Walkerton Independent, Volume 46, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 July 1920 — Page 2

W ALKERTON INDEPENDENT Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH CO. WEEKLIES dem DeCoudm. Business Manager W. A. Eadley, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear .*1.60 Six Months ............................ .90 Three Months 60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, J nd.. as second-class matter. l| INDIANA II I NEWS I s|l 11= niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiin Terre Haute.—More than $2,000,000 In wages was lost in the month of May in 104 mines in the vicinity of Terre Haute. Miners -could have earned that amount if the mines had operated steadily, acording to a report made public Labor trouble, which caused the mines to shut down, was responsible for a loss of $399,613 figured on a basis of $1 a ton. There was a loss of $1,715,131 on account of car shortage. Wages were decreased $81,713 by breakdowns in mining machinery. The total number of tons of coal produced was 1,404,687, while the full time capacity is 3,601,144 tons, or more than twice the amount produced. The percentage of . time worked was 43.6. The car shortage was responsible for more than half of the time lost. Indianapolis.—The state highway commission has decided that it will advance to contractors building state highways 100 per cent of the contract price a mile on the completion of each mile of road. The advance is not to be regarded as final until the whole is completed. Heretofore the limit was 80 per cent. The change was effected after a conference the commission held with contractors who have been conferring on the subject. The commission declined to lower gravel standards as proposed. Indianapolis.—Five of seventy-eight men indicted on charges of conspiracy to violate the Reed amendment by transportatlng liquor illegally from Henderson, Ky., to Evansville, were found guilty by a jury in the federal court here. They are Edgar Schmitt, chief of the Evansville police department; Abe and Moses Klyman, wholesale liquor dealers; Andrew Freidle, police captain, and Fred Ossenburg, politician. All are residents of Evansville. Indianapolis.—Some Hoosier ice cream manufacturers are dangerously close to the illegal limit for starch adulteration of their product, according to I. L. Miller, state food and drug commissioner. The adulteration may not legally exceed 1 per cent for gelatin or vegetable gums or starch. Last month the department conducted seven successful prosecutions for violations of state food and drug laws and recommended many changes. Muncie.— All members of the faculty of the Indiana State Normal school, eastern division, were re-elected for terms of fifteen years, at a meeting of the board of trustees of the school held in Muncie. Professor T. J. Breitwleser was named dean, temporarily, to take the place of Professor W. O. Lynch, who is head of the history department at the school, and who is to be away on leave of absence. Alexandria. —David Harris, a constable who has been connected with justice of peace courts in Alexandria for more than sixty-two years, has handed his resignation to the county clerk. He says his salary is not sufficient to meet the high cost of living demands. Mr. Harris was connected with the first court established in Monroe township. He expects to enter business for himself. Decatur. —Shafer Peterson, age six-ty-nine, president of the Adams Coun-* ty Bar association and for 47 years a leading attorney here, is dead of a complication of diseases following a long Illness. For years he had been a partner of John C. Moran, the part-’ nership being dissolved when Mr. Moran became circuit judge. Evansville. —H. S. Sadler, living in Kentucky south of Evansville, has sold his tobacco crop raised on 20 acres of ground for $7,500. Vanderburg county farmers are having trouble with aphids, commonly known ns plant lice. The insects are attacking trees. Evansville.—Cutting of wheat in Vanderburg county Is expected to start in a few days. Many fields are about ready for the binder. The crop looks considerably better than It did a month or six weeks ago. The acreage this year is not much more than onehalf what It was last year. Bluffton. —An unsuccessful effort was mad*- recently to rob the Farmers’ State bank at Poneto. It was the fourth attempt in the last two years. An acetylene torch was used and two combinations were melted, but the safe was not opened. Auburn. —Farmers of DeKalb county will pool their wool rather than take the present price paid for their product. The farmers will sack their own wool, prepare it for shipment and then hold it. Petersburg.—Raspberries have appeared on the Petersburg market, selling at 35 cents a quart. The crop w ill be large. The early blackberries are beginning to ripen and the crop will exceed that of last year. Logansport.—The Cass County Chamber of Commerce sent a request to the state board of health at Indianapolis to .send a health officer to Logansport to take charge of the typhoid situation that has developed in Shultztnwn. a part of this city. Many cases of the disease have been reported within the last few weeks and several death- have resulted. Logansport.—Cass county wool growers will ship ri dr wool to a Chlcago firm. Bidders for the woo) for ^delivery in Lognnsp< rt f I to g"v the price asked by tl.e far rs.

