Taiban Valley news., 1921-11-04
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
ACCORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western N.~.p.p.r Union New. Service. ,
WESTERN

WESTERN
Approximately 100000 silver dollars
are being made daily at the San Fran
cisco mint under recent instructions to
speed up production, according to Su-
perintendent M. ]. Kelly.
Frank Lemen, IA years old, believed
one of the oldest circus men in the
country and who was credited with
having taken the first circus to Aus
tralia, is dead at Kansas City.
Farmers of Stockton, Kan, have or
ganized with an agreement to burn
corn this coming winter instead Of
coal, on account of the difference in
price between these two commodities.
Four armed bandits robbed the Ho-
diamont Bank, just outside OF st.
Louis. of $7,180. Six employees and one
customer were compelled to lay face
downward while the men scoOped the
money into sacks. The robbers es-
capped in an automobile.
Packing house employees OF Des
Moines, Iowa. voted to accept a ; per
cent wage cut declared recently by the
packing companies. Officers of the
union said that there will be no strike
by the employees unless 1t is declared
by the national officers.
The 8-months-old baby of Mrs Signe
Swanson of Spokane, Wash, was
Smothered In lounge whclh painters
had closed, believing it contained only
bedding The child was dead when
Mrs. Swanson opened the lounge five
minutes after it had been closed.
Mrs. Louise l.. Peete, convicted of
the murder of J. C. Denton, was de-
MED by the District Court Of Appeals
rehearing of her appeal upon which
the court ruled several weeks ago. Her
attorneys announced the case would
be taken to the California Supreme
Court
Seventy-year-oId Carl Rueble, a re-
tired Iowa farmer, shot and slightly
wounded Mrs. Gabe Oleson, the wife
of a neighbor and then turned the gun
on himself and committed suicide Rue.
ble's attention to the 55-year-old wife
of his younger neighbOr has been the
subject of jest for some time.
WASHINGTON
The War Department announced
that 1000 seats, about One-flfth of the
total seating capacity of the memorial
amphitheater. at Arlington Armistlce
day had been reserved for gold star
mothers or other nearest relatives of
men who died I'm the World war Not
more than two seats will be given any
application.
The appointment Of Capt Jesse F..
Cottrell, representative in Washing
ton of several Tennessee newspapers
for many years, as u s. minister to
Bolivia Is being hailed with satisfac-
stion by the newspaper fraternity.
Captain Cottrell, who left his profes-
sion to serve the country during the
war, has won an envlable reputation.
The new revenue law to be enacted
next year to take the place of the one
which Congress will soon pass, will
contain the chief provisions of the
Smoot bill, providing for manufacture
ing or sales tax on commodities
Agreement to this effect has been
reached among Senate leaders of the
eastern bloc, representing the indus
trial sections of the country.
Persons paying federal taxes under
protest cannot bring proceedings to re-
cover such taIes against a successor
of the collector to whom the taxes
we're paid, the Supreme Court held In
deciding q case brought by the Indl
ana Steel Company.
Suit to test constitutiOnalIty of the
Capper-Tincher bill passed by Con
gress to regulate grain exchanges and
put them under direction Of the secre
tary of agriculture was filed in federal
District Court by John Hill, Jr., Q
member of the Chicago board Of trade
Approval of loan of 81 100000 tC
a financial institution for credit ex
tensions on live stock In Montana anC
Wyoming, was announced by the Wal
Finance Corporation. The corporation
did not make pubic tne name or tne
institution nor the terms Of the loan.
The governments annual report OF
mortality statistics for 1920, soon to bC
issued, shows 1889 deaths within
the death registration area, represent
ing a rate Of 1871 per thousand, al
compared with 1910 In 1910. Fatalities
from automobile accidents and lnjurie.
Increased from 94 to 10.4 per hundred
thousand.
The Supreme Court declined to con
slider an appeal brought by Hector II
eIwell. city editor Of a Chicago news
paper, convicted Of contempt Of cour
for refusing to Identify for a fedora
grand jury the person who wrote {
certain article printed In his newspa
per. EIwelI appealed on the grounC
that he could not be compelled to give
testimony which might lncriminat'
himeelf
The big exports Of wheat reported
ara expected to add to the influences
arefted from other causes, and tend t.
aasa up mOney rates