, 1922-03-23

Scores of guests escaped from upper
windows in their night clothes when
the riverside hotel, the largest hotel
at Reno, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently.
ACHE Mccoy, prisoner at the Ore
gon state penitentiary, committed sui
eide in his cell by hanging himself
with a bed sheet. Mccoy was about 80
years old.
Ellis Lewis Garretson, in 1920 imper-
lal %potentate of the order of the Mys-
tic Shrine of North America, died sud
denly Mt his suburban home at Taco
ma, Wash.
Customs inspectors at San Francis
co told of another manner of hiding
whisky on incoming ships. They To-
Gated and confiscated 224 bottles of
Scotch whisky tied to the anchor of
the steamship Melville Dollar.
An automobile equipped with
Hanged wheels to operate on railroad
tracks and carrying a cargo of bot
tied liquor, was ousted into the ditch
near Spokane, Wash, by n Great
Northern extra freight train. The train
crew reported that two men in the au-
tomobile took to the woods through
twenty inches of snow. The car was
en- route from the Canadian border.
John Bog, ~S4-year-old Indian, said to
be one of the last surviving leaders of
h Nez Perce Indian war, died at
Koskia, Idaho, recently. Bog was a
ahfaf 1antanarf 60 nII J.-,.l ,,l a..
Chief Joseph in battles with United
States troops. He was with Chief
Joseph during the memorable 1000
mile retreat of the Nez Perez Indians
through Montana and Yellowstone
park.
When Edward Gilbert, mining ex-
pert, died at his home in Los Angeles
recently he widowed two wives, one
in Los Angeles and the other In Chi
cago, according to reports. Gilbert
was said to have disappeared from his
home in Chicago nineteen years ago.
Then, it Is reported, he went to Mex
leo, where he was married again. And
for seventeen years he kept the secret
of his %purported Chicago marriage
from his second spouse.
WASHINGTON
The comptroller of the currency is
sued n call for the condition of all ma
tional banks at the close OF business
Friday, March 10.S
By a vote of 80 to 81, the House
passed n bill appropriating 81 900, 900
TO buy seed grain for farmers in
northwestern states who lost their
crops in recent drouths.
Cotton consumed during February
amounted to 473,073 bales of lint and
$500 bales of linters, compared with
395,115 of lint and 1855 of linters
consumed in February last year, the
census bureau announced recently.
The Supreme Court dismissed the
writs OF error by which Alexander
Howat and other labor leaders sought
TO have reviewed the decision of the
Kansas state courts holding them
guilty of contempt OF court for their
refusal to appear before the Court of
Industrial Relations.
American exports for February
amounted to $251, 000,0 00, rs compared
with $27s, s72.5 SOC for January, and i'm
ports last month were valued at S2l7,-
100000, as compared with imports of
S217 ,105, 100 the previous month, ac-
cording to the foreign trade survey is
sued by the Department of Commerce.
The Federal Reserve Board has ad-
vised the Kansas City Federal Reserve
Bank that II sees no objection TO the
erection of a branch of that bank In
Denver, Colo. The Denver branch. 1t
was said, will probably cost about
100000. The board. 1t was explained,
Is not required by law to approve the
building plans OF reserve banks, but
generally these plans are discussed
with the board before work is started.
A threat to blow up every Polish
consulate In the United States and
Canada was contained In "A letter
signed American Ukraininn Black
Hand, which was received at Washing
ton by Senator willis, Republican, of
Ohio, In an envelope postmarked
Cleveland. March 10. A list embracing
the Polish legation here and the Pol
ish consulate at New York City, Chi
cago. Detroit. Buffalo and Pittsburgh,
and at Winnipeg and Montreal, Can,
was embodied in the letter.
Officials of the public health serv-
Ice announced their sanction OF the
continued observance OF May II. ami
yersary OF the birth OF Florence Night
ingale, as national hospital day. The
service viii Join In urlng the public to
visit hospitals an that day as an edu-
cational demonstration in the interest
of better health.
The resolution OF Senator Lodge,
Republican tMassachusetts), extend
ing for twenty-five years the loan OF
s50,000.0o0 made to Austria for famine
relief, has been adopted unanimously
nv thu Senate and sent TO the House.