, 1922-06-22

WESTERN
Two hundred national guardsmen
are on duty in the coal strike area or
Utah to enforce Governor Maybe's
proclamation of martial law, which
was issued after a mine guard had
been killed and a mine official wound
ed by men who fired on a train near
Castle Gate.
With Washington selected as the
text convention city, officers elected,
the business of the forty-eighth
al session of the Imperial Council of
the Shriners was wound up by a grand
pageant spectacle which brought to a
close the golden jubilee of Shrinedom
in San Francisco.
With one arm and a leg partially
chewed off and the head and torso
clawed and lacerated, the body of
Joseph Duret, aged 60, was found on
Slough creek, in Park county, near the
Yellowstone National Park, near Liv-
ingstOn, Mont. Park rangers are on
the trail of a huge grizzly bear, which
killed Duret after breaking loose a trap
set by the grizzly's victim.
George Won Elm of Salt Lake City
retained his title of amateur golf cham
pion of the Pacific Northwest by de
feating Bon Stein of Seattle, l up, in
their match of thirty-six holes at the
Colwood links at Vancouver, b. c.. Won
Elm was 4 down at the end Of the
eighteenth hole, but gained steadily on
the Seattle player and was all square
with Stein at the thirteenth hole of the
second round.
Posses are searching in the vicinity
of Ouray, northeast Utah, for Sechea-
guy, a Ute Indian brave, who is al
legged to have slain his rival in love,
Maroocoop, and to have kidnapped and
fled into the mountain wilds with an
Indian belle named Wilma Wilson. Ac-
cording to reports received mt the In
dian agency at Salt Lake City, Schea-
guy shot md killed Maroocoop while
he was asleep in his tepee Sunday
night.
Ralph Il. Trotter, alias Howard G.
Williams. % years old, of Youngstown,
Ohio, said by police to face charges of
cashing $4,000 in forged pay checks in
various cities of the United States, is
aAAotA alltSt III Odhialdf Will. IlG
was masquerading as a Shriner. ac-
cording to police. Trotter has been
sought since, police say, he disap-
peared from Youngstown with a pad
of blank pay checks stolen from the
Trusscon Steel Company of that city.
WASHINGTON
Federal control of the air to prevent
radio congestion and to encourage the
maximum of radio use and efficiency
was proposed in n bill introduced in
the House by Representative White,
Republican, Maine. The bill sets up
about twenty different classes of sta
lions with appropriate wave alloca-
lions.
Government seizure and operation of
coa mines was predicted by several
senators during n discussion in the
Senate on the coal strike situation.
Sen2tor Lenroot, Wisconsin, demanded
thai. the government take over suffI-
cient mines to supply coal that may
be needed
Canadian and United States author
tiles are investigating the alleged con-
fesslon of William johnson, alias n.
Primatcheuk, that he caused the ex-
ploslon OF three British ammunition
ships In the harbor of Halifax, N. s.,
in 1917, resulting in many deaths and
great destruction in that city. W :.
son committed suicide in a lonely spot
on Baon creek, in Skagit county,
last month.
The purchase Of T4.025 ceres of
land to form the nucleus OF the new
Allegheny national forest in Pennsyl-
vania has just been authorized by the
National Forest Reservation Commits.
sion in Washington. Twenty-seven
tracts OF cut-over and burned lands,
on the ~headwarters OF the Allegheny
river In Warren. Elk. Forest and Nc
Kean counties, were contracted for AZ
an average price OF s2.75 per acre.
President Harding has signed the
Observation-Disclosures bill. returning
the navy. army. marine corps and coast
guard service TO peace time pay stand
ards. The bill. effective July l, slash
es S14,154,0O0 from the pay bill Of the
four services. 1t reduces the $50 a
month war time pay of private soldiers
TO $21 a month, but grants many spe-
clnl allowances which might run the
enlisted mans pay as high as $157.50
per month.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
recently to set fire to the offices OF the
alien property custodian In the veter-
ans bureau building, according to of
fetal reports to the secret service.
Rags soaked with kerosene wetc
stuffed through a hole bored In u win
dow sash and a match applied from
the outside. Theb taze was discovered
by n Waterman and extinguished. Of
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