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i. :< i? ir. & r K.vc w. --"Good r«>n<ls" is the key ketone of the state administration policy tiM:- ftlmt will be presented to the new legflslnture by Governor-elect Len Small. * This was disclosed following conferences recently In Chicago. Men who will sit in the senate and house agreed with Mr. Small that he had touched the important chord. "The immediate problem that the new administration must work out Is the formulation of a construction system for road building that will put Illinois on the map," Mr. Small said. "We should take every advantage of the preliminary work that has been done under the $00,<HK>,- 000 bond issue system. The flret purpose will be to "pull Illinois out of the mod.'" Springfield.--Scarlet fever continues • to spread In various sections of .the state, according to the weekly health .. report, issued by Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, director of the state department of health. Of the 358 cases jrhlch were reported, 149 are in Chicago. Cases from the downstate were /reported from Urbana. Taylorvi.le, Elgin, Sand Ridge, Menard county; /Rock Island, East St. Louis, Hillsboro, Witt, Sterling and Rockforfl. The report shows that Springfield has the largest number of cases under quarantine of any city In the downstate, with a total of 58. One hundred and ten cases of smallpox are also under quarantine. Springfield.--Fifteen Illinois cities have voted to establish part-time schools, making attendance compulsory on the part of children in employment between fourteen and sixteen years of age, E. A. Wreidt, state •supervisor of industrial education, reports. These cities, he said, are Aurora (east and west sides), Bloomington, Chicago, Cicero, Eldorado, Decatur, Galesburg, Granite City, .Toilet, La Salle, Lawrencevllle, Peoria, Rockford and Springfield. La Salle expects to start Its first part-time school early next month, and Bloomlngton about February 1, he reported. Cairo.--The first move to relieve the home shortage was brought to a successful end recently when the Cairo Real Estate Improvement company sold at auction 25 newly completed homes. Business men formed the company which secured sufficient finances to carry out the movement. An addition to the city was selected ii&d homes of moderate price but complete and attractive in every way were built. > Part cash payment was required with the balance to be paid in monthly installments. Urbana.--Miss Mary C. Funk of Bloomington, a student at the University of Illinois, has just added another "blue ribbon" to the record of the noted McLean county family through ' winning the title of "star reporter" of the school of journalism of the state educational Institution from a large field of contestants. Incidentally she won a cash prize of $25 for her reportorlal skill. Marlon.--Circuit Judge D. T. Hartwell denied the petition of Settlno de Santis for a new trial and sentenced him to be hanged at the Williamson county Jail here February 11. De Santis was convicted of the murders of Amlel Calcaterra and Tony Hemphill, whose deaths precipitated the antl- ' Italian riots at West Frankfort last August Benton.--Buckner, a mining town, has a woman chief of police. She is Mrs. Lydia Overturf, and her motto Is "Enforce the law to the letter." She recently was appointed by Mayor John 1 Mai lory and her salary Is $110 a month. One of her first official acts was to arrest a man on a charge of Intoxication. Pana.--Fleeing from his home In Nokomis. where he had shot to death Fred Peter Kosek in a drunken brawl, William Stepeck, thirty-three, slipped In, attempting to board a freight train, fell beneath the wheels and was killed. Springfield.--Feltshans Junior high school, the largest in Springfield, was destroyed by fire. Firemen laid the cause to an explosion in one of the boilers in the basement, which blew fn entire side out of the wall. Joliet.--Mrs. Anna Nlekerson, one hundred and four years and ten months ol<£ one of the oldest residents of Illinois, is dead at the poor farm at Ottawa. She had been at the poor farm for 19 years. Freeport.--County superintendents of highways of northwestern Illinois counties, in convention here, adopted a resolution urging the legislature' to require farmers to cut weeds along the roadsides. East St. Louis.--Sales at the East St. Louis mule market, considered one of the largest In the world, are only about one-fourth of what they were last winter, according to' dealers. Springfield.