The Holbrook news., 1921-09-02

Whisky valued at several thousand
 dollars was seized at the mouth of
 the Fraser river. near Vancouver. B
 C., when provincial police officers
 seized a party of men who had deliv-
 cred two truckloads of liquor to be | loaded on a scow. Officials believe
 the whisky was to have been exported
 to the United States.
 Forecasts of the wheat crop yield in
 the northern hemisphere, issued by
 the International Institute of Agricul-
 ture, show that it will be approximate l ly 50,200,000 tons, compared to 51 300
 GOO tons in 1920. The crop in Europe, | leaving out of consideration Great
 Britain, France and Germany, is esti-
 mated at 12,O00,0O0 tons, compared to
 10,500,000 last year. The United States
 and Canada are expected to produce l 2S, S,500,000 tons, against 2S600,000 tons
 in 1920, and India, Japan, Algeria, Mo
 rocco and Tunis will, it is said. yield
 9,400000 tons, against 12,000,000 ton
 harvested last year.
 GENERAL
 Judge James E. Boyd, in federal
 court at GreenbOro, N. C., held the new
 federal child labor law uncOnstitutiOn- al The Owen-Keating child labor law
 was also held unconstitutional by
 Judge Boyd two years ago and that
 ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States.
 Julius M. Hansen, wanted In Lewis
 town, Mont, for the alleged em0eZzlc- ment of $70,0OO from the Empire Bank and Trust Company, was arrested at
 Shreveport, La. He has been sought since October. 1917. Preparations are being made to return him to Lewis town.
 Chief of Police FitzmOrris has of ficially barred public exhibition of the Dempsey Carpenter fight pictures in Chicago. FitZmOrris announced that police would stop any attempt of Tex Rickard, the New York promoter, or any other person to exhibit the pie lures before paid audience. He said he would not interfere with exhibi- tions before wounded soldiers.
 The first day of the John Bailey murder trial at Mount Vernon, Ky, growing out of the Bailey-White moun- tain feud, was productive of nothing more thrilling than the searching for weapons of every person who entered the courtroom. Soldiers and deputy sheriffS stopped each clansman as he entered the doorway. None resisted the search and no weapons except a few pocket knives were found. Even the women were not exempt.
 Mrs. Rosa COwan, who was Operat- ed on at Hopkinsville, Ky, about a month ago when five full-sized tea spoons were removed from her stOm ach, has so far recovered that she has mansville in Todd county. She took the spoons home with her. Her com plete recovery seems assured and her mental condition, which caused her to be sent to the state hospital for treat ment, where she is supposed to have swallowed the spoons, is normal again
 Jim Nesbit, nimble negro, turned q novel trick on the bloodhound sent out to trail him in South Carolina. Serv- ing life sentence for murder on the chain gang, Nesbit escaped. A blood hound was sent on his trail. The ne gro waited until the bloodhound caught up, tied the animal to a tree and continued his flight. He was cap tured later, however.
 Andrew Little, dishonorably dis charged soldier, has learned to salute l the American flag. It took a good | hogging to teach him the lesson. Fol | lowing the burial at Benton, H., of | Stanley McCOllum, who was killed in | the ArgOnne, Little, according to mem | bers of the American Legion. refused to salute the flag. The Legion men | flogged him. Now he salutes.
 Two steam yachts, the Venice and the TranquilIo, cOnfiscated by local for alleged whisky run hing between Canada and Cleveland, | Ohio, will be sold as soon as legal can be arranged. Federal Agent Fred Counts an upon his return from q secret mission in connection with the ships. The estimated value of the crafts was placed at $4O,OOO each.
 Jay S. Gehan, Sioux City air pilot, was probably fatally injured and his brother, John c. Gehan, an occupant of the plane, was seriously injured when the airplane in which they were doing circus flying failed to come out of tail spin and sent them crashing 10 the ground, 800 feet below on the flying field at South Sioux City, Neb.
 Bud Bridgens of Chicago was in ;tantly killed at Rockford, Ill.,, when lis parachute failed to open in a leap rom an airplane. Bridgens was prac icing for an aerial circus. He for nerly was a moving picture actor.
 Nine men were seriously injured and ibout fifty others bruised when James Urban fell from a motor speeder be- leath the wheels of two trailers and overturned the three cars, which were foreign labOrers to work on he Big Four tracks west of Green 'dstle, Ind. Urban was taken to a Cerre Haute hospital suffering from fatal injuries.
 The national assembly at Budapest atified organization of the Hungarian Irmy in conformity with the Trianon ,eace treaty. The strength will be 35,- 100 men, including volunteers.