Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner. (Elizabeth, Colo.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-08
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OoiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN


ell Bluffs directing that l.. w. Boeh-
ner of Malvern, Ia, to report at once
for transportation to federal prison AT
Fort I>eavenworth to begin serving
three-year term on conviction of OBJ.
structing the draft and for slandering
the Red Cross. Boehner Is wealthy.
Edwin Anderson of Chicago. arrest
ed at San Bernardino. Calf, on
charge of having embezzled $4,000 in
Liberty bonds and currency from Earl
l.. Hart, for whom he acted as sales
manager, was sent back to Chicago
with his wife, without any guard, 1t
was announced by II. d. Delss, chief of
police.
Death losses from the sinking of the
steamship Governor off Point Wilson,
near Seattle were reduced to nine
when an error In the list of survivors
was cleared up by the discovery that
the name Alfred Kaseau, Los Angeles,
reported missing, should have been AL
ward Risean, Spokane. Wash, who was
saved.
The Lafayette, the tallest tree In the
Calayeras grove of big trees, eighty
five miles east of Stockton, Cal, has
been blown down. The tree was 300
feet tall. and had a diameter of thirty
feet at the base. forest ranger, who
reported the tree had fallen, said that
in February the hotel at the grove was
shaken as IL by an earthquake, and
that soon as the snow receded he found
the tree PROSTATE.
City. county and federal officials
have worked without success In at
tempts to find two men, believed to be
Mexicans who, according to Postmas
ter l.. II. Bailey, forced him. at the
point of guns, to open the safe in the
Bisbee, Ariz., postoffice and turn over
TO them a package containing about
$4,000 in currency and several thou
sand dollars in postoffice funds. Bal
ley is confined to his home, suffering
from minor Injuries caused by having
been bound and gagged.
A $4,000 mail robbery at Stuart,
Neb., Jan. 20, has Just been made pub
lie. The securities were in a first
class mail pouch dropped off at the
Stuart station at midnight When the
station agent looked for the pouch 1t
was missing. When abstracts, mort
cages and other Instruments involved
in March settlements consigned from
o'Neil, Neb, failed to arrive the value
of the pouch was made known. Cur
rency from the Treasury Department
was also included In the loss.
WASHINGTON
The American army of occupation
in Germany will not be reduced in size
before July l, 1921, the War Depart
ment has announced.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, In call is
sued at Washington for the forty-first
annual convention of the organization,
to open in Denver June ID, announces
the convention of 5000 workers will
take steps to Withstand and overcome
the bitter antagonism now so rampant
to undermine and to destroy the great
constructive force In our republic, the
American labor movement
The United States has Informed Ger
many that this government still stands
with the allies with regard to the pay
ment of reparations, the State Depart
ment has announced
The condition of cereal crops in the
northern hemisphere was described as
generally favorable" by the Depart
ment of Agriculture's bureau of crops
in a summary of foreign crop pros
poets. The mild winter In almost all
the reporting countries was held to
have been an important factor In the
crop situation. The bureau said that
although several reports had been re-
ceived RS to Russian crops. nothing re-
liable had come through.
More than 100000 unemployed will
find work during the next year on road
building projects already approved and
Congress makes an additional appro-
priation of S1O0,0O0,OO0 as federal aid
In highway Improvement, officials of
the Department of Agriculture have es-
timated. The grand total cost of road
building projects that have been ap-
proved and are awaiting completion is
S622, 100000. Between 10000 and 25-
900 miles of road can be built, II all the
money is expended.
Secretary Hoover announced he had
appointed G. w. Shaw of Chicago as
his adviser in the formation of the
committee of business men who are to
constitute the advisory council TO the
Department of Commerce, which is be-
ing organized In cooperation with the
United States Chamber of Commerce.
Postmasters at New York, Chicago,