--Chief Justice James H. Cartwright of Oregon recently observed his twenty-fifth anniversary as Justice of the Illinois Supreme court. Geneva.--Township supervisors of Kane county will hereafter receive a regular salary" of $1,500 per year, instead of a per diem allowance, under a new regulation adopted by the county board. Lincoln.--Logan county farm land has taken a decided drop In the past year. At least bidders at a recent executor's sale are of that opinion. The executors withdrew from sale 240 acres of farm land belonging to the «state when bids were $100 an acre lower than what the land in that section brought a year ago. Mt. Vernon.--Dairy extension In southern Illinois and the laying of organization plans will be discussed at the convention of the Illinois State Dairymen's association which will be held January 11, 12 and 13. Champaign.--Benjamin F. Harris, well known throughout Illinois as a banker and farmer, is dead at his home after an illness extending over ! tour months. Mr. Harris formerly was ' president of the Illinois Bankers' association, and Instituted the campaign to bring all Illinois banks under state m federal supervision. r I ,'V! Wv»' • -i ft .•Pk}-' a Springfield.--Orders suspending proposed advanced rates of public utilities in a number of cities were issued by the state public utilities commission as follows: Proposal ot the Alton Water company to advance wafer rates In Alton suspended until April 30, 1921; Rockford Gas, Light and Coke company, Rockford gas service, April 29; Central Illinois Public Service company, furnishing electric service to 150 communities, Mny 1; Central Illinois Public Service company, Pekin, steam heat, May 1; Peoria Waterworks company, Peoria, Averyville and Bartonville, water service, July 2; Champaign-Urbana Railway, Gas and Electric company, Champaign- Urbana. steam heating service, July 22; Galesburg Light and Powercompany, Galesburg, steam heating service, July 22; Danville Street Railway and Light company, Danville, steam heating service, July 22; Clinton Gas and Electric company, Clinton, steaa heating sen-Ice, July 22; Bloomington and Normal Railway and Light company, Bloomington, steam and heating service, July 22, and the Decatur Railway and Light company, Decatur, steam heating service, July 22. The petition of the Central Illinois Public Service company, to advance rates for water service In Marion, was dismissed, as was the complaint of the cities of DeKalb and Sycamore, that the Illinois Northern Utility company, Is giving inadequate gas servl.ce In those cities. The Illinois Central railroad was permitted to maintain Its stock yards In Kankakee, the commission dismissing the complaint of Arthur King and others, holding that sufficient evidence had not been introduced to warrant elimination of the yards. Waukegan.--Four officials of Waukegan and North Chicago were Indicted by the Lake county grand jury on charges of misconduct In office, the indictments specifying alleged protection * to gamblers and bootleggers. Those Indicted were: Edwin C. Mean, mayor of North Chicago; Thomas Tyrell, assistant chief of police of Waukegan; John Nelson, Justice of the peace, North Chicago. E. Heminick, chief of police of Waukegan, who was requested to resign by Mayor Mead after Hemmick and 20 others wejge held up and disarmed In a daylight robbery of a saloon. Chicago.--A new state Sftgfrch and seizure law Is going to he demanded of the coming legislature by the drys. The Anti-Saloon league is not satisfied with the present state law under which Attorney General Edward J. Brundage has harassed booze runners and bootleggers Into the Criminal courts and behind the bolted doors of prison cells. League leaders say they don't want to amend the existing law. Instead they desire the legislature to pass a hrtind new search and seizure law for them. Chicago.--The bottom dropped out of the wholesale market for steam clal In the Central West recently, bringing about the most radical reduction recorded In years. In many Instances the reduction cut the price In half. The mild weather was given as the principal reason at a meeting of the Illinois Coal Operators' association In Chicago. Other leading operators said that the reduction was caused by the shutting down of factories all over the country. Carllnvllle.