Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-03-25
CONDENSED REcoRp OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERiNos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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WESTERN


viding that all persons condemned to
death In Nevada should be executed
with lethal gus. He said he would
not sign Immediately In order to al
low any persons who might object to
present their reasons.
Harold Jc~es. 12-year-old school
boy, is dead at Muskogee Okla. He
drowned In an effort to save his Z
year-old brother. Samuel, when the
lntter fell into creek near their home.
the boys mother, Mrs. w. J. Jones,
dove into the creek and saved the
younger boy. but was unable to reach
the older child.
Tile Fist State and Savings Bank
of Klamath Falls, Ore. is doing bust
ness MS usual again, after having
closed its doors on Jan. ~. The re-
opening which was declared to have
saved over half the sheepmen and cat
tlemen of Klamath county from ruin,
was preceded by a civic celebration,
second only to that of Armistice day.
The Utah Association of Life Under
writers has filed protest with the
State Insurance Commission at Salt
Lake against the rellcenslng of the
Mountain States Life Insurance Com
pany of Denver The association al
leges that the company is doing bust
ness in violation of the statutes of
Utah, which prohibit determinations,
rebates and stock schemes.
An underground dope route" be-
tween Salt Lake and Ogden, which has
served to carry $43.6 $50 worth of drugs
to Ogden victims in the last three
years, has been exposed, according to
the police in the arrest of Henry
Bankhead. Bankhead, the police said,
confessed to making two trips daily
for three years to Ogden, carrying $50
worth of drugs on each trip.
Richard Dunkle held three aces in
poker game and thought that was
enough to win the pot. Ross Wicker
sham, however, laid down II pat flush
and raked in the winnings Dunkle
was SO enraged, witness at Fremont,
Neb., testified at the trial of Dunkle
for the Staying of Wickersham, that
he started an argument which resulted
in the fatal shooting of the winner.
WASHINGTON
House and Senate leaders have an
nounced agreement on plan to push
soldier bonus legislation during the
early weeks of the special session OF
Congress- to meet April H.
The ban prohibiting Withdrawals of
whisky from bonded warehouses, in so
far as it effects retail druggists, will
be lifted April l, under an order Is
sued by Prohibition Commissioner
Of tha nrda
stopping Withdrawals was not ex-
tended to wholesale liquor dealers.
An urgent demand that the govern
ment of Panama Immediately settle it's
boundary dispute with Costa Rica is
made by the United States in a note
dispatched to Panama and made pub
lie by the State Department. The
note insists that Panama abide by the
boundary decision of Chief Justice
White.
April IL was selected for the special
session of the SiXty-seventh Congress,
the first under President Harding's
administration. The announcement
was received with general satisfaction
by Senate leaders. Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, Republican leader, no.
UlIleu Int sOcnutt Oh lne ITtSluenl 5 Ute
cision.
President Harding suggested to
Chairman Fordney that the House ways
and means committee sound out the
Senate Republicans as to the feasibil
ity of early passage of an emergency
tariff that would take care of farmers.
The proposal was discussed at length,
and 1t has been determined to pass
the emergency tariff at the special
session OF Congress in April.
The Agricultural Department an
nounced that the average price of plow
land in the United States decreased
about 7 per cent in the past year, due
to drop in crop prices. However, the
Western states show the least decline
in land prices. and in Colorado, Ore
gon and California there is even a
slight increase over last year. South
ern states, due to the cotton situa-
tion, show the greatest decline in land
values
Resumption of trade with Russia is
impossible until Bolshevism is aban-
doned or overthrow, Secretary of
Commerce Hoover stated. The return
of economic stability in Europe de-
pends on the reputation of Bolshev-
ism by Russia, he added.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has suspended until July IA pro-
posed cancellation of rates on grain
and grain products from shipping
points in Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming to Texas and
Louisiana gulf ports when routed by
way of Denver.