Asslnnl
bolne near Havre, is to have tbe honor
of making a miniature akin lodge for
Irvin 8. Cobb.
When the famous writer was in Kal
Ispell not long ago from Glacier park,
where he Is spending the summer, he
one of these little lodge*, which
saw
Frank Llnderman keeps lighted In the
Kallspell hotel, and Immediately he
wanted one.
those lodges for my workshop than
any other souvenir of Mont a na I can
think of," he said.
m'd rather have one of
Petitions Fall Short
The original petition for the creat
ion of Rain bow county out of the
northwestern portion of Fergus coun
ty has been dismissed by tbe board of
commissioners following a
county
check of names made by the attorneys
for the proponents and opponents of
county division. A total of 782 names
was required to insure the new county
going over. The checkup showed that
there were only 857. there being 333
signers on withdrawal petitions.
Billings Boy Killed by Train
Georyc Maxwell, right-year-old boy.
was Instantly killed at Billings when a
westbound freight train struck him as
he stood on the track watching east
hound Burlington train No. 42 on an
ndjoitdng track. The body was cut In
twain at the hips as cleanly as though
the Job had been done with a knife.
Dodd Smith, who was standing on
the track with young Maxwell, nar
rowly escaped a like fate by Jumping
down tbe steep embankment.
Marker for Stag« Driver's Grave
Unveiling of a monument which will
mark the grave of an curly day stage
driver took place at a pageant held at
the L. H. Ferrie farm, five miles north
east of Plevna. The pageant of Dead
Man's Batte, ns If Is known, was
staged by the Pleasant Valley Com
munity club.
The monument Is a huge rock column
from a near-hy hntte and will have set
into It a bronze tablet suitably In
scribed.
Rasorvs Officers In Camp
Reserve officers of the 416th Infan
try gathered at Fort Missoula for the
first encampment of Its kind to be
held In the state, and which Is In com
mand of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph
Reynolds of I-ewlstown.
' An extensive program Is outlined to
fit the officers for Immediate service
in case of emergency. Officers of Ihe
Fourth infantry. Fort Missoula, arc
acting as Instructors,
War Veteran Ende Life
H. R. McDonel. of Helena, a World
war veteran, shot and killed -himself
at fhe United States veterans' service
Fort Harrison. Despond
ency over 111 health prompte«! fhe act.
official# say. He leaves s widow at
Helena. McDonel served overseas In
Company B. 841at Tank rorp*.
A young man named Osborn, resid
ing on a ranch about 10 miles north of
I>enton. had an almost miraculous es
cape from death by lightning accord
ing to reports received at I,ewl*town.
From the Information received It ap
pears he waa engaged In plowing dur
ing an electrical storm that visited
that district. A bolt of lightning struck
the horses, three of tbe seven head be
ing worked were instantly killed, and
the plow thrown clear of the furrow,
-bat not ser
iously injured, the report stated.
Osborn waa badly
Quake Topple* Cliff
Extraordinary changes in the topog
raphy of the Rocky mountains below
Wisdom, a few mites south of Jackson,
and 150 miles from Butte, in s gener
ally southern direction, were reported
by 8am Clark, Walter Brammer and
A. 8, McDonald, three Butte fishermen.
They report upper Miners lake has
boro wiped out by immensfl boulders
and huge quantities of bâti that fell
- rswi m. JW ...
jdÉSBÜ^Irolqr tpBßpWÄ along
«*** ***• wm almost com
hre fPHL
1200,000 FOI Oft UUO
Nine hundred acres of land in the
Kevln-Snnburet oil field hare been
sold for $200,000, it 4ra* announced at
Great Full«, with Capt, A. R. Collin*
of London, England, a* the purchaser,
who repreaenta both Rngllah and
American capital. The acreage wan
bought outright from the Filling Roy
alty company of Shelby.
Associated with Captain Oolllna in
the transaction were former Congress
man James T. McDermott of Chicago
and William Mansfield, Kevln-Run
burat operator. The deal was negot
iated by Mr. Mansfield, who selected
the acreage, and through the terms of
the transaction acquires a proprietory
Interest In the property.
CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
Klwanls .Stats .convention, .Helena,
August 7-8.
Golf tournament, Helena, August 1$
14-18-1«.
Reunion of Society of Montana Pion
eer#, Bozeman, August 13-14-16.
Montana Conferenca of Methodist
churches. Great Falla, Aug. 2S.
Masonic Grand Lodge, Missoula, Aug.
17-22,
Convention of Yellowstone Glacier Bee
Line highway, at White Sulphur
Springs, August 17.
Optometrists Moat
Declaring for a more Intensive pro
gram of public service where optome
trists in Montana will devote greater
attention to conducting visual eurveys
In public schools and in various In
dustrial sections, the eighteenth an
nual convention of the Montana state
Optometrie association was convened
In Butte. Officers for the ensuing
year « ere elected, F. H. Keller of Käl
tepol) being re-elected president.
Fermit Granted for Scobey Line
— Permission to build approximately
50 miles of a new line from Balnvllie
to Scobey. both In Montana, has been
given the Great Northern railroad by
the Interstate commerce commission.
Part of the financing of the new
construction will be met by sale of
company stock to farmers and busi
ness Interests In the territory where
the new line is to be located. - "
Great Council of Red Men Meet
Members of the great council of the
Improved Order of Itednien for the
stale of Monana. including representa
tives of the eight tribes of the order
and four councils of the degree of Po
cahontas In tbe state gathered at
Butte recently for their annual ses
sions.
The Reverend Fred W. Shorter, pas
tor of the First Congregational church
of Great Falls, was elected moderator
of fhe Montana Congregational con
ference which was held In BHUnga. In
connection with the annual assembly.
son. pastor of the Congregational
church at Roundup. The Reverend N.
K. Hannnnt of Judith Gap was elected
vice moderator,^ a rid the Reverend R.
R, Albright of Hardin was elected
sert lie.
R. P. Smith, a fanner south of Hins
dale, almost lost it new car one hot
afternoon recently. He had left the
car standing only a short time when
the heat of Ihe sun's rays shining
through fhe glass windshield set fire
to the cushions of the car.-Quick work
extinguished the fire but not before
considerable damage waa done.
MrsTWllllam Musselman of Billings,
well known lecturer who recently com
pleted a lecture tour in the states of
Wyoming. CallfoVnla and Oregon un
der the auspices of the Parent-Teach
era association and the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, filled the
pulpit at the Presbyterian church at
Forsyth In the absence of the pastor,
tbe Rev. C. A. Marshall.
The Find State Bank of Shelby has
failed to open Its doors and ia is the
hands of the state bank examiner with
Deputy A. L. Hitt In charge. The de
posits of the hank at the last report
were $300,000. The bank 1» one which
failed In 1923 following the Dempsey
Glhbons heavyweight battle. July 4,
Work of laying the concrete floor on
the first span on the new bridge over
Ihe Yellowstone river at Oieodlve haa
been completed. At present three
spans of the bridge have been laid and
are ready for concrete flooring.
Ix>«a from fire in Billings during the
first six months of 1925 was $19,332,
according fo the figures of Chief Vin
rent H. Steele. The lo« for the same
Iterlod In 1924 was $40,021.
Dr IS. D. Nash of Helena was elect
ed president of the Montana Veteri
nary Medical association al the closing
meeting of the association's seven
tecotb annual convention at Helena.
Cement Plant to Reopen
The Hanover cement plant at Lewis
town is expected to resume operations
again shortly after having been closed
down since a year ago last February.
With this part of (be plant In opera
tion approximately 100 men will be
employed. It was stated. Some repair
work In preparation for the opening
of the plant will be commenced within
the next few «lays The plant win he
opa«H><m for an Indefinite
time, K waa said. The gypsum ptkn.
«„q mine hate been in operation right
I
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ft "i
atoog.
SUIT INVOLVES
TWO BIG PURKS
INDIANS DEMAND $«*,707.*«$ OF
THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
Washington.—Five tribe* of Indians,
now resident In Wyoming, Idaho, Mon
tana and Washington, have fumed to
the courts of their Great White Father
seeking restoration or the money val
ue of lands they believe Irave been tak
en from them In violation of sacred
treaties with the federal government.