--Macoupin county is "broke." At least there are no funds In the treasury with which to pay Its bills. The county officials and their clerks and all who have any claims for money are Issued anticipation warrants. These warrants are not payable until March, when the taxes come In. The hanks are cashing them, however, at 0 per cent discount. Chicago.--The Inland Steel company of Chicago announced that January 1 Its plants would return to the ten to twelve-hour-a-day basis. For a year and a half the company has operated on an eight-hour basis. Pay an hour will be the same after January 1 as at present. Clinton.--In disposing of the J. R. Smoot estate at Clinton 1,443 acres of land, partly In De Witt county- ;and partly In McLean county sold for $281,- 353 or about $15,000 more than It was appraised last October. The average price was $195 an acre. Chicago.--More than 500 stolen automobiles a month is Chicago's record up to dat»» this year, according to Detective Sergeant George O'Conner, head of the automobile detail. Of the 5,547 cars stolen during the year, however, 4,022 have been recovered. Rockford.--The city of Rockford Is made defendant In a suit for $10,000" damages on account of the death of Myrtle Clay, school girl, who died of suffocation when a sewer ditch In which she was playing caved in. Lincoln.--For the first time since women have been able to vote In Lincoln they will vote the same kind of ballot as the men at the February election on the commission form of government. Springfield.--Nearly $6,000,000 has been collected In automobile license fees this year by Secretary of State Louis L. Emmerson. The total to date Is more than $5,886,771. Springfield.--With the opening of the federal aid hard road between Springfield and Peoria more than a hundred miles more of concrete pavement is open to Illinois autolsts and other traffic. Springfield.--"Maniacs" have gone from Illinois, while the violent Insane wards of the state have, almost disappeared, according to A. L. Bowen, state superintendent of charities. He Announces that In one state hospital of 3,300 patients, the "maniac" class has been reduced from 500 to 1, and that even that one is no maniac/ Waukegan.--Perry L. Persona was elected president of the Federation of Bar Associations of Illinois, which was formed at Chicago. Other officers elected are: Vice president, Ralph C. Austin, Joliet; treasurer, Mrs. Catherine W. McCulloch, Evan.ston; secretary, J. Kent Green, Chicago. Momence--Lieut. Pat O'Brien, an American hero of the British royal flying corps in the woj-ld war, committed suicide by shooting in a hotel at Los Angeles. His act followed a telephone conversation with his wlf«^ from whom hejiad been estranged. ON SQtlll BASE Nation WHI Weather Any Stortgs Future, Say til* % : Experts. NO! AT THE TURNING POINT Banking Head, Secretary of Treasury and Comptroller of Currency Wll» iiams Have Optimistic Message v on Financial Situation. Washington, Dec. 28.--The nation is safe financially. It will weather the storms of the future. It is better able to care for itself than any other nation on the globe. The United States is the greatest financial and economic power of the world now and will? continue to wield that power far Into the coming years. This was the holiday message given In composite form to the people by Secretary of the Treasury Houston, Governor Harding of the Federal Reserve board, Comptroller of the Currency Williams and others. Optimism features all of their expressions in summing up the year 1920 and the business outlook for the new year. Banks and business concerns. In reports to these guiding forces in government finance, discount the importance of the few recent bank failures, present unemployment, which Is admittedly great, and business reactions which are noted as a result of the credit strains Incident to readjustment back to a peacetime basis. Transition through which business Is now passing, these officials said, Is uncomfortable and involves possible loss In some directions, but they all contend that it is a "healthy process," far morte helpful economically than continuation of the "mad race In profiteering," the chief factor In the inflation evil, now sought to be checked. These officials were frank to say that some lines of business may be expected to pass through further rigorous readjustment and reorganization,, but expressed confidence that "transition will be accomplished with? out undue strain upon the present strong banking structure." In a financial sense, the war is not over, these officials agreed. The fiscal situation at home