Taiban Valley news., 1921-06-03
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

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Eleven persons were injured, one ia
tally, when an auto stage en- route &c
Grants Pass, Ore, from Klamath Falls
struck COW and upset in ditch three
miles south of the Grants Pass city
limits.
| Mrs. Edith Johnston, for twelve
years head of the lip language depart
ment of the Nebraska school for deaf
at Omaha, leaped to her death from
| the seventh floor of a hotel. She had
been in i'll health for some time.
Governor Stephens of California
signed bill which provides that all
male alien residents of California over
y years of age shall be registered and
shall pay an annual poll tax Of $40 into
the school fund of the county In which
they reside.
The Board of Regents of the, Univer-
sity of Oklahoma adopted resolution
prohibiting students from maintaining
automobiles while attending the insti-
tuition. Possession of motor cars was
declared to be detrimental to the best
interests of the students.
District Attorney Matthew Brady an
nounced in court in San Francisco that
he was preparing new evidence in the
Mooney case for presentation to the
governor, which he believed would
leave little alternative other than par
dOning Thomas Mooney. Mooney is
serving life sentence for alleged COM
plicity in the San Francisco prepared
ness parade dynamitings in 1916.
The United States Public Health
Service, the Indian Medical Service
and the New Mexico Public Health
the typhus epidemic on the Navajo In
dian Reservation, in San Juan County,
New Mexico. A spacious hospital has
been provided for delousing purposes
1t is situated at Shiprock, on the res
ervation. Arrangements are also
being made for corps of nurses to be
sent by the government to the stricken
area, and army trucks will be provided
to carry the Indians to the hospital.
WASHINGTON
The man whose net income does not
exceed $1,000 would be allowed tax de-
ductions up to $1,000, for all medical,
hospital, surgical and funeral expenses
under a bill introduced in the House
Admiral A. S. Fletcher, commandant |
of the Fifth naval district, died at
Hampton Roads. The admiral had |
been i'll for some time. During the war |
Fletcher was commandant of |
the Norfolk navy yard and directed |
part of the plans of defending the.
coast from Maryland to Florida. He
was made commandant of the Fifth
district early in 1918.
Sale of 3 per cent beer and wine
with a IA per cent alcoholic content
would be permitted in states where
voters approved such liberalizing of
enforcement if a bill intro
luced by Representative Ryan, Repub-
lean, of New York, became law. The
measure provides for popular refer
sndum In each state on petition of 10
Der cent of qualified voters.
Isaac II. Smith was nominated by
President Harding to be superinten-
lent of the United States assay office
t New York. Harry II. Stewart was
ominated to be assayer in charge of
he United States assay office at Dead
1ood, S, Oak. t
Funds for airplane mail service from {
Jew York to San Francisco are almost t
Postmaster General Hays [
dvised Congress, and service must be {
uspended May 81, lacking deficien- Y
Y appropriation of $125,00O. Under a S
ruling appropriations for rail
'ay mail service cannot be used for J
ne air service, Mr.. Hays said, and cur \
ent appropriations of $1,250,0O0 for [
eyond this month. y
aShington.-Conflict of military in "
rests in the eastern part of the Far )
astern republic appear to have be- l.
Ime so serious that the intervention
japanese forces at Vladivostok is V
according to advices to t.
lie State Department. Maritime prov Il
ce authorities in Vladivostok were II
ported to have appealed for protec- II
on in the outlying districts to the d
lpanese, who were said to have dis u
ltched 600 troops to Anuchino. l..
The "two-bit" piece came back into
5 own at Idaho Falls, Ida, when the II
rgest restaurant in the city an w
,unced "ham and eggs" back at the W
d pre-war price. The price cuts that S
tracted the hungry ones at the "two- r
t. price were beef and gravy and ne
rk chops. Prices for all these have til
en- 80 cents.
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