The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-07-28

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The Wages of Sin-The Judge Goes
In Cleveland judge of the court
was put on trial for a murder that
was committed in a drunken brawl
By ways and means that were shady
he was acquitted.
10000
The naval court of inquiry on the
free balloon fight into the Canadian
wilds last December by Lieuts. Kloor,
Farrell and Hinton called for no dis
ciplinary acton and held that the diff
ferences between Farrell and Hinton
which came to blows, were adjusted
in a manly way.
10000
Chile's senate has passed a bill
authorizing the government to place
either in Chile or abroad a loan of
25,00O,000 pesos in paper currency
at eight per cent for five years. This
reduces the amount asked by the gov
eminent exactly one-ahlf.
10000
Railroad labor board has ordered
wages of the employees of the Amer
lean Railway Express Co. reduced six
cents an hour beginning August L.
No reduction of express rates is con-
templated at this time as a result of
the wage cut, say company officials.
10000
Troops were called out at Kobe,
Japan, after thousands of striking
workers in the dockyards there had
charged police Gordon in an attempt
to take possession of the dockyards
and carry out project for their con-
troll by the workers. Ringleaders of
the movement were arrested.
10000
DR.. Otto Bauer, former minister of
foreign affairs of the Austrian re-
public, says the government is threat
ened with a nationwide strike if it
complies with a request to terminate
the specialization of the great Vienna
arsenal, which was made by the allied
PREPARATIONS commission.
10000
Formal appeal from the decision
of probate court in Detroit in adj
hitting to probate the will of the late
John F. Dodge, automobile manu-
facturer, was filed in circuit court by
his son, John Duval Dodge, who, the
will specified, was to receive only a
small annual income.
10000
Twenty thousand enlisted men in
the army applied for discharges in the
first ten days of this month and 49,
900 have been released from the ser
vice, Secretary Weeks announces. The
largest percentage of applicants came
from the commands on the Mexican
border.
10000
General Carlos Green, former gov
ernor of the state of TobascO, Mexico, |
who went to Mexico City voluntarily |
to explain the government charges
of INSTRUMENTATION made against him,
was arrested and sentenced to spend
thirty days in Jail.
10000
Incoming aliens, ignorant of Amer
lean customs, have been f1eeced of
100000 year by grating employees
at Ellis Island, it is estimated by
Frederick w. Wallis, immigration
commissioner.
The United States is menaced byI
the disease pellagra, which is spread
ing at an alarming rate, particularly
in the southern states, the public |
health service warns.
10000
Fourteen persons were injured or
stunned by lightning at Camp Meade
and Camp Richie during a terrific
storm and cloudburst which demol-
ished some of the tents and flooded
the cantonment last week.
10000
The former German emperor has
paid under protest the poll tax of |
5000 guilders claimed by the NUM-
cipality of Doom.
10000
A contract for the laying of sub
marine cables along the Costa Rican
coast has been signed by the Costa
Rican government and the All-Amer-
lea Cable Co.
10000
Farley P. Christensen, Farmer
Labor candidate for president at the
last election, has sailed for Den
mark to study the Danish system of
farm products distribution.
10000