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o “YOU’RE MAKING GOOD!" Synopsis. — John Bevington, a ' poet, visionary and impractical, and Mary Martin, the daughter of rich and worldly parents, hear the call of love and unite their lives. They go to a small Michigan city, where John finds work in a stove factory and on Sundays writes verses. The Martins try in vain to j get the happy wife to leave her husband. Mary beg.ns to breathe for two. John loses his job. He appeals in vain to the Martins. Mary goes to the hospital and never returns. Thus comes into the story Cornelius Levington. The father leaves town and the city farms out the child. After two years the father returns and takes his little son with him on his worldwanderings. The father becomes the slave of a mysterious drug, koresh, with odors of wine and cinnamon, and returns with little Con to die on his wife’s grave. Con Is again farmed out, grows up In the underworld and is saved for ( better things by Andrew March. So much byway of introduction to the hero of the strange adventures of “Yellow Men Sleep.” These begin when Con takes by’ force a small leather sack from Chee Ming, the Chinese cook of an acquaintance. Tliis sack contains a Chinese map of the Gobi desert, which is precious beyond price to Andrew March. Eighteen years before armed men in the Gobi had taken March’s wife and Infant daughter from him. Now he sends Con In search of them. On the voyage Con finds Chee Ming a fellow passenger. Chee Ming drugs Con and steals his map, but Con presses on toward Shan-sung. *================i CHAPTER IV.—Continued. Coarse food, winter air. and the long hours of camel-swaying had darkened Con's cheeks. His mittened hands helped with the wood-gathering at camp-time, or chopped the ice for teawater, but the men of the caravan regarded him as a stranger, if they noticed him at all. Friendliness was winter-bound. The Kalka partner alone made speech. Levington kept his feelings to himself, and set his teeth. He was loan as a Tartar, and was constantly on the verge of a fever. Snow rose to the camels’ knees, and then. In the third week of travel, thawed generally over North China. The going was slow and monotonous. Here was said to be grazing country, but obviously the herdsmen had never prospered with their skinny flocks. At Sin-chen. through a welter of stained snow, the rear of the caravan, three parties, turned southward, heavy with rice and salt that grew more precious at each day’s end. They were carrying on to the province of Origu, seat of wretchedness. Now at Sin-chen another party was waiting for the only remaining group with Con to join them. These two outfits, with that of the white man, continued over a northerly road, and the mud was a drag at every camel’s foot. “You take saints?” finally inquired the Kalka. He wanted to know whether or not Levington was a Christian missionary to far Shan-sung. “No.” Con shook his head. Half an hour later, the Kalka resumed: “You sell —no?” “Nothing to sell," answered the white man. Here their talk ended for that day. Late in February the wind changed, and the snows were ended. The mud j dried and lifted in dust. Con realized j that to-morrow morning his compan- j ions, the two outfits of gun-traders. ' would go on northward, to find their i customers in those choking hills, but ■ that he would not be with them. The j Kalka warned him a last time, being now quite fluent with “No good.” At daylight it became clear that both 1 outfits considered him a fool. With . his one servant. Con remained behind,! and not an arm was raised in farewell, i not a face turned toward the white i madman. When their dust had blown ' away in the west wind and their little i line was reduced by distance to a | mere crawling thing along the edge j of hills, Levington turned, to find his [ driver weeping. “Did you want to go along?” The servant moaned, and hid his j face. Cold weather made ft appear that I the clouds of heaven avoided this part j of the world. The sky was always I pale. Levington gambled on his final ■ instructions. Twenty times his fingers ■ stole into the bag to touch the torn ; edges of his packet, and withdrew again. Andrew March had trusted ' him. He had five pack-animals, and ■ two saddled. There was grain to last , until Koriku, which was a village in these yellow hills, a trading-point of ; olden days. Somewhere, at a distance beyond Koriku, westward and to the i north lay Shan-sung. It was necessary to be crisp to his : dufflemaster. This Celestial son of fifty had never dreamed that the world i continued so far west. He was awed' at the rock underfoot, and the sand ; that swooped skyward, noting with ! Ingrown fear how the soil thinned and j turned to yellow chalk as the hours I passed. It was the beginning of the sand desert, unhallowed Sha Mo. They camo to a thin, fast river, and followed its banks, to find a solid ford-1 ing. Unwittingly they reached the end | of the stream, for it pitched down- । ward into the earth, swallowed up i dry with metallic gurgling. The rock was cold everywhere around. Con i stood nt the base of these rushing waters, watching them plunge >ito the ' pit at his feet, and a sudden emotion • flitted over him. It was fear -abrupt.! lightly touching. He >mn<. to think, of sane and ordinary things, laughed ' It away, while his driver crept back ■ to Ue bu ists. But he was afraid. i

