The Dolores star., 1922-11-03
CONDENSED REC 70 OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. poINGS, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

w ESTEEM
y giant magnet was used by DR..
Nesmith Nelson to remove .22-caliber
bullet from the eye of Iden Wade.
young son Of Hammond Wade of
Brainerd, Mimi, who was injured
while playing with the cartridge
Herbert Wilson, former evangelist,
alleged mail robber and convicted mur-
derer. who few days ago led break
from the Los Angeles county Jail, will
continue to plot and plan to get his
liberty" according TO newspaper men.
ZOlla Marilla, who said he is a bust
ness man of Casper, Wyo., was held
up, bound. gagged, hanged by his
heels from the limb Of Il tree over a
creek bed near the highway between
Salinas and San Juan. Cal. and
robbed
NJ. G. Craig, former general paSSen-
ger agent of the Louisville Nashville
railroad, shot himself while seated on
the rail Of the Puget Sound passenger
steamer BremertOn, according 10 of
ficers OF the steamer. The body top
pied into Puget sound and was not re
covered.
Authorities at Laramie. Rawlins and
Green River, Wyo., have been enlisted
by Warden James Johnston of San
Quentin penitentiary in search for
Ralph Palmer, youthful Jewel bandit.
who made his fourth escape from the
hands OF the law while en- route to San
Quentin, Calf, from New York.
Portland police, augmented by extra
squads, We're on duty recently against
an invasion" of Industrial Workers of
the World. who, according to a state
ment published by Mayor George l..
Baker, have selected Portland rs a
center for the beginning of trouble in
tended ultimately to assume the pro-
portions of revolution"
Madame" Edith Mazda Lassing,
charged with having advocated over
throw of ''capitdistic' government and
civil marriage, was sentenced by Judge
benjamin +. Bledsoe of the United
States District Court at Los Angeles to
serve two years in the state refOrma-
tory for women at Leeds, No, after
jury found her guilty of sending indie
cent matter through the mails.
WASHINGTON
Eight hundred thousand barrels of
fine old whisky remains in bond guard
ed by the government.
Federal reserve banks have been au-
thorized by Secretary Mellon to re-
deem in cash, beginning Oct. % and
before Dec 10, treasury certificates of
Indebtedness of series I'd 1922, dated
Dec 10, 1921, and series TD2 1922,
dated June /, 1872, and both maturing
Dec. Is next Redemption will be at
par and accrued interest to the date
of redemption.
Retail food costs for the average
family during September were approx
imately ] per cent lower than during
the department of labor has
reported. The conclusion was based
on reports of prices gathered at retail
markets in fifty-One important cities.
During the year since September, 1921,
the report said, the decrease in retail
food prices has amounted to 0 per
cent, but since September, 1913, there
has been an increase of sc per cent.
Expenditures totaling more than
$50, 600 for the immediate relief of the
refugees in the near east were author
lied by the American Red Cross.
a campaign to discourage the use of
small-siZed Christmas cards and envel-
opes has been inaugurated by the Post
office Department. Small sized cards
and envelopes, it is declared, are re
sponsible for incalculable delay during
the Christmas rush of postal business.
Because of their miniature size they
cannot be run through the cancelling
making it necessary to do
this work by hand, as well as requir-
ing extra handling in facing and dis
tribution.
Tentative plans for an attempted
flight of army airpanes around the
world have been under consideration
for some months by air service Off
cials, but the project has not as yet
passed the preliminary survey stage.
Valuable data on available routes in
both directions has been obtained,
however. and ultimately it is hoped to
send considerable aerial squadron
on the voyage. The project will not
be laid before Secretary Weeks for ap-
proval. It was said, until it takes
much more definite form.
The United States Coal Commission,
created by Congress to investigate and
report the facts on all phases of the
coal industry, with recommendations
for possible legislation or government
regulation, at its first meeting in
organized by electing
John Hays Hammond as chairman
and laid out a program for future op-
Grafton.
The resignation of William K. Day
as aSsofd a to iuatica oF fha c,,n,o,,o