Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-14
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WESTERN

WESTERN
Reargument of the Wyoming Colo
RADIO long contested dispute over the
division of the irrigation waters Of the
Laramie river was assigned for Jan.
8, 1922, by the Supreme Court recently.
The body of John Edward Dreiffein
of Moline, ILL.,, one of the two sailors
whose lives were lost in the sinking of
the submarine R-6 in Los Angeles har-
Dor recently, rose to the surface of the
water about twenty feet from where
the craft sank.
Fifteen western senators Joined in
kilograms to officers of the principal
western railroads urging that the west
to the Kansas City convention of the
American Legion. Eastern railroads
have already granted such a rate.
Fire destroyed 140 cars of alfalfa
belonging to the Elephant Butte Alfal-
ia Association Mt Fabens and for a
time threatened the entire town, which
is twenty-eight miles east of El Paso.
The loss is estimated at S50,0O0 In
surarce of $4,000 was carried.
After writing and signing will and
a series of notes, Mrs. Christian
Mauch SO years old, widow. and her
son Henry w. Mauch. 80, of st. Louis,
committed suicide by sealing them
selves In q room OF their home and
turning on the gas. Their bodies were
found by the police.
Signs along the route of the Victory
highway, for the promulgation of
which the Victory Highway Associa-
in Topeka several months ago, Will be
placed from California to Kansas City,
Mo, by Nov. 1. The marking of the
highway is complete from the coast
to Denver, Colo.
Two unmasked bandits entered the
Sierra Valley Bank at Loyalton, Calf,
forced the cashier and his assistant
down on the floor and got away with
$4,000 in coin and currency, all the
bank had. In escaping in an automo-
bile tire went flat, so they held up a
Loyalton physician five miles from
town and took his machine away from
him.
The percentage of illiteracy I'm the
state of Washington, according to CEN
sus bureau figures announced are II
per cent in 1920, compared to 9 per
cent in 1910, there being total of 49,
520 persons ten years of age and over
in the state in 1920 unable to write in
any language. OF this number, 1.62S
were native whites of native parent
age, T51 of mixed parentage, and H.
630 of foreign birth 2,12T Indians, 472
Chinese and 1,605 japanese.
WASHINGTON
President Harding's Unemployment
conference will be asked to recon-
mend the appropriation of 100000 for
the work of the United States employ
mer' service during the coming win
ter, cretary of Labor Davis has an
nounced
The question of parole or pardon for
Eugene V. Debs has been "laid aside
for a while." by the Department of
Justice, according to Attorney General
Daugherty, who said that such recon-
mendation as he had prepared would
be changed Sin phraseology," before
going TO the President.
Retail food prices during September
were found by the Labor Department
to have declined in all but two of the
cities in which it conducts investiga-
tons. Decreases amounted to 2 per
cent in Minneapolis and Portland, Me.
and l per cent in Atlanta, Philadel-
phia and Salt Lake City.
ID, ,tf
piled to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for authority to issue $1,000
600 In first mortgage 6 per cent gold
notes. The funds are to be used for
retirement of equipment trust certifi-
Gates and to reimburse the treasury of
the company for equipment trust GER
tificates matured and paid Aug. 1.
In order that the coal mining indus
try might be kept free from the men
ace of unemployment and In order
that the American coal export trade
may be increased, Secretary of Com
merce Hoover has referred to Chair
man Lasker of the United States ship
ping board, idle ships now tied up by
the shipping board, be leased to coal
exporters for 81 a month. Operation
OF the ships, would prevent deteriora-
tion, which comes when the vessels are
tied up. 1t was stated.
The chair used by Theodore Roose-
welt al his desk at the White House
was formally presented by President
Harding to the Roosevelt Memorial
Association. The gift was received by
committee headed by William Boyce
Thompson, president of the associn-
ton, and viii be placed In collection
of Roosevelt mementoes now being as
sembled.
Motor transport is responsible for