Elbert County tribune., 1921-11-04

WESTERN
Frank Lemen, ~ years old, believed
one of the Oldest circus men In the
country and who was credited with
having taken the first circus TO Aus
tralin, Is dead at Kansas City.
The body Of a young man with a
bullet wound In the head, which was
found in a vacant lot in San Francisco.
was identified as that of the bandit
who held up the ferry postoffIce, shot
and killed Frank b. Adams, an armed
guard, and escaped with valuable mail
matter.
Twenty-Five men were arrested
three stills destroyed and more than
1000 gallons of liquor seized In raids
just completed at Gallup, n. NJ, by
prohibition officers. The roundup, the
state director says, was the largest ev-
er conducted in the state, nearly the
entire force taking part.
Two bachelor brothers of Lincoln
advanced one of the most novel boot
Logging excuses ever heard In Nebras-
ka. They said they operated the still
for the benefit Of paralyzed woman,
whose drinking water had to be dis
titled. They admit she died more than
year ago from the treatment.
District Attorney Mathew Brady has
under consideration request that he
recommend parole for Allen McDon-
aid, convicted In connection with the
so-ca1led Howard street gang cases"
a year ago, In San Francisco. McDon-
aid soon will be eligible to apply for
parole. Recently McDonald's mother
made her way to Frisco from Denver
ing free rides at times-and asked
Brady to parole her son.
WASHINGTON
Persons paying federal taxes under
protest cannot bring proceedings to re-
cover such taxes against successor
OF the collector to whom the taxes
were paid, the Supreme Court held In
deciding case brought by the Indi-
ana Steel Company.
Suit to test constitutfonality of the
CapperTincher bill passed by Con-
gress to regulate grain exchanges and
put them under direction of the secre-
tary of agriculture was filed In federal
District Court by John Hill, Jr., a
member of the Chicago board of trade
Approval of loan of $1,OOOOOO to
a financial institution for credit ex-
tensions on live stock in Montana and
Wyoming, was announced by the War
Finance Corporation. The corporation
did not make public the name of the
institution nor the terms of the loan.
The governments annual report on
mortality statistics for 1926 soon to be
issued, shows 1,142,57S deaths within
the death registration area, represent
ing a rate of 13.1 per thousand, as
compared with 129 in 1919. Fatalities
from automobile accidents and injuries
increased from "a to 10.4 per hundred
thousand
Fire In the national forests over the
country cost the government more than
$20.000,000 annually, and more than
S6.0OO,OOO is spent annually by the
service in proper forest administration
and protection. according to informa-
tion given out in Washington by DR..
Herbert A. Smith, assistant forester
from Washington, ID. G.
The appointment of Capt. Jesse f.
Cottre1i, representative in Washing
ton of several Tennessee newspapers
for many years, as u. S. minister to
Bolivia Is being hailed with satisfac-
ion by the newspaper fraternity.
Captain Cottrell, who left his profess
sion to serve the country during the
war, has won an enviable reputation.
Among the important acts of the re-
cent sovereign grand lodge of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows at
Toronto, Canada, was the decision to
build memorial building in Balti-
more at cost of S1.500,0OO. 1t was
in Baltimore that the order was born
102 years ago. Each member is to be
assessed at 10 cents a year for five
years to obtain the building fund.
Decision of many West Virginia
mine operators to refuse next spring
to re-enter into wage contracts with
their employees unions was announced
to the Senate committee investigating
conditions in the West Virginia fields.
The statement was made by e. NJ.
Merrell, Charleston operator, who
said that "a concerted move" was un-
der way to fight the closed union shop
when the time for renewal of wage
contracts arrived April 1.
Members of the clergy, the great
majority of them with war experience
and graduates of army chaplain schools
at home or In France, are well repre-
sented in the officers corps of the
army. About GOO commissions as re-
serve army chaplains have been issued.
They include five majors. sixty cap
tains and the remainder first lieu
tenants. BY denominations the distrl-
button is as follows: Roman Catholic,
1856: Methodist, 115 Baptist, 81 Pres