Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-07

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After having escaped from prison
and mace his way to San Antonio, i'm
PEELED by fear that his four children
had perished In the recent flood. ]. b.
Payne was captured by local officers.
5000 tombstone VIII be placed
on the grave of Jake L. Hamon. Re
publican national committeeman killed
at Ardmore- Okla, last Novemer, ac-
cordjng TO Frank l.. Ketch, admins
traitor for the Hamon estate
Women are not eligible for jury
service in Missouri, despite the adop-
ton of the recent amendment to the
state constitution giving them the
right to hold public offices, Circuit
Judge Ralph s. Latshaw held in an
opinion at Kansas City.
A pearl weighing 35h grains and
declared to be worth $1,000. was
found in the Black river at Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, by Il. Il. Adams, n pearl
hunter. The gem is considered the
most perfect as well as the largest
found In this section of the state
Horace A. McLain, street car motor
man, is held in jail in Oakland by
police authorities who declared that
he made four attempts all within flf-
teen minutes, to end his life. First, 1t
Is alleged, McLain attempted suicide
by inhaling gas next by drinking poi
son; ; next he attempted to slash his
throat with a razor, and finally tried
to shoot himself with revolver.
Telegrams received at Ell Paso,
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of Midland, Tex, state that B. G.
Girdley, former cashier of the Midland
National bank, broke Jail and is be-
lieved to be on his way to Mexico.
Glrdley, according to q complaint filed
In the United States Commissioners
Court at Ell Paso, is alleged to have
taken three sums, totallng $4,000
from the Midland bank.
WASHINGTON
The constitutionality of the woman's
suffrage amendment was questioned in
petition filed in the Supreme Court
by Oscar Lesser and others, who seek
to have that court review decision of
state courts in Maryland, holding the
amendment constitutional
Tax dodgers are getting away with
more than $1,000,000,000 every year
that ought to 20 into the United States
treasury. That's one reason TREASURY
officials and members of Congress ad-
mitted why the rest of the American
people are called ON to bear such heavy
tax burdens. 1t is also the reason Con
gress proposes certain changes In the
tax law, to plug tax leaks through
which millions of dollars yearly are
lost.
Gen. Tasker II. Bliss is the author
ity for the statement of the loss of life
In the wars of modern times. In all
the wars presumably in Europe and
America) waged between 1890 and
1913, the total death loss was 4,449,-
300. In the recent World War, last
ing from August of 1914 to November
of 1913, the total death loss in battle
was 9,99S,771. The number of wound
ed was 0.297 ,551 prisoners and miss
ing $685. 900. II we accept the usual
estimate of the dead in the list of pris-
oners and missing, we have a total
death list Of 12,991,000.
Hearty sympathy In the work of the
American committee for devastated
France was expressed by President
Harding in letter to Miss Ann Nor
gan, an official of the committee, who
wrote inviting him to attend a marine
band concert In New York to raise
funds for French rehabilitation.
Retention of the corporation capital
stock tax snd repeal of all of the spe-
cial taxes such as those on brokers
tatA pf cir
mobile bus lines, shooting galleries
and the like, is proposed in one of a
series of amendments to the Repub-
lican tax revision bill offered by Sen
ator Simmons of North Carolina, on
behalf of the Democratic members OF
the finance committee.
The deadly poison gas developed by
the chemical warfare service has
been turned to the most peaceful OF
peace-time service. Experiments com
pleted by the chemical warfare serv.
ice have developed from the deadly
gas a violet scent that they assert Is
more delicate and more lasting than
the original woodland article. Benzyl
acetate, another of the war gas pro.
ducts, has proved the source of a
jasmine scent, as fragrant as the jas
mine itself.
Retail prices in ten cities showed a
tendency to decrease during Septem.
ber, according to a report made by
the Labor Department. In the cities
where figures were obtained Sept. Is
only one, Richmond, Va, had an in
crease over August prices, and this
amounted to but 2 per cent.
Letters threatening the safety of
Miss Alice Robertson, congresswomnn
of Oklahoma, were turned over to post
ol authorities for Investigation n vn c