Taiban Valley news., 1920-09-24

Ws"etn NeWhpnper Union news service
WESTERN
Damage estimated at 100000 was
caused at Filler, Idaho. by fire which
destroyed nearly an entire business
block.
Jack Johnson. former worlds
heavyweight champion, was sentenced
to one year and day in Leavenwortb
penitentiary and fined $1,000 by Fed
eral Judge George A. Carpenter Of Chi
cago for violation of the Mann act.
Fire OF undetermined origin de-
stroyed most Of two business blocks
at Ranger, Texas, causing an estimat-
ed loss of $1,OOO,OOO. One fireman was
seriously injured. A blind itinerant
musician named Brockton was injured
seriously.
r. G. Bills, automobile dealer of
Blackfoot, Idaho, was killed when a
racing automobile he was testing out
on the county fair grounds dirt track
threw tire when the machine was
speeding at the rate Of sixty miles an
hour.
The North Dakota Supreme Court
has issued an order enjoining rail
roads operating in the state from fur
ther charging increased intrastate
rates which were put into-effect on
Sept. l. The order also .sdireets the
railroads. to- rebate any increase al
ready collected.
Emmett Bancroft, also known as
Neil Hart, was sentenced at Pendle-
ton, Ore, to be hanged Nov. 5thTfo
the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor in a
jail delivery Aug. 28th. He pleaded
guilty of murder in Che first degree
land Is the first t,man to receive a death
sentence since capital punishment was
restored in Oregon.
Montana wool growers, through
their organization, perfected at a
meeting held at Helena, Mont, will
deliver finished blankets and cloth
for mems and women's clothing, made
from virgin wool from Montana, to
the consumers at price that will
eliminate the profits which now pre-.
vail between the grower and the ultl-
mate consumer.
; The body of an unidentified woman,
about forty-fiSe yearS.old, was found
in the Missouri river at Omaha, by a
laborer who was searching the waters
for the body Of U. G. Bridenbaugh>
Coleridge, Neb., banker, who recently
committed suicide by drowning. The
woman had gray eyes and hair, wore
gray suit and q black hat. Death
had evidently taken place but a few
hours. before the discovery of the
body.
WASHINGTON.
CONTROLLER of the Currency Williams
asserted that the records OF his office
confirm Senator Owens recent charges
that cettaiti~New. York :, banks have
loaned $5O0,0OO,000 at extorfionate,
and burdensome interest rates, run
ming asshigh as 80 per cent?
( Declaration has been made by Pro-
hibition Commissioner Kramer that
dry lew enforcement machinery is in
adequate. Coupled with this was
statement by the Anti-Saloon League
that the ..ration is.4confronted by
gigantic and vicious conspiracy to dis
credit and ultimately overthrow prohi-
bition."
The United States Shipping Board
has announced the sale of five Hog
Tsland-built ships for $7,238, 1913 to the
American Fuel and Transportation Cor
poration.
Contracts for three new air mail
routes, at total cost Of $85OO0 a
year, have been awarded by the Post
office Department to the Lawson sAir
Line Company. of Chicago. ~. ,,..,s.,,x
:, Few important changes in the forms
for filing income. tax--returns will be
necessary, the bureau of internal reve-
lue. announced after a conference be-
.ween representatives OF various busi-
ness organizations and q committee on
he. ,prepQsed revision. of income tax
lOrms for 1920. appointed by Commits
'lio1er Williams! sN .y4ss.;;s.>
Roy H. Kuehlihg, .1feld-by the police
or investigation in connection with
he drowning of his wlfe5 Gertrude v.
<uelifihg,' was released; after the grand
Jury in the District of; Columbia court
lad voted not to return an indictment
lgainst him. KuefImg was, sxonerated
wa coroner's jury from blame in con
lection with the death OF his wife,
which. occurred while they were can0e-
ng. on the ePotomac river.
!, Attorney General Palmer has begun
evidence against several as
ociations of California fruit growers,
was learned at. the justice depart, (
nent, following the institution of anti |
rust proceedings against the Califor- q
la Association of@Raisin Growers. {
The; Interstate Commerce Commits
ion modified its .efdet prohibiting as I
ignment Of open top. cars to wagon