The Dolores star., 1922-03-31

Oregon'S capital punishment law
was upheld by the Supreme Court in
denying the application OF Elyie ID.
kerby. under death sentence in CON
nection with the murder Of Sheriff TIL
Taylor OF Umatilla county, for writ
of habeas corpus.
Two bandits walked into the office
Of the California theater. in the heart
of the downtown district of Los An
geles and robbed the office safe of the
days receipts, estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000. according to re
ports to the police.
The retrial of Madalynne Obenchain,
charged with the murder of ]. Bolton
Kennedy, her sweetheart, in Beverly
Glen, near Los Angeles, the night of
Aug. 5, last, will commence June 8.
The first trial of Mrs Obenchain re
suited in a disagreement Of the jury.
Miss Lydia Fricke of Klamath Falls,
Ore. Klamath county health nurse, is
recovering from a hazardous trip of
twenty-three miles on skis in q blind
ing snowStorm, which she undertook
for the relief of . destitute family in
the northern part of Klamath county,
Oregon.
An inspection tour of the section Of
the Colorado river including the site
of the proposed Boulder Canon dam
was made by Herbert Hoover, secre-
tary OF commerce, acting as chairman
of the Colorado River Commission. He
was accompanied by the governors Of
Arizona and Nevada and other off
cials.
Reckless automobile drivers of Spo-
kane Wash, and speeders hereafter
will go to the rock pile, which up to
the present has been operated for the
benefit of drunks and vagrants, Police
Judge Witt declared recently. "After
this, those going over thirty miles nm
hour get no sympathy-they get the
rock pile" he announced.
Robert Ford. II years old, was ac-
quilted of the murder of his step
father, c. 3. Smith, killed ut his home
In Worley, Idaho, last November, BY IA
jury which reported in District Court
at Coeur D'Alenee Idaho. Judge w. +.
Naughton adjudged the boy juvenile
delinquent and paroled him 10 the
custody of his mother.
Freight rates on coal from Wyo-
ming mines to Nevada points will be
reduced April % as follows, according
to announcement made by Union Pa
ciflc officials at Salt Lake City: Be
tween Montello and Winnemucca $3.50
a ton, compared with the present rate
of S6.37Is Winnemucca $3.50, present
rate S675; Reno S625, present rate
$7.12h.
WASHINGTON
When Raymond T. Baker retired as
director of the mint he turned over
10 c. E. Scobey, his successor. approx
nately one-third of the worlds gold
supply. The gold bullion and gold
coin held at the United States mints
at Philadelphia, Denver and San
Francisco and at the assay office in
New York on March l, totaled more
than $3,00O,OOOOOO. The worlds sup
ply amounts to about $1,000 100000.
clause in the army appropriation
Dill, which provides that by July the
number of regular army officers must
be reduced from approximately 1900
to 1000. has been approved by the
House.
The Senate supported its appropria-
tions committee, inserting in the an
nual postOffce appropriation bill an
item of $1,90O,0OO for continuation of
the New York-San Francisco air mail
route. Such an appropriation failed
In the House.
Approximately $500 aliens admitted
into the United States under temper
ary permits which expired March %
and left them liable to imme ediate de-
portation, have been given an indefi-
mite extension of time for their stay,
Commissioner General Husband of the
immigration bureau has announced
Coal operators who face the pros
pcct OF strike of their employees
A Aoril /, but who still refuse to enter a
national conference with the coal min
erse' union. are not controlled by
''mere madness. but determination to
cure a deep-seated disorder" George
Fl. Cushing managing director of the
American Wholesale Coal Association,
declared In an address before the
Washington City Club.
Waving the stern wand of economy,
Congress- is threatening to shrink the
United States navy to approximately
nine battIeships-half the number
with which it emerged from the Wash
Ington conference. That, in effect,
will be the result Of the threatened
cut to $1,000 men, according to naval
estimates.
The resolution of Senator Lodge,
Republican (Massachusetts), extend
ing for twenty-five years the loan of
$4,000, 900 made to Austria for famine
relief. has been adopted unanimously