In Koriku were two fresh dromedaries. which Levington purchased, along with provision f »r man and beast, and a carbine for better luck. He was impatient to reach Shan-sung. He was not sure how long he could hold out, for the condition of his body kept him from gaining strength. It was a slight matter, he told himself, compared to the possibility that Chee Ming had written into Shan-sung ahead of him, and passed on. He felt a grave necessity for an interview with that Chinese, if only for a moment. There would need be a quicker hand than his own, if Chee Ming were to go on without him. A land that flattened into emptiness, dun and gray, with vacant sky, permitted the settlement named Shansung to exist upon its dry bosom. In a past age an independent state, it was now a lordless and unwalled hundred of human beings, whose emaciated progency moved solemnly in play with the starving days. Days were hot, and nights cold, and the air a sucking invisible thing that blotted the moisture from one’s bones. Levington was stiff. His camels straggled in from their own particular direction, since there was no street or path by which to enter the “state." Many houses had long ago crumbled down into so much gray rubbish, but there was a score of huts made habitable by mud-patches and reeds from the water-hole, which was a spring of sulphitlc ooze in the center of the village. Dust had wiped out every color. Sand flew in the air, but the wind was steady and silent. The seven women who emerged from their dwellings to look upon Levington, were wasted of body and blank of face. It was distressing to remember that once, about w He Read This Final Instruction Again and Again. eighteen years ago. Andrew March had traveled into this border-land with I his Eithna, and that in some such unI holy quarters off to the southwest her i child had been born. These Mongoloid i youngsters did not seem human, i They stared at him w ithout uttering ; a sound, and flung mud. Con felt no ; triumph in his arrival. No traveler had passed this way for : sixteen moons. Levington s^^ent the 1 afternoon in learning this fag-end of । information. The last had gone the I other way. eastward, probably Chee : Ming on his way to America, but by i no possible combination of sound and sign could Con make sure of this. ■ Eagerly, now. he opened the envelop i given him in the March house. He j never knew how much pure fiber he ' had gained by his difficult honesty in this matter. The document was: “You have passed all the places in ! which the truth might have burdened i you, and. as the prime uncertainties । are just ahead, yon will hurn this as jsoon as you have read. “You share a federal commission i with me. and our country does not I lightly choose her agents. “Chee Ming brought large quantities • of the drug koresh to San Francisco ' and sold it. He is to be traced, and I your findings reported, so that our chief can make arrangements to check this evil at its source. He can do very little until you have something definite o report, its actual starting-point, etc., j ami that means the starting-jHiint of Chee Ming. Upon your success will rest the honor of ridding the world of a deep gray curse. 1 wish you Godj speed. “A. M.” Levington knew that his hands were trembling. Be read this final instruc- ; tion again and again, until every j phrase was unforgetable. Much of his । friend came to him from the page, the world-wide significance of his errand in this treacherous land. Con was humble before the trust of Great I America. He* burned to do well. The matter of koresh. the deep gray curse, j was not at all clear to him. He had lan uncomfortable suspicion that he i knew the stuff. I Afternoon was frightful with dust ami sun-glare Night came cold, yet not in the nature of a relief. Con I drank a bowl of brownish goat’s milk, and cracked like a chip between his teeth a native biscuit. He brushed ! flie ashes from his lips, and found himself staring at nothing, while tlu > meaning of bis mission grew largei

within Mtn. Something had come at last to steady him. The under-world had always trusted him—something not granted to many—but now he was honored by the government. Authority believed In him, tested him, and sent him to unravel a poisonous web. He recalled certain things he had told Andrew’ March, almost amounting to confessions. Now that he knew his fr'end to be a federal officer, he wondered what March must have thought of those recountings. It made Con smile. He was more keenly aware now of the intimate ways in which the elder man had studied him before trying him in the present task. He planned to wait a week, if need I be, in the hope that Chee Ming would ; i come. He speculated that the Chinese , had probably returned to Tien-tsin to regain his troublesome trunks, so ac- j counting for delay in reaching Shansung. If the week passed and brought no