The Holbrook news., 1921-02-11

WESTERN
 Governor Charles R. Mabey present ed budget to the State Legislature of Utah calling for appropriations total ing $3,524, ,T64.20 for operation of the state government from April 1, 1921, to March 31, 1923.
 The anti-cigarette bill forbidding the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in Utah has passed the Senate. Fourteen voted faye" and three mo-" The bill also prohibited smoking of cigarettes, cigars and pipes in any public place.
 John Simon, who would have cele- brated his one hundred and first birth day within a week, died at his home in Los Angeles. He was born in France and came to the United States when IS years old. He had lived in Los An geles fifty-five years.
 Suit to escheat to the state forty-one acres of land comprising a farm for merly owned by J. J. Gledhin and lat CT sold to the U. N. Farms Company, alleged to be Japanese concern, has been filed at Tuba, Calif, in the name of the state.
 Sale of thrift stamps and other treas ury securities was greater per capita in Alaska during 1920 than in any state, the Treasury Department has announced. The average investment in Alaska by every man, woman and child was $2.20. Ohio led the states with per capita of $1.50.
 In one of the most gigantic frauds ever perpetrated in the history of the industry in California, the 1920 rice crop was so manipulated by rice mill men that northern California rice grow CTS were swindled out of Approximately $1,5O0,O0O, it was charged by a special committee of the Pacific Rice Growers Association.
 L. W. Boehmer of Malvern, Iowa, wealthy citizen convicted in the Fed eral Court at Council Bluffs, la, of in- terfering with the draft law and at tacking the Red Cross, and whose sen tence of three years was recently com muted by President Wilson to one year and one day, is given thirty days in which to put his house in order in a mandate received at the Federal Court
 
 rected to report to the United States marshal for the southern Iowa district and will be taken to the federal prisop at Fort LeavenwOrth.
 WASHINGTON
 Walter W. Warick of Ohio, now comptroller of the treasury, and Ev aris A Hayes, a former Republican member of the House of Representa- lives from California, were nominated by President Wilson to fill the vaean cies existing in the directorate of the War Finance Corporation.
 Railway owners and workers are verging on a wage fight that may throw the roads back under govern ment control. Labor heads, including Samuel Gompers, fear strike if the railroad labor board at Chicago grants demands of the managers for wage re- auctions. "The railroad workers will resist to the bitter end" warned VII liam L. Johnston, head of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists.
 The Senate has confirmed the nom- nations of 5000 junior officers of the army The combinations were the first of the present session and were | made in open session by unanimous | consent.
 Benefits of vocational training for | the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers | would be extended to Americans who | served in the allied armies, and to the | widows and children of deceased sol | diers, under a bill passed by the Sen ate.
 Turning sharply upon House war in vestigating committees as a whole, | Charles G. Dawes, former head of the | army supply procurement service in | France, told one of them that the val | ue of their work had been rendered | useless through injection of partisan | politics.
 The Treasury Departments inability to collect either principal or interest on the $1O,OOO,OOOOOO loaned to the al- lied governments has stirred the Sen ate to demand a strict accounting of | the vast sums advanced to foreign countries, along with information about the prospects of getting some of it back.
 Authorization to conduct an exhaust i've examination and prepare plans and estimates of cost to dig a channel through the San Francisco bar has been received by Colonel Herbert Dea- kyne, United States district engineer at San Francisco. The cut would be as deep and wide as the entrance to New York harbOr.
 Acting Treasurer Allen has announced that a total of $13, 1888, SIS, ,82636 two thirds in cash and securities was found in the treasury as a result of the count necessitated by the resigna- tion of John Burke as treasurer.
 With reduction in War Depart ment estimates of S699, ,275, ,5O2. 93, the army appropriation bill carrying a to- tai of $331, ,222, ,612.62 has been reported to the House by the appropriations committee. The appropriation is based on an army of 10000 men, exclusive of the Philippine scouts or the flying cadets. Provisions are made for 14,- 900 commissioned officers, or 1000 more than are now in the service. The bill shows a reduction of about S64,-