Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-09-16
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western s.-.p.s~ ual.a s... s-r,s.,
WESTERN

Wh'te. io-3 per cent fOrefgn-bOrn, =.
per cent Japanese. 0.S per cent Chi
nese. 0.5 per cent Indian and IL per
cent negro.
lightning struck 50.0OO-barrel oil
tank Mt Redel. Kan. The tank expIod-
ed and the column of smoke could be
seen from Kansas City. No one was
injured. At Carrolton, Mo. another oil
tanks We're owned n, the Prairie Pipe
Line Company.
The California alien poll tax law was
declared unconstitutional by the State
Supreme Court In unanimous deci-
sion which held that the measure was
In violation of the fourteenth amend
ment to the United States Constitution
and to the treaty between the United
Stntes and Japan.
Rnnsome J. Thompson was SEN
fenced to a term not to exceed fif-
teen years In the state penitentiary
after he had pleaded guilty to two
counts charging grand larceny in the
misapproprlntIon of $4,000 and $780,
900 from George A. HORNED 4 Co.,
packers, at Austin, Texas.
Mike Mccoy. alias Il. w. Brown.
confessed to the police of Oakland to
the murder of n patrolman in Parsons,
Kan. Aug. 13, 1919. McCoy has been
employed until recently In a lumber
camp at Standard, Calf. He says In
his confession, according to the police,
that he fired on the officer while re-
sistlng arrest.
A thug went to the home of A. ].
Peterson. postmaster at T0rnillo. Tex,
first made friends with the watch dog
and tied him securely In shed, then
went to the porch, where Mr.. Peterson
and his wife were asleep and stabbed
the postmaster over the heart. After
choking Mrs. Peterson and hitting her
I'm the face with n gun. the man es-
capped. The postmaster's recovery is
doubtful. Mrs. Peterson said the thug
was man who nursed grievance
against her and her husband
Mrs. Henry o. Hale, wife of a Gyp-
sum miner in Fort Dodge Iowa, has
become the wealthiest woman, and
possibly the wealthiest person in that
city. She is the daughter OF Wallace
Farley, wealthiest citizen OF Boone
county, who died. His will, filed for
probate In Boone, left her one-half of
his estate. valued at more than $1,000
600. Her husband digs rock for the
American Cement Plaster Company.
He has been on strike since July l.
Hale and his wife live In a humble
dwelling in the Gypsum district They
have been married little more than a
year.
WASHINGTON
Representative Samuel NJ. Taylor of
Arkansas died at his home in Wash
ingtOn. after an illness OF several
week. of pleurisy and pneumonia.
Farm crops of the United States,
excluding forest. nursery and green
house products, had n total value of
$14. .755 1858, ,4O7 in 1919. the bureau OF
census announced The corresponding
vniue Of crops In 1909 was So. .231 $780,
6S9, the 1919 figure representing nn In
crease of 1872 per cent in ten years.
appointment of Jewish II. -Carris, for
merly of Newark, N. j., as director of
the federal board for vocational educa-
tion was announced by the board Mr..
Carris, who formerly was chief of the
Industrial rehabilitation division, will
have charge of all educational activi-
ties of the board and supervision over
allotment of federal funds to the
states.
The National Wholesale Grocers' AS
soc.ation filed protest with the de-
partment of Justice against any modifi-
cation of the recent cort decree
which divorced the big packing con-
Germs from their grocery interests. To
allow the packing interest to re-eigage
In the grocery business would be
against the public interests" the pro-
test set forth.
The War Department. In an official
announcement, disposed of the rumor
that the olive drab uniform was going
to give way TO the blue uniform of old
However. the department stated that
regulations would be changed to permit
the wearing of u slit In the bottom of
the coat skirt and to permit hook on
the coat that VIII hold the revived Sam
Browne belts in place.
Plans for nationwide demonstra-
tion armistice day under the leadership
Of organized labor ''in support of the
purpose underlying the International
on the limitation of arma-
ment." were announced by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. Central
unions have been asked to organize
parades and mass meetings on that day
when the international conference be-
gins.
President Harding has accepted the
honorary presidency of the Press Con
gress of the World. to be held in Hon
olulu next month.