Taiban Valley news., 1921-05-06
FOREIGN

Governor Enriquez of Chihuahua. The
place has been In operation since the
first of the present year and during
that time paid $506,O00 gold In license
fees to the state government.
Physicians of Dublin, regardless Of
politics, have ignored the order of the
government military authorities to re-
port at once the arrival In hospitals of
persons suffering from gunshot
wounds. Thus far no proceedings have
been taken against them. The order
was intended to aid the military in
identifying their attackers, many of
whom escape though wounded.
Reports from Paris from an authori-
tative source say the Council of the
League of Nations has decided to
award the Aland islands to Finland.
Sweden insisted on ownership of the
islands, but the decision states that
"Finland's right is incontestable." The
soviets refuse to recognize the alloca-
tion Of the islands to anyone except
Russia, as they control the entrance
to Petrograd.
Rene viviani, special French envoy,
en- route home, in wireless message
of congratulations to the American Le-
gion, its national commander, Col. F.
w. Galbraith, Jr., and General Perish
ing, invited the legion men to visit
France and declared he never would
forget the courageous soldiers" of
America. "Among the great people who
love them, they will find anew the i'm
age of the great country which they
honor" the message concluded.
DrI Koudish, Russian Soviet repre-
sentative at Constantinople, who was
given a British passport wise to go to
London to confer with Leonid Krassin,
Soviet minister of trade and commerce,
was assaulted and beaten by Russian
colonel while dining with his wife in
a restaurant. The colonel exclaimed:
How dare you drink champagne
among the victims of Soviet Russian
British police who were called in told
Koudish "Y0u are free to strike
back" He demanded British official
protection.
Ricardo Zanella, leader of the Fir
ume peoples party and head of the
communistic faction in the Italian cleo
tions, by a coup d'etat, occupied the
city hall at Fiume. Count Caccia-
Dominione, the Italian minister, left
Fiume aboard torpedo boat destroyer
owing to the rioting. The frontier has
been closed by brigade of infantry.
When the, Autonomists claimed they
hay won the election by more than a
thousand votes, Zanella and his forces
stormed the city hall and elected the
old administration.
GENERAL
Filling stations in the Middle West
have dropped gasoline from % to %
cents gallon, it was announced by the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
Gasoline at tank wagons is now 20 in
stead of % cents.
Plans for recruiting harvest hands in
Kansas this season We're discussed at a
conference Of heads Of employment
agencies in the various cities and the
labor department of the Industrial
court. 1t was estimated 10000 to So.
QUO men would be required to gather
the 1921 crop.
Reports from districts swept by
violent windstorm shows that the
counties of Hamilton, Webster and
Adams were visited and the property
damage is considerable. Fifty farms
within a radius of twenty-five miles of
Hastings, Neb., were swept, On a
number of farms the barns and out
buildings were completely DESTROYED
and the houses damaged. On several
farms horses and sheep were either |
killed or injured. In the vicinity OF |
Guide Rock the wind took the form of |
a tornado, unrOofing several houses |
and in one or two instances completely |
destroying them.
Cutt off from the fortune of George |
NJ. Oyster, the widow, Mrs. Cecil Ready |
Oyster of Syracuse, N. Y, will wage a
bitter legal battle for large part of
the estate, it was predicted here when
word came from Atlantic City that
Oyster shortly before his death had
executed codicil to his will by which
he society girl he married January IS
was disinherited.
With the definite selection of
'Boyle's thirty acres" adjoining Mont.
yomery park in Jersey City, as the site
If the arena for the Dempsey Carpen-
Ter heavyweight championship bout
July 2, training plans Of the contest
lnts were laid accordingly. 1t is gen
rally understood that the champion
viii select Atlantic City, while the
will train on Long Island.
Miss Lucia Russell Briggs, daughter
f Lebaron Russell Briggs, president OF
radcliffe College, and dean OF the
aculty of arts and sciences at Har.
ard, has been chosen president of Mil
yankee Downer College at Milwaukee,
Wis She succeeds Miss Ellln c. Sobin.
iiss Briggs Is a graduate Of Radcliffe.