and abroad is disturbed by failure to fix the German Indemnity. Secretary Houston placed particular emphasis upon the handicaps that have been put upon other nations by the failure to determine earlier the amount Germany must pay. Listen to this very carefully worded observation of Governor Harding: "The transition through which the community is now passing, while necessarily uncomfortable, has thus far been accompanied with only a minimum of the unfavorable symptoms developed on other occasions. "The close of the year 1920, in spite of the fact that in some branches of economic and financial life there Is still much progress to be made before reaching a definite basis for further growth, must be regarded as the turning point in the process of transition from conditions produced by the war to the normal economic basis of International and Industrial life." Secretary Houston and Governor Harding both said that the year has been a period of decided advance in the process of readjustment, consequent upon conditions which the war brought upon the wbrld. Washington, Dec. 24.--A gross deficiency in national fiscal transactions of $2,100,000,000 this fiscal year and $1,500,000,000 the next fiscal year was forecast by Secretary Houston in speaking on the soldiers' bonus bill. He said the government must find new sources of revenue and Incur no new burdens. Considered aside from the public debt, Mr. Houston said, the ordinary receipts for this year should exceed ordinary expenditures by about $800,- 000,000, and next year the excess should be $556,000,000. These sums, however, are Inadequate to take care of the Interest on the public debt, which Is about $1,200,000,000 annually, Mr. Houston said, as well as the Interest on the current floating debt and the total laid aside annually for retiring the public debt. Mme. Alejandro Cesar, wife of the Nicaraguan minister to the United States, is a newcomer to the diplomatic set In Washihgton, and one of the n:ost popular of the younger host*- esses. Her husband is the yoifngest member of the diplomatic corps and a distinguished physician. LEAGUE NEEDS U. S. Uoyd George Say* It Will Fait Unless Backed by Amerita. Bettiih Premier Cites Work Already Done by Organization-r-Urgee Disarmament. London, Dec. 23. --• David Lloyd George, the prime minister, presiding at a luncheon given in the house of commons for the British and dominion delegates to the recent League of Nations assembly in Geneva, declared the league would never achieve real progress until all the nations were represented. There could be no real peace," declared the prime minister, until competition In armaments ceased, and before disarmament was possible all the nations must be in the league, for all must march together. Mr. Lloyd George said all nations must reach a common agreement not to start again disastrous rivalry in armaments, which must Inevitably end in a clash. . The league has already done mach, the prime minister asserted. For one thing, It has raised the status of labor throughout the world, and the labor bureau is doing great things. The league's most conspicuous work, he said, probably was the establishment of the International court of justice, which would have a very determining effect on international justice in the future. . No League of Nations, however, could possibly be regarded as complete until the United States was Included, Mr. Lloyd George declared. 105 DIE IN PETROGRAD RISING Many Persons Killed and Injured When Workers Revolt Againdt 8oviet Rule. London, Dec. 24.--A serious labor rlot occurred In Petrograd, says a Helsingfors dispatch to the Central News, In which many persons were killed or Injured. The riot was crushed and 105 laborers were executed, the dispatch adds. The trouble started when the soviet authorities refused the demand of the city laborers for move food and shortening of the working day, which Is 16 hours. QUAKE KILLS 2,000 CHINESE Twenty-Five 8hocks in Nine Hours Laid Cities in Ruins and Demolished Roads.. Shanghai, Dec. 27.--Two thousand deaths have been caused by a terrific earthquake In the Pingliong district of Kansu province. There were 25 distinct shocks within the first nine hours after the first tremor. Hourly shocks are continuing. Cities were laid In ruins with great loss of life, and the roads in the region were demolished. FRISCO GANGSTER CONVICTED Pugilist Said to Be One of Band Which Attacked Young Women Faeee Long Term. San Francisco, Cat., Dec. 25.