, 1922-11-16
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE news
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DolNGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SuFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

and the Volstead act the law of Cali
fornia, was defeated.
Five men are dead, another Injured
and another being held pending the
filing of charges as the result of a
fire which destroyed a rooming house
at Westwood, Calf. Edward Swane,
whom officers say cause the blaze by
inadvertently setting fire to his bed,
vas arrested.
Lee little, recently defeated for the
Republican nomination for United
States senator, ended his life in his
hotel at Yakima, Wash, by taking poi
son., according to Coroner w. N.
Brown. little, a former county treas
urer, had been respondent since his
failure to win the nomination.
Fred p. Johnson, one of the owners
of the Denver Daily Record-Stockman
an organizer of the Denver Live Stock
Exchange and the National Western
Stock Show, as well as one Of the
most widely known newspaper men in
the West, died at his home in Denver
from hardening of the arteries and
Bright's disease.
Governor w. ID. Stephens will be
asked to invite governors of eight
Western states to send representa-
tives TO h annual convention of Cal
ifornia fruit growers and shippers to
be held in Sacramento December II,
ID and IA for the purpose of forming
a cooperative association to deal with
the Interstate Commerce Commission
ON tranSnOrfotion mattprS
So many motorists have passed
through Union Gap, neal Yakima,
Wash, without even knowing that
there was IA town in the vicinity, until
they were hailed into court on speed
ing charges, that u number of COM
plants have been made to the local
commercial club by tourists, suggest
ing that some distinctive marking set
ting forth the presence of a town
there should be posted.
A large shipment of wild animals
and birds, destined for geological gar
dens and circuses throughout the
United States and Europe, was unload
ed recently at Los Angeles from the
steamer Bearport, from the Orient, 76
days in crossing the Pacific. The car
go is the property of Frank Ii. Beck,
dealer in wild creatures, who gathered
it in various parts of the Far East and
shipped 1t from Singapore and Cal
cutta. 1t is said to be the largest sim
gle shipment of wild animals ever
brought to the United States. 1t in
cludes elephants, tigers, lions, leopards,
civet cats, a~nteaters, monkeys, pythons,
cobras and other large reptiles, and
1000 birds of varied species.
WASHINGTON
The American government has no
objection to the ~flotation or a new
$50,0O0,000 Cuban loan in this country,
according to an official announcement
by the State Department . A note set
ting forth the position of this govern
ment was delivered to the Cuban
charge d'affaires by the State Depart
ment, the announcement said.
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assist
ant chief of the army air service, an
nounced on arrival in Washington from
the bombing tests held in Hampton
Roads that protection Of Americas
casts now depended upon the nations
air forces, backed by u good army.
The first plank in the platform of
the new Tory ministry in Britain is
obviously an endorsement of the An
glo-French entente. Among all OF the
indictments Of Lloyd George none has
been more steadily pressed both in
England and out Of it than that of
having almost II not completely de-
stroyed the partnership between the
two great powers which united 10
check Germany in 1914.
Damage by smaller predatory ro.