The Glenwood post., 1921-10-08

WESTERN
After having escaped from prison
and made his way to San Antonio, im-
PEELED by fear that his four children
had perished In the recent flood, ]. b
Payne was captured by local officers.
A 5000 tombstone Will be placed
on the grave of Jake l.. HamOn, Re
publican national committeeman killed
at Ardmore, Okla, last Novemer, nc.
cOrding to Frank l.. Ketch, admins
traitor for the. Hamon estate
Women are not eligible for jury
service in Missouri, despite the adop
ton of the recent amendment to the
state constitution giving them the
right to hold public offices, Circuit
Judge Ralph s. Lntshaw held in an
opinion at Kansas City.
A pearl weighing 351a grains and
declared to be worth 5000. was
found in the Black river at Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, by Fl. T.. Adams, pearl
hunter. The gem is considered tho
most perfect rs well as the largest
found in this section OF the state.
Horace A. McLain, street car motor.
man, is held in jail in Oakland by
police authorities who declared that
he made four attempts all within fl.
teen minutes, to end his life. First, it
IL alleged, McLain attempted suicide
by inhaling gas; next by drinking poi
son; next he attempted to slash his
throat with a razor, and finally tried
to shoot himself with a revolver.
kilograms received at El PasO
Texas. from Sheriff W. E Bradford
Girdley, former cashier of the Midland
National bank, broke Jail and is be
Iieved to be on his way to Mexico
Girdley, according to u complaint filed
in the United States Commissioners
Court at El Paso, is alleged TO have
taken three sums, totaling 100000
from the Midland bank.
WASHINGTON
The consttutionnlity of the wOman's
suffrage amendment was questioned in
a petition filed in the Supreme Court
by Oscar Lesser and others, who seeL
TO have that court review decision OF
state courts in Maryland, holding the
amendment constitutional
Tax dodgers are getting away witt
more than S1,0OO,OOO,OOO every ycal
that ought to 20 into the United States
treasury. That's one reason treasury
officials and members of Congress ad
mitted why the rest Of the American
people are called on to bear such heavy
tax burdens. 1t is also the reason Con
gress proposes certain changes in the
, tax law, to plug tax leaks through
which millions of dollars yearly are
lost.
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss is the author
fly for the statement OF the loss of lif,
in the wars Of modern times. In al
the wars presumably in Europe ant
America) waged between 1880 ant
1913, the total death loss was 4,449,
300. In the recent World War, last
ing from August OF 1914 to November
of 1918. the total death loss in battl,
was 9,99s,77l The number of wound
ed was 2O,29I ,55l prisoners and miss
ing 5,3S3, 600. If we accept the usua
estimate of the dead in the list of pris
Oners and missing, we have a tota
death list Of 1891 600.
Hearty sympathy in the work of tn,
American committee for devastate,
France was expressed by Presiden
| Harding in n letter to Miss Ann Nor
gan, an official of the committee. VIII,
wrote inviting him TO attend n marine
band concert in New York to rails,
| funds for French rehabilitation
Retention OF the corporation capita
stock tax and repeal Of all of the spc
| cial taxes such as those on brokers
proprietors of theaters, cIrcuscs, auto
| mobile bus lines shooting gallcrir
| and the like, is proposed in one of ,
| series of amendments to the Rcpub
licnn tax revision bill offered by Son
| ntor Simmons of North Carolnn. ol
| behalf of the Democratic members %
| the finance committee.
The deadly poison gas developed b.
| the chemical warfare service hn
been turned 10 the most peaceful u
pcnce-tine service Experiments CON
| pIeted by the chemical warfare scrr
Ice have developed from the dcadl
| gns a violet scent thai they assert /
more delicate and more lasting thai
the original woodland article. Benny
acetate. another of The war gas pro
duets, hns proved the source Of
jasmine scent, as fragrant as the ia'
mine itself
| Retail prices In ten cities showed
tendency to decrease during Septenl
her, according 10 II report made b.
the Labor Department In the elite
where figures were Obtained Sept. l.
only one, Richmond. Va, had an In
crease over August prices. and ihl
| amounted To hut = per cent.
| Letters threatening the safety -