They have brought suit Involving land
Claims amounting
against the United States in the court
of claims. The tribes are the Black
feet, Blood, Plegun, Gros Ventre and
Ne* Perce.
Through the years since 1855, In
dians of these (Hires believe the wVte
father has been taking from them,
slowly but surely, land* reserved them
CLAIM TREATIES ARE VIOLATED
Five Tribes In Montana, Wyoming, Id
aho and Washington Will
Seek Restoration
to $88.707,843,
Some of the lands comprise parts of
the Yellowstone and Glacier National
porks.
It Is difficult for department of Jus
tice officials to estimate tbe amount of
land Involved In the Indian act lop. but
It Is generally regarded as In exceaa of
25.000,000 acres. Under the treaty of
1855. it was reserved to the Indians
for 96 years. Yet they enjoyed !* only
a few years, when, at Washington, ac
tion was taken that cansed the total to
shrink. The Indians now regard the
land ns worth an average of about
$1.25 an acre and they are seeking to
recover on that basis.
To Fir« on Riim Smugglers
New York.—Uncle Sam has started
an Intensiv» midsummer drive against
rum runners.
The latest moves are:
Eight arrests In New York as the re
sult of heavy shipments of liquor to in
land points In trunks.
Tour of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Andrews to Canadian border
points to repair leaks in the roof.
Report! of warnings to Canadian
rum runners that they will lie fired up
on In American waters on the Great
I-akes.
Completion of formalities on a
treaty between the United State* and
Canada regarding smuggling.
Impending shake-up under which all
prohibition agents will lose their Jobs
and many will be hired over again.
Chicago.—It is now worth $2,000 to
kill or capture a hank robber |h Case
county. Illinois. N. M. A. Goettlnger.
secretary
ciation, has been notified lhat the t'ase
county hoard of supervisors has passed
s resolution to add $1,000 to a similar
reward posted by the county's feder
ation of bankers for tbe dispatching
or apprehension of bank robbers
Discovery of what he declares to he
an absolute cure for cancer has been
announced In Atlanta. Ott-, by Dr. H.
F. Harris, member of fhe state hoard
of health and one of the roost promin
ent physicians of the south."" Tech
nically the treatment used Is the Ioni
sation of the molecules In drugs.
Chicago to Uae Busses
Chicago.--Arrangement Is looked for
shortly which will permit Ihe Chicago
surface lines to operate bosses as fetal
er» to their systems. The street rail
way company wants to use busses In
some districts Instead of laying further
track extensions.
Simla, India.—A radio message from
Kashgar says members of the James
SImpaon-Roosevelt expedition Into
Central Asia for the Field museum of
Chicago are "five stations away" and
are expected lo reach Yarkand soon
Kansas City.—A contract ha« Iteen
signed hy an underwriting syndicate
and Anthony Fokker. airplane manu
facturer, hy which a $2.000.00» air
will built
Kansas City.
Pierre. 8, D.—South Dnpotn will re
open It# gasoline prirt 1 cutting and
fight to s ffhlsh. Governor Carl Gund
erson announced following a hastily
called meeting of the state gasoline
board.
Washington.—Prince Blbcsre. Ru
manian minister, has been instructed
by his government to return to Buch
arest to dtsenss the Rumanian-Amcr
lean debt situation.
Mge hue a ccep t e d the resignation oT
pant Henderson, a* second assistant
Swampscott. Mas*.—President Cool
postmaster general.
•6,000 Btri;«ere In Belgium
Brussels.—Twcnty thousand metal
worker» In tbe Liege district Joined
the general strike of metallurgical
workers, making the total number of
strikers 65,000. The strike wa* caused
by an attempt to decrease wages five
per cent. V
Washington—While employaient and
wages -In manufacturing Industrie#
generally were declining In June the
bureau of labor stell« tic* announced,
the lev«»! of retail food priem was ».I
vaarl-
IM AMERICAN CITIZEN
KILLED BY CHINES
Victim Wae Defending Hie Ranch
From the Attack of
Brtganda
Harbin, Manchuria.—While assist
inp the Inhabitants of a village near
l,ls much on the Sungari river to re
pulse an attack of brigands oil July 20.
