, 1922-05-18
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOlNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN
western Newspaper Union News s.rics.l

WESTERN
With the exception of the San Juan
region, Colorado missed the heaviest
part of the storm that recently swept
Wyoming, South Dakota and parts of
Nebraska.
Burglars recently entered the station
Of the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific
railroad ut Anaconda and escaped with
$500 in money and a number of bank
railroad tickets.
Mrs. Clara NJ. Gage, widow of Ar
thur N. Gage, wealthy resident of
Pasadena, is forbidden to remarry by
the terms of Cages will, filed in the
Probate Court at Los Angeles. If she
~disobeys, her share of the large es-
tate will go to her husbands half
brother, Walter Il. Gage.
Mrs. Frank Lokaijeck, wife of the
vice president of the Denton State
bank of Lewistown, Mont, shot and
killed both her ~13-year-old son and
her 3-year-old SON.. She then went out
in the field where her husband was
running a seeder. shot him in the head
and he fell from the machine uncon-
scious.
Warm spring weather has caused the
treams in cahons adjacent to Salt
Lake City to overflow their banks and
in the Sugar House district easements
are flooded and homes, in many in
stances are completely surrounded by
water. There has been no danger to
residents, but property damage is ex-
pected to reach approximately $780,
900.
Governor Neff of Texas has ordered
two d~etachments of state rangers to
be SEN to Fairfield, county seat of
F%reestone county, to prevent an upris-
ing of negroes which Sheriff w. NJ.
Mayo of Freestone county said was i'm
minent. The sheriff said the negroes
of the county are threatening to
avenge the death of the three negroes
who were burned Mt Kirvin.
WASHINGTON
A little black steamer has headed
for the sea on the first leg of her run
10 the British Isles, where, off Kin
sale Head, she will attempt to recov-
er gold, silver and jewels which went
down with the Lusitania seven years
ago. The vessel was the Blakely Of
the shipping boards wartime fleet.
The Chinese government has ratified
the Washington conference treaties to
which China was signatory, and the
Shantung treaty, negotiated during the
conference with Japan, according to
advices received by the Chinese lega-
tion ut Washington. Thee difference
treaties to which China was signatory
are the general Chinese policies pact
and the convention on Chinese Gus
toms.
The report OF the special treasury
committee which made an inventory
of the supplies and equipment of the
bureau of printing and engraving fol-
lowing the recent reorganization of
the bureaus personnel, is understood
to be a substantial vindlcation of the
declaration by treasury officials that
no material output of illegal bond,
note Or stamp Issues had taken place
within recent years.
The National Amateur Athletic Fed
Grafton was organized at Washington
by representatives Of many leading
athletic organizations to promote more
wholesome sports In America. The
action was taken at the suggestion
first made by Secretary OF war Weeks
before the American Olympic Associa-
ton last November.
The Eighth United States infantry
will be kept on the Rhine until the lat
ter part of June at least, Secretary of
War Weeks indicated in n letter re-
Gently to Senator Harris, Democrat,
Georgia. THE exact date of the ar
rival OF the last units of the regiment
at Savannah, where Il celebration of
Its return has been planned, can not
yet be determined" Weeks stated.
An upward trend In the retail cost
OF food was noted in statistics made
public by the bureau of labor statls-
tics OF the Department Of Labor. Re.
ports from fifteen cities showed In
creases from March 10 to April 10.
ranging up to 3 per cent, while only
four reported decreases and only one
Of these. Fall River, with . per cent,
showing more han one-half Of / per
cent decline.
President Harding has asked Con-
gress for an appropriation Of $1,000
600 for survey and designing OF n
dock at Juneau, Alaska, the War De-
partment reporting the construction of
Il new dock there would materially re-
duee operating costs and shipping de-
lays.
The experiment OF dccentrnllzlng the
work of Internal revenue headquarters,
which will be made.in the -four Pacific
coast cities OF Portland, Los Angeles,
Tacoma and San FraneIseo nrnhohlv