The Holbrook news., 1921-01-21

WESTERN
 Fire in Pecos, Texas, destroyed property estimated at $1O0,OOO, includ- ing the pOstoffice and the Western Union Telegraph office.
 The towns of Covina, GlendOra and Azusa in the San Gabrielle valley, 20 to % miles east of Los Angeles, were rocked by what was declared by inhabitants to be series of explosions
 An ordinance passed in Los Angeles by the city council prohibits rentals in excess of Il per cent of the gross in- vestment on real property and 16 per cent on furnishings. A violation is con sidered a misdemeanor.
 Policeman John Layton was shot and seriously wounded during a revolver duel with automobile bandits whom he surprised robbing a soft drink estab- lishment in Butte, Mont. The robbers escaped with their loot.
 Settlement of a California oil land leasing action which will mean the payment of $220,OOO in royalties to the government by the Miocene Oil Con- pany, has been announced in the Unit ed States Circuit Court at San Fran cisco. l.o
 An unidentified burglar was shot to death in the residence of William Crutchfield in Omaha by a squad of police armed with riot guns and pis- tols. The officers had been tipped off to the prospective robbery and replied to the burglars fire when he discOv- cred them.
 Frank DeIbridge, convict in the Nebraska state penitentiary, sentenced from Omaha on conviction of house breaking. hanged himself in his cell, making a moose of his suspenders. He had recently been parOled, but was re turned to the prison for alleged infrac- tiOn of parole rules.
 Deputy District Attorneys Stafford and Turney of Los Angeles have been in San Francisco to question two new witnesses who are to be brought to Los Angeles to testify for the prOsecu- tion in the trial of Mrs. Louise Peete, charged with the murder of Jacob c. Denton, wealthy mining broker.
 Letters signed Shadow" and de manding amounts varying from $25,OOO to $1O,OOO on pain of death, have been received by five prominent men of Portland, Ore, the police have an nOunced. J. Wesley Ladd, banker, re- ceived a letter demanding $25,000; Ben Selling, clothier, S15,OO0; Charles Jennings and Henry Jennings, Jr, and I. Gevuertz, furniture men, S1O,OO0. WASHINGTON
 Deportation of Donal O'Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, who arrived at Newport News as a stowaway and without passport, has been request ed of the Department of Labor Tues | day by Acting Secretary Davis of the State Department.
 A law requiring lobbyists in Wash ingtOn to register, telling who they are and who they represent, was advO- | cated by Senator Kenyon, Republican, of Iowa. Washington is crowded with lobbyists" he declared. "The oil, lum l Der and other big interests are lobby l ing"
 Garrisoning of the United States naval base at Hawaii has been done by Japanese recruited into the Amer ican National Guard, Senator Phelan, | California, declared in the Senate dur ing discussion of the new resolution to fix the limit of the strength of the army at 1T5,OO0.
 Special wireless telephone apparatus will transmit President-elect Harding's | inaugural address to every army post, every battleship and halls in various cities where inaugural parties" will be held, E. B. Mclean, chairman of the1 inaugural committee, has announced. A committee on inaugural radio news iias obtained the cooperation of the army and navy radio services to carry out the plans.
 The urban population of the United States, or people livipg in places off 2,j00 or more, is 54,31S,032, or 51.4 per cent of the cOuntry's total population, and the number of people living in ru- raI territory is 51,39O, 739, the census bureau has announced. In 1910 urban population represented 45.S per cent. This is the first time in history more than half of the population of the United States is living in urban terri tory" the census bureau said
 To stop enormous importations of Canadian wheat" Senator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, announced that he would ask for a tariff of prob ably 50 cents bushel on wheat to be included in the FOrdney emergency tariff bill instead of the duty of 30 cents carried by the measure as it passed the House.
 reduction of S1O,S24,OOO in gold output of the country, and of 117,941 ounces in the silver output during the last year as compared with 1919 has been announced by the bureau of the mint.
 An aerial derby, including a race be- tween dirigible airships, the first of the kind in the world, will be held soon at Long Beach, Calif, the Navy De partment has announced. The naval dirigibIe BIS will be sent from San Diego to race a similar ship to be en- tered by a commercial company. Guy F. Allen of Somerset, Md, has been nominated by President Wilson 1 to be treasurer of the United States. l Mir Allen, who has been assistant ( l..