Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
Popular Recorder of Deeds Makes Plain
Some of the Laws Recently Passed
Affecting Torrens System
Examiners Fees Are Reduced and If Costs Less
to Register Property of Small
Value Now

that a fresh division of the Japanese
army will be sent to Vladivostok to
relieve troops due to come home is
followed by the expression of opinion
on the part of the leading newspapers
here that Japan's evacuation move
ment will be delayed because of the
unsettled Siberian situation.
Cossacks Fail Semenov.
The latest dispatches from Vladi-
vostok declare that General Semenov,
the Cossack anti-BOlsheVist leader, is
finding little support among the Cos
sacks, and that Cossack detachments
are offering their services to the pres
ent Vladivostok government.
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Reports have been in circulation for
some time that something other than
alcohol was producing strange effects.
Imbibers complained of rush of
heat to the head after drinking a
pint and of other powerful effects.
Acting Chief Chemist Timms said
ether would produce such effects. The
theory is saloonkeepers. buy near beer
and then doctor it.
Dr. Timms understands Michigan
has an epidemic of ether addicts,
some of whom pour few drops or
ether into ice cream sodas.
With the purpose of discovering
whether the extra percentage" in
or, as suspected, ether, Health Com
missioner Robertson has ordered an
investigation.
Judge David M. Brothers was elected
chief justice of the Circuit Court to
meeting of the Circuit Court judges
in the County Building.
Judge Francis S. Wilson was elected
acting chief justice to succeed Judge
Frank Johnson, Jr. Permanent as
| signment of judges also was made.
| Judge Victor P. Arnold will continue
in Juvenile Court. Judge Torrison
will head the chancery division and
| Judge Wilson the law division.
The four chancellors elected are
| Judges Torrison, George f. Rush, Ira
| Ryner, and Hugo M. Friend. The ex-
| ecutive committee consists of Judges
| Brothers, Wilson and Torrison. Fran
| els X. Busch was appointed master in
chancery for Judge Donald L. Merrill,
to succeed Judge Philip L. Sullivan.
1t is bad enough for juries to turn
murderers loose on expert testimony,
but when the public is forced to pay
| for their experts it is worse.
"A fine business" exclaimed Chief
| of Police Fitzmorris. 'Wanderer
isn't half as crazy as some of these
| coppers will be if they keep letting
these men out on insanity pleas
ITS undoing the work of my men fo1
months back. 1t was three months
| before we could land our evidence
No one doubts he committed the
crime and that's all we are inter
ested in. AS it is proved he did, he
should hang. They are trying to
prove that any one who commits a
felony is little dippy."
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Some of the would-be quick money
getters have thrown away gold bricks
and organized a trust" game to sep
arate people from their coin. Secre
tary of State L. L. Emmerson has
lived up to his reputation as a good
official by refusing to recognize the
alleged securities of some of these
crooks for whom the penitentiary il
yawning
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George W. Jackson, the well knowl
engineer, has perfected an invention
that will do away with adjoining prop
erty damage in building subways.
Caissons for the construction of i'm
mense skyscrapers can be sunk with
out the settling of streets and dam
age to adjacent property and all O
this at tremendous saving in cos
and time, declares the inventor.
The invention which Mr.. Jackson
perfected consists of series of chain
carried buckets that empty into a con
tainer that is about the width of tn,
shaft that is to be driven A five
horsepower moter is sufficient to ope1
ate the digger, which entirely elm
mates that old method of digging b.
manual labor.
After the container is full, the dir