, 1922-11-30
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

Eighty-two dead was believed to be
the death toll of the sinking of a Mex
lean freight and passenger steamer in
the Gulf of California at La Bomba.
a Mexican port at the junction Of the
Colorado river and the gulf. thirty
nve miles south of Calexico, Calf.
Because he declared that he bought
all the food he needed for 6 cents a
day, Arthur Belour is being held by
Spokane police as an insanity suspect.
Belour had $672.S5 in his pockets
when apprehended, which he said was
his savings as a result of frugal living.
A record price for eggs in Washing
ton was established when H. e. Leath-
ers of Woodland sold twenty eggs from
Lady Jewell, his champion White Leg
horn hen, for $500. Lady Jewell laid
315 eggs for the year ending Nov. l at
h official egg-laying contest con-
Quoted by the western Washington ex-
pertinent station.
Mutlny charges against five mem
bers of the steam schooner Jacinto
were dismissed in the United States
Commissioners Court at San Francis
co after it developed that the disturb
ances that brought the vessel back to
San Francisco after she had put out
for Grays harbor was merely a
drunken brawl."
One hundred and seven members of
the freshman class of Pomona College
at Claremont were technically under
arrest at Uplan, near Claremont, on
charges of stealing lumber. 1t was
reported the "frosh" had been dele
gated to supply the wood for a bon
fire at a college rally, preliminary to
the football game at Los Angeles with
Occidental College.
Kansas opened a legal fight on the
Ku Klux Khan when custer proceed
ings were filed in the State Supreme
Court at Topeka by the attorney gen.
eral under the direction of Gov. Henry
j. Allen. The custer proceedings are
directed against the Knights of the K.
K. K, a Georgian corporation, Inc
against officers of the khan in Kan
sas.
Twenty-Five years of almost contin-
uous effort TO bring the main line to
Boise" ended in conditional victory
through Bosses acceptance of the of
fer of the Oregon Short Line to build
a railroad line from Orchard to the
capital city. The railroad company
will spend approximately S3,200,000 in
and near Boise to comply with Its end
of the contract.
Three men were taken into custody
at Los Angeles for questioning in con-
nection with the Staying of n man
and the probable fatal woundlng of
another near Johannesburg, Calf. The
men gave their names as Ed Callan,
Il. +. White and George Lynch, and
said they were miners. The Atolio
tragedy ended in the killing of a man
named Moore, a resident of Brooklyn.
WASHINGTON
The bill to provide for purchase and
sale OF farm porducts through u $780,
100000 government corporation, intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Nor
ris, Republican, Nebraska, was pre-
scented in the House by Representative
Sinclair, Republican, North Dakota.
A plot to smuggle ammunition Into
Fortress Monroe, Fort Storey and
Camp Eustis was uneurthed recently
at Norfolk. Va, by postal inspectors,
Large boxes of rifle cartridges were
found In mail cars bound for each
place. United states agents are puz-
zled. One man Is held for questioning.
The star OF woman suffrage reached
its highest ascendency In American
history when Mrs. w. H.. FELTON,, the
grand old lady of Georgia." won her
fight for a seat for u day as the first
woman senator. Mrs. FELTON, won her
senatorship when chlvalry %triumphed
over legality. A single objection from
any one of the ninety-fiye male sen.
ators would have prevented her taking
her seat.
Pierce Butler OF Minnesota has been
nominated by President Harding as as
sociate Justice OF the United States
Supreme Court. Butler succeeds to
the seat made vacant by the resigna-
ton OF Justice William II. Day. His
home Is in st. Paul, where he is a
prominent corporation lawyer. He Is
"A Democrat and has served for a mum.
Der OF years as a member of the board
of regents OF the University OF Mime
sotn.
The United States Supreme Couri
has held that Liberty bonds held by
national banks are taxable by the
states for state purposes. An appeal
brought by the Peoples bank of King
fisher. Okla, from n lower court de
cision that national banks nre moi
entitled to deduct from their capital
surplus and undivided profits In pay.
ing state taxes, money invested In
Liberty bonds and other forms Of tax.
exempt securities. was dismissed BY