--Edward Kruvoeky, San Francisco pugilist,, one of the band of five men to he tried for criminal attacks on young women, was found guilty In the superor court here. Like his codefendant, Edmond Murphy, who was convicted last Monday on the same charges, Kruvosky faces an Indeterminate prison sentence of from one t< fifty years. SMITH GIRL IS FREED ON BAIL Waives Preliminary Hearing--Arrives - In Ardmore in Presence of * " rv a 8mall Crowd. , Arftnore, Okla., Dec. 28.--Clam Smith Hamon arrived in Ardmore accompanied by her brother, sister and Sheriff Buck Garrett, and was Immediately arraigned in codrt and released on $12,000 bond. D'Annunzio Fights Italy. London, Dec. 27.-MJabrlele d'Annnnzlo has proclaimed that In state of war exists between his Flume government and Italy and has forbidden the population of Flume to leave the says a Rome dispatch. To Prosecute 8mlth Girt. Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 27.-- Governor Robertson announced here that the state of Oklahoma would aid in the prosecution of Clara Barton Smith, charged with murder of "Jake" L. Hamon. $14,000,000 Cut In Pensions. Washington, Dec. 24.--Carrying $14,- 000,000 less than was appropriated for this year, the annual pension bill was reported out by the house appropriations committee. The total in the bill Is $265,500,000. .Flies 225 Miles In 2:2a Vera Cruz, Dec. 24.--An American airplane, driven by Fernando Troal, a Mexican, aviator, flew from Mexico City to Vera Cruz, the distance of 225 miles being made in 2 hours and 90 minutes. Refuse to Alter Coal Pay. Philadelphia, Dec. 28.--Declining to reop«i the award of the United States anthracite coal commission, the mine operators have rejected the demandli of the hard coal mine workers fet additional wage Increases. t4 TJ8HFF RLL .Measure Would Establish Virtually Prohibitory Custom Duties for Ten Months. SEEKS TO RELIEVE FARMERS Vote Stood 196 to 86, With Five Voting Present, and Came After a Bitter Fight Against Measure-- Party Lines Obliterated. Washington, Dec. 24.--The house passed the Fordney emergency tariff bill, designed to relieve American agricultural and live stock Industries from the present price depression by establishing virtually prohibitory customs duties for ten months. The vote was 196 to SC. A political analysis of the vote showed 154 Republicans for the bill fend 14 against; 41 Democrats for and 72 against; one Prohibitionist, Randall of California, voted for the bill. Five voted present. The bill now goes to the senate, where Republican leaders on the finance committee have promised to expedite its consideration, while Democrats plan to exert every effort to block Its passage. What President Wilson will do with the bill is problematical. Some of the Democratic leaders expect him to veto It. 33ie bill was passed by the house in the same form as It was reported out by the ways and means committee. Party lines were obliterated. Leading the Democrats who supported the bill was Representative Garner of Texas, who will be ranking minority member of ttte wuys and means committee In the next congress. Representatives Madden of Illinois, Bacharech, New Jersey, a mertiber of the ways and means committee, and Snell wf New York were prominent among the Republicans opposing the bill. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, another Republican member of the ways and means committee, attacked the legislation, but said he would give the farmer the benefit of the doubt and vote for it. Passage of the bill followed one of the bitterest fights waged in the house in recent years. Though it was apparent from the outset that they were hopelessly In the minority, the opposition stubbornly contested every inch of the way. Knocked down by sheer weight of numbers as they attacked each successive schedufe, they came back strong every time. SAILS INTO THE ANTARCTIC For Trade V'ith Spain. Washington. Dec. 28.--Opportunitl for trade with Spain are called to the attention of American business men In a report just made to the Department of Commerce by Trade Commissioner Arthur Young. Duke of Abruzzl on M Naples, Dec. 27.--The dukej of Abruzzl, cousin of King Victor Em mahuel, sailed from here for Magadoxo, Italian Somaliland, b£lng called to that country In the interest of a company formed to manage farms. Tammany Leader Summoned. New York, Deo. 27.