Taiban Valley news., 1921-11-25


train, carrying beets, backed into a
motor bus conveying the children to
school at crossing at Tremonton,
Utah.
Steve Maslich, Austrian, must die for
the Staying of Marco Laus, fellow
countryman, near Salt Lake City, Aug
3, 1919, the State Supreme Court held.
The decision of the lower court was af-
firmed
Mary Williams, negro woman, said to
be the oldest negress III Texas, died at
San Antonio, aged 112 years. She had
lived in Texas forty years, coming
from Louisiana, where for many years
she was slave.
Forty minutes was recently clipped
from the air mail flying time between
Reno and Elko New, when Pilot
Vance made the distance in one hour
and forty minutes. The distance is
approximately $50 miles.
An attempt to rob the mail car on
train No. ITO of the Atcheson, Topeka
& Santa Fe railway while the train
was standing at the station at PhOe-
nix, was frustrated when Herman In
derlied of Phoenix, mail clerk in
charge of the car, overpowered the
would-be rObber.
Corncob, ridden by his owner, 1, Jar
Wis of Edmonton, Alberta, set new
world record for the high jump by
horses under 142 hands high at the
horse show at Portland, Ore, topping
the bar at six feet two inches The
Tank, former holder Of the record,
dropped out with the bar ut five feet
six inches.
Miss Lucy Stebbins dean of women
at the University of California, will di-
rect activities of deans of women of
western colleges for the coming year
as the result of election of officers at
Berkeley. Women students of western
colleges, also in session, adjourned
after selecting the University of Utah
for next years meeting.
D. c. Jackling, managing director of
the Utah Copper Company, who is also
heavily interested in other mining
properties in the West, declared that
estimates made by him indicated that
the resumption of the production of
copper would begin next spring, sub
ject to the consumption being on as
large a scale as within recent months.
WASHINGTON
Construction of highways to the to-
tai value Of $76,400,000, covering g.
261 miles and employing more than
10000 workers, is about TO be under
taken by thirty states as the direct
result of the recent passage of the
federal highway act.
Machinlsts Mate Cotton was killed
and Lleuts. Steadha Aker and o. ID.
Spaulding were severely injured when
seaplane No. 2,100, from the naval air
station, Pensacola, Fla, went into q
tail spin at an altitude Of 1000 feet
and crashed off Barrancas Beach.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader,
now serving a ten-year term Mt Allan
ia prison for obstructing the draft
may walk the streets a free man on
Thanksgiving day, through the Presi-
dents executive clemency, 1t was
learned in an authoritative quarter.
Armament delegates have cut the red
tape of diplomacy-in one regard at
least. They will dispense with the "for-
NAL and official CALL" long a sacred in
stitution. Somebody figured out that
If all the diplomats and attaches and
advisors were all to call on one anoth-
er in formal fashion it would use up
more than 10000 calling cards.
Removal of war savings stamp
from the certificate upon which it was
issued constitutes a crime under the
counterfeiting laws, according to the
supreme court. The question arose in
the federal District Court at 9Sew Y ORR
where the government failed in its ef-
fort~to convict Paul Sacks of purchas,
Ing certificates and removing the
stamps.
The proposals of the United States
for ten-year naval holiday will have
no effect on the present status of the
American naval building program,
Secretary Of the Navy DENLY said.
The present building program will con-
tinue until some definite agreement
has been reached and there will not
be even an effort to slow down or
curtail the building operations pending
the final agreement on the matter, the
secretary said.
The new battleship Colorado,
launched last spring with Mrs. Max
Melville Of Denver, daughter of Sena-
tor Nicholson, as its sponsor, is doomed
to destruction If the American propos-
al as outlined by Secretary Hughes in
his address at the opening of the dis
armament conference should be agreed
to by the other powers.
Shoot to kill, deliver the mail or die
IN the attempt, were the literal lnstruc-
tions which Secretary Of the Navy
DENLY sent to 1000 marines who left
Quantico for the Job of guarding the
United States mail.