Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-02-23
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EioN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WEST1RN
More than 1000 cases Of influenza
were reported In California in one
week.
A warrant for the extradition Of
John J. Hastings, former banker of
Fargo. N. D.. and one time secretary
OF the Nonpartisan League Of North
Dakota, who 10 charged with en-.
bezxlement, has been issued in San
Francisco. Delay had been asked by
counsel for Hastings in order that he
might consider institution Of habeas
corpus proceedings.
> After intensive search, Investigation
and sleuthing, the mystery surround
ing the staying Of william Desmond
Taylor, famous film director, 10 as
dense and impenetrable as the night
he was slain, month ago. And
chances Of solution seem remote,
while as mass of clues, tips" and
scores Of theories have been checked,
little in the way Of evidence that
would serve to fasten the crime on any
individual has resulted.
Three Of the five persons arrested
in Mound Valley, Kan, in connection
with the kidnapping and robbery of II.
d. Bowles, Joplin, Mo-, motor driver,
pleaded guilty to highway robbery In
Circuit Court and were sentenced to
twenty-five years each In the peniten-
tiary. They were Mrs. James Kidd.
her son-in-law, Kenneth Hoyt, and
Clyde Booth. Mrs. Kidd, according to
police, said they planned to kill
Bowles, 60 to western Kansas and sell
his car. Hoyt and Booth denied they
intended to kill Bowles.
After six years spent in construc-
tion, the Alaskan railroad 10 now
ready for use, from sea level at Sc
ward, on Resurrection bay, northward
to Fairbanks, a distance Of 467 miles.
Fifty-two millions of dollars is the
total sum which has been expended to
date on the northern line and an addi-
tional $4,OOO.O0O will be needed for
bridges and other construction not es-
sentlal to the initial operation, ac-
cording to William Gerig, one of the
construction engineers, who has just
returned to Portland, Ore, from
Alaska.
WARRINGTON
Advances aggregating $472,O0O for
agricultural and livestock purposes in
Colorado and Wyoming were approved
by the War Finance Corporation
Sixteen hundred boys and 1884
girls, Is years old, In the United States
were listed as married In 1920. the
census bureau announced In state
ment presenting special analysis of
marital statistics. Thirty-two boys
and 400 girls Of the same age were
recorded us widowed or divorced.
Business conditions throughout the
country are better than they were
year ago In the view of treasury Off
cials who declared, however, that the
Improvement has been gradual and
there was no immediate prospect Of a
sudden pickup in business activities.
Some seasOnable activity might be
looked for in the spring. they asserted,
but in general only gradual better
ment was to be looked for.
Liquor imports during the past year
increased by nearly $1,5OO,00O as COM
pared with 1920, while shipments of
soft drinks into the country fell off by
more than 100000 during the
same period, according to for
eign trade reports made public by the
Commerce Department. During 1921
the total Of spirits, wines and malt
liquors imported aggregated $4,711 ,OOO
compared with $3,280, 600 In 1920, while
mineral waters and other beverages en-
tering the country amounted to $847,.
900 as against $589,OOO in 1920.
The green bug which was danger
Ously abundant" in parts Of the Mid
west last February, and the Hessian
fly, which threatened wheat in six
states, have been found by survey
by the Department Of Agri-
culture to be "very much reduced" this
year, w. r. Walton, entomOligist in
charge of cereal and forage insects in.
vestigatiOns has stated. Results of |
the survey, Mr.. Walton announced,
''shOw that In northern Texas and |
southern Oklahoma this pest is almost |
totally absent at present and no out
break of it need be feared there by the
wheat growers In the near future.
Resources of the national banks of
the country, exclusive Of ,rediscOunts,
to $19,42O,OOO,OOO at the
INST call on Dec. 81, showed an in.
crease Of $4O6,OOO,OOO over the prev
GUS call in September, according to
IN analysis issued by Comptroller of
he Currency Crlssinger. The condi-
ion of the national banks in Decem-
,er he described. as very satisfac-
Ory" and called attention to the fact
hat until September their resources
lad more or less steadily declined
rom their peak Of s22,711 100000 in
december 1910. !