Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-28
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EI1N COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OoiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN
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WESTERN
One of the first official acts of Gov.
Pat NJ Ne9f. who WAS indicted into
office Mt Austin, Texas, was issuance
of an order for Texas rangers to re-
main on duty at Galveston for an in
definite period.
State passenger fares in Iowa must
be raised to the same level as those
prevailing in interstate commerce, the
Interstate commerce Commission
ruled 1t said present rates discrim-
mated against the Interstate rates.
Roy Hawkins, n mechanic, 20 years
old, shot and killed his wife, Annie
II. at Kansas City, and then commit
ted suicide, according to Mrs Annie
Hunt, at whose home the shooting oc-
Cured The couple had been separ-
ated.
Chicago's canine population tops the
5000 mark, horses number 10000, and
the feline census equals both of them,
although nobody wants cats" The
facts came out in the annual report
of II. l.. Roberts, secretary of the Anti
Cruelty Society.
l.. l.. Laughln, farmer, was
granted judgment of $4,000 at Kinks
Vile, Mo-, against Edward German, II
neighbor, who was alleged to have
painted the word Stacker" ON Laugh
Inns barns and fences during the war.
Laughlin sued for $4,000.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
handle 10000 Mexicans going back to
Mexico from the Salt River Valley of
Arizona, according to Il. @. Dawson,
an official of the road, who says the
men are cotton pickers. The men are
without work and short of food.
Wool growers of eight western Ore
gon counties organized the Oregon
Wool and Mohalr Cooperative Associ-
alton at meeting held in the com
munity house in Albany, Ore. The
plan is to enlist wool growers in pool
and sell the wool crop on II co-opera-
tive basis.
Discovery by chemists of the United
States Department of Agriculture of
the underlying cause of the destructive
corn disease Root Rot" will enable
corn producing states to increase their
crops probably 10 per cent, f. r. Mer-
edith, secretary of the department, said
at Des Moines in telling of the dlscov-
cry.
WASHINGTON
Promotion of Maj. Gen. Hunter Lig-
gett to lieutenant general is proposed
in bill introduced in the House.
President Wilson plans to spend $4,-
O0O in repairing the S150,000 home in
the Sheridan Circle section which he
purchased as his residence after
March 4th
The agricultural appropriation bill,
carrying S33,517, ,459 for the next fiscal
year, S19.511,025 less than the esti-
mates, has been reported to the House.
The total exceeds that for the current
year by S1,S04,675. The bulk of the
appropriation Is for use by the De-
partment Of Agriculture, but 81 600, 900
was authorized for the national forest
reservation committee for acquisition
of additional lands at headquarters of
navigable streams. The committee
asked for $10O00,000.
Minority stockholders of the Alice
Gold and Silver Mining Company won
the fight in the United States Supreme
Court to have annulled the sale of
that company's properties near Butte,
Mont, to the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company.
Convictions of crime should not also
carry loss of civil rights, unless the
crime warrants such deprivation OF cit
izenship, committee representing the
American Bar Association advised u
Senate judiciary committee consider
ing legal reform legislation.
The Supreme Court upheld the au-
thority of the allen property custodian
to seize securities deposited in this
country by the German insurance COM
panies to protect American policy
holders. The court said there could
be no doubt that the trading with the
enemy act authorized such seizure.
An amendment to the constitution,
providing that in apportioning repre-
sentatives among the several states,
according to their respective numbers,
aliens shall not be counted, was pro-
posed in the House by Joint resolu
ton introduced by Representative
William II. Hill, Republican, of New
York
One man in the United States had
an income of more than S5,000OOO in
1918, according to statistics made pub
lie by the commissioner of internal
revenue. The identity of this billion
aire was not disclosed, the commission
er explaining that the law requires
that returns be held confidential. In
1917 there were four individuals in
the United S,rtes who paid taxes on
incomes in excess of $5,000,000. Their
combined net income was $57, ,00S.0