Taiban Valley news., 1921-09-02

flooded large areas In the province or
Shantung.
Fire started in the most thickly pop
ulSted part of Moscow several days
age and burned several days, it is as
serted by the Helsingfor correspond
ent of the Central News. Several hun
dred houses have been destroyed, the
correspondent says.
Whisky valued at several thousand
dollars was seized at the mouth Of
the Fraser river, near Vancouver, B.
c., when provincial police officers
seized party of men who had deliv-
cred two truckloads of liquor to be
loaded on a scow. Officials believe
the whisky was to have been exported
TO the United States.
GENERAL
julius NJ. Hansen, wanted In Lewis
town, Mont, for the alleged embezzle-
ment of $4,000 from the Empire Bank
and Trust Company, was arrested at
Shreveport, La. He has been sought
since October, 1917 Preparations are
being made to return him to Lewis
town.
Edwin r. Stephenson, preacher,
who shot and killed the Rev. James e.
Coyle, pastor of st. Paufs Catholic
church, Aug. IL, at Birmingham, Ala,
was bound over to await action of the
county grand jury, after preliminary
trial at which the defense offered no
testimony. Bond was not allowed.
Jay S. Gehan, Sioux City air pilot,
was probably fatally injured and his
brother, John @. Gehan, an occupant
of the plane, was seriously injured
when the airplane in which they were
doing circus flying failed to come out
of tail spin and sent them crashing
to the ground, 500 feet below on the
flying field at South Sioux City, Neb.
Chief of Police Fitzmorris has Of
ficially barred public exhibition of the
Dempsey Carpenter fight pictures in
Chicago. Fitzmorris announced that
police would stop any attempt of Tex
Rickard, the New York promoter, or
any other person to exhibit the pic
lures before paid audience. He said
he would not interfere with exhibit
tions before wounded soldiers.
The first day of the John Bailey
murder trial at Mount Vernon, KY,
growing out of the Bailey White noun
tain feud, was productive of nothing
more thrilling than the searching for
the courtroom. Soldiers and deputy
sheriffs stopped each clansman as he
entered the doorway. None resisted
the search and no weapons except a
few pocket knives were found. Even
the women were not exempt.
Forecasts of the wheat crop yield in
the northern hemisphere, issued by
the International Institute of Agricul-
ture, show that it will be approximate
ly 50,200,000 tons, compared to 51,300,-
600 tons in 1920. The crop in Europe,
leaving out of consideration Great
Britain, France and Germany, is esti-l
mated at 12,000,000 tons, compared to
10,500,000 last year. The United States
and Canada are expected to produce
28,500,000 tons, against 2S,600,000 tons
in 1920, and India, Japan, Algeria, Mo-
rocco and Tunis will, it is said, yield
9,400,000 tons, against 12,000,000 tons
harvested last year.
Jim Nesbit, nimble negro, turned Il
novel trick on the bloodhound sent out
to trail him in South Carolina. Serv-
ing life sentence for murder on the
chain gang, Nesbit escaped. A blood
hound was sent on his trail. The me-
gro waited until the bloodhound
caught up, tied the animal to tree
and continued his flight. He was cap
tured later, however.
Arkansas famous family of ''moun-
tain dew distillers has changed
trades by decree of juries. Horace
Cox, fifth member of his family to be
found guilty of "moonshining," has EN-
tered the high walls of the Arkansas
state prison to do a period of penal
SCi NituhO. AlC 10 AC' lis ldillCI dAiu
three older brothers preceded him to
"the city of silent men,"
Two steam yachts, the Venice and
the Tranquillo, confiscated by local
authorities for alleged whisky run
ming between Canada and Cleveland,
Ohio, will be sold as soon as legal
formalities can be arranged, Federal
Prohibition Agent Fred Counts an
nounced upon his return from n secret
mission in connection with the ships.
The estimated value of the crafts was
placed at $4,000 each.
Andrew Little, dishonorably dis
charged soldier, has learned TO salute
the American flag. 1t took a good
floggIng to teach him the lesson. Fol-
lowing the burial at Benton, ILL.,, of
Stanley McCollum, who was killed in
the Argonne, Little, according to mem
bers of the American Legion, refused
to salute the flag. The Legion men
flogged him. Now he salutes.
The national assembly at Budapest
ratified organization Of the Hungarian
army in conformity with the Trianon