Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-07-16
CONDENSED EcoRp OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoiNGs, ACHIEVE.
MENTs. sUFFERiNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.


Elbert w. Blancett, convicted of the
murder of Clyde Armour, was hanged
IN the jail yard at Santa Fe. The
crime was committed October 23, 1916
Two well-dressed boys held up the
bank of Waterloo, Neb., twenty miles
west of Omaha, bound and gagged
Cashier w. T. Stratton, robbed the
bank of $1,500 and escaped in an au-
tomobile.
Alfonso G. Bernard, United States
immigration officer stationed at Cam
po, sixty miles from San Diego, Calf,
was run down and killed by an auto
mobile when he attempted to halt the
machine in search for smugglers
Lieut.. Frank Stanford was killed and
Homer Adams. deputy sheriff, serious
ly injured at Independence, Kan,
when an aeroplane they were flying
fell 100 feet. Stanford was a candi-
date for representative in the August
primaries
A force of government hunters I'M
der direction of ]. S. Ligon and in
Guiding j. S. Lilly, noted lion hunter,
has completed three weeks drive in
the Black range in western New Mex
leo, whereby they bagged fourteen
bear, five lions and two gray wolves
This catch is said to be the largest
in several years.
Estimated crop production in Kan
sas for 1920 as based upon the condi-
ton on July 1, according to the report
issued by the Kansas office of the Bu-
reau of Crop Estimates, United States
Department of Agriculture, shows win
ter wheat 110,313,O00 bushels; spring
wheat, 321 600 bushels; oats, 52,41S,000
bushels, and barley, 1906 bushels
The first reported fatalities in CON
nection with the airplane patrol of gov
ernment forest reserves have been re
ported at Alturas, Calf, when a plane
piloted by Wayman Haney fell about
400 feet, killing Haney and two pas
sengers, Antonio Salcedo and Harold
Robie. The latter was a civilian OBJ
server employed by the forest service.
Prediction that Nebraska's corn pro-
duction this year will exceed last
years yield by 4,O55,Oo0 bushels is
made in joint crop report by the
United States Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates and State Department of Ag-
riculture. The report estimates 1885,
241, 900 bushels will be produced, as
compared to 1S4, $4,000 bushels in
1919.
The Farmers Bank of Page, Neb,
state institution, was closed on the
advice of former State Senator James
A. Donohoe, counsel for the stock
holders, and the State Banking Board
H..
Smith, president of the bank, was
found dead in cow pasture near Page
Experts from O'Neill banks who have
been going over the banks books said
they had found apparent Irregularities
and were unable to state its condi-
ton.
WASHINGTON
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, chief of
the Bureau of Transportation in the
War Department, has been designated
by Secretary Baker to head the inland
and coastwise waterways service, es-
tablished under the new transporta-
tion act.
Railway executives have under con-
sideration the question of approving
the consolidation of express companies
as effected during the period of federal
control or of seeking a return to the
old system Of competing companies.
Whether it would be advisable for the
railroads to handle the express service
themselves also is under discussion.
Felix Gouled, convicted of defraud-
ing the United States government
through contracts for army raincoats.
will be permitted to go to Poland in
the interests of his cotton goods busi-
ness, through a decision by Federal
Judge II. b. Howe Gouled is at liberty
on $4,000 bond pending decision by
the Supreme Court as to the legality
of a seven-year sentence imposed upon
him.
The first settlement with railroad
company of-all claims arising out of
federal operation has been announced
by the railroad administration, which
has agreed to pay the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle railroad S1,6OO,O0O in
cash, the sum remaining after the bal
ancing of the claims of the railway
company against the government and
of the government'againstt the railroad
company.
Five thousand draft evaders have
been convicted in Federal Courts and
given sentences of from thirty days to
one year in prison, according to reports
compiled at the Department of Jus
tice. Thirty thousand cases remain to
be Investigated.
Bitumilous coal production in the
United States from the first of the
year to July 4 totaled 262,272,OOO tons,
an increase of 44,173,000 tons over the
nrndncf.nn figures for the same narind