traveler, Levington meant to enter the Gobi without a map. Having given orders that his servant should have the day to himself, he turned over and napped again. For the remainder of the day there were pleasant matter, to think over, until I he discovered that his “boy" had gone, . i taking the two\ fresh beasts. Doubt- ' . less with the nlfl of the villagers, the old devil had Add back eastward, away from the devil? of the unknown. The fact that the village was against him did not depress Levington, as It must formerly have done. Now he had to sustain him the assurance of his own country that he had been chosen, that men of power trusted j him. The second day he found himself 1 quite generally ignored in the stony ghost of a city, although the old woman ! and her two sons continued to accept j his silver for food and a roof. Late in the afternoon of the third •lay, when his patience was waning, a camel outfit appeared to eastward. | It could not be his prodigal driver. I Con went forth to show himself. He was done with subterfuge, and the \ village offered no concealment, had he wished to hide. There were half a dozen men In the approaching party, or. on a closer look, two men and their servants, all bobbing nearer on ' camels. ' J Chee Ming was heading the outfit. ' He sat under a flapping sunshade. ; His dry face was unchanged, although his soul became a curse against the western youth who had persisted. He hated the steadiness of Lovington's eyes and the half-smile, remembering the brutality of his muscular equipment, but most of all he i longed to blight the power and penetration of Con’s brain. Yet, so far as the countenance indicated, when he regarded his white enemy below him, Chee Ming might have been in the act of serving coffee at Cecil Wedger's elbow, instead of riding a shaggy j beast in these outlands of Mongolia. But the master of the other outfit was a white man. Beneath a sloping ' Chinese straw hat, the face was gray and strong and touched with sadness. i Con answered tb« greeting of Andrew MarCh ‘ CHAPTER V On the Right Foot. It was impossible to guess what Chee Ming thought. If he had been । holding any suspicion against the ' white man who had ridden with him from the Yang-gun gate, it was now insured by March's hand-clasp with Levington. “I’ve been waiting for our friend Ming, but I hardly expected to see i you," said Con. “So I should Judge." replied March, smiling. “But why waiting?" “He was on the ship coming over.” said Con. “He put me under with a । blow-needle, and got my map. 1 beat him this far by two days, just to have 1 a talk with him about it.” “Ah, yes," said March. j “Or I figured I might ride on with j him,” added Levington. “That was all right. But you will • not need the map. and we can allow ] him to go his way alone. I did not expect to pick you up so soon.” There : was a shadow over Levington, and the > | elder man felt it quickly. He hasten!ed to add : "Nothing wrong boy. Only . . I could not tell you that I should be , just a few days behind you all the way. f It was planned. It would be just plain , I murder to send one man alone, out , > into —that. But we wanted you to think you were going alone. You're । all right. 1 wanted you to lead out. to draw all the attention. Oh, I guess , you've learned by now that your , travels are not so private as you’d , like, perhaps.” , j j Con was relieved. He smiled and offered his hand again. “I never had !: a real job before. I like it. Tlianks." I i The old pride came into Andrew I March’s eyes. But he merely said, in 9 I the businesslike tone of a United States investigator. “You’re making ! ; good.” t It appeared that March had arrived I In Peking about fourteen hours after ; Lovington’s departure by the Western > j gate. Con asked : “How did you find 1 j Chee Ming?” r 1 “I saw’ him in Tien-tsin, at the bag- < gage rooms. I am sure he did not nor j tlce me, for I believe he never had a * : glimpse of me in America when I was . । shadow ing him, but it’s never wise to fi he too sure of anything about a I । Chinese. I kept out of his sight until f । we had come as far as the Yang-gun - gate, and there met him openly, like a stranger. It was natural to talk, ■ after finding that he knew’ English. He told me he was a wool-merchant, i’ . “I never gave you the details, but s my acquaintance with Chee Ming p really began one evening in Dory 1 street, several weeks before I met you s in Cincinnati. You know the Dory t i street district in San Francisco. I ? . had found that it was the distributing >, I point for koresh. I managed to con--1 ' nect with Chee Ming the night he ree ceived his money for all he had brought in. fresh from somewhere.” t “I am honored by your confidence.” t said the younger man. "At one time n my father and I lived on Dory street. :, ! “Then you know koresh." s j “I can’t say that I do. I was very d young then." d "There are twelve thousand recorded e users of it in the United States, and rj’hat Is but a fraction of those who

