, 1921-06-16
news TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN
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WESTERN
Mexico's military band. IA Banda
de Estado Mayor" is to make "A sum
mer our of the United States, arriv-
ing at the border at Laredo July l..
The band will appear at some of the
most important state fairs in the Mid
die West.
Three members Of the Hop Suey
tong are dead and four others of the
anne tong were probably fatally
wounded in n tong outbreak at Fresno.
Calf. Tit police say the Hop Suey
men were attacked by Bing Kong men.
Six Of the Chinese were shot and one
man was stabbed.
A lone bandit stole $3.50 at Kan
sas City. While EN- route to a bank,
Fred Sofage, cashier, and John Brad
ish, bookkeeper of the Wyandotte Gas
Company, were accosted by the bandit.
A pistol was pushed against the body
of the cashier, accompanied by an or
der to come through" The bandit es-
capped.
Cred Whiskers") Burnett, escaped
convict and suspected of the murder
of Marlona league ut Globe. Ariz.. on
the night of May %, for whom a search
has been conducted continuously by
sheriffs' posses md cowboys, was shot
n instantly killed by n member of
the posse which had been close on his
trail for several days.
The anti-gambling law passed by the
last session of he State Legislature
became effective throughout New Mex
leo June s. The law prohibits all
games of chance. including prize play
ing bridge parties, and provides dras-
tic punishment for participants in gam
bling games as well as the owners of
buildings in which gambling is per-
mitted.
Utah has many lofty peaks. Six of
them rise >cre dian 1900 feet above
sea level I'd nearly sixty rise abo
1900 feet, according to the United
States Geological Survey. The high
est mountain in the state Is Kings
peak, which has an elevation Of 13.49S
feet. Mount Emmons and Gilbert peak,
both In Utah, are also high mountains,
reaching elevations Of 13,42S and 49,
422 feet, respectively.
WASHINGTON
Home brewers used up more Than
10000 ons of raisins in 1919, W. NJ.
Giffin, president of the California AS
ISOLATED Raisin Company. estimated in
giving n Senate subcommittee his
views on he pending bill to authorize
anllaaffua ha rnaipIp1 hr fnt,ar. IIn
placed the raisin grape crop of 1918
mt 1917, 900 tons and of 1919 ut $4,000
tons, the difference, in his judgment,
representing demand from home brew
ers.
n government asked the Supreme
Court to dismiss its appeal in the suit
brought against the American Can
Company and its subsidiaries under
the Sherman antitrust laws. The gov
eminent lost In the lower courts. The
governments action was based on the
decision of the Supreme Court in the
United States Steel Corporation case.
In view of that decision, Solicitor Gen
eral Frierson said II was considered
useless to continue the case against
the American Can Company.
Everybody's spending money shrank
by Sl.99 during the past year, accord
ing to the monthly circulation state
ment issued by the treasury. on June
!. 1920. per capita circulation in the
country was S57.42. compared with
S55.43 on June 1, 1921. In the same
period the total money In circulation
dropped from $8.102. 1862, pa to $685..
25S.
Contentious OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company that it cannot be
held liable for damages caused through
errors In transmitting messages while
Its lines were under government con
troll were upheld by the Supreme
Court. A decision of South Carolinn
courts, awarding damages to s. b. Pos
ton, a cotton dealer, on this ground,
was reversed.
An estate tax Is an allowable de-
duction' from the Income of an es-
tate in computing net income. the SUI
preme Court ruled. The court nf-
firmed a decision of the Court Of
Claims in the case brought by execu-
tors OF the Alan III. Woodward estate.
in Alabama. which held that The gov
m erred in refusing TO approve
such n deduction from that estates in
come in 1918.
Inauguration Of the Administrators
policy for refundIng most OF the ST.
500,OO0.000 short-dated debt has been
announced by Secretary Mellon. with
n combined offering OF s5O0.OOO. 900 Of
three-year 5A per cent treasury notes
md 0ne-year ga per cent treasury GER
t~ificates, both dated June IS.
Hugh II. Robertson, United States
district attorney for the western dis
trlct Of Texas, has been removed from
office by President Harding, It was an