The Holly chieftain., 1922-12-21
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES HOUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Theodore Schweitzer, general prohi-
bition agent for Utah, Wyoming and
Colorado. with headquarters ut Den
yer, was ordered suspended by the
acting prohibition commissioner at
Washington, u. Z.
One fireman, Ernest Robertson, was
killed by suffocation, Chief Alexander
Of the fire department was overcome
by smoke and seriously but not fatally
injured, and property loss estimated
Mt $250,O0O sustained in fire that
threatened for Il time the business dis
trict of Bozeman, Mont.
The crew OF the British tramp
steamer Ortoric, which went on the
rocks seventy miles north of San Fran
cisco, was transferred to the freighter
Cotton Plunt. The transfer OF the fiji
ty-five members of the Orserlc's crew
was dangerous piece of work and
was only attempted as last resort.
John ii. Hays, u rancher near Havre,
Mont, killed his wife and himself, ac-
cording to story told officers by his
l5-year-Old son. The deaths left six
children orphans. The 15-year-old boy,
the oldest, fled into the night with the
mercury 80 degrees below zero, In
search Of help, while the two youngest
slept soundly.
Wallace Reid, film actor, Is flight
Ing for his life" in small Hollywood
sanitarium, according to story the
Los Angeles Times published recently,
quoting his wife, known professionally
at Dorothy Davenport, and his moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Alice Davenport. Reid
suffered breakdown nearly two
months ago, after his health had been
failing for three years.
A riot, precipitated by the agitation
Of forty l. w. W., resulted in u Sc
cious battle between police and pris-
oners in the Lincoln Heights Jail at
Los Angeles. The trouble started
when no noon meal was served the
prisoners on account of the fact that
attempts had been made to start trOu-
ble among prisoners who were work
ing about the jail.
The British tramp steamer Orteric
has broken in two after having been
aground on sharp ledge of rocks
near Fish Rock, seventy miles north
Of San Francisco, according to mes
sage received by the Radio Corpora
ton of America station at San Fran
cisco. The skeleton crew of twelve
men, under Capt. Vincent Harper.
transshipped to the salvage steamer
Homer.
WASHINGTON
The Colorado river basin compact
will be ratified by all Of the states con-
cerned within three months, Secretary
| of Commerce Hoover said in Washing
ton recently.
Racing ut top speed, the House
passed the annual supply bill for the
Departments Of Commerce and Labor.
carrying approximately S19,00OO00 for
the former and $6.5OOOOO for the lat.
ter.
Secretary of State Hughes has sum-
moned George Harvey, American am
bassador to England, home to discuss
European affairs, 1t was announced at
the United States embassy In London
Ambassador Harvey will said Dec. 23
Construction Of memorial bridge
across the Delaware river at point
where Washington and his troops
crossed before the battle of Trenton
was authorized In bill passed by the
Senate. Four other bridge bills were
passed. including authority for con-
struction Of u bridge across the Colo
RADIO river at Yuma, Ariz.
Defective equipment has doubled en-
gine accidents and Quadrupled fatal
tiles on the railroads since the start
Of the rail strike, government stalls
tics introduced in the Daugherty i'm
peachment hearings revealed. The fig
ures were introduced by counsel for
Representative Keller to prove Attor-
ney General Daugherty failed to re.
qulre observance Of railroad statutes.
The Postofflce Department has estl-
mated that waste Of $1,740,000 an
nually results from wrongly addressed
mail. A survey just completed re-
veals that the average number of let
ters received at postOffices daily with
improper addresses was 375,3S1, and
that the salaries of postal employees
required to readiness this mail
amounts alone to more than S1,OOO,O 900
u year.
The finishing touches were put on
the plan worked out by the congress
sional joint committee on the reorgan-
ization of the administration branch
of the government at conference
with President Harding, Walter F.
Brown, chairman of the committee, an.
nounced in Washington.
Permanent organization Of the Ma.
| tional Council of Farmers Co-opera.
tive Marketing Associations was au.
thorized In the closing session In