Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-07-22


More than half the signatures re-
CURED to insure a recall election have
been reported to the headquarters of
the Independent Voters Association at
Fargo, N. ID.
News hns been received of the
drowning at Chambers, in northeast Ne
braskn, OF Professor John II. yoss and
his daughter. Gertrude, while boating
In lake. The bodies were recovered.
Charles r. Robinson, %. fireman on
the G. II. Il s. A. train on which VIII
liam Bohlman, engineer, was myster-
iously killed July near Sanderson,
Texax committed suicide at FL Paso.
Two Chinese were shot and killed on
truck farm mile and one-quarter
south OF Phoenix under circumstances
which attaches of the sheriffs office
say point to a struggle between two
tongs.
Fire destroyed the refinery of the
California Fresno Oil Company at
Fresno, Calf, together with ten tanks
containing $4,000 gallons of fuel oil,
causing damage estimated at between
S250.000 and S5OO,OO0 A distillate ex-
plosion started the fire.
Home preserved fish affected with
botuiinus germs caused the death of
Mrs. Ida Lemens of San Jacinto at
the county hospital at Riverside. Calf,
according to health authorities. Sew
enty-five chickens out of flock of 200
to which contents of the can were
thrown, also died.
In spite of prohibition, the number
of criminal cases involving alleged In
toxication on the part of automobile
drivers Is increasing, said statement
by three Superior Court judges at Los
Angeles. announcing that hereafter
persons convicted of driving a car
while intoxicated would be given Jail
sentences instead of fines.
Pelham A. Barrows, national com
mander OF the Sons of Veterans, of
Lincoln, Neb., forwarded letter to
President Harding asking that he or
der a monument, reported to be in
Troy. Ala, which contains an inscrip-
tion honoring Wilkes Booth for the
murder OF Abraham Lincoln. destroyed.
Mr.. Bnrrows stated, that this was in
accordance with resolutions passed by
a number of veterans posts.
Bewteen forty and fifty employees of
the Utah Gas and Coke Company at
Salt Lake City, left their places upon
the expiration of the agreement with
the company. The company offered
the men 20 per cent wage reduction
and the men voted to accept a 10 per
cent wage decrease. This the COM
pany refused and as n result the men
walked out. The places Of all the men
leaving We're Immediately filled.
WASHINGTON
Idle freight cars on the railroads of
the United States numbered 369,525 on
July s. decrease of 1926 from the
previous week, according to state
ment by the American Railway Asso-
citation. brisk demand for box cars
to meet grain car shortages In the
West reduced the surplus in that class
to 1872. which was 1,1S6 fewer than
the excess of box cars at the end of
the preceding week.
BY vote of ten to five the House
postoffice committee voted to lay on
the table the resolution of Represen-
tative Hardy of Colorado to postpone
increase in second-class rates. ''There
is no more hope of obtaining this leg
islation," said Hardy
The House agreed to n Senate
amendment TO the bill authorizing an
increase from S15,0O0,000 to s300O0,-
900 in the bonded indebtedness of the
Philippines. The amendment would
permit the insular government to is
sue temporary certificates of indebted
ness to the extent of $20,000000 The
present maximum is S10.000,O00.
Estimates of the amount of wheat
sown In seventeen countries for which
statistics are available show an acre
age of 151,0OO,0O0 acres this year,
against 165,O0O.0OO last year, accord
ing to summary of foreign crop
prospects made public by the Depart
ment OF Agriculture. The estimates
were based upon reports from Bel
gium, Bulgaria, Poland. Rumania,
Czecho- -Slovakia. Algeria, Morocco,
Spain, France England, Italy, Lux9m-
burg. Norway, Tunis, Canada, India
and the United States.
A general tax revision bill Will be
reported from the House ways and
means committee within two weeks
nfter passage of the tariff bill Repre-
sentative Longworth, Republican, Ohio,
member of the committee, told the
House during debate on the tariff bill.
Republican leaders predicted the tax
measure would be passed before the
middle of August
Twenty thousand army enlisted men
applied for discharges in the first ten
days OF July, and $1,000 have been re-