The Holly chieftain., 1922-08-03
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EvENTo IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN cou TRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
cS THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Three small boys, the children of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Ajax, were drowned
when the automobile in which they
were passengers with their parents,
backed off the st. Johns ferry at the
east side of the Willamette river at
Portland. Ore.
| Mrs. Il. w. Meyer, Il nurse, was Ia
tally brrrc in attempting to rescue
Mrs. Lincoln Wilson, a patient, when
the San Francisco city hospital at
GrOveland, maintained in connection
with the construction of the Hetch
Hetchy water project, burned to the
ground r~-ently.
Lives of scores were imperiled re-
Gently as the Japanese steamer Hawaii
Maru collided during dense fog with
the Puget Sound passenger steamer
from Seattle. The Calista sank with
in ten minutes after the accident. All
the Calista's passengers and crew
were saved.
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former positions in the newspaper and
| job departments of the Billings Ga
zette. according to an announcement.
Printers in the newspaper department
have been on strike since May /, while
those in the job office have been out
for more than a year. The press
rooms are included in the settlement.
Report was confirmed by w. ].
O'ConnOr, assistant manager of the
| American Smelling and tefining Com
pany's smelter at East Helena, Mont,
that the wage scale at the plant would
be increased SO cents day. The
smelter will thus be paying the same
scale which will prevail in other places
! in Montana for similar work, said Mr..
O'Connor.
Isadore r. Eidelstein, alleged by To-
cal police to be notorious safe bur-
glar, with long criminal record. is
| accused of having burglarized, single
handed, eighty vaults In the Paulsen
building at Spokane In a first-degree
burglary warrant sworn out by Detec-
tive Chester Edwards. There are now
out for the arrest of the vault robber
and the recovery of stolen bonds. re-
wards aggregating $9,5O0.
WASHINGTON
| While Industries are now crippled
by the lack of coal, the average domes-
tic consumer will not feel the pinch of
shortage for at least thirty days, 1t
was said by Secretary of Commerce
Hoover after survey of available
supplies.
Former President Wilson, "as an
| American citizen and as native of
Virginia." has written Commonwealth
Attorney Thomas Fl. Lyon of Manas-
sas, Va, thanking him for the part
he took recently In saving Alvin Har-
ris, a negro, from mob.
Secretary Hughes has been author
lied by President Harding to enter In
to negotiations with the principal mar
itime nations of the world with the
view to holding a conference in the
United States for discussion of
means of preventing oil pollution of
navigable waters. especially In import
ant harbors.
Carrying orders to eject forcibly II
necessary representatives of the Mu.
tual Oil Company from the Teapot
dome naval oil reserve in Wyoming,
Capt. George Shuler and four enlisted
men of the marine corps left WASH
ington recently for point forty miles
from Casper, where the company is
drilling well.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has declared that an emergency
exists in transportation in territory
east of the Mississippi river, which re-
quired it to direct the routing of ship
ments of all essential commodities and
to fix preference and priority for the
movement of food, perishable products,
coal and other fuel, and live stock.
| Vice President Coolidge left WASH
ington recently for Boston, starting a
trip that will occupy two or three
weeks and take him to the Pacific
coast. The vice presidetn plans to
leave soon for San Francisco, where
he will address the American Bar As
ISOLATION convention Aug. 10. The
present itinerary Of Mr.. Coolidge calls
for visits to Portland, Ore, and Seat
tie, but no speeches are planned. He
will return east through Canada with
out making any stops.
| Whether the administration tariff
bill will be enacted before the Novem-
ber elections has again become the
subject of private discussion at the
capitol. There Is more or less gen.
eral belief now in the Senate that the
measure cannot be brought to final
vote in that body before Sept. Is, and
there are those who believe the iron
ing out Of differences between the SEN
ate and the House in conference Will
| he Such n slow and tedjOus nrococo