--Process servers in the building trust ease said they had served a subpoena on John A. McCarthy, former business associate of Charles F. Murphy, Tammany leader, on his return from Philadelphia British Expedition Leaves Falklande, According to Messages Received in London. London, Dec. 25.--Dr. John L. Oope, commander of the British imperial Antarctic expedition, has sent the following message from Port Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands: "Sailing from here December 20, with full equipment and dogs. Hope to land at Graham's December 25. All the party well. Expect to hear from us in 18 months. Good-by." Commander Cope, with four companions, purposes spending 18 months In surveying and charting the western shores of Weddell sea and in carrying out scientific work In the Antarctic. The party will live during the entire period In tents and huts and will depend for fresh meat o>n seals and penguins. POET PREPARES FOR FLIGHT D^Annunzio Getting Ready for Expulsion From Flume--People Tired of War. Rome, Dec, 27.--In expectation of his expulsion from Flume, d'Annunzlo is making new preparations to mine the fort of Flume in order to blow It up when he quits. A delegation of leading citizens told the poet a majority of the people of Flume are tired of suffering and desire an Immediate and peaceful solution of their troubles. The leglonaires are concentrating machine guns on the borders of the district and many families have fled to Susak. JAPAN WITHDRAWS PROTEST Government Abandons Its Fight on California Antialien Law, State Department Told. Washington, Dec. 27.--The Japanese government has advised the State department of Its withdrawal of objections to the enactment of the California antialien land laws, which were, expressly directed against the Japanese. The meaning of this new move by the Japanese government is not known to the California members of congress, and no further light has been thrown on the subject from any other quarter. Holdup In New York Hotel. New York, Dec. 28.--The hope that New York's crime wave had begun to recede, engendered by an apparent lull In serious outlawry during the last two days, was dashed when a holdup was staged In the Murray Hill hotel. Dry Law Passes in Holland. The Hague, Dec. 28.--The dry force* succeeded in putting through the Dutch parliament, after a hard fight, a law increasing the internal revenue tax on spirits 150 per cent and on .beer 100 per cent after January L WttlTNQr w&mien Whitney Warren, American archltect, has been selected to restore the ancient University of Louvaln by the Belgian-French committee In charge of the restoration of the great Belgian seat of learning destroyed by the German army, August 28, 1914. He Is of the firm of Warren & Whltmorfs, architect of the Grand Central terminal, the Yale club and other noted New York buildings. U. S. WEEKLY MARKET REPORT Wheat Prloes Slightly Lower--Mills Report Small Demand--Cattili . and Hog Prices Advanoe. WEEKLY MARKETGRAM. (By U. S. BUREAU OP MARKETS.) Washington, Dec. 24.--For Week Ending Dec. 22.)--GRAIN--Three million bushels wheat Bold on the 16th for export, but favorable Argentine crop news started selling movement and carried prices slightly lower. There was heavy general buying of futures, including wheat, corn and oats, on the 17th, with purchases of futures for export and cash wheat to fill old sales. The markets responded with advances of about 6c. Corn had Independent strength on the 18th, but wheat closed slightly off. Minneapolis reports small milling demand for wheat. Receipts of wheat at Kansas City continue large. Prices at Gulf porta for No. 1 hard winter wheat 26c over Chicago March tor 30 days' delivery; 28c over for immediate delivery. At Chicago Nos. 1 and 2 hard winter 3c to 8c over Chicago December; >o. 3, lc to 2c over. No. 2 yellow corn, 6^4c over Chicago December; No. 3, IVic to Sc over; No. 3 mixed, under. Corn has shown Independent strength, due to buying by big elevator interests, .but weakened on the 22nd, due to holiday closing down of big corn products concerns. For the week Chicago March wheat gained 2%c, at $1.00%; May corn, 3%c, at 73%c; Minneapolis March wheat up 2%c. at $1.60%; May corn, 3%c, at 73%c; Minneapolis March wheat flp 2%c, at $1.67^4; Kansas City March, 2^4c, at $1.56%; Winnipeg May ^c, at $1.74\; Chicago December wheat, $1.66; December corn, 70c; May wheat, $1.57%. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Northern round white potatoes steady at shipping points, closing $1.15 to $1.30. Chicago aarlot market held at $1.35 to $1.46 Backed. Jobbing, range slightly lower in other middle western markets--$1.50 to $1.85. Treasury Secretary Presents timate on Bill to Senate "MJ >:." «K;Committefc*,* t ft**"'4 ? >.'