The St. Johns herald., 1922-12-07
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoINGs, ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

The initiated measure to permit pari- mutuel betting at state and county fairs in Montana, was defeated by ap- proximately 4,000 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 hammer last July in Monticello drive, Mrs. Clara Phillips, former chorus girl, faces a term of from ten years to life in San Quentin penitentiary.
 Eighty-twO dead was believed to be the death toll of the sinking of Mex ican freight and passenger steamer in the Gulf of California at La Bomba, a Mexican port at the junction of the Colorado river and the gulf, thirty five miles south of CalexicO, Calif.
 Because he declared that he bought all the food he needed for 6 cents a day, Arthur Belour is being held by Spokane police as an insanity suspect. Belour had $672.85 in his pockets when apprehended, which he said was his savings as a result of frugal living.
 Twenty-two years of almost cOntin- 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 $3,20O,OOO in and near Boise to comply with its end of the contract.
 'SThey came to their death from gun shot and knife wounds inflicted by Hjalmar Anderson" was the verdict returned by a coroner's jury which held an inquest over the bodies of Tansy Bolton, A years old, and Mrs. J. T. O'Brien, 38, who were killed in a cabin at Copalis beach, twenty miles west of HoaQuiam, Wash. Anderson's death was ascribed to suicide.
 With seventy-five delegates from all parts of the Rocky Mountain re- zion and the Pacific in attendance, the Northwest mining section of the Ma tional Safety Council has just closed at Butte. Speakers emphasized the statement that metal mining was the least dangerous of all the hazardous industries, pointing out that of the 80,OO0 accidental deaths in the United States last year, only 10000 were at tributable to industry, of these only a small fraction occurred in mining. WASHINGTON
 Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, whose right to a place in the Senate has been a subject of long and bitter controversy, has submitted his resig- nation with a request that it become effective immediately.
 A plot to smuggle ammunition into Fortress Monroe, Fort Storey and Camp Eustis was unearthed recently at Norfolk, Va, by postal inspectors. Large boxes of rifle cartridges were found in mail cars bound for each place. United States agents are pug zled. One man is held for questioning. Shipments were made from house in Norfolk
 A vigorous assault upon the Ku Rux Kan was made by Secretary of the Navy Denby 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 Kan by name, the secretary left no doubt that 1t was that organization to which he referred
 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.
 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.