Morgan Palmer, a native of New York
state, but long a resident of the far
east, was killed.
A friend of Mr. Palmer, Dr. Harvey
j. Howard, a specialist In eye diseases,
attached to the Rockefeller hospital
at Peking, who was visiting the ranch,
was taken prisoner by tbe brigands,
and since then no trace of him has
been found. It I« supposed that Dr.
Howard also was engaged In repelling
the attack.
Washington—Formal comment upon
the raid on the Palmer ranch was with
held (tending full official Investigation.
Meanwhile, however, American author
ities In China are expected to take
prompt measures to secure the release
of Hr Howard, the American held cap
tive, and for the punishment of those
responsible for Ms abduction and foi
the death Of Morgan Palmer.
Court Rules Man Must
Lincoln, Neb.—Walter R. Simmons,
former Montana cowboy-deputy sheriff
und baseball player, baa lost what ap
to be his last chance for life
pears
when the state pardon board ruled he
must be executed August 11, for the
murder of Frank Pahl. Boyd county.
Neb., garage man.
Simmons has been favored With
more than a score of reprieves from
his death sentence, which was upheld
by the state supreme court.
U. S. May Solva Coal Crisis ,
Mass.—The govern
Suumpscott.
ment will take a hand In the anthra
cite coal field wage negotiations should
un agreement not be readied and i
strike be called on September 1.
The program which the government
will pursue In the event of a strike
discussed at a three-hour confor
was
emc here by President Ooolldge and
Secretary Davis. The specific plan of
the government was not disclosed.
Army Officer In Auto Accident
Denver.— Lient. Ooi. S. W. Mapes,
former commanding officer of Fort
Logan, near here, was almost Instant
ly killed when an automobile In which
he was driving crashed head-on Into n
He recently was relieved
trolley car.
of the Fort Logan command and at
tached to the Fourth Infantry at Spo
kane. -
Landslide Was Local
Cody. Wyo.—Conservative estimates
give the «lamage done by the recent
landslide at Jackson Hole at about
According to geologists the
$20,000.
mountain was
nature and had no connection with the
subsequent earth tremors of nenr-by
There was no loss of life uor
states.
Stoppage of southern entrance travel.
Bandits Make Big Haul
New York.—Five robbers held up
tbe Stanley Jewelry store In West One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street,
handcuffed three employes and es
caped with Jewelry valued by fhe pro
prietor at $100.000. The rohlters fled
In an automobile driven by a sixth
man.
Canyon Scenery Attracts
Wyo.—Burlington travelers
are enjoying an additional point of In
terest this summer In the famous Wind
river canyon near Thermopoll*, where
the "Q" road has erected a platform
at s strategic point for the contempla
tion of Wind river vistas during a 10
minute stop.
Oody.
Ford Bids For Scrapped Ships
Waahlngton.— Henry Ford has of
fered $1.706.000 for the 200 shipping
hoard vessels set aside for scrapping.
His hid compares with $1470.000
offered by tbe Boston Iron A Metal
company of Baltimore, when a prev
ious aet of bids was opened June 30.
Flva Death* From Hast
Needle*. CsL—Five are deed In a
that has caused In
tense suffering for three days on fhe
desert from Needles to Death Valley. +
Temperatures at Neadles were 125
OH tbe 16th. 121 the 17th and 118 July
18th.
Pershing Off on 8. A. Trip
Washington —General Pershing ha*
left Washington for South America to
attend the first meeting of the Taons
Aries commission, of which he l* bead.
His official party »ailed from Key
West.
New Tort.—Metal atattutlctans cal
culate that the rise of about 1c ia tbs
* - r.
•« O* f* 0 * - i ^r i j! ,
" *
the earning* of the copper companies
Gets Radio Coffin
Loa Angele».— Sam R. Kimball, aged
San Bernardino roan, haa placed an or
der with a Lo* Angeles undertaker for
a $1,200 *t*ei coffin, equipped with an
up.rotate radio receiving ret In dl
reettng that the radio equipped coffin
be prepared to receive hla body.
