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WESTERN
Alison b. Cole and Vincent Crammer
condemned Nebraska murderers, have
been reprleved 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 absconded with dia-
monds worth $4,000 while clerk in II
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. 80.
is also held on charges of violating
the Mann act
Eighty pupils in the printing class
at the Central High school at st. Louis
went on strike because a non union
man was appointed instructor, II posi-
tion formerly held by union printer
The board of education recently ruled
that no one connected with organized
labor would be employed in the public
schools.
Mrs. Luze Corral de villa, wife of
Francisco villa, who has resided I'm
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
Vllistas.
With his brother in the engine cab
witness to the accident, Jess Q. Sims,
AZ years old, II drayman, was ground
TO pieces at Marshalltown, Ia, when
struck by 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-
gine.
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 lnrg-
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, 80 wildcats, 216
coyotes, 81 badgers, / fox, / skunk, PIG
porcuplnes.
WASHINGTON
Army recruiting again broke all
peace-time records In August, accord
ing to statement by Adjutant Gen
eral Harris, showing 1922 enlistments
for the month. July enlistments were
1881.
President Wilson, In 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
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 Daz, recent
ly appointed Mexican minister to Bra
zil, now in Washington on his way to
his new post.
Declaring that 1t was not their in
tentlon 10 fight union labor, but TO
stop union domination" of their
plants, seven of the largest shpbuild-
ing plants and ship repair plants of
Mobile have announced IN "open shop"
policy. The company officials in a
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 foreclosing a S50O0,-
600 mortgage on the plant of the Pusey
& Jones Co., Wilmington, Del, was
granted by Justice Siddons in the Dis
trict 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 ]. p. Morgan &
Co., New York, told examiners of the
interstate commerce commission at
Washington, that his company made
less than u of 1 per cent for floating
recent S25,ooo.oa0 bond issue for the
New York Central railroad.
Reports of virtual settlement of
the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chill
md Peru has been confirmed at
Washington, although the situation
has been closely watched since Presi-