Taiban Valley news., 1921-02-18


WESTERN a.nA~ f'
Psychology and the ."crime wave
were, blamed by Mrs. Louise l.. Peet'
for her conviction on a charge of hav
ing murdered Jacob Charles Denton.
The bill in the, Kansas Legislature
which provided the right of house
wife to claim damages for: injuries sus
tanned in performance of her domestic
duties, was killed by the Judiciary com
mittee. t,.e. @i s
Charles M. Fickert, former district
attorney, who handled the Mooney
case, narrowly escaped death when q
bullet, which is believed to have beer
fired by an assassin, crashed through
his office window on the ninth floor
of the Kohl build1ngTin San Francisco
Four thousand two hundred dollars
in gold, thought to have been stolen in
the robbery Of $10,2O0 from the West
ern Lean and Building Company in
January has been found by Chief of
Police Joseph E. Burbidge under a pile
of rubbish in the basement of the com
panys building .,,...;j
The Nebraska House of Representa-
tives, by a vote of A to 48, refused to
permit Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister
of the late lord mayor of Cork to
speak on the Irish question. In refus-
ing Miss MacSwiney the right of the
floor, the legislators declared her mis-
sion to this country was not of import
ance to the people of Nebraska.
A bill requiring that fifteen days
elapse between application for a mar
riage license and issuance of the Ii
cense has been passed by the State
Senate of Washington and sent to the
House. Under the bill persons author
lied to sOlemnize marriage who adver-
tise the fact or employ runners or. So
licitorS to secure the performance of
marriages would be guilty of misde-
meanOr.
Although tempted by lucious fruits
scattered about his cell and by appetiz-
ing victuals served to his cellmate, DR..
Health Engmark, 10, hunger striking
chiropractor had not weakened as he
entered on the third week of his vol
untary fast in the Los Angeles jail.
Engmark accepted ninety-day sen
tence rather than pay 5000 fine follow
ing his conviction on a charge of prac-
ticing medicine without a license.
WASHINGTON
Live stock on farms and ranges jan
uary l were valued at $6,235, $50 900
compared with $S,507, $4,000 in 1920,
the census office has announced
Arrest of five men in Philadelphia
in raid on printing shop where al
legged counterfeit internal revenue
stamps were being produced has been
by Chief Moran of the Sc
cret service. Chief Moran said about
100000 strips of stamps as well as
liquor labels were seized. ,~,.t.
Latin-American contributions last
year toward the feeding of the United
States are set forth in figures made
public by the Department of Com
merce. The statistics show that the
people of the United States leaned
heavily in 1920 on the Central and
South American neighbors for the sup
ply of certain foodstuffs.
The joint resolutions directing the
stopping of enlistments until the regu-
ar army is reduced to 175,000 men was
passed by the House over President
veto. The vote was 271 to 16.
The first move to exempt the salary
IF the President from income taxes
vas made in the House by Represen-
ative Pell, Democrat, of New York,
His bill would exempt not only the
$4,000 salary of the President, but
llso the salary of the vice president
rom provisions of the income tax
aw. Beginning March 4, the Pres-
lent will have to pay an income tax
# about $4,000 a year.
Twenty-one American marines, at
ached to the legation guard at Man
qua, Nicaragua, have been arrested
" American military authorities as
esult of the wrecking of the plant of
he newspaper. La Trlbuna,~ at Man
qua, Secretary Daniels has an
ounced. Capt. ]. L. Underhill, COM {
banding the guard, reported to the {
'avy Department that the men at
acked the newspaper establishment
s result of the publication of what
hey considered abusive and libelous" {
rticles regarding the marines. .s {
Charges that a combination exists in
he coal trade to maintain high prices s
I coal and to shut off the supply of '
Dal to dealers who cut rates were put {
efore the Senate committee consider q
lg the Calder coal regulation bill by v
G. L. Ritter, who said the "combin- d
ton" put him out of business. v
Unless trades unions are "affirma- q
vely and definitely" excluded from S
le Calder bill for government regu-
tlon of the coal industry, organized L