The Dolores star., 1922-02-17
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
REcoRo OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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PEOPLE.
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WESTERN

anu NtlAallsslNft'lH W ash IL NfiL NtA e.
washed out recently and IRAN service
WAS held up in many places as result
oi heavy rains.
The San Francisco court has sci
Alarcii l3 IS the date GJr Starring the
rhird rr.nI OF Roscoe c. G'atty) Ar
buckle, motion picture ssar, on q
charge Of uGIn~lauSI,ser ia connection
with thr death Of VI - Virginia Euupr.
innrioH picture actress. Both previous
trials ended in dTSugrccm'uts.
Er rcrSiur, where. il - claimed puip
WIS FIRST played In California, Is huv-
uu~ uuwi-r1 revival Of interest .u HE
.,:,me with Two clubs active. one or
saiu ,atlou. TIDE I..srr',ide pOIu and
.,,, G@ Cjgb. IS playing weekly gumeS
uu, ufs arranged Tor tournament in
w!ra, $in.a Ear'um Coronado, Den.
vcr rtF other t,3Hu~ VIII ruupgto
Alexander TIn0ut and August
Durcbg. deVus-U president and vice
president of district fourteen. United
A;ne workers. have hreu released
trum the county Jail at CHlumb:S.
Kan The $1,000 Ucuyc bond IN which
lHey agroe 10 call mo- moro strikes in
the Kansas coal fields was signed and
IuS Teen approved ty District Judge
Iinss
one OF the interesting features said
10 have been disclosed In The Holly
wood night lifr a~ "a result of the ac-
tiyity of many working ON the Taylor
murder mystery is that .hcrr are ten
rival squads who have been supplying
drugs to narcotic uddicts. II is said
one Of the rings gets the drugs from
CanHdu and the other Imports from
Mexico. So bitter have the rival fac
tions become in their quest for new
business. s!cutEs said, that active war
fare has been engaged in for weeks.
Laughter and screams and prayers
marked the funeral at Los Angeles of
William Desmond Taylor. murdered
motion picture director. A crowd of
30OOO-ulmOst ten times as many as
could be seated in st. Paul's Episcopal
o-cathedral-sought admittance, and
when that was denied to the vast ma
jority those left on the outside of the
structure jammed the streets and
overflOwed Pershing square, a small
downtown park. upon which the pro-
cathedral faces.
The Atchson. Topeka & Santa Fe
railway plans the expenditure of S43,-
10000 during 1922 for improvements,
according to announcement made in
San Francisco by President w. b. Sto-
rey. During 1921 the company spent
S35, 900, 900 OF the 1922 expenditures
500, 100000 will be for new work, in
Guiding sevcnty-five miles of second
track in Arizona, from Yampai to Grif-
fifth, according to Mr.. Storey. Eight
million will be spent for new equip.
ment and 81, 100000 for a new branch
line from Santanta, Kan.
WASHINGTON
The soldiers bonus would cost the
federal government approximately
81. 500, 100000 on the basis of esti-
mates prepared for the House ways
and means committee by fiscal Off
GERS of the army, navy and marine
corps.
Declaration was made recently by
Mai. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson of
the Third United States cavalry that
lie had sent a letter to President Hard
ing charging that the army is suf-
fering from reign of PrusSianiSm," !"
but at the White House and War De
partment it was said that no such let
ter had come to the department.
Establishment of a farm risk insur-
ance bureau which would insure grow
ing crops OF nonperishable products
against loss or damage resulting from
adverse weather conditions is pro
posed in a bill introduced by Repre-
sentative King, Republican, Illinois.
The bureau would have authority to
fix reasonable" premium rates. A re-
voivinG fund would be created for
payment of claims.
A legislative program contempIat-
ing ratificatiOns of the treaties grow
Ing out of the arms conference and
passage of the tariff, soldier bonus,
farm credit and merchant marine bills,
with adjournment of Congress about
June /, was said to have been agreed
upon at White House dinner confer
ence recently, in which President
Harding and members of the Senate
and House steering committees took
part.
A blow to senatorial dignity is not
soon forgotten. This was shown when,
in the midst of belated debate on the
Newberry election case, several SEN
ators arose and denounced the War
Department for placing the senate far
back, as they said, in the funeral pro
cessiOn for the unknown soldier last
Armistice day.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
Grand Valley reclamation project in
Colorado was included in the Interior
Departments appropriation bill re-
ported to the House appropriations
committee recently.