<8 faldwin apples down 25c, western New ork shipping points closing $3.75 to $4 per brl. Northwestern extra fancy Winesaps, medium to large sizes, $2.86-8.75. New York Yellow Globe onions down 10-25c per 100 lbs f. o. b. western New York shipping points, closing around $1 December 20. Consuming markets slightly lower, jobbing 75c to |1.50. HAY, FEED AND SEED--Hay market continues dull. No. 1 timothy, New fork, $88.60; Chicago, |Z7; Cincinnati, $28.26; Atlanta, $34. No. 1 alfalfa, Kansas City, $24; Omaha, $21; Memphis, $32. No. i prairie, Kansas City, $15; Omatia, $13.50; Minneapolis, $17. No Improvement in feed stuffs. Demand and prices generally lower. LIVE 8TOCK AND MEATS-Cattle and hog prices at Chicago showed advance during the week, a brisk demand giving light hogs a decided preference. Hogs up an average of 25c per 100 lbs. Beef steers up 75c-$l. Butcher cattle firm to a ahade higher. Sheep and lambs broke sharply. Fat lambs down 50c; feeding lambs and fat ewes, fl.2S per 100 lbs. December 22 Chicago prices: Bulk of hogs, 99-20-9.35; medium and good beef steers, 18.25-13.25; butcher cows and heifers, $4.50- 10.50; light and medium weight veal calves, t9.25-10.50; feeder steers, $6.25-8.25; fat lambs, $9.50-11.50; feeding lambs, $6.50- 10.00; yearlings, $6.76-9.00; fat ewes, $3.60- 4.50: The trend of wholesale fresh meat prices was downdard. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter marketc bave been Arm during the week; price tendency upward but no radical changes have occurred. Prices, 92 score, average about lc to »4c higher than a week ago. Closing prices. New ^York, 66c; Chicago, 62^4c; Philadelphia, 56c; Boston, 64c. Sale* at Wisconsin primary markets at close at about Twins, 21c; Daisies. 22c; Young Americas, Longhorns and SQuare Prints, ZSfcc. LYNCH WHITE llAN IN TEXAS Men Take Alleged Slayer of Policeman From Jail at Fort Worth and Hang Him. Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 27.--Tom W. Vlckery, a white man held on a charge of murder In connection with the killing of Policeman Jeff C. Couch, was taken from the county jail here shortly after midnight by a mob and hanged. Several shots were fired Into his body. Twenty-live masked men entered the Jail, overpowered the jailer and his assistant. Opening Vlckery's cell, the mob removed the prisoner to a grove near the packing house district, and swung him to a tree. Sheriff Smith and Chief of Police Porter, warned anonymously hy telephone that Vlckery was being ' hanged, reached the scene shortly after the mob had dle- J>anded. Monk Eastman Slain. New York, Dec. 28.--Riddled with bullets, the body of "Monk" Eastman, gangster, was found in Fourteenth street. Near the dead gang leader, gunman and war hero, lay a revolver with all five chambers empty. Hundreds Die In Rues Wreok. London, Dec. 24.--A Helsingfors dispatch says that several hundred persons were killed or Injured In a railroad wreck near Petrograd. Hie wreck Is said to have been due to overcrowding, but details are lacking. 200 Deer Killed In One County. Ridgway, Pa., Dec. 24.--More than 200 deer were killed in Elk county during the season which ended last week,' Game Warden E. W. Turley . announced. Twenty-two does and one male deer were killed Illegally. Japan Volcano Explodes. ( London, Dec. 28.--Tokyo dispatches •tate that the volcano Asama, which has been mildly active for many years, Buddenly burst Into most violent explpsions, strewing the countryside for tniles around with ashes. Submits Trade Pact to Senate. Washington, Dec. 27.--A commercial treaty with Slam was transmitted to the senate by President Wilson. The executive in another message asked for authority to call a world dairy congress to meet In Washington. Greek Premier Quits Post. Athens, Dec. 27.--Premier Rhallls, it is understood, has definitely tendered his resignation as a result of refusal of Admiral Kelly, head of the British naval mission here, to accept the cordon of the Royal order. WOULD ADD TO TAX BURDER • . - P!- Houston Presents Estimates of /. Different Plant, Declaring They Ar^v-.- Substantially Correct--Doctor f Adams Heard Again. ^4 ; Washington, Dec. 29.