The Holly chieftain., 1922-07-06
CONDENSED RECORD OF the
PRooREss or EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAyiHos, DolNcs. ACHIEVE.
MENTs. suFFERiNcs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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found almost dead of strangulatiOn
after she had tied shoestring around
her THROAT end twisted the knots.
Selection Of the Finlen site at Butte.
Mont, was announced by the citizens
hotel committee as location OF ST.
200, 1000 hotel for which company is
being organized. The available ground
is 1873 by l32 feet, including the site of
the present Finlen hotel, one of the
pioneer houses OF the city.
"Flagrant effort has been made In
an anonymous way to mislead the pub
lie into the belief that the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company is attempt
ing to override the decision of the Su-
preme Court of the United States"
said William Sproule, president Of the
Southern Pacific railroad, recently, at
Salt Lake City.
Mrs. Lydia Adams-Williams aspir-
ant for the Republican nomination for
United States senator from Nevada,
has taught her male oponents new
political maneuver and her tactics are
arousfng lively interest. The feminine
senatorial candidate is following the
circus companies across the state and
in this way finds opportunities to ad-
dress large audiences.
President Harding has committed
the sentence Of two more political
prisoners and ordered their release
from the Leavenworth prison, where
they We're held for wartime offenses,
II was learned at the White House re-
Gently. They are Clyde Hough of
Rockford, ILL.,, serving fifteen-year
sentence as conscientious Objector
and Vincent st. John, nationally
known ten years ago as secretary.
treasure0of the /. w. w.
WASHINGTON
The use Of radio to cure the exter.
nal manifestations Of cancer was ex-
planned recently by DIR. T. Howard
Plank of Chicago before the National
Society Of Physical Therapeutics
After an all-day fight the House
passed bill to continue certain pub
lie land offices which under legislation
enacted this session would have been
closed July l. The House, by vote of
lis to 9s, amended the Senate bill to
continue the offices at Bellefourche,
S. d.; Waterville, Wash; Dickinson,
N. D.; Waterville. Wash. Dickinson,
N. D.; Del Norte and Sterling, Colo. !;
Clayton and Fort Sumner, N. NJ; Har-
rison and Camden, Ark, and Alliance,
Neb. 1t struck from the bill provisions
by the Senate for the continuance of
offices at Timber Lake and Lennon,
8. D.; Williston and Mino N. d. !;
Broken Bow, Neb. Durango, Colo, and
Springfield, Mo. After having, in COM
mittee of the whole, adopted an
amendment which would have reduced
the offices to be continued to Belle
fourche, S. D.; Del Norte, Colo. Wa
terville, WASH, and Alliance, Neb., the
House revised itself by adopting the
Senate bill as reported by the House
committee on public lands. The bill
now goes to the Senate.
The House adopted the conference
report on the 1922 naval bill, accept
ing Senate increases which put the
total appropriation around $289, ,OOO,-
600. Some minor amendments were
adopted and tile report went back to
the Senate for final action before be.
ing sent to the President.
| Former United States Senator Cor.
nelius Cole of California, who will be
100 years ..oitl. In September, was a
caller at the White House recently, his
first visit in twenty-five years. He was
accompanied by Senator Shortridge,
Republican, California. Senator Cole
who served in the Senate from 1867 to
1873, is said to be the last surviving
member of the body that tried Andrew
johnson for impeachment.
Approval of four applications fol
loans to assist in financing the orderly
marketing Of cotton and wheat aggre.
eating $16,5O0,0OO. was announced b,
the War Finance Corporation. The ap
plications approved were from Okla.
homa Cotton Growers Cooperative
Association, $8,OOO,OO0; Arkansas Cot
ton Growers Cooperative Association
37.5OO,OOO; Oklahoma Wheat Growers
Association, $780, 900, and the Texa.
Wheat Growers Association, $500 900
Despite the coal strike and the
threatened railroad tieup, business II
the United States continues to improve
high officials Of the Treasury Depart
1 a mn
WAS accounted for by heavy summer
buying of stocks in preparation fol
winter trade.
Freight rates throughout the United
States on practically all cominOditie.
have been reduced by 10 per cent since
the carriers of the country put into eff
feet the decision rendered last monti
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
zion in the general rate case.