, 1921-09-01

WESTERN
a st. Louis and San francisco pas
senger train going from Hugo to Hope,
Ark, colllded with "a westbound freight
train at Sawyer, Okla. Three persons
were seriously injured and thlrty-six
others cut and bruised.
One soldier is dead and seven 9th
ers are in an army hospital ut San
Antonio, Tex, in a serious condition,
due to a food poisoning believed 10 be
botulism resulting from eating un-
cooked sausage n few days ago.
Horace Box, -, a prisoner I'M the
county Jail at Los Angeles, was shot
aud killed by deputy sheriffs in n gun
tight which ensued following the dis
covery by Deputy Sheriff AL Patton of
an attempted Jail break by Box.
james ii. Mitchell, president of the
City Fuel Company of Lincoln, for
fifteen year prominent In Lincoln bus
mess circles, was killed when n ear of
coal he was inspecting In the railroad
yards was struck by u switch engine
and he was thrown under the wheels
Frank Godalski, member of the l..
w. W., was convicted in the Beadle
County Circuit Court at Huron, S. b.,
of manslaughter in the first degree
for completely in the murder of w. ID.
Henderson, an ex-service man. at VOL
sey,. s. d., July Is. The minimum pen
atty to which Godalski is subject is
-four years in the state p~enitentiary.
Compton r. Hubbard, -, whose bur
ela ~ Ay- IT, = -
West are said by the police 10 have
netted him upwards of 100000 IN jew
elry during the last five months, was
sentenced by Judge George A. Bart
lett at Reno, New, to serve an indeter-
inmate sentence of from two to four.
teen years in the state prison.
A man who said he was George viii
ilams of Philadelphia and believed by
officers to be the rObber who held up
the Merchants and Farmers bank at
Rockford, Wash, and escaped with
about 5000 in currency. was captured
after a running fight. Two citizen
members of n posse cowed the sup
posed bandit into submission by dis
playing an unloaded revolver of small
caliber.
A band OF about twenty white la
borers appeared at the ranch of A.
Francis in the Cutler district, fifteen
miles north of Visalia, Calf, and de
ported a Hindu worker from the house
in an automobile. The white workers
called on Francis and old him they
would not stand by and permit EN-
ployment of Hindu grape pickers while
white men are out of work. Francis
discharged all Hindus working for
him, 1t was said, but one returned.
WASHINGTON
The signing of the peace treaty in
Berlin marks the elimination Of eff
forts extending over the better part
of three years to establish formal
peace between the United States and
Germany.
Negotiations for advances to fl
nance agricultural products for export
sales involving approximately $780,
100000 are nearing completion, the
war finance corporation announced.
Final action on seven transactions will
be made within u few days, the corpor-
alton added.
Fire of undetermined origin dam
aged the United States coast guard
building I'M contents to the extent of
more than S25O,0OO. offices aud store
rooms on The lower floors were gut
ted. and the loss OF stationery belong
ing to the Treasury Department and
stored there was estimated at more
than 100000.
The resignation OF Patrick IL. Quinn,
shipping commissioner of the port of
New York, has been requested, Secre-
tary Hoover announced. MIR. Quinn
was suspended several weeks ago by
the IN department pending an
investigation into charged Of an al
legged practice by deputy shipping
commissioners in accepting g~ratuities
from ship wners
Forty-four years ago Moses NJ. Bane
was receiver Of public moneys for The
territory OF Utah at Salt Lake City.
He had to fish down into his own
pocket to pny the e n OF he office ne
occupied during 1877, 1878 and the first
quarter of 1879. Last week the Sen
ate passed a bill directing the secre.
tary Of the treasury TO pay TO the es.
tate of Moses II. Bane $1,0s0 20 cover
the rent.
Four United States vocational uni.
yerslties-one In the East, the Middle
West, the South and on the Pnclflc
coast-win be established I'm aban.
doned army cnntonments by the vet.
Grams bureau under n new policy for
the rehabilitation of former service
men, announced by Director Forbes.
The new policy, Colonel Forbes said,
was worked out with the approval OF
President Harding to correct "the sys.
TEN OF farming out vocational pa
tents and properly rehabllltnte the