The Dolores star., 1921-09-02

! Fire started in the most thickly pop
ulsted part of Moscow several days
age and burned several days. IL is as
serted by the Helsingfor correspond
ent of the Central News Several hun
dred houses have been destroyed. the
correspondent says.
Whisky valued at several thousand
dollars was seized at the mouth of
the Fraser river. near Vancouver. B.
C., when provincial police officers
seized a party of men who had deliv
cred two truckloads of liquor TO he
loaded on scow. Officials believe
to the United States
GENERAL
Julius NJ. Hansen, wanted In Lewis
town, Mont. for the alleged em6ezz!c
ment of $4,000 from the Empire Bank
and Trust Company, was arrested at
Shreveport La. He has been sought
since October, 1917. Preparations are
being made to return him to Lewis
town.
Edwin Il. Stephenson. a preacher.
who shot and killed the Rev. james 4.
Coyle, pastor of ST. Paul's Catholic
church, Aug. II. at Birmingham, Ala,
was bound over to await action of the
county grand jury, after a preliminary
trial at which the defense offered no
testimony. Bond was not allowed.
Jay $. Gehan, Sioux City air pilot.
was probably fatally injured and his
4. -. II. -
of the plane, was seriously injured
when the airplane in which they We're
doing circus flying failed to come out
Of tail spin aud sent them crashing
to the ground. 800 feet below on the
flying field at South Sioux city, Neb.
Chief of Police Fitzmorris has Of
ficially barred public exhibition of the
Dempsey Carpenter fight pictures in
Chicago. FitzmOrris announced that
police would stop any attempt of Tex
Rickard. the New York promoter or
any other person TO exhibit the pic
lures before paid audience. He said
he would not interfere with exhibi-
tions before wounded soldiers.
The first day of the John Bailey
murder trial at Mount Vernon, KY,
growing out of the Bailey-whIte noun
tain feud, was productive of nothing
more thrilling than the searching for
weapons of every person who entered
the courtroom. Soldiers and deputy
sheriffs stopped each cIansman as he
entered the doorway. None resisted
the search and no weapons except Il
few pocket knives were found. Even
the women We're not exempt.
Forecasts of the wheat crop yield in
the northern hemisphere, issued by
the international Institute of Agricul-
ture, show that ii will he approx innate
ly JO,2OO,OOO tons, compared to 81 l.30O,-
900 tons in 1920. The crop in Europe,
leaving out of consideration Great
Britain, France and Germany, is esti-
mated ut 100000 tons, compared to
10,JOO, 600 last year. The United States
and Canada are expected to produce
2S,JO0,0OO tons against 2S,600,OOO tons
in 1920, and India, Japan, Algeria, Mo-
rocco and Tunis will, it is said, yield
9,4OO,0OO tons, against 100000 tons
harvested last year.
Jim Nesbit, nimble negro, turned Il
novel trick on the bloodhound seat out
to trail him in South Carolina. Scrv-
ing life sentence for murder on the
chain gang, Nesbit escaped. A blood
hound was sent on his trail. The ne
gro waited until the bloodhound
caught up, tied the animal to n tree
and continued his flight He was cap
tured later, however
Arkansas famous family of ''moun-
tain dew" distillers has changed
trades by decree of juries Horace
Cox, fifth member of his family to be
found guilty of 'moonshining." has en-
tered the high walls of the Arkansas
state prison to do a period of penal
servitude. He is 10. His father and
three older brothers preceded him to
the city of silent men"
Two steam yachts, the Venice and
the TranquillO, confiscated by local
authorities for alleged whisky run
ming between Canada and Cleveland
Ohio, Will be sold as soon as legal
formalities can be arranged, Federal
Prohibition Agent Fred Counts an
nounced upon his return from secret
mission in connection with the ships
The estimated value Of the crafts was
placed at $4,000 each.
Andrew Little, dishonorably dis
charged soldier, has learned TO salute
the American flag. II took a good
flogging TO teach him the lesson. Fol-
lowing the burial at Benton, H., of
Stanley McCollum, who was killed in
the Areonne, Little, according to men,
bers of the American Legion refused
to salute the flag. The Legion men
flogged him. Now he salutes.
The national assembly at Budapest
ratified organization Of the Hungarian
army in conformity with the Trinnon
peace treaty. The strength will be 3d.
1000 men. including volunteers.