Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-02-10

| AldDdlnd 10 private iDLtfeSlS, eiLHef
by sale or lease, were held between
Secretary Weeks and President Hard.
ing.
The Washington negotiations for
Limitation OF armament reached their
contamination when plenary session
of the arms conference gave definite
and public approval to the two trea-
ties limiting navies and restricting
use of tee new agencies of warfare.
Railroads were in better physical
| condition at the end of the period Of
! federal control than they had been
when taken over during the war,Wil-
liam c. McAdoo, former secretary OF
the treasury and wartime director
general of RAILROADS, told the senate
interstate commerce committee In Civ
ing an accounting of his guardianship
of the properties during 1913.
Light wines and beers would be
legalized and taxed to pay the sol
ultTS JULIUS inSdSuA Ct e~1'O-
Gated by Representative Brennan Of
Detroit and Representative Hill Of
Baltimore before the house ways and
means committee. Mr. Hill estimated
chat the proposed tax would yield be-
tween S500000,000 and s1,0O0O00,O0O
year, and he is confident the tax
would produce a sufficient revenue
in four years to pay OFF the entire
cost of the bonus.
"Cheap and faulty construction, and
not the heavy snowfall was responsible
for the collapse of the Knickerbocker
theater." Senator Frank r. Gooding
of Idaho, says Il am now convinced
that congress is in part to blame.
Congress makes the appropriations for
the District of Columbia it provides
meager salaries for building inspec-
tors, with the result that incompe-
tent men are hired to inspect just
such buildings as the Knickerbocker.
And to that extent responsibility for
incompetent and inefficient inspection
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FOREIGN.
1t is announced that more than -.
900 troops have evacuated Ireland.
Most of the auxiliaries have gone. and
the evacuation of 5000 black and fans
will begin soon.
Durham, Eng, can claim the unen
viable distinction of having the worlds
greatest housing problem. An invesu-
cation revealed seven persons living
in one room, eight living in two rooms
and 20 living in five rooms
Revelation at a recent medical meet
ing that there are more than 40 lepers
in England caused public sensation
The government has received many
letters demanding the removal of all
victims.
France stands ready to restore to
China the leased territory of Kwang-
Chow Wan, irrespective of what other
countries may do with reference to
leased areas, NJ Sarraut, senior French |
arms delegate, stated recently.
A dispatch to the London Times /
from Heisingfors, Finland, says: Boil |
shevik troops today recrossed the /
frontier at Soutjaevri and advanced /
eight kilometers into Finnish territory. |
Fighting is proceeding between about
one hundred bolsheviki and the Finn |
ish frontier guards.
Four natives were killed and six
wounded by the police, who fired on |
a crowd which had declined to dis |
perse, near Pabda. Bengal. The [
trouble had its origin in the arrest 1
Of two noncooperationist pickets. A |
mob estimated at 1000 attacked the |
local magistrate and the police super /
intendentS.
What appears 10 be back-to-JaPan {
movement OF the Japanese in southern /
California is noted I'm the last six
months. There has been no explain
alton from any japanese official OF
the fact that virtually every timer
leaving Los Angeles for The Orient Ia
recent months has been crowded with
japanese, chiefly women and children.
Tho htest strike iu Germany Is the
most unique OF al. u Is the strike
Of the beadsman ana eXecuiioner in
Baden This o0idai Informs lle min
isiry ~ jusris~ of Baden thot be can
no longer chop 90 fue heads ~ Grim
mails pa ii,e present rate per head, ip
YicB Of me Increased cost ~ living
The undn oloped industry of drus
growing and mauuflfiur'ng IA ihe
slate nf iflah nnd ihe suy0pnd'ng coun
iIy b. helms studied Nl ihe sludenis
and garlIn III llo IuINfrfil ~ liah