New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-05-06
GENERAL

Filing stations IN the Middle est
have dropped gasoline from - Ia -
cents n gallon, it was announced by the
Standard oil Company of Indiana.
Gasoline at tank wagons is now 20 in
stead of % cents.
Plans for recruiting harvest hands in
Kansas This season were discussed at Il
conference of heads of employment
agencies ia the various cities and the
labor department of the industrial
court. II was estimated 10000 Ia 90
U00 men would he required To gather
the 1921 crop.
Reports from districts swept by a
violent windstorm shows that the
counties of Hamilton, Webster and
Adams were visited and the property
damage is considerable. Fifty farms
within n radius of twenty-five miles of
Hastings. Neb, were swept. on "A
number of farms the barns and out
buildings were completely destroyed
and the houses damaged. on several
farms horses and sheep were either
killed or injured. In the vicinity of
Guide Rock the wind took the form of
a tornado, mnroofing several houses
and in one or two instances completely
destroying them.
Gun off from the fortune of George
VI. Oyster, the widow, Mrs. Cecil Ready
oyster of Syracuse, y. Y. will wage a
bitter legal battle for Il large part of
the estate. it was predicted here when
word came from Atlantic city that
oyster shortly before his death had
executed a codicil to his will 10y which
the society girl he married January ~
was di~inherited.
With the definite selection of
"Boylp's thirty acres" adjoining Mont.
gomcry park IN Jersey city, a. ihe site
of the arena for the DcmpSeyIarpen-
tier heavyweight championship bout
July >. training plans of the contest
ants were laid accordingly. II is gen.
orally understood that the champion
viii select Atlantic city. while the
F'rrnchman will train 81 Long Island
Miss Lucia Russell Briggs. daughter
Of Lebanon Russell Briggs. president of
Radcliffe college, and dean of the
faculty of arts and sciences. AT Har-
ward. has been chosen president of Mil
waukee Downer college az Milwaukee,
Wis. She succeeds Miss Ellin g. Sohin.
Miss Briggs is a graduate of Radcliffe,
aud since 1913 has been connected with
the English department AT simmons
College.
Papers filed in the county clerk's
office AZ Buffalo. y. Y. state that
Ethel j. Mahan, owner Of a grocery
store. became 81 worried over fear that
the government would confiscate her
business. because Of possible errors in
her income tax report. that she lost her
mind. She was committed to the state
hospital for the insane by Acting Judge
.Ottoway.
Floods threatened several parts Of
Milwaukee and residents Of the south
shore faced the loss Of their homes
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shore as the result of steady rains.
Frank Seward, said to be from
ChilIicothe. Ohio, wanted in Toledo in
connection with the murder Of two de-
tectiveS. is in a serious condition at
an Omaha hospital suffering from bull
let wounds. self-inflicted. after leaping
from the fourth floor Of a hotel. where
he was cornered by Omaha police.
Hal Chase. noted former major
league hall player. has been arrested
by San Jose. Calf. officers on a war
rant which they said had been issued
in Chicago in connection with recent
inquiries into baseball
charges.