The Raymer enterprise., 1922-02-23
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WESTERN

W ~~~ ~eSeN
More than 1000 cases OF Influenza
were reported in California In one
week.
A warrant for The extradtiOn Of
John J. Hastings, former banker of
Fargo, n. D., and one time secretary
Of the Nonpartisan League Of North
Dakota, who Is charged with EN-
bezzlement, has been issued In San
francisco. Delay had been asked by
counsel for Hastings In order that he
might consider institution Of habeas
corpus proceedings.
After intensive search. Investigation
and sleuthing, the mystery surround
ing the staying of William Desmond
Taylor, famous film director, Is rs
dense and impeneirTbIe as the night
lie was slain, Il month ago. And
chances Of solution seem remote.
while as mass Of clues, tips and
scores OF theories have been checked,
little In the way Of evidence that
would serve 10 fastcn the crime on any
individual has resulted
Three OF the five persons arrested
In Mound Valley, Kan, In connection
with the kidnapping and robbery Of II.
ID. BowIcs, Joplin, Mo, motor driver,
pleaded guilty to highway robbery III
f'Irnult .nnnI a.
twenty-five years each In the peniten-
tlary. They We're Mrs. James Kidd.
her sonin,lnw, Kenneth Hoyt, and
Clyde Booth. Mrs Kidd, according to
police, said they planned 10 Kill
Bowles, 90 to western Kansas and sell
his car. Hoyt and Booth denied they
intended to kill BOwles.
After six years spent In construc-
ton, the Alaskan rnilrOad Il now
ready for use, from sea level nj Sc
ward, on Resurrection bay, nOrthward
TO Fairbanks, a distance Of i61 miles.
Fifty.two millions OF dollars Is the
total sum which has been expended to
date on the northern line and an add
tIonal 100000 will be needed for
bridges and other construction not es-
sential to the initial operation, az
cording to william Gerig, one Of the
construction engineers, who has just
returned TO Portland, Ore, from
Alaska.
WASHINGTON
Advances aggregating $4,000 for
agricultural and livestock purposes In
Colorado and Wyoming were approved
by the War Finance Corporation
Sixteen hundred boys and II S34
girls, Is years old, In the United States
were listed ms married IN 1920. the
census bureau announced In II state
ment presenting a special analysis of
marital statistics. Thrty.two boys
and 400 girls of the same age were
recorded as widowed or divorced.
Business conditions throughout the
country are better than they were Il
year ago In the view Of treasury off
cIals who declared, however, that the
Improvement has been gradual and
there was no immediate prospect Of Il
sudden pickup In business activities.
Some seasonable activity might Ire
looked for In the spring, they asserted,
hut in general only gradual better
ment was to be looked for.
Liquor imports during the past year
increased by nearly sl,50O0OO as com.
pared with 1920, while shipments OF
soft drinks into the country fell off by
more than 100000 during the
same period, according to for
eign trade reports made public by the
Commerce Department. During 1921
the total OF spirits, wines and malt
liquors imported aggregated S4,7l1,UOV
compared with s3,2690O0 in 1920, while
mineral waters and other beverages en-
tering the country amounted to S347,.
900 as against S589,OOO In 1920.
The green bug which was danger.
ously abundant in parts of the Mid
west last February, and the Hesslan
fly, which threatened wheat in six
states, have been found by survey
conducted by the Department of Agri,
culture TO be very much reduced this
year, W. H. Walton. entomollgist In
charge Of cereal and forage insects In
vestigations has stated. Results of
the survey, Mr.. Walton announced.
SHOW that In northern Texas and
southern Oklahoma this pest Is almost
totally absent at present and no out
brenk Of 1t need be feared there by the
wheat growers In the near future.
Resources Of the national banks Of
the country, exclusive of rediscounts,
amounting to Sl9,42O,OO0,OOO ut the
last call on Dec. 81, showed an In.
crease Of $4O6, 100000 over the prev
ious call In September. according to
an analysis issued by Comptroller of
the Currency Crissinger. The condl.
ton Of the national banks In Decem.
Der he described as very satisfac.
tory and called attention to the fact
that until September their resources
had more or less steadily declined
srom their peak Of s22,fll, 100000 in
1919.