--Passage oft the soldiers' bonus bill would cost ths| government approximately $2,<MX),0fKVs; 000 Secretary Houston estimated b»*., fore the senate finance committee co®*| , sidering the soldiers' aid measure. The treasury secretary declared ef actment of the bill meant ao adde burden In the way of taxes, retterafrn i%g a statement made before the eon* mittee last week. r_- , > While Mr. Houston said It was in|»k . possible to compute accurately the efe ; . \ act cost of each of the four optional. . -,i aid plans, he believed the estimate t ^ submitted was substantially correct. Land settlement pfoviaions of the bip contain so many uncertainties, lft ^ * <' added, that the cost entailed by theMi ;. could only be guessed at. \ "£.-5 Assuming that all of the men wovlfc select one of the four optional planl^ i, Mr. Houston estimated the cost 4$' _ each of the plans as follows: Adjusted service pay, $1,342,000,00^ Insurance provisions, $4,534,000,00®^ , Vocational training aid, $1,880,00CU ^ 1n - i ; / ! 000. Farm and home development, . 880,000,000. ..' ' As the plans were <Tptlo^|nlr*the see* retary said the choice of the men 4 would not'be confined to any one ] them, and allowing for the various s6* -• lections he arrived at the total estS- < mated cost of $2,300,000,000. £ The treasury secretary professed tfr * be "against a wall" as to methods df- % obtaining revenue to meet the outlay that would be required If the bill wer® enacted. He called the committers attention to the suggestions for ne# taxes contained In his annual report^ < but explained that these were mes? | tloned only for the Information of co#»;; gress and without any sort of reco»* . mendatlons. ( He did not attempt to discuss ttM» f various tax suggestions, asking tltit committee to hear Dr. T. S. Adams, * treasury economist and tax expert, who gave a comprehensive resume of the tax situation, referring frequently to Secretary Houston's ^discussion of the question in his annual report. He declared the treasury was dally seeing new evidence of a further drying up of revenue sources, adding that the task of computing tax receipts waft • to that extent becoming more dlflk cult. In addition to the difficulties thw confronting the treasury, Doctor : Adams declared the Internal revenue 1*111 enii faced another problem in keeping experts on the job. He said the men who were capable didn't ft^V; long. Senator Smoot (Rep.) of Utah said* ' "The real danger is that these men get training in the revenue bureau then go out and help big firms evadft , tax payments." Doctor Adams said that might to | true to some extent, but that he kne# •1 "of one *nan who left the bureau ft year ago whose resignation cost that government millions of dollars in uncollected taxps, for he was an execa» tlve with an expert knowledge of the work." - *~' The witness said this was typlcaf " of the "labor turnover" and that It directly affected the tax collections and would continue to have a mors direct effect on such collections nnlep tax laws were simplified. BANDITS RUIN CHICAGO BANK Three Holdups by Highwaymen Foros Dressel Institution Into Receiver's Hands. Chicago, Dec. 29.--Three visits dot* , ing the last three years from bandlSs who made rich hauls on two of tha raids proved too much for the Dreesel Commercial and Savings bank. It was forced Into the hands a ceiver. "FLU" MAKES VICTIMS IMMUMI Public HMlth 8«rvtc. at WMfclngtjgb' Cheers Those Who Dread Soourge. r." Washington, Dec. 28.--Influenza iM tacks carrj with them "a definite lap tnunity toprubsequent attacks, lasting several [rears," according to concitt* ions reached by the public health ae*w» Ice after Intensive study. ! Galli-Curcl to Wed. Chicago, Dec. 29.--Mme. Galli-Carf^ world-famous grand opera star, a# nounced that she will become tka bride of Homer Samuels, her piano accompanist. The date of the wading probably will be January 'v Favors Central Market. Washington, Dec. 29. -- Establishment of central markets fot [^rishab^a food products In all large cities and the setting up of a federal licensing system Is proposed by the federal trade commission in its annual report, " k< i \*v Destroyer Sunk. A fv Milan, Dec. 29.--The destroyer B»- pero, which recently joined Gabriels d'Annunzio's "navy" at Flume, wU gunk In the harbor at Flume by thi warship Andrea Doria, the flagship e( the fleet blockading Flume. Hardlfig Quits 8enate Jan. 1ti Marion, O., Dec. 29.--Senator HaV> ." ding will resign his seat as a United States senator as soon as Harry L. Davis takes offices as governor of Ohio, ... = ^ January 10, it became known following « a conference of the two. I •A J,