The St. Johns herald., 1921-09-29

California's population, according to the 1920 census, is 75.4 per cent native white, 19.9 per cent foreign-bOrn, 2.1 per cent Japanese, 0.8 per cent Chi nese, O.5 per cent Indian and II per cent negro.
 The California alien poll tax law was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court in a 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 States and Japan.
 Chief of Police Daniel Hays, Chief of Detectives Gene Cassidy, and Will liam Kohrt, a traffic officer, all of Hibbing, Minn., are dead from rifle shot wounds inflicted by John Webb at Nelson, just south of Hibbing. The officers were attempting to arrest Webb. He escaped and posse was sent in pursuit.
 Mike Mccoy, alias B. W. Brown, confessed to the police of Oakland to the murder of a 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- sisting arrest.
 After eating breakfast of fried chicken, John w. Carroll of Fair chance, Pa, was hanged in the jail yard at Union, Mo, for complicity in the murder of Benjamin SchObe, who was slain last Nov. 20. Carroll went to his death stoically. Charles JacOy, convicted for the same crime, was hanged last month.
 Heavy importation of Chinese eggs was predicted at San Francisco fol- lowing discovery of a crate of eggs aboard the Japanese trans-Pacific liner Persia, every third egg in which thought they may have discovered the reason why importations of Chinese eggs have doubled since 1919
 The toll of a twister which wrecked the countryside near Sioux Falls, S. D., was placed at three dead tonight with a score of persons injured. Damages will total more than $100,000 to farms and crops. Two of the dead, Taylor Woods and George Fenelon, were cleo trocuted when they were blown against live wire. The third man was killed by a cOllapsing barn.
 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 $2,000,- 900. Her husband digs rock for the American Cement Plaster Company. He has been on strike since July 1. Hale and his wife live in a humble dwelling in the Gypsum district. They have been married little more than year.
 WASHINGTON
 Representative Samuel M. Taylor of Arkansas died at his home in Wash ington, after an illness of several week, of pleurisy and pneumonia.
 Appointment of Jewish H. -Carris, for merly of Newark, N. J., as director of the federal board for vocational educa- tion was announced by the board. MT. 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 sociatiOn filed a protest with the de partment of justice against any modifi- cation of the recent court decree which divorced the big packing con. cerns from their grocery interests. To allow the packing interest to re-engage 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 a slit in the bottom of the coat skirt and to permit hook on the coat that will hold the revived Sam Browne belts in place.