, 1922-02-23

WESTERN
More than 1000 cases of influenza
we're reported In California In one
week.
Eight men. alleged TO have con
Spired to extort large sums of money
from wealthy Los Angeles business
men, were arrested after a revolver
battle with federal officers. deputy
sheriffs and private Investigators, ac-
cording to a story In the Los Angeles
Times.
The double liability law whereby
stockholders in Kansas state banks
are liable for twice the amount of
their stock in case of n banks failure
has been declared invalid by the Su-
preme Court OF Kansas. Sixteen failed
banks with a combined capacity of
f415,000 are in process Of liquidation
and are Immediately affected by the
decision.
The wish of DIR. James Martin
PEBBLES, physician, scientist md au-
thor, that he live until March %, to
round out a hundred years of life,
failed of qualification. He died at his
home in Los Angeles a few days ago.
DIR. PEBBLES, who was in the diplo-
matte service in Turkey n long time,
wrote a large number of books, among
which was one entitled "How to Live
n Century and Grow Old Gracefully"
Three of the five persons arrested
In Mound Valley, Kan, in connection
Hfth the kidnapping and robbery of II.
D. Bowles, Joplin, Mo, motor driver,
pleaded guilty to highway robbery in
Circuit Court and were sentenced to
twenty-five years each in the peniten-
tiary. They were Mrs. james Kidd.
her son-in-law, Kenneth Hoyt, and
Clyde Booth. Mrs. Kidd, according to
police, said they planned to kill
Bowles, go to western Kansas and sell
his car. Hoyt and Booth denied they
Intended to kill Bowies.
WASHINGTON
Secretary DENNY appeared before
the House naval committee t. recon-
mend hal the navy personnel for the
next fiscal year be placed at 10000
men and 5000 apprentices, as COM
pared with 100000 men and 0,000 mp
prentices now authorized.
> Sixteen hundred boys and 1884
girls, Is years old. In the United States
were listed as married In 1920, the
census bureau announced In n state
ment presenting a special analysis of
marital statistics. Thirty-two boys
and 400 girls of the same age were
recorded as widowed or divorced.
The green bug which was danger
ously abundant in parts of the Mid
west last February, and the Hessian
fly, which threatened wheat in six
states, have been found by a survey
conducted by the Department of Agri-
culture to be very much reduced" this
year, w. II. Walton, entomoligist in
charge OF cereal and forage insects in.
v~estigations has stated. Results OF
the survey, Mr.. Walton announced.
SHOW that in northern Texas and
southern Oklahoma this pest Is almost
totally absent at present and no out
break Of it need be fsaIed there by the
wheat growers in the near future.
. Secretary Hughes has sailed from
New York to Bermuda, where he will
visit n daughter md incidentally recu-
perate from the work Of the
arms conference.
Uncle Joe Cannon, oldest member OF
the House, announced he would not be
n candidate for reelection as repre-
sentative from the Eighteenth Illinois
district. The former speaker an
vn.nAa1 I1g HnfAnffnn 60 pnfFra from
politics in an eleyen-word statement,
which read: IL am not a candidate
for election TO the Slxty-elghth Con
gress." The Illinois representative. one
of the most picturesque and widely
known figures In Congress, will be Sc
years old next May Z.
Liquor imports during the past year
Increased by nearly S~1,500,O00 as con
pared with 1920, while shipments of
soft drinks into the country fell off by
more than 100000 during the
same period, according TO for
cign trade reports made public by the
Commerce Department. During 1921
the total of spirits, wines and malt
liquors Imported aggregated SAIL, 900
compared with $3.260,O00 In 1920, while
mineral waters and other beverages en-
terlng the country amounted to S3IT,-
600 MS against $4,000 in 1920.
The long controversy between the
United States and Japan relating to
the Pacific island OF Yap-the subject
Of many notes and other diplomatic
exchanges-was formally and finally
ended with the signature OF n treaty
by representatives of the two coun.
tries. The treaty which defines the
rights of the United States IN zap and
other Islands inundated 10 japan UNI
der the treaty of Versailles was signed
by Secretary Hughes, for the United
States, and Baron KiJuro Shldeharn
for japan in the office OF the former
at the State Department.