Taiban Valley news., 1920-12-17


WESTERN
Forty-one fraternlties and sororities
of the University of Nebraska at Lin
coin, whose membership includes 1000
students, have agreed to boycott all
soda fountains, theaters, cafes and
banquet halls who do not reduce prices
to scale fixed by fair-price com
mittee.
A mob of 100 men Swooped down on
Sonoma county Jail at Santa Rosa,
fOrcibly seized George Boyd, Terence
Fits and Charles Valento, alleged slay-
ers of Sheriff James A. Petray, Miles
Jackson and Lester Dorman, and
hanged them from the limb of Il tree in
Il cemetery.
Eighteen indictments, each charging
murder, against David Caplan, now
serving a ten-year sentence in San
Quentin pententiary for conviction of
manslaughter in connection with the
blowing up of the Los Angeles Times
building, Oct. 1, 1910, were dismissed
in the Criminal Court in Los Angeles
by Judge Frank Il. Willis.
One hundred and siXty-One men from
hotels, soft drink parlors, cafes, pool
rooms and the streets were hailed into
the San Francisco Police Court-the
net result of one day roundup of
suspicious persons ordered arrested in
the alleged Howard street gang at
tacks on girls and the killing of three
peace officers at Santa Rosa by sup
posed gangSters.
The city administration of Yoncalla,
Oregon, is being entirely directed by
women. Mrs. Mary Burt is the new
mayor, and the members of her council
are Mrs. Edith Thompson, Mrs. Jennie
Lasswell Mrs Bernice Wilson and Mrs.
Nettie Hannah. The women, who We're
elected at the recent election, would
have regularly assumed their official
duties Jan. l, but Mayor Lasswell, hus-
band of one of the councilwOmen, and
his aldermen resigned 50 that the new
officials could start their contemplated
civic improvements Immediately.
WASHINGTON
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has stirred up hornets net IN
Congress with its notice that the prac
tice of permitting senators and repre-
sentatlves to send messages from any
office in the country with the govern
ment settling for the bill monthly
would be abandoned on Jan. l.
Great Britain and Japan were the
took less goods from the United States
in October than during the same
month a year ago, while Germany
Canada, Mexico, Chile and the Dutch
East Indies were the only countries
from which the United States received
more goods than during the CORE
spending period of 1919.
The widow of the late lord mayor Of
Cork, Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, has pre-
sented to the commission of the com
mittee of 100 investigating the Irish
question her story of the hunger strike
in BriXton prison, London, of her hus-
band, and of his death and the de-
tails, as she had witnessed them of
attempts by the Irish republicans to
gain freedom for their country.
The value of crops grown on lands
within government reclamation pro
jects for the single year 1919 was $25,-
100000 greater than the total of S125,-
100000 expended on all projects con
structed up to the close of the last fis.
cal year, according to the annual re-
port of the reclamation service.
The net cost of the war to the Amer
lean government was fixed by Secre-
tary Houston Wednesday at S24010,-
100000 This, he said, represented the
adjusted" expenditure of the treas
ury, excluding all other outlay which
ton Of the war during the period from
April 6, 1917, to June 30 last, which he
said covered the extremes of the gov
ernment's war time fiscal operation.
Wholesale prices of meats continue
their downward trend, statement is
sued by the Institute of American
Meat Packers declared. Fresh pork
showed declines of from 10 to 20 per
cent, the statement said, although it
was less marked near the packing CEN
ters than in the East. Boiled hams and
all smoked meats, the statement sald
also showed declines, while the price
of lard has fallen approximately 10 per
cent.
A total of 3,SOS persons were killed
in automobile accidents, or died as
result of injuries therefrom, during the
last year, the census bureau has an
nounced. An automobile accident
death rate Of 14.1 out of every 100000
of population was reported for 1919, an
increase over every year since 1915,