Taiban Valley news., 1921-06-24
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, NGs, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
(western Newspaper Union News service.l
WESTERN

Police Captain Harry Phoenix was
shot and killed, and Sergt. S. G. Hous
ton seriously wounded in Ell Paso, Tex
One of two Mexicans whom the of
ficers stopped to question as suspici
GUS characters did the shooting. The
tragedy occurred in East El Paso on a
well lighted suburban business street
A bandit who held up K. F. Smith,
cashier of the First State Bank of St
Joe, Idaho, forced Smith to give him
$3,992 and escaped to the hills afoot
after locking the cashier In the vault
The man, who was unmasked, had the
appearance of a woodsman, according
to Smith, who released himself with a
screwdriver. Officers are in pursuit.
Inability to disguise his voice when
he ordered four clerks of the Pacific
Oil & Lead Company of San Francisco
to throw up their hands resulted in the
capture of Paul Towney, former en-
ploye of the company, as the bandit
who held up and robbed the cashiers
office of a pay roll amounting to ST.
665. Towney confessed and the loot
was recovered.
The Imperial Council of the Mystic
Shrine in the closing session af its
convention at Des MOines appropri-
ated $4,000 for relief of flood suffer
ers in Pueblo, Colo. Only one member
Of El Jebel patrol of Denver attended
the conclave there after $4,000 that
was raised for sending the whole out
fit was turned over entirely to flood
relief committee in Pueblo.
Michael John Nolan, 42-year-old stu
dent at the University of Washington
In Seattle, and called by psychology
experts the Intelligence test wizard
of the United States" again surpassed
all competitors in test at the univer-
sity, according to William Il. Wilson,
instructor in the department of psy-
chOlogy. This time 1t was the "shot-
gun" test, and Nolan, besides scoring
252, seventeen points ahead of his
nearest rival, occupied but twenty-five
minutes, five minutes less than the al
lotted time
total of fifty-one suits to recover
"strike benefits" paid out during the
general strike in Tacoma, Wash, in
1919 has been filed in Il Justices
Court The suits were entered by the
bOiermakers, iron ship builders and
helpers, local No. 56S, and demand re-
payment of money advanced to union
members on strike more than two
years ago. The infOrmatiOns filed by
the union allege that money advanced
to destitute wOrkmen was in the form
of temporary loans, and was not to be
considered as a strike benefit gift.
WASHINGTON
Cyrus r. Wood of Greensburg,
Pennsylvania, has been selected by
President Harding as ambassador to
Spain, succeeding Joseph E. Willard.
Harris Lipschitz, an American citi-
zen, has been murdered in Haiti, ac-
cording to advices received at the of |
flee of Representative Siegel in Wash
ingtOn. Lipschitz was engaged In busi |
ness on the island, it was said. Inves-
tigation has been ordered by Major
General Lejeune, commandant of the
marine corps.
Brown sugar sold at auction for 25
cents per 100 pounds in New Orleans.
Five thousand bags, brought last year
from Guatemala in the sugar rush."
brought from "A to y cents pound al
4 government auction. The prices Oh
-ained were not sufficient to pay the
1uty.
Strong Democratic opposition to
Senate investigation of the fighting in
he Mingo county, West Virginia, coal
fields developed in the Senate, and
Senator JohnSon's resolution proposing
IN inquiry went over. Senator Myers,
Democrat, Montana, led the fight, de-
'laring the matter was purely state
me. Congress has gone mad--it has
| perfect mania-for investigating and
everything under the sum-"
The United States Harness Company
viii ignore President Harding's order
nnulling the contract which the har-
less company has with the War De
'artment for the disposal of surplus
arness, Frank ]. Hogan, counsel for
he harness concern has announced in $
Washington. Hogan called at the |
White House and served notice that '
is clients are of the opinion that the I
resident has no authority to annul I
he contract and will ignore his action. t
Railroads in 1920 lost .O2 of cent ,
Or every mile of train operation L. L. n
Vettling of Chicago, manager of the s
ureau of statistics of the western k
nes, testified before the Senate inter- n
ate commerce committee. Average N
evenue per mile was $5,065, he said, .
nd average expenses, plus taxes, were ),
),O61. During the last four months >,
1920, he said, after the increased y
ties went into effect, a net operating /
venue per train mile of 800 cents Il
as earned II