Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-07-27
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, poiNas, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

WESTERN
The meeting of the Colorado River
Commission, which was to have been
held at Santa Fe, N. NJ, on Aug. l, has
been postponed until Monday, Aug. %,
Secretary Of Commerce Hoover, chair
man Of the commission announced In
Warrington.
Two hundred and twenty-five Camp
Fire Girls were forced to flee for their
lives before forest fire that swept
down on their summer camp on wash
on island in Puget sound. The young
refugees were hurried aboard steam
er bound for Seattle.
Jeffrey Hildreth and his slayer,
Monte P. Rose, sleep together in Fall
River cemetery at Redding, Calf. They
had been friends for several score
years until law suit estranged them
and led to a quarrel as result Of
himself.
Thomas Lynch, his wife. Mary, their
daughter, Katherine, aged 4, and
nephew, Philip, aged 8, were killed and
four other members Of the Lynch fam
lily and another woman suffered burns
which are expected to prove fatal In
collision between the Lynch automo-
bile and street car in San Francisco.
Twenty men and women, passengers
aboard the Tourist, an excursion boat.
which became disabled ten miles off
Newport, on the Orange county coast,
south of Long Beach, Calf, were res
cued by the fishing smack Music and
brought to Long Beach. When the
Music sighted the Tourist the latter
was wallowing in the trough Of the
sea, engine disabled and sail set to
keep her head in the wind.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has authorized the Eldorado 4
Santa Fe railroad to construct three
new lines in Chase and Butler coun-
ties, Kansas, at n cost of $2,017 .133.
The company was granted authority to
issue $4,000 of capital stock and au-
thorization was given the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railroad to acquire
control of the Eldorado & Santa Fe.
after the new lines are constructed.
WASHINGTON
President Harding recently sent
kilograms directing the operators Of
all bltuminous mines shut down be-
cause of strike conditions to resume
operations Mt once, and requesting the
governors Of those states in which the
mines operate to furnish such military
protection as may be needed. II state
troops find 1t impossible to cope with
the situation, federal troops. 1t was
understood, may be employed even
tually.
In a comprehensive report submit
ted to the Senate by Chairman Norris
of the Senate agricultural committee,
Henry Ford's offer for the purchase
and lease of the governments war-in-
itiated projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala,
is condemned in unusually strong Ian
guage, while the Nebraska senator's
bill, proposing development Of the
properties under government-owned
and controlled corporation, Is de-
scribed as "the most wonderful plan"
that has ever been proposed in the bis
tory of the country.
Operators from the coal-producing
districts of six states have been asked
by Secretary Hoover to cooperate
with the government and the railroads
in plan to insure the distribution of
fuel to the carriers and public util-
tiles and to prevent profiteering dur
ing the strike emergency.
Ordinary expenditures of the govern.
ment during the fiscal year just
closed fell off by s1,393 100000 as
compared with the previous year,
while public debt disbursements
showed decline of $2,131 100000, ac-
cordlng to statement of classified ex-
penditures for the twelve months end
ing June 80, issued by the treasury.
At a recent conference in Washing
ton rail executives declared they could
not and would not yield to the union
demand for national board Of adjust
ment. They also were said to be IN
sistent upon refusing to restore the
status quo Of employees on strike with
respect to their seniority and pension
rights. All of these have been demand
ed by the union representatives as nec-
essary before they would order the
men back to work pending rehearing
of the question Of wage scales.
President Harding has accepted the
invitation Of the Flathead Indians Of
Montana to become an honorary men,
ber Of their tribe. President Harding.
in his reply of acceptance, said he had
no objection to a proposal to have a
mountain peak on the Indian reserva-
tion named Mount Harding.
Three japanese cruisers, the Iwate,
1sume and Asama, making world
tour. visited at Los Angeles harbor,
the only American port at which the
squadron will stop. Officials Of the
Japanese association entertained the
personnel Of the ships. :.