The Holly chieftain., 1922-12-07
4 BRIEF RxcoRp or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND ron.
ZION couhTRIEs.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
oo.Nes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
The club house Of the Montana
Country Club burned few days ago.
The loss will be at least $4,000. The
cause OF the fire is unknown. The
building, which Is on the golf links.
ten miles from Helena. was built only
two years ago.
w. G. McAdoo of Los Angeles, for
mer secretary of the treasury, was ar
rested in Tulare county, Calf, and
cited to appear before Judge ]. S.
Clack Of Fresno to answer to a charge
of speeding at the rate Of fifty-one
miles an hour.
Burned to death In straw pile was
the fate which overlook Grover Red
ellis, 2-year-old son of John Redells of
Hysham, near Billings, Mont. The lit
tie fellow was with two brothers, aged
s and Z, playing house in fifteen-foot
tunnel they had made into the straw
pile.
Theodore Schlierman of Nowata.
Okla, former mayor Of Liberty, Kan,
filed suit for $4,000 damages in Fed
eral Court at Fort Scott against the
city of Liberty and the COffeyyille Ku
Klux Klan organization. The suit is
the result of the flogging of Schiller
man by masked band recently.
Construction Of freight and passen-
ger cars to cost $12,0O0,000 has been
authorized by the Southern Pacific
Company, 1t has been announced by its
president, William Sproule. The equip
ment, including 4,525 freight cars and
141 passenger cars, is for use on the
company's Pacific system lines.
Signing of the Colorado River treaty
allocating the waters of the Colorado
River among the seven states of Wyo-
ming, Colorado. Utah, New Mexico,
Arizona, Nevada and California, was
denounced by Director Mark Rose of
the Imperial Valley irrigation district
as the worst thing that could happen
to the Imperial Valley"
Members o. the Colorado River Com
mission, through Commissioner Delphi
e. Carpenter Of Colorado and Col. j.
G. Scrugham, Nevada commissioner,
paid high tribute at the final meet
ing Of the commission at Bishop Lodge
In Santa Fe, to the work Of Chairman
Herbert Hoover and Executive Secre-
tary Clarence G. Stetson in bringing
about the final signing Of the seven
state river compact.
WASHINGTON
Representative James R. Mann Of
Illinois died at his home In Chicago q
few days ago Of pneumonia.
Former Representative Bartholdt of
Missouri called on President Harding
to urge that Congress make available
a credit of $50,00O,O0O for Germany to
be used in the purchase by that coun-
try Of goods In the United States.
There was no indication of how the
President received the proposal.
Another move against the Ku Klux
Klan was made in the House when
Representative Halves, Democrat, Mis-
souri,, introduced bill to prevent the
khan from sending unsigned communi-
cations through the mail. Hawes led
the fight against the Ku Klux Klan in
Missouri during the last campaign.
A Senate debate on the recent utter
ances of former Premier Clemenceau
of France took sensational turn
when negro wearing the uniform of
the United States army Interrupted
from the gallery speech by Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Demo-
crat Of the forelgn relations commit
tee, regarding alleged atrocities by
black French troops In Germany.
New York and New Jersey cities are
being flooded with liquor from the Ba-
hamas, Scotland and England, accord
Ing to Frank j. Hale, an Investigator
for the prohibition department in New
York City. He declared that steam
ship had cleared from Scotland recent
ly with 24,OOO cases of whisky bound
for the whisky armada camping
ground" four miles off the American
coast.
Senator La Toilette, Republican,
Wisconsin, declared in statement In
washington lhul IcpoItc cLuuudtluS
from Phoenix, Ariz., concerning a tel
ephone conversation with Governor
Hunt, were absolutely without foun-
dation in fact' and misleading in ev-
cry detail" He had made no mention
of "a third political party" In his con-
versatlon with the governor. Mr.. La
Toilette said.
Preventative methods, fresh air.
wholesome food and rest-long advo-
Gated by health authorities as the best
means to combat tuberculosis-are get
ding results. Mortality statistics for
1921, just completed by the census bu-
reau, show the trend Of the tubercu-
losis death rate is downward. In the
United States deaths from this disease
in 1921 were $4,000 fewer than in 1920,
and there has been u steady decline in
tuberculosis for several years. The