(tafl explained that he was convinced
■ the body »
and that b*
Kim
m the day of
I aMe to
tn the world"
laid away la (h* zu*mr4mterodytM
reabM.
after he died. If property
JOHN T. SCOPES
SCOPES GUILTY OF
IMOG EVOLUTION
Prompt Plane to Appeal Caae to the
Tennessee Supreme Court
After Teacher Fined
Dayton, Tenn.—The trial of John T.
Scopes on a charge of teaching evolu
tion theories In the public schools in
violation of the Tennessee law ended
In a verdict of gniity. The minimum
fine of $100 was Imposed by tbe court
and ball for an appeal waa fixed at
$500.
The scene of the "evolution test"
will be shifted from Dayton to Knox
ville, where, under the regular order
of procedure the Tennessee supreme
court will hear cases from this circuit
the first Monday In September.
The defendant made a surety bond
for his appearance In the Rhea county
circuit court the first Monday In De
cember, when the supreme court, It
was expected, would have passed upon
the case.
After both defense and state counsel
had agreed that the defendant had
been convicted, the Jury returned a
verdict In less than ten minutes.
The defense then moved for a new
trial and when this was overruled,
Scopes' attorneys made the other cus
tomary legal motions to complete the
record and send the case on Its way to
the supreme court.
Oppose Rate Increase
Chicago.—The petition of 73 western
railroads for an 11 per cent increase
In freight rates will meet the organ
ized opposition of the American Farm
Bureau federation,
organization who confer«*! Pare an
nounced farm bureaus in 22 states af
fected by the Increase would be mobi
lised to fight the petition.
Hie propose tnorease k-oulrt add
$180,000,000 to the annual freight bill
Of the states affected, of which $95, ■
000.000 would be paid directly by the
farmers, said O. W. Sandberg, trans
:
Offlcers of the
portation director for fhe bureau.
Sheridan. Wyo—A village that will
give the Arapahoe Indians ihe oppor
Minify to practice the education given
them In sch«rota Is to he established
near St. Michael's mission, 20 utiles
from Louder, It has been decided by
Ihe board of Indian commissioners
The village, winch will he complete
with stores, a bank, shops of various
kinds and residences, will he under the
management of Ihe Arapahoe* them
selves with the supervision of the
hoard of commissioners not) the Bpl»
The first construction
copal church,
work will lie stsrted at once. The cost
of establishing fhe vlHage will be
borne by the Episcopal church.
Bank Resource* Are Greatest
St. Paul.—Deposits and total re
of Ihe hanks of the Doited
sources
States are larger than ever before and
figures given reflect as a whole a
healthy condition of the national »tank
ing Institutions. R- N. Simms, secre
tary-treasurer of the National Associ
ation of Supervisors of State Banks,
told the annual convention of the »#■
sôctalton here.
Washington—American capital flow
ing Into foreign fields for Investments
was estimated by fhe commerce de
partment to have amounted to $551,
501.000 during the first six months of
the calendar year 11(25. This brought
the value of private American Invest
ment* »broad lo a lotal of $0,500,000,
000
Washington—Freight rates oo daw
Iflcd shipments from Watertown, 8
D. to «on» hern Minnesota p««»nls were
held by tbe Interstate rommci-cv com
mission to place jobbers at an unfair
disadvantage a* rompu red with rate*
from the Twin Cities In Minnesota and
from Sion* Falls. 8. D n aud Sioux City.
Iowa.
Sydney, N. S. W.— Commander De
Pinedo Italian »viator, has arrived
hero from Melbourne on bis way to
Japan.
Head of Baby Farm Sentenced
New York.—Mrs. Heir« Auguste
Gelse»- Volk, proprietress of an Bart
Fifty-eighth borne for infants, was
sentenced to 314 to 7 years in Auburn
prison on a charge of babe *uh*Htu
Um. to which «he had pleaded guilty
Portland. Ore.—The Pacific ocean
wl» be the bredqiwrtec* of the UnWed
State* battle fleet indefinitely. Srcre
Onry Wilbur told guests at * dinner in
his horn»» here. TIM*, he zald. M -the
adoptee.
