Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-11
FOREIGN

Rights of women in Japan were adj
vanced when the House adopted the
bill giving women the right to attend
political meetings. 1t has been com
mented upon as an important advance
toward the emancipation of Japanese
womanhood.
Hachiro Sainoji, son of Prince
Sainoji, and head of the Japanese
delegation to the Paris peace confer
ence, was stabbed and seriously in
jured by a supposed political rival
Hachiro was Il member of the crown
princes party, which is expected to
sail for Europe soon.
Four members of snowplow crew
on the Canadian National railway
were smothered to death by an ava
lanche in the Canadian Rockies The
accident became known when the bod
les arrived for inquest at Edmonton,
Alb. The accident occurred forty-six
miles west of Jasper, near Mount Re-
splendent.
The average yield of gold per ton of
ore from the mines of the kilO MOto
district, in the Belgian Congo, exceeds
that of the. gold mines of British South
Africa, says the Belgian minister Of
colonies, M. Franck. The yield of the
Congo mines averages twelve grams of
gold to the ton of ore, while those of
British South Africa, the minister stat
ed, yield only eight grams.
Professor Boni, archaeologist and di-
rector of excavations on the Palatine,
is going to make another effort to. grow
sweet potatoes in Italy. He has just
received lot of seed potatoes from
the United States Agricultural Depart
ment. Whenever sweet potatoes have
been planted in Italy, they have re-
verted to ordinary potatoes after few
years. Professor Boni hopes to be able
to keep them true to their type. He
says that old manuscripts prove that
the ancient Romans grew them.
GENERAL
Frantic with pain from an attack of
appendicitis, Earl Wilson, an S-year
old boy, shot and killed himself at
Bonner Springs, Kan.
When tank filled with molten glass
burst at Barnesville, o., fire started
which totally destroyed the Kearns-
Gorsuch Glass plant there, with loss
estimated at 100000. ,-a,
The New York Central locomotive
repair shops at Elkhart, Ind, employ
ing about 700 men, and those at Col
linwoOd, both of which were closed a
week ago, will resume operations at
once.
President Wilson has formally an
nounced that he would resume the
practice of law" in partnership with
cambridge Colby, the retiring secre-
tary of state. The firm will maintain
offices in New York and Washington.
The Senate of the Washington Leg
islature passed the anti-alien land bill
by vote of SO to 2. The bill prohibits
aliens ineligible to citizenship from
owning or leasing land in the state.
1t was passed by the House and now
goes to the governor.
One hundred and ten cement dealers
were named in indictments handed
down by the special federal grand jury
which has been investigating an al
legged building material combine mem
toned in connection with the building
trust inquiry in New York.
Macon, Ca, city council has refused
to permit Dohal O'Callaghan, lord may
or of Cork, to speak in the city audi
torium. The city council also passed
an anti-flirting ordinance, making it
unlawful for man to converse with or
make signs at school or college girls.
A. w. Crawford, so, prominent Dem
and Don Barrus, president of the Don
Barrus Auto Company of Alton, were
instantly killed when their automO-
bile was demolished by the fast st.
Louis Chicago train at the Chicago &
Alton railroad crossing at Wood river,
Ill.
INcW lOi N City tuApoSNiS NhAo = sSA%A
face the highest tax rate in history, de-
spite an enormous increase in the as
sessed valuation of real estate. Based
on the 1921 budget of $345, $40, ,039, the
rates indicate increases over 1920
ranging from 20 to 81 cents per $780,.
Total valuation of real estate is COM
puted at $9,972, $3.50 and personal
property $213,222,175
Bribes totaling $10O0000 and rang
ing from SIS to 100000 have been Of
fered w. J. Mccarthy, supervising pro-
hibition enforcement agent for New
England since July. Mccarthy said he
had been threatened with death in the
performance of his duty, and told Of
attempts of bogus revenue officers to
steal liquor lawfully in transit between
New York and Boston.
Plots which involved the planned as
sassination of Cleveland citizens con-
nected with the Loyal American
League, the destruction by dynamite of
downtown buildings and an intensive
campaign of anarchistic prOpa-
ganda throughout the city, are