The Holly chieftain., 1922-01-05

WESTERN
A woinan's hand, 1t is expected, will
spring the trap when Earl Throst, con-
fessed slayer of lnga Magnuson, is
hanged on March 8. Mrs. .Gundn Mar
tindale, sheriff of Allamakee county,
Iowa, is required by law to conduct
the execution. Il have to spring the
trap on Throst, and I'll do my duty"
Mrs Martindale said.
The first meeting of the Colorado
River Commission will be held in
Washington the latter part of January,
Secretary Hoover announced. The COM
mission later will meet in the South
west, Mr.. Hoover said, and hold pub
lie hearings upon the definite prob
lens connected with the Improvement
of the resources of the Colorado river.
Eastern scientists to whom was
shipped the ashes in which it was be-
lieved quantity Of radium lost in the
Axtell hospital at Newton, Kan, would
be found, report that they have recoy-
cred sbout $500, or about one-third
of the radium lost, from 800 pounds
of ashes, 1t was learned. On the sup
position that the radium had found its
way into the hospital furnace the ashes
were shipped east for analysis.
Eleuterio Corral, 10 years of age,
and Rnmaldo Losano, IT, will be
hanged at Silver City, N. NJ, on Jan.
20 unless the governor .commutes their
sentences. The Supreme Court which
recently affirmed their conviction Of
first degree murder for killing Ven
turo Bencom0, jailer at the Grant coun-
ty Jail, fixed the date for execution
The youths We're foiled In plot to es-
cape when their sentence was af-
firmed, files and hacksaws being found
secreted in their cells.
WASHINGTON
Deaths from tuberculosis in the "reg-
istration area" of the United States
during 1920 totaled nearly 100000, the
census bureau announced, estimating
that the mortality from this one cause
in the entire country ut $4,000. This
would Indicate a reduction of 10000
from the total of the previous year, 1t
was said.
Deaths from cancer in the death reg
istration area of the United States In
1920 totaled approximately $4,000, ac-
c0rding to a report by the census bu-
reau, which on a basis Of proportional
population estimates the total Of
deaths for the entire country at $4,000,
or an increase of 5000 from the esti-
mate for 1913.
The exchange Of ratifications of the
treaty between the United States and
Colombia is expected to take place
within a few days, 1t was learned at
the State Department. The depart
ment was officially advised that the
pact was signed by the acting presl-
dent of Colombia and the minister for
foreign affairs on Dec. "a.
The area sown to winter wheat this
fall is A, Dos, 600 acres, which is 1.2 per
cent less than the revised estimated
area sown in the fall of 1920, which
was 44,s47,O acres, the Department
Of Agriculture announced. The area
sown to rye is 5.184,0O0 acres, which
Is 22.6 per cent more than the revised
GDlAlIlutCu urea SUWu Ill tuG 1ull VI 1OsU,
which was 4,228, coo acres.
The army horse and mule. too, face
another war horror, this time in the
form of astronomical tests. They
are being fed "horse bricks Army
officers declared. however. they are
not as bad as the name implies. for
they are made Of the finest grade
oats with about 13 per cent pure
cane molasses for food value. Each
brick equals four quarts Of oats.
"The animal appears to be thriving
on the new fodder" said an official
statement.
The number of cattle and calves
slaughtered ON farms in the United
States in 1919 for beef and veal, ac-
cording to the fourteenth census, was
1;s04.5s1, as compared with $780,
240 in 1909. The number of farms
reporting cattle or calves slaughtered
in 1919 was sS7,611, or 1913 per
cent of all farms; while in 1903,
593.2s5, or 9.3 per cent of all farms,
reported cattle slaughtered, and
268,508 farms, or AZ per cent of all
farms, reported calves slaughtered.
The average number OF cattle and
calves slaughtered In 1919 per farms
reporting was 81.
Declared to be members OF an In
ternational gang of bandits whose op-
erations during the last two years have
netted approximately $2,50O,OO0 in loot
from many cities, Herbert Cox and
Herbert Wilson were held In Jail in
Los Angeles by federal and county au-
thorities.
Two defendants were dismissed and
eleven others were bound over to the
next term of Criminal District Court
under bonds Of $4,000 for trial on
charges Of murder in connection with
the killing os three men at Wilson,