BEGIN
OF DRY MAPHtNß
Ui mil mnUffmu
CHIEF IS SWAMPED WITH PLEAS
FROM THOSE SEEKING
DISTRICT JOBS
MMT APPLICATIONS RECEIVED
Conference Is Opened for the Selection
ef Men to Lead Prohibition
Force# of Nation
Washington. — Federal
prohibition
officials prepared to buckle down to
their most difficult problem In the
sweeping dry réorganisât Ion—select
ion of men to shoulder the responsi
bility of enforcement In each of 24 dis
tricts provided in tbe new plan of op
eration.
Bulging files of thousands of letters
of application and recommendation,
including a number from members of
tbe house and senate, awaited consid
eration at a conference called of the
dry heads on the return to the capital
of Assistant Secretary Andrew# of the
treasury, creator of the new enforce
ment machine.
Tbe administrators will supervise
tbe Issuance of permits to operate al
cohol plants, denaturing plants, bond
ed warehouses and control the use
and exportation of denatured alcohol.
Control of the warehousing, produc
tion and denaturing of alcohol will be
retained by the revenue collector» In
sofar as this is necessitated by tax
collection, but their authority will end
with tax payment, withdrawal from
the warehouse, or when the product
ha* been denatured.
They will continue the issuance of
permits for tax-free alcohol for state,
territories, government use, college*
and other institutions, but tbe admin
istrators will determine who will ob
tain such alcohol.
New Mall T*vtes Disappoint
Washington—The controversy over
postal rates was reopened by a Joint
congressional committee which first
heard a postoffice department esti
mate that the new rates Inaugurated
April 15 had fallen far short of pro
ducing the additional revenue expect
ed.
Postmaster General New told the
committee that for the month of May
the first full month of operation for
the new rates, postal revenues were
estimated to have Increased only $4,131
.0091 per cent over the total that
raight have been expected under the
aid rate.___________
A small decrease was shown in the
total revenue for second class mall
(newspapers and periodicals) they car
ried at the pound rate. The computed
revenue from that source for May last
was $2,400,205 romps red wit h an esti
mated Income of $2,500,074 under the
old rates.
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Plans to Give Away Millions
New York.—l-eopold Schepp. the 85
year-old philanthropist, wants some
advice on tie* treat way to distribute
his millions. He recently established
a foundation with $2.500.000 trust fund
to assist deserving young boys In ad
dition he has distributed some $3.500,
000 In inlvldnal donation«, lump sum
gifts and pensions. Now he wants to
accelerate the distribution of his other
millions and desires to canvass the en
tire subject of public philanthropy
with a view to determining the way
which will afford the surest and quick
est relief for those who need and marlt
assistance.
Income Record* Open to Public
Washington.—Income tax
for the Iasi year will be opened for
public Inspection by all Internal rev
enne collectors September I.
Announcement of the date was made
hy the Internal revenue bureau after
ft was advised that tbe records would
be completed before that time.
The bureau's announcement said no
restriction» would be placed around
tbe record during »«y working day for
80 days after Ihe books are Hi roe»»
records
open. September I,
Boxer Indemnity Remitted
Washington.—The balance pf $8,-_
137.552 due fhe United States from Ihe
Boxer Indem
nity payments has been remitted by
President Ooolldge under congression
al authority granted In May, 1024.
The funds are lo be employed for
educational and similar purpose* un
der direction of a hoard appointed by
the Chluere government and composed
of Chinese and American citizen*.
PoHsh Beat Blows Up
Warmw.— 1 The Polish torpedo boat
Kasanh blew up and sank in tbe har
bor of Danzig. The entire crew was
lost. The Kasaub had Just arrived In
the harbor for repair* and was pro
reading under its own power when the
explrekm look piece Ne expia«« t ton
I« a valla Me yet as to t he casse.
Frisoe Admit* Shock
Ban Francisco.—The sharp earth
quake which was felt hi the 8a» Frew
cisco bay district and awath along the
peninsula July 19 for a distance of 50
aaUes sutaekled without retain« any
damage although womcafary alarm
was occasioned.
<3
New Tor*.—The f75j900.00P com
Kb of Australia 6 pro cewt ex
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