The Ordway new era., 1922-06-30
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIeN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINcs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WESTERN

entombed on the S00-foot level of the
Quartet mine at Searchlight. Utah
They were believed dead by members
of a rescuing party which saved two
other men from the burning mine
A new travel record for the opening
day of Yellowstone park was estab-
lished this year, when 1850 tourists
entered Wonderland. The record
hung up is within twenty of the big
gest day in the history Of the park,
August s, 1921.
The Rev. Donald D. Stewart. widely
known in California as temperance
worker, was arrested aear Sierra Ma
DIRE, twenty miles northeast of Los An
geles. on charges that he had commit
ted bigamy in several states and had
swindled his wives out of thousands
of dollars.
Immediate enactment by Congress
of legislation for the construction of a
dam and reservoir at Boulder canon
for the control of the flood waters of
the Colorado river. was urged in
Washington by Secretary of Com
merce Hoover before the House com
mittee on irrigation of arid lands con-
sidering the Swing bill.
Hearst hall and Hearst hall annex
were destroyed and the pathology
building of the University of Califor-
mia was damaged in campus fire,
with estimated loss of 100000 recent
ly. The university infirmary was
threatened by the flames and its pa
tients We're removed, but the building
was not reached by the fire. The
origin of the fire was undetermined.
Mrs. Ella B. He'll. former wife of a
Chicago capitalist, arrested in Los An
geles several months ago on charge
of having robbed a residence where
she was employed as maid. and who
was accused of similar offenses in
Chicago, was found mentally sick" by
the Los Angeles county lunacy com
mission. She was paroled to Mrs.
Jean McCracken, a county official, and
ordered placed in private sanitarium.
Two hoboes were killed outright and
George Welch, a third knight of the
rail, so badly injured he died in hos
pital at Reddng, Calf, when a freight
train on which they were riding was
riding in a car laden with lumber and
when the sudden stop, due to the de-
railment, came were crushed beneath
the lumber. One of the two killed
outright was boy aged 1S.
WASHINGTON
The use of radio to cure the exter-
nal manifestations of cancer was ex-
planned recently by DIR. T. Howard
Plank of Chicago before the National
Society of Physical Therapeutics.
The Senate has adopted the confer
ence report on the army appropriation
bill, fixing the size of the army for the
coming fiscal year at 1900 officers
and 125,O0O enlisted men. The House
has yet to act on the report, which in
cludes an appropriation of $7,5OO,OO0
for continuation of work on the
Muscle Shoals power project, on
which no agreement was reached in
conference.
The Ford offer for Muscle Shoals
cannot come before Congress at this
session, Senator Norris stated in the
Senate during debate on charges that
QIOQasdnud is Dtluk on III Ia
vor of adoption of the Ford offer
Although commencing the Philippine
aspirations to independence and a
complete self sovereignty, President
Harding, in reply to the Philippine
parliamentary mission, stated that the
time is not vet ripe for independence
Secretary of Labor Davis has an
nounced that the farm bureau of the
United States employment service
would open offices at st. Louis June
"a and at Denver July / for the con-
venience of men coming from the East
and West into the harvest fields of
Kansas and Nebraska.
The American Federation of Labor
may yet be torn apart by internal
strife before it really gets down to
work and prepares to adjourn. Friends
Of John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, and
opponent of Samuel Gompers for the
presidency of the federation last year
in Denver, have started fulfil edged
boom for him again.
]. Morton Howell of Ohio was nomi-
mated by President Harding to be the
first American minister to Egypt. DIR.
Howell is the present diplomatic agent
and consul general for this govern
ment in Egypt, having been named to
the post about ten months ago by Pres
Ident Harding. He has been a prac-
ticing physician, and for many years
close personal friend of the PresI-
dent. DIR. Howell's home is in Dayton.
Senate Republicans in conference
recently, voted 80 to Q yagainst laying
aside the tariff bill to consider the sol
dfers' bonus ID