The Holly chieftain., 1922-05-18
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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WESTERN
With the exception of the San Juan
region, Colorado missed the heaviest
part Of the storm that recently swept
Wyoming, South Dakota and parts OF
Nebraska.
Two youthful bandits recently held
up the office of the circulation depart.
nent of the Los Angeles Herald and
escaped In an automobile with S535
The office is within block of the po.
lice station.
Mrs. Frank Lokaijeck, wife OF the
vice president of the Denton State
hank of Lewistown, Mont, shot and
killed both her 13-year-old son and
her 3-year-old son. She then went out
in the field where her husband was
running "a seeder. shot him in the head
and he fell from the machine uncon
scious.
Four women are nursing minor
hurts and Antoine Nava, So years old,
is In jail as the result OF his second
attempt to leap from the Southern Pa
cific viaduct at Colma to probable
death on the highway fifty feet below
The women were passing under the
bridge in an automobile when Nava
jumped.
Warm spring weather has caused the
streams in cafions adjOcent to Salt
Lake City to overflow their banks and
In the Sugar House district Easements
are flooded and homes, In many In
stances are completely surrounded by
water. There has been no danger to
residents, but property damage is ex,
pected to reach approximately $780,
900.
Governor Neff Of Texas has ordered
two detachments of state rangers to
be sent to Fairfield, county seat OF
Freestone county, to prevent an upris-
ing of negroes which Sheriff w. NJ
Mayo of Freestone county said was i'm
minent. The sheriff said the negroes
of the county are threatening to
avenge the death of the three negroes
who were burned at Kirvin.
| The total shipments Of Californit
oranges for the 1821-22 crop, it wal
estimated by E. Il. Kaufman, agricul
.tural statistician OF the Federal De
partment Of Agriculture. will aggre
gate only So per cent of the total or
apge crop. as estimated Dec. l, 1921
This estimate is reported as Of May l
1922. Five thousand cars of orange!
were lost as result Of the December
winds and the loss directly attributed
to the cold weather will be about 16,
600 cars.
WASHINGTON
Authority given federal reserve
banks to purchase An per cent Vic
tory notes direct from holders at pal
and accrued interest up to an aggre
gate amount Of $1OO,OOO.OO0 has beer
further extended from May Is t.
June Is, 1922, Secretary Mellon hal
announced.
Federal reserve banks would be EN-
powered to buy and sell farm lant
bonds under a bill introduced recent!
by Senator Fletcher, Democrat. Flor
Ida. The measure, designed to pro
vide long term credits for farmers
also would establish farm credits
department in each federal land bank
A little black steamer has headed
for the sea on the first leg Of her ruI
to the British Isles, where, off Kin
sale Head, she will attempt to recov
er gold, silver and Jewels which wen
down with the Lusitania seven year
ago. The vessel was. the Blakely O
the shipping boards wartime fleet.
The report of the special treasur.
committee which made an inventor,
Of the supplies and equipment of th'
bureau of printing and engraving fol
lowing the recent reorganization o
the bureaus personnel. is understoO,
to be a substantial vindication of til,
declaration by treasury officials tina
no material output of illegal bond
note or stamp issues had taken plac,
within recent years.
An upward trend in the retail cos
of food was noted In statistics mad,
public by the bureau of labor Stats
tics of the Department Of Labor. Re
ports from fifteen cities showed in
creases from March 10 to April IL
ranging up to 8 per cent, while onl.
four reported decreases and only on
of these, Fall River, with per cent
showing more than one-half of l pc
cent decline.
President Harding has asked Con
gress for an appropriation Of $1,000.
600 for survey and designing of {
dock at juneau, Alaska, the War De
partment reporting the construction O
new dock there would materially re
duce operating costs and shipping de
lays.
The experiment Of decentralizing tn,
work Of internal revenue headquarters
which will be made in the four Pacifl,
coast cities Of Portland, Los Angeles
Tacoma and San Francisco probabl!
will be inaugurated within month, l