Taiban Valley news., 1921-05-20
FOREIGN

Discovery OF valuable oil and gas
territory near Puerto Limon, on the
eastern coast Of Costa Rica, Is report
ed. 1t is believed that this is the first
discovery of natural gas in Central
America.
Three small private banks in Ha-
vana have suspended payment and an
other in the city of Camaguey, eastern
Cuba, closed its doors. All the institu-
tions had sustained runs by depositors,
and some of the oldest and strongest
institutions in the city are affected
Outlaws have captured a British mis-
sionary named Stevens near Fengh-
sien, in the province of Shensi, 1t is
said In advices to the British legation.
Dispatches indicate the object is to
bring pressure to bear on provincial
authorities to abandon oppressive
measures.
Ruins of prehistoric city have been
discovered by Prof. Carl Blegen of the
American Archaeological School at
Athens. The city was situated between
Corinth and Mycenae, in southeastern
Greece, and pottery and fragments of
statuary unearthed fix the date of it's
prosperity at about 1000 B. G.
Gems. Lucio Blanco, Eduardo Her
nandez, Ireneo Villareal and. Pablo
Gonzales, former Carranza chieftains,
who have been reported to be starting
a revolution against the Mexican gov
ernment from the United States side,
have made an appeal to President OBJ
regon for leniency If they surrender,
according to official advices.
The Argentine government, under
an agreement reached with representa-
tives of the labor organizations, will
not permit nonunion labor in the port
area. Work in the major section of the
port which has been at a standstill for
some time as a result of the boycott
declared by the port workers is ex-
pected to begin shortly.
A mule is not horse, according to
an opinion of the Manitoba Court of
Appeals, which awarded 500 and costs
to Thomas Pople, a mule dealer,
against the city of Dauphin, Man. Po-
pie sold twenty mules there last sum-
mer, and was forced by town officials
to pay $5 head tax, which is levied On
horses brought to the town for sale.
He sued to recover the amount.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and w.
Cameron Forbes, former governor,
composing President Harding's special
mission to investigate conditions in the
Philippine islands, settled down to in
vestigation work Immediately upon ar
rival at Manila. After popular dem
onstration in the shape of a parade of
all civic organizations, headed by
Mayor Fernandez, in honor of the COM
missioners, the mission started action.
GENERAL
Miss Idell Boland, II years old, of
Chicago, chose death to blindness. She
ended her life with poison when she
knew her sight was fading.
T. G. Brown and J. w. Creole were
burned to death and several persons
were injured in fire which destroyed
a boarding house at Richardson, La.
Regulations permitting federal re-
serve banks to purchase bankers ac-
ceptances, maturing up to six, instead
of three, months, which grow out of |
transactions in Importation or exporta-
tion of goods, have been issued by the
federal rpSprva hoard
Gus Groener, "a, an inmate of the
Montgomery county poor house in Mis-
souri,, is an uncle to General Groener,
newly appointed German minister of
telegraph and transportation. Over
taken by poverty and old age, he has
been in the poor house for several
years.
An unidentified negro was lynched
Mt McGenee, Ark, for alleged partici-
patton in an attempted attack on ]. p.
Sims, railroad blacksmith and a
young white woman while they were
riding in an automobile along coun-
try road. Sims reported three negroes
stopped his car and demanded he leave
The young woman. He opened fire and
The trio fled.
Fire, causing a loss of more than
million and half dollars, destroyed
No. breaker of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company at Coaldale, Pa
rhe structure, together with much val
liable machinery, is entirely in ruins.
Nearly 200 years ago thoughtful
10Y printer, named Benjamin Franklin,
an away from Boston to Philadelphia.
Recently bronze statue OF Franklin
vas acclaimed by thousands in the city
# his birth as 1t was exhibited in a
parade. The statue, in reaching Bos-
on had reversed the route taken by
franklin to Philadelphia.
The United Brotherhood of Main
enance of Way Employees and Railway I
shop Laborers, with its membership of
bout 100000, cannot be reinstated in
he American Federation of Labor un-
II 1t has turned over to the building I
rades union its members now engaged 9
n ctation construction v,orb 1ht. do |