enter secretly the bliss and the agony of it." Con felt again the Importance of his mission. But he occupied his bauds in attending to the smaller personal luggage of his friend. "I’ve been staying in that. Will you come In?” He Indicated a hut, and the sight of the low’ misshapen structure seemed to bring back to him the taste and smell of that tan-colored goat's milk which they had given him there, In their mistaken Idea of nourishment. Chee Ming and servants spread their camp just beyond the group of kennels, and there was no further communication between them and the j white men. March made a desert veteran’s final preparations for a Journey of many I weeks. He included with the usual stores several hunches of dried meat, hard as bone; also leather sacks to go over the head when the hall of j gravel in the w ind should cut too keenly across their faces. At present be filled these bags with cheese. His weapons were of the finest, and this seemed odd to Levington, who knew’ bls mild ways. Andrew March seemed i changed, older, more stern, in these preparations. The dart that had drugger! Levington on seaboard seemed to । have struck an unhealed spot in March's soul. This border-land held bitter memories. His eyes had narrowed, as though he felt from a distance the biting dust. He resisted the emotions that preyed upon him, and the only sign was an eagerness to be near Levington. to have Con talk to ' him. The old magnetism by which he held the younger man was unconsciously renewed, a vital current of more ’ than friendship. Next morning the two seiwants of Chee Ming were seen to ride eastward upon a single camel, taking leave of a master who needed them no further. At noon the Chinese, with pack-beasts in tow, set forth alone into the west. "He wants us to follow him.” said March, “and if we did, all the maps tn the world wouldn't help. Time enough for us this evening.” So when the western sky was spattered with flame, and long violet shadows stretched out upon the sands, I Commissioner March and Commissioner Con Levington laid their course according to map. and proceeded into the sunset. The camels had taken their last long gurgle at the water- । hole in the village, trampling the rushes and all was well. The two drivers muttered, or heh. silence, with none of the usual talk. The broken city fell into the distance behind them, and the shadow of the camels extended out through the dusL The purple shafts were melting Into twilight, and the Sha Mo became an Indefinite number of sandy knobs, still bright, seeming to rise up from the desert floor. Irvington heard the story of the subtle drug, how it fired and gripped and soothed its devotees, unlike opium or hashish or betel, and more difficult to trace than heroin of the “snowbirds.” Science bad not thus far defined koresh. The trade often handled it unwittingly. Its effect was In part ' a drowsy joy, a pleasantly complete madness, a lasting devastation and curse. It was in form a bluish oil, to j be rubbed on the eyelids and sensitive ' tissue. It rotted the veins and the heart. Robbed and left to perish in the desert sands. <TG BE CONTINUED.) EXPLAINS ACTION OF NODDING Indication of “Yes” and “No” a Trait Common in Humans and the Lower Animals. Before a child learns to say “yes” or “no," he instinctively nods his head I—a haughty, condescending up-and-down—to show that he approves, or i a vigorous shaking from side to side when the imperious will has been crossed. Later on, as he seems to show a preference for this way of expressing himself, it is often necessary to remind him that he can speak. Many of us may sympathize with the man who said to Darwin, “Your ancestors may have been apes,” but it ' cannot be denied that we have many | things in common with the other , species. Watch a young animal ready to receive food. With eager eyes and mouth open it makes quick, forward movements of the head. When the food is- not acceptable a tightly clenched jaw and sideward motion of j the head serve to keep the mother anlI mal from forcing food upon it. So after all these centuries man's । mouth is still relaxed when he nods “yes.” but there is a strong tendency to clench his teeth and even close his eyes when he shakes “no.”—Exchange. Blacksliding Organ. An appeal now’ being made on behalf of a poor country church for a new organ has been re-enforced by a coincidence —the old organ happened to cipher, or produce of its own accord, a long-drawn, wailing sound just as the words were being read from J >b, “They rejoice at the sound of the organ.” This has been interpreted as a good omen, and it reminds a correspondent of what happened in the Sus- • sex village of Jevington. A new organ was bought of the kind which could be played by turning a handle. The . church was crowded to hear Its opening recital. All went well till the end I of the first psalm; the singing then ceased, but the organ went on playing, i It seemed that the man in charge had ■ failed to discover bow to put on the brake. From the psalm tune the organ : went on to give a lively secular catch ■ ' called “Drops of Brandy,” and then - started on a merry air entitled “Go to : the Devil and Shake Yourself.” —London Morning Post. • 1 > That Left-Arm Swing. “What's the matter? Been in a fight?” ’ "No. Asked a friend the time the other day nnd he hit me In the eye 1 when he swung out his left arm so 1 that he could get a look at hl? > t wrist watch,"

