, 1920-09-16

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
Alison b. Cole and Vincent Crammer
condemned Nebraska murderers, la
been reprieved by Governor McKelvie
until Nov. IL In order to allow time
for disposal of applications which
were filed In Federal Court. Cole has
received fourteen reprieves and Cram
mer twelve.
Alleged to have a~bsconded with liza
monds worth $4,000 while clerk in a
New York hotel, William Riddle, alias
Martin, alias SPAIN, has been lodged
in the city jail in Los Angeles. Rid
die, who married Elsie Smith Aug. 30,
IS also held on charges of violating
the Mann act.
Eighty pupils in the printing class
at the Central High school at st. Louis
vent on strike" because a n%On-union
man was appointed instructor, a posi-
tion formerly held by a union printer.
The board of education recently ruled
that no n connected with organized
labor would be employed in the public
schools.
Mrs. LUXE Corral de Villa, wife of
Francisco villa, who has resided in
San Antonio, Texas, four years, has
departed for Parral, Mexico, to join
her husband. There were twenty
others in Mrs. Villas party. The
Villas will be established on the Ha-
cIenda del Canutilo, one of the
ranches set aside for demobIlized
Villistas.
With his brother in the engine cab a
-fN,4a, &~H.to .-t1-A -. g.--,
AZ years old, a drayman, was ground
to pieces at Marshailtown, Ia, when
struck by a Minneapolis & st. Louis
train in the local yards. 1t is believed
Sims intended to board the pilot of the
locomotive in order to see his brother,
Walter, who was fireman on the en-
CINE.
Utah, forty-first state in population
ten years ago, and the 1920 population
of which was announced by the census
bureau as 449,446, has shown the larg-
est percentage of growth of any state
thus far announced In the fourteenth
census. Its rate of growth, 20.4 per
cent, was almost as large as that for
the decade ending with 1910, but its
numerical increase was exceeded in
that decade.
The hunters and trappers made away
with 534 predatory animals in Utah in
July. hunters report, after receiving Of
ficial reports from the state. This fig
ure only includes the known bagged
game, the poisoned animals and those
dying from gunshot wounds those not
found, of course, not being included.
There were 8 bears, 30 wildcats, 216
coyotes. 81 badgers. 1 fox. 1 skunk, 216
porcupines.
WASHINGTON
Army recruiting again broke all
~peace-tfme records in August, accord
ing to a statement by Adjutant GEN
eral Harris, showing 1929 enlistments
for h month. July enlistments were
1921.
President Wilson, in a telegram to
representatives of the anthracite mine
workers In Pennsylvania. refused to
grant their request to ~reconvene the
Joint scale committee of operators and
miners for the purpose of considering
a new wage award.
An ultimate settlement of the pc
troleum controversy between the
Mexican and United States govern
ment satisfactory to both countries is
expected by DIR. A. Tore Diaz, recent
ly appointed Mexican minister to Bra
I'll, now In Washington on his way to
his new post.
Declaring that 1t was not their in
tention to fight union labor, but to
stop union domination" Of their
plants. seven of the largest shipbuild-
ing plants and ship repair plants of
Mobile ave announced an 'open shop
policy. The company officials in n
public notice announced that all union
men In their employ desiring to remain
would be kept at work.
An Injunction restraining the ship
ping board from for~eclosing a $1,000
900 mortgage on the plant of the Pussy
& Jones Co, Wilmington, Del, was
granted by Justice Siddons in the Dis
trlct of Columbia Supreme Court. The
action was designed to give the COM
pany opportunity to file suit against
the board with the Court of Claims in
connection with counter claims arising
out of the communicating of the plant
by the government at the outbreak OF
the war.
George whitney of j. P. Morgan &
Co., New York, told examiners of the
interstate commerce commission Mt
Washington, that his company made
less than n of 1 per cent for floating
a recent s25,O0o.ooO bond issue for the
New York Central railroad.
Reports of a virtual settlement OF
the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chill
and Peru has been confirmed at
Washington, although the situation
has been closely watched since Presi.
len Wilson suggested that the, two