Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-21

WEST EhN
Eight-year-old Adelne Fisher is dead
as II result of injuries received when
the clapper of 300-pound bell fell up
on her as she was ringing for recess at
the school she attended ut Weston,
Nebr.
Representative Warren of Butte,
Mont, has given notice In the state
House of Representatives of bill
making picketing in strikes unlawful.
The measure conforms to the Colorado
statute. 1t was declared.
Postmaster Lester Zook swallowed
poison ut Auburn, Nebr, while a postal
Inspector was examining the books of
his office. Zook acknowledged a short
age of 81 500 In War Savings stamps
accounts. He will live.
Police were called upon to search
for suitcase containing jeweiry and
valuables said to have been worth S10,-
600, belonging to Harley Wilson of
New York. The suitcase disappeared
somewhere between the Oakland mole
and San Francisco.
A fine of 1 cent for violation of the
yoistead prohibition act imposed by
Judge i. Il. Bledsoe of the United
States District Court on Sam Graves,
negro, was on record at Los Angeles.
Graves pleaded guilty to having a case
of whisky Illegally in his possession.
The reported recovery of nearly
S250000 In Liberty bonds and currency
and the death of one of the bandits,
were features of the police investlga-
ton into the robbery by six bandits of
II sub-postoffice station at Dallas, Tex.
The amount of loot taken was not
known and four of the band remain ut
liberty.
Feeling was intense over the murder
of Mr.. and Mrs. james b. Willard, both
aged about 65, In their farm home near
Kaufman, Texas. Officers said they
had no clew as to the identity of the
assnilant. The bodies were found in
bed, the heads crushed with blows
from an iron rod which was found in
the house.
With about 5000 men unemployed in
Omaha, according to report compiled
by the Chamber of Commerce for the
United States Department of Labor,
anticipated revival of activity at the
ploy from 1000 to 5000 workmen,
while prospective building forecasts
work for considerable number of
tradesmen.
WASHINGTON
The automobile industry is paying
S143, 100000 annually to the federal
government, with state fees of $64,-
100000, and personal property taxesz
and other fees of $50,000,000
A resolution requesting President
Wilson to inform Congress why and
by what authority he sent Major Gen
eral Crowder to Cuba to investigate
conditions there was introduced by
Representative Emerson, Republican,
of Ohio.
The Supreme Court has refused to
review a Judgment of the Supreme
Court of California holding that the
United States Railway Administration
was not immune from damage suits
arising from the operation of COM
mon carrier in that state
To stop enormous importations of
Canadian wheat" Senator McCumber,
Republican,, North Dakota, announced
that he would ask for tariff of prob
ably SO cents u bushel on wheat to be
included in the Fordney emergency
thrift bill instead of the duty of 30
cents carried by the measure as 1t
passed the House.
Nearly DO per cent of the discharged
disabled veterans of the World war
are suffering from some form of men
tai arrangement, according to esti-
mates made on the basis OF public
health service reports by Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury La Porte,
who, in commenting upon the situation,
said government hospital facilities for
the treatment of these men were "the
scantiest."
The urban population of the United
States, or people living in places of
$500 or more, is 4,31S,032, or 51.4 per
cent of the country's total population,
and the number of people living in ru-
raj territory is 51,390, ,739, the census
bureau has announced. In 1910 urban
population represented 45.S per cent.
This is the first time in history more
than half of the population of the
United States is living in urban terri
tory" the census bureau said.
Approximately S,500,000 automobiles
are registered in the United States to-
day. This is the amazing figure just
announced by Alfred Reeves, general
manager of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, in a report on
sFacts and Figures of the Automobile
Industry in 1920"
Deportation of Donal O'Callaghan,
lord mayor of Cork, who arrived at
Newport News as stowaway and
without a passport, has been request