The Dolores star., 1921-06-24
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
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THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper U.ion News Service

WESTERN
Mexico's military band, La Banda
de Estado Mayor is to make sum
mer tour of the United States, arriv-
ing at the border at Laredo July L.
The band will appear at some of the
most important state fairs in the Mid
die West
Three members of the Hop Suey
tong are dead and four others of the
same tong were probably fatally
wounded in tong outbreak at Fresno
Calf The police say the Hop Suey
men were attacked by Bing Kong men
Six of the Chinese We're shot and one
man was stabbed.
A lone bandit stole $3.50 at Kan
sas City. While en- route to bank,
Fred Sofage, cashier, and John Brad
ish, bookkeeper of the Wyandotte Gas
Company, were accosted by the bandit.
A pistol was pushed against the body
of the cashier, accompanied by an or
der TO come through" The bandit es
capped
Cred Whiskers') Burnett, escaped
convict and suspected of the murder
of Mariona league at Globe, Ariz.. on
the nj ight of May 20, for whom search
has been conducted continuously by
sheriffs' posses and cowboys. was shot
and instantly killed by member of
the posse which had been close on his
trail for several days.
The anti-gambling law passed by the
last session of the State Legislature
became effective throughout New Mex
leo June S. The law prohibits all
games of chance, including prize play
ing bridge parties, and provides dras-
tic punishment for participants in gam
bling games as well as the owners of
buildings in which gambling is per-
mitted.
Utah has many lofty peaks. Six of
them rise more than 1900 feet above
sea level and nearly sixty rise above
1900 feet, according to the United
States Geological Survey. The high
est mountain in the state is Kings
peak, which has an elevation of 13, 49S
feet. Mount Emmons and Gilbert peak,
both in Utah, are also high mountains,
reaching elevations of 13,42S and 49,
422 feet, respectively.
WASHINGTON
Home brewers used up more than
10000 tons of raisins in 1919, w. NJ.
Giffin, president of the California AS
sociated Raisin Company, estimated In
giving Senate subcommittee his
views on the pending bill to authorize
collective bargaining by farmers. He
placed the raisin grape crop of 1918
at 10000 tons and of 1919 at $4,000
tons, the difference, in his judgment,
representing demand from home brew
ers.
The government asked the Supreme
Court TO dismiss its appeal in the suit
brought against the American Can
Company and its subsidiaries under
the Sherman antitrust laws. The gov
ernment lost in the lower courts. The
governments action was based on the
decision of the Supreme Court in the
United States Steel Corporation case.
In view of that decision, Solicitor Gen
eral Frierson said it was considered
useless to continue the case against
the American Can Company.
Everybody's spending money shrank
by S1.99 during the past year, accord
ing to the monthly circulation state
ment issued by the treasury. On June
], 1920. per capita circulation in the
country was S57.42, compared with
S55.43 on June l, 1921. In the same
period the total money in circulation
dropped from S6.1O2. .162, ,244 to $685.
25S,293.
Contentious of the Western Union
Telegraph Company that it cannot be
held liable for damages caused through
errors in transmitting messages while
its lines were under government con-
troll were upheld by the Supreme
Court. A decision of South Carolina
courts, awarding damages to S. B. Pos
ton, cotton dealer, on this ground,
was reversed.
An estate tax is an allowable de-
duction' from the income of an es-
tate in computing net income, the Su-
preme Court ruled. The court af-
firmed a decision of the Court of
Claims in the case brought by execu-
tors of the Alan Fl. Woodward estate,
in Alabama, which held that the gov
ernment erred in refusing to approve
such deduction from that estates in
come in 1918.
Inauguration Of the administration s
policy for refunding most of the ST.
5OO,OO0,0O0 shOrt-dated debt has been
announced by Secretary Mellon, with
combined offering of $5OO,0O0,OOO of
three-year 5A per cent treasury notes
and one-year 51a per cent treasury GER
tificates, both dated June Is.
Hugh Il. Robertson, United States
district attorney for the western dis
trict of Texas, has been removed from
office by President Harding, it was an
nounced at the Department of Justice,
Nc reason was assigned for the remov-
al IL was said