Gunnison news-champion., 1922-01-20


died At Brookneld. Mo- Of bullet
wounds incurred In fight with auto
mobile thieves. The thieves abandoned
one automobile and escaped In the
marshars car.
San Francisco was awarded the 1872
convention OF the American Bar Asso-
ciation by the executive committee of
that Organization In session at Tampa,
Fla. The convention viii be held dur
ing the week beginning Aug. 6.
A new white. hulless oat that ihresh-
IS out like wheat and weighs approx
lmstely sixty pounds 10 the bushei in
stead Of forty five pounds, i one Of
the chief new horticultural productions
OF Luther Burbank. plant wizard, at
San Jose, Calf.
William Freeman was killed and
Deputy Sheriff Ed Nance Of Center
| viile, Texas. was slightly wounded
when Sheriff Cobb and Deputies Nance
and II. u. Balm engaged in pistol
fight with a band Of alleged moonshIn-
ers In Leon county.
Permission from Attorney General
Daugherty for William c. Grant, for
mer cashier of the First National Bank
of Santa Rosa. TO leave San Quentin
prison under guard and come 10 the
bedside OF his wife at Merritt hospi-
| tai mt Oakland. has saved her life, ply
slcIans announced.
At special meeting of the State
Board of Examiners at Helena. Mont,
| II was announced that the record book
I
during the years 1918. 1919 and 1890
had strangely disappeared from the
vaults in the office OF Clerk A. f.. Me
\ Partridge.
Fifty pounds of brass passed gold
test applied by John Miller, assayer
and pawnbroker at st. Louis, and was
bought by him for 5000. according 10
his report to police. Miller said the
chemicals he used evidently had been
tampered with. Two men asked s13,-
600 for the metal. he said.
The chnrred body of an unidentified
man WAS found by veteran OF the
Soldiers Home In a ravine near rail-
road south OF the home at Leaven.
worth, Kan. County authorities be
book bearing the name OF Walter Lar
sen and issued by the State Bank OF
Omaha, was found on the body.
I Mont Berg. former banker of Loyal
ton. Quincy and Greenyille, Calf.
charged with embezzement of funds of
the proposed First National Bank of
Quincy. pleaded guilty in Superior
Court and was sentenced to from one
to ten years In San Quentin penite
tiary. He was arrested recently nj
Terrell, Texas.
WASHINGTON
A tax of 3 cents a gallon on gaso-
line, TO be paid by the producer. the
proceeds of which would be used for a
soldiers bonus. is proposed In bill
introduced by Representative Bacba-
rach, New Jersey. Republican. The
tax. he estimated. would yield from
s240.WO.0OO to $3.50 O,OOO.OOO annually
sufficient revenue, he said. to meet
cash payments to former service men.
Trade between the United States
and Iatin-America Increased by 100
per cent In value during 1921. as com
!, pared with 1913, the last normal pre-
! war year. according to summary is-
sued by the Commerce Department.
Lew Wallace, Jr., of Crawfordville,
Ind. was appointed by Secretary Mel
lon to be director Of savings In the
Treasury Department He is grand
! son Of the late General Lew Wallace,
and himself served In the World War
al captain Of artillery.
President Harding by executive or
der has removed from civil service re-
Quirements the office OF deputy COM
missioner of internal revenue, II was
said at the treasury. There are five
deputy commissioners. each office pay
ing q salary of 5000 year.
, Per capita circulation Of money In
the United States declined $500 dur
, ing the last year. according to a state
ment issued by the treasury On Jan.
l. 1922. the per capita circulation was
$5S03. based on total of S5.775, ,4OO.-
3l5. and an estimated population of
10s.817 600 ns compared with a per
, capita OF S5912 on Jan. 1. 1921, based
on total Of $834O. .436.71s in circula.
tion and an estimated population of
07,249.O0O.
A tour unique In the history of tile
United States army will be undertak.
en- In the course Of the next few DAYS
when Capt. John T. Axton, chief of
chaplains. will visit many posts and
hold conferences with chaplains of the
regular army. the Officers reserve
corps and the National Guard. The
: itinerary will cover approximateIy
/ 10000 mileA
President Harding signed an execu.
i've ORDER establishing q permanen.
hospital Tor ex1servics men At Jeffer
spn City. Ne. On . part Of the Jeffer.
ifao City beFfacks military reservation.