WILSON CALLS FOR RAIL AWARD Asks Board at Chicago to Settle Wage Question Forthwith. STRIKE SPREADS FURTHER President's Message Is Said to Urge Prompt Ruling to Halt Walkouts —Labor Chief Puts Blame on the Board. Washington, June 24. —President Wilson sent a message to the railroad labor board at Chicago urging that it make an immediate award in the wage controversy. The text of the message was not made public at the White House. Announcement of the president’s action was made after W. W. Donk, vice president of the trainmen’s brotherhood, had called at the White House and conferred with Secretary Tumulty. Mr. Donk in a Statement nCter the conference with Mr. Tumulty and with Secretary Payne, head of the railroad brotherhoods, hoped there would be a settlement of the wage question this week and that if not "probably the situation will be much worse than at present.” “Appeals have gone up from all parts of the country to the labor board,” said Mr. Doak, “and we desire the public to know that this much heralded and advocated method of adjusting questions of this character according to the present indications is a rank and hopeless failure.” “The chiefs of the brotherhoods.” Mr. Doak's statement continued, “are considering means to assist in every manner to start the wheels of transportation, but know full well that these men must first be given substantial increases in pay before such can be accomplished. "The board has no reasonable or legitimate excuse in nos granting substantial increases in wages to railroad employees and there can be no escape from the responsibility and the United States railroad board now sitting in Chicago is wholly responsible 'or the present bad situation. The railroad labor organizations desire the public to know the truth and to fix the responsibility where It rightfully and justly belongs. We have done everything reasonable to keep transportation moving; our men have watted for a year without relief and have worked at wages on which they could not maintain their families, we have apprised everyone, congress, the public, the press and the United states railroad labor board, that these men could not bo expected to continue In the employ of the railroads, under such conditions, yet no relief has been afforded them, so they are now leaving the service of the railroads.” Reports to labor headquarters here indicated no improvement in the situation and pointed to increased unrest among the men. Labor leaders said that since the beginning of the unauthorized strikes 30.000 men had been dismissed from the unions, but that the feeling was growing that to continue disciplining the men was impracticable. Chicago, Juno 24.—The board's publicity department declared that the delay in reaching a decision had nothing to do with the present railroad strikes and that the board believed the strikes would continue even after the wage case is settled. The strikes it was said are prompted by an internal fight for control of the railway unions and not primarily by dissatisfaction with wages. The wage question has been injected it was intimated to deceive the public. Officials of the 15 railroad unions are to meet in Chicago Friday for consultation. Friday night a mass meeting will be held by the Chicago Yardmen's association and the United Enginemen’s association, the two striking unions, to lay their case before the public. The strike spread to Hannibal. Mo., when 65 Burlington switchmen failed to report for work. At Savannah, 111.. 50 men walked out. Cleveland. 0., June 25. —Rumors that railroad unions will cal] a general strige here were denied. VILLA WRECKS RAILWAY LINE '■ Mining Chiefs 'En Route to Parral Are Compelled to Wait at Jiminez. El Paso, Tex., June 25. —Villistas again have cut the railroad between Jiminez and Parral, Chihuahua, according to information received here, i Several American mining men en route I to Parral have been forced to wait at Jiminez for the reopening of the line. Street Car Strike in Toronto. Toronto, Ont., June 25. —Street car service, except in the outlying districts, was completely suspended when the long-heralded strike of trolley men went into effect to enforce demands for 66 instead of 55 cents an hour. — Plan Nonstop Flight to New York. Omaha, Neb., June 25. —A nonstop flight to New York will be undertaken on the return trip of the all-metal airplane which arrived here. John M. Larssn, the owner said. Mr. and Mrs. Larson came to attend a wedding. Women Elect Mrs. Winter. Des Moines, la.. June 25.—Mrs. T. G. Winter of Minneapolis was chosen president of the General I'e<l< raiion of Women's Clubs, it was annoimced officiary’ at the biennial convention, Mrs. Winter received 760 votes. Mexican Elections Are Set. Mexico City, Juno 25. —A call for national elections issued by the secretary of the interior sets the date for the congressional elections for Sunday, Au gust 1. and a new president is to b» chosen on Sunday, April 5.

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