The Raymer enterprise., 1922-03-30

Ahe ieuAi VI Aduaiyuht oDeuChhii,
charged with the murder Of J. Belton
Kennedy, her sweetheart, In Beverly
Glen, near Los Angeles, the night Of
Aug. 5, last, will commence June s.
The first trial Of Mrs. Obenchain 70.
suited In disagreement Of the jury.
Miss Lydia Fricke Of Klamath Falls,
Ore. klamath county health nurse. Ia
recovering from hazardous trip Of
twenty.three miles on axis In blind.
Ing snowstorm, which she undertook
for the relief of q destitute family In
the northern part Of Klamath county.
Oregon.
Los Angeles police are seeking a
person believed to have stolen $500
from Mrs. Jessie W. Taylor when she
tainted on the street. She had just
drawn the money from the bank in
500 bills. A number Of persons rushed
10 her aid. When she regnined con
sciousness the money was missing.
One man was killed and five injured
In the third explosion Of the last
seventeen days at the 4. l. DUPONT De
Nemours and Company plant at Du-
Pont, near Tacoma, Wash. A deni-
tratlng recovery building was wrecked
The explosion resulted from the ignI.
tlon Of several pounds Of nitroglycerln
June has been set for the depar.
ture from Seattle Of Captain Road
Amundsen's Arctic expedition, II. H.
Hammer, Captain Amundsen's agent.
has announced. With this ship, the
Maud, the explorer expects to drift
past the North Pole with the Arctic
Ice pack and TO make scientific obser-
vutions over wide area In the Polar
basin.
James 0gls, serving a life sentence
in the state penitentlary at Salem,
Ore, for the murder Of George Per
ringer and Newton Burgess AT the
Claremont tavern, near Portland, dur.
ing robbery two years ago, was shot
to death In the court yard OF the iso-
lation ward Of the prison by, John Da-
wilson, a guard The attempt Of Ogle
TO make good repeated threats to Kill
his guard unless he was released from
the isolation ward, where he has been
confined for nearly year, was re-
sponsible for the shooting, according
to prison officials.
WASHINGTON
Coal operators who face the pros.
pect OF n strike OF their employees
April !, but who still refuse to enter n
national conference with the coal min
erse' union. are not controlled by
mere madness, but a determination to
cure n deepseated disorder George
II. Gushing. managing director Of the
American Wholesale Coal Association,
declared In mn address before the
Washington City Club.
When Raymond T. Baker retired as
director OF the mint he turned over
10 c. Z. Scobey, his successor, approx.
n.ately one-thlrd Of the worlds gold
supply. The gold bullion and gold
coin held at the United States mints
at Philadelphia. Denver and San
Francisco and at the assay office in
New York on March l, totaled more
than $8,000,0 100000. The worlds sup.
ply amounts to about $4,000, 100000.
! The House naval committee agreed
TO report a bill fixing the maximum
authorized enlisted strength OF the
navy at $1,000 plus 5000 apprentices,
or 10000 less than the number Of Sec
retary DENLY declared was needed to
operate the treaty fleet
II was learned at the White House
recently that the President and his
cabinet had discussed the Colorado
river project In its various phases and
had determined that, pending a settle
ment OF the water rights matter, there
shall be no more grants Of water pow.
or franchises. Further grants will be
withheld until the commission now
considering the subject shall have re-
ported and congressional setlon taken
The American government has sent
10 the allied powers another note sup
plcn entail TO that recently dispatched
and designed to support It's claim for
equality with those powers In the
payment Of costs arising from the
Rhineland occupation. The new note
declared that whether or not there
should be a deficit In the French nc.
count for Its occupation army costs as
Of May /, 1921, the claim for equality
on the part Of the United States would
not thereby be affected.
The sixty-eight destroyers of the Pa.
cifIc feet ordered out Of commission
By June 80, will be stored at the de-
stroysr base, San Diego, Calf, while
the twenty-five "decommIssioned" de.
sfroyers Of the Atlantic fleet will 90 to
tie Philadelphia navy yard, under or.
ders approved By Secretary DENLY.
Oresons capital punishment law
vas upheld by the Supreme Court in
6enying the application Of Elvle d.
Kerby, under death sentence in con.
nection with the murder Of Sheriff Til
Taylor of Umatilia county, for wrii
4 habeas corpus.