The Dolores star., 1922-07-21
CONDENSED RE EcoRO OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DoINGS. ACHIEVE
MENTs. suFFERINGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

WESTERN
A lone robber locked Miss Susanuah
Fair In closet of her home in Los
Angeles and made off with jeweiry and
other yaluables which Miss Fair told
the police were worth about $4,000.
He locked maid in the closet also.
The Union Pacific railroad will at
once begin the construction of thir
ty-five-mI,c branch line into Utah to
tap the rich section in southern Mil
lard county and the surrounding ter
ritory, according to an announcement
made at Union Pacific headquarters in
Omaha.
yerna Smith. daughter of Lee Smith,
who shot and killed his parents-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Kimmons and then
shot himself at the Kimmons home in
Eureka, Calf. told the police that she
teaped thirty feet from window of
the home to the ground to escape be-
ting killed also.
J. Lester Gaskiil OF Long Beach,
Calf. and Earl Furry of Oakland,
Calf. committed suicide in a rooming
house in Salt Lake City by using the
same pistol. The bodies were found in
adjoining rooms. Each left note ad-
dressed to their respective mothers,
saying that broken health prompted
the act.
Complaint has been filed with the
Department of Justice in Washington
IN behalf Of producers and shippers of
the Pacific coast against the alleged
activities of the Southern Pacific rail-
way in endeavoring to create senti-
ulent and action against the decision
Of the Supreme Court ordering disso-
tuition of the partnership of that road
with the Central Pacific"
Suffering from broken bones and
possible internal injuries. Miss Anna
Selian of San Francisco died while en-
route to hospital following an acci-
dent at Huntington Beach, near Los
Angeles, when she was struck by
landing passenger airplane The young
woman was coming out of the surf
when the big plane swooped down to
the beach to take on passengers.
WASHINGTON
recently in the Tampico Oil region. has
threatened to blow up oil pipe lines
and pumping stations unless he re-
ceives a payment of 5000 pesos, ac-
cording to a message from Consul
Shaw at Tampico to the State Depart
nent, reporting information received
from the British-owned La Corona
Company. The company said that Co.
rozave was making his headquarters
at the Pecare camp.
Charles A. Ritzman, general manag-
er Of the Disco Lighting Company of
Detroit, and a former captain in the
army, was sentenced In Criminal Court
to eighteen months in the penitentiary
for accepting a bribe of $500 to influ-
ences his action in connection with the
purchase Of skid chains for the army
while acting as officer in charge of
the maintenance division of the motor
transport corps during the war. He
noted an appeal and was released un-
der bonds of $1,000.
United Mine Workers representa-
tives after considering the coal strike
dent Harding summoned the general
policy committee of the union to Wash
ington to pass finally upon the pro-
posal.
The Republican agricultural-tariff
bloc got another setback in the Sen
ate. losing 33 to "a, its fight to make
dutlable imported vegetable oils, used
In, az 70 aptu nf
ducts. The Senate then, without roll
call, approved rates of cents pound
on cottonseed oil and soya bean oil,
and cents a pound on coconut oil and
peanut oil, where such oils enter into
the manufacture of edible commodi-
ties.
The Court Of Appeals has denied the
application of Charles W. Morse, his
three sons and eight others jointly in
dicted for conspiracy to defraud the
government In connection with war
contracts, for a special appeal from
the decision of the District Supreme
Court overruiIng demurrers filed
against the Indictment The Court of
Appeals held that no emergency ex-
tsted for granting a special appeal in
the case.
General improvement in crop condi-
tons along the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts and In the Northwest, east of
the Rocky mountains. was noted by the
Agricultural Department in Its crop
summary for the last half of June,
made public in Washington. Through
out the corn belt" the departments
observers found. small grains were
more or less" injured by the unusual
hot and dry weather. as were also
some crops In parts of the mountain
and Pacific coast regions. Irrigated