The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-23
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
the WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
| The initiated measure to permit pari-
mutuel betting at state and county
fairs In Montana, was defeated by ap-
proximately 1000 votes.
| The prohibition enforcement meas
ure on the California ballot. providing
for making the Eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act the law of Cali
fornia. was defeated
| Convicted Of murder in the second
degree for having beaten Mrs. Alberta
Meadows to death with a hammer last
July In Monticello drive, Mrs. Clara
Phillips, former chorus girl, faces
term of from ten years to life In San
Quentin penitentiary.
Because he declared that he bought
all the food he needed for g cents a
day, Arthur Bel0ur is being held by
| Spokane police as an insanity suspect.
Belour had $672.S5 in his pockets
when apprehended, which he said was
his savings as result of frugal living.
Twenty-Five years of almost contln-
uous effort to bring the main line to
Boise" ended In conditional victory
through Boise's acceptance of the Of
fer of the Oregon Short Line to build
a railroad line from Orchard to the
capital city. The railroad company
will spend approximately $3,200,OO0 In
and near Boise to comply with its end
of the contract.
| "They came to their death from gun
shot and knife wounds inflicted by
Hjalmar Anderson" was the verdict
returned by coroner's jury which
held an inquest over the bodies of
Tansy Bolton, "a years old, and Mrs.
]. T. O'Brien, 38, who were killed in
q cabin at Copalis beach, twenty miles
west Of Hoaquiam, Wash. Anderson's
!, death was cscribed to suicide.
| A coroner's jury returned verdict
that James F. Melvin, 81 years old, ed
itor Of the Salmon, Idaho, Recorder,
died of Excitement and over-exerti0n."
Testimony at the inquest was to the
of ex-service men had q scuffle tafter
the ex-service men had visited Melvin
who had refused to join the Red Cross.
Melvin escaped from the ex-soldiers,
ran to his office and died soon after.
WASHINGTON
The Mexican embassy has made rep
reservations to the State Department
against the alleged lynching Of Mex
lean, Elias vilIareal Zarate. In Wesla-
co. Texas, and asking guarantees for
the Mexican consul In Hldalgo, Texas,
whose life Is said to have been threat
ened.
Mrs. Muriel MacSwlney. widow Of
Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor Of
Cork, who died in prison on hunger
! strike, and two others of nine women
arrested for picketing the British en-
bassy In Washington, refused bond for
their appearance at hearing before
United States commissioner.
| A vigorous assault upon the Ku
Rux Klan was made by Secretary Of
the Navy DENLY in an address before
the national convention Of the Order Of
the Eastern Star in Washington. Al
thought he did not mention the Ku
Kux Klan by name, the secretary left
no doubt that 1t was that organization
to which he referred.
A plot to smuggle ammunition into
Fortress Monroe, Fort Storey and
Camp Eustis was unearthed scently
at Norfolk, Va, by postal inspectors.
Large boxes Of rifle cartridges were
found In mail cars bound for each
place. United States agents are puz-
zled. One man is held for questioning.
Shipments were made from house in
Norfolk.
Retirement from the army Of Maj.
Gen. James G. Harbord, deputy chief
Of staff and one Of the outstanding
American military leaders in the
World War, to accept the presidency
Of the Radio Corporation Of America,
has been announced by Secretary
Weeks. He will be succeeded in WASH
ington by Maj. Gen. John L. Hines,
now commanding the Eighth Corps
area.
Pennsylvania, with seven, will top
all the states in big House committee
heads in the new Congress, unless the
seniority rule is abrogated. All told,
there are sixty standing committees,
but some Of them have little to do with
important legislation. The seven im-
portant chairmanships, Pennsylvania is
expected to have. Banking, claims,
foreign affairs, judiciary, naval, post
office and printing, a gain Of two.
| Eleven noncommissioned officers in
the Philippine constabulary will be
hanged unless Governor General Wood
pardons them, since the Supreme
Court of the United States declined to
review their case. Sixty-six privates
will serve life sentences. The Philip.
pine Supreme Court will await the Of
ficial mandate Of the United States
court before fixing the date for carry.
ing out the sentences.
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