The Dolores star., 1922-11-24
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
Do,NGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

the Gulf of California at La Bomba.
a Mexican port ut the junction Of the
Colorado river and the gulf. thirty
five miles south of CaleNico, Calf.
Because he declared that he bought
all the food he needed for cents u
day, Arthur Belour is being held by
Spokane police as an insanity suspect
Beiour had S6T2.SJ in his pockets
when apprehended, which he said was
his savings rs result of frugal living.
They came 10 their death from gun
shot and knife wounds inflicted by
Hjalmar Anderson" was the verdict
returned by coroner's jury which
held an inquest over the bodies of
Tansy Bolton, "a years old, and Mrs.
]. 4. O'Brien. 3S, who were killed in
"A cabin at Copalis beach, twenty miles
west of Hoaquiam, Wash.
Mutiry charges against five mem
were dismissed in the United States
commissioners Court ut San Francis
co after it developed that the disturb
anccs that brought the vessel back to
San Francisco after she had put out
for Grays harbor was merely Il
drunken brawl."
Kansas opened a legal fight on the
Ku klux Klan when custer proceed
ings were filed in the State Supreme
Court at Topeka by the attorney gen
eral under the direction of Gov. Henry
J. Allen. The custer proceedings are
directed against the Knights of the X
X. X, a Georgian corporation, and
against officers of the klan in Kan
Sas
Twenty-Five years of almost contin-
uOus effort to bring the main line 10
Boise" ended in conditional victory
through Boise's acceptance of the of
fer of the Oregon Short Line to build
Il railroad line from Orchard to the
capital city. The railroad company
will spend approximately S3,20O,OOO in
and near Boise TO comply with its end
Of the contract.
With seventy-five delegates from
all parts CT the Rocky Mountain re-
gion and the Pacific in attendance, the
Northwest mining section of the Ma
tional Safety Council has just closed
at Butte. Speakers emphasized the
statement that metal mining was the
least dangerous of all the hazardous
Industries, pointing out that of the
$4,000 accidental deaths in the United
States last year, only 10000 were at
tributable to industry, Of these only
a small fraction occurred In mining.
WASHINGTON
The United States Supreme Court
has held that Liberty bonds held by
national banks are taxable by the
states for state purposes. An appeal
brought by the Peoples bank of King
fisher, Okla, from a lower court de
cision that national banks are not
entitled to deduct from their capital,
surplus and undivided profits in pay
ing state taxes. money invested in
Liberty bonds and other forms of tax
exempt securities was dismissed by
the Supreme Court on the authorities
cited.
A plot to smuggle ammunition Into
Fortress Monroe, Fort Storey and
Camp Eustis was unearthed recently
at Norfolk, Va. by postal Inspectors
Large boxes of rifle cartridges were
found In mail cars bound for each
place United States agents are puz-
zled One man is held for questioning.
Shipments were made from a house in
Norfolk.
The star of woman suffrage reached
its highest ascendency in American
history when Mrs. W. II. FELTON,, the
grand old lady of Georgia." won her
fight for a seat for day as the first
woman senator Mrs. FELTON, won her
senatorship when chivalry triumphed
over legality A single objection from
any one of the ninety-five male SEN
her seat.
Frankly recognizing at the outset
the formidable opposition to the ad-
ministration's ship program, President
Harding went in person before a joint
session of Congress and sought, by the
sheer force of business logic and patri-
otic appeal, to impress upon the ma
tons lawmakers the urgent need for
enacting the Harding-Lasker ship sub
sdy bill without further delay.
A vigorous assault upon the Ku
Klux Klan was made by Secretary of
the Navy DENLY in an address before
tile national convention of the Order of
the Eastern Star in Washington. Al
thought he did not mention the Ku
Klux Klan by name, the secretary left
no doubt that 1t was that organization
to which he referred.
Truman Fl. Newberry of Michigan,
whose right to place in the Senate
has been subject of long and bitter
controversy, has submitted his resig-
nation with request that 1t become
effective Immediately.