The Holly chieftain., 1922-02-23

WESTERN
More than 1000 eases of influenza
were reported in California in one
week
A warrant for the extradition OF
John ]. Hastings, former banker of
Fargo, \. d.. and one time secretary
of the Nonpartisan League of North
Dakota, who is charged with EN-
bezzlement, has been issued in San
Francisco. Delay had been asked by
counsel for Hastings in order that he
might consider institution of habeas
corpus proceedings.
After intensive search, investigation
and sleuthing, the mystery surround
ing the staying of William Desmond
Taylor, famous film director, is as
dense and impenetrable as the night
he was slain, a month ago. And
chances of a solution seem remote,
while as mass of clues, tips and
scores of theories have been checked,
little in the way of evidence that
would serve TO fasten the crime on any
individual has resulted.
Three of the five persons arrested
in Mound Valley, Kan, in connection
with the kidnapping and robbery of II.
| d. Bowles, Joplin, Mo-, motor driver,
pleaded guilty to highway robbery In
| Circuit Court and were sentenced to
twenty-five years each in the peniten-
tiary. They were Mrs james Kidd.
i,,l lou
Clyde Booth. Mrs. Kidd, according to
police, said they planned to kill
| Bowles, 60 to western Kansas and sell
his car. Hoyt and Booth denied they
intended to kill Bowles.
After six years spent in construc-
tion, the Alaskan railroad is now
ready for use, from sea level at Sc
ward, on Resurrection bay, northward
| to Fairbanks, distance of 467 miles.
| Fifty-twO millions of dollars is the
| total sum which has been expended to
| date on the northern line and an addi-
tionaI S4,0OO,OOO will be needed for
| bridges and other construction not es-
| sential to the initial operation, ac-
cording to William Gerig, one of the
construction engineers, who has just
returned to Portland, Ore, from
| Alaska.
WASHINGTON
Advances aggregating $472,0OO for
agricultural and livestock purposes in
Colorado and Wyoming were approved
by the War Finance Corporation
Sixteen hundred boys and 14,S34
girls, 10 years old, in the United States
were listed as married in 1920. the
census bureau announced in state
ment presenting a special analysis of
marital statistics. Thirty-two boys
and 400 girls Of the same age were
recorded as widowed or divorced.
Business conditions throughout the
country are better than they were a
year ago in the view Of treasury Off
cials who declared, however, that the
improvement has been gradual and
there was no immediate prospect OF a
sudden pickup in business activities.
Some seasOnable activity might be
looked for in the spring, they asserted,
but in general only gradual better.
ment was to be looked for.
Liquor imports during the past year
increased by nearly $1,5OO,0OO as COM
pared with 1920, while shipments of
soft drinks into the country fell off by
more than 100000 during the
same period, according to for
eign trade reports made public by the
Commerce Department. During 1921
the total of spirits, wines and malt
liquors imported aggregated $4,711 900
compared with $3,269,OOO in 1920, while
mineral waters and other beverages en-
tering the country amounted to S347,.
600 as against s569,0O0 in 1920.
The green bug which was danger
ously abundant in parts of the Mid
west last February, and the Hessian
fly, which threatened wheat in six
states, have been found by survey
conducted by the Department of Agri-
culture to be Every much reduced" this
year, w. II. Walton, entomoligist in
charge Of cereal and forage insects in.
vestigntions has stated. Results of
| the survey, Mr.. Walton announced,
"show that in northern Texas and
southern Oklahoma this pest is almost
totally absent at present and no out
break of it need be feared there by the
wheat growers In the near future
Resources of the national banks of
the country, exclusive of rediscounts,
amounting to Sl9,420,0O0,000 at the
last call on Dec 81, showed an in.
crease of S406,0OO,O0O over the prev
ious call in September, according ia
nm analysis issued by Comptroller of
the Currency Crissnger The condi.
tion of the national banks in Decem.
Der he described MS very satisfac.
tory" and called attention to the fact
that until September their resources
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