The Holly chieftain., 1922-05-25
CONDENSED ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. ooINes, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERiNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN
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WESTERN
Prohibition Director Samuel F. Rut-
ter of San Francisco. announces he
will request Attorney General Daugh-
erty to frame national law with
most stringent restrictions on the
carrying of firearms.
Mrs. ]. T. Hazard of Seattle escaped
without serious injury and seven other
persons were unhurt when the eight
members of the Mountaineers, an or
ganization of mountain climbers, were
swept by an avalanche of snow 400 feet
down Mcclellan $ butte in the Cascade
mountains recently.
The east end of Riverside county,
Calf. consisting of about 10000 acres
of fine farm lands. was flooded recent
ly as result of break in the levee
of the Colorado river at Hauser Bend,
short distance from Ripley The
town of Ripley was said to be under
four feet of water.
Authorization for immediate action
toward the merger of the Salt Lake
and Denver Railroad Company, and
the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad
Company. the latter of Colorado, has
been made by directors of the ~ormer
road. Simon hamburger. general man.
ager, announced at Salt Lake.
Establishment of union stockyards
in Los Angeles with a full complement
of packing houses and by-products
plants has been assured through the
purchase by group of Chicago men
of PAT acres Of land In the southeast
ern part Of the city, according to a
story the Los Angeles Times published
recently.
Rodolph Valentino, hero of the
screen. is free under $4,000 bond, fac
ing trial on charge of bigamy us
result Of his romantic marriage in
Mexico to Winifred Hadnut, daughter
of wealthy New York perfumer. with
out awaiting the formality of final
decree of divorce from Jean Acker, his
first wife.
Fred A. Knox. rancher, was instant
ly killed In roundup staged at
Grants Pass, Ore. Knox was engaged
In catching horse. which had thrown
Its rider. His own horse became un-
manageable and ran beneath large
oak tree with low branches. two of
which hit Knox In the head killing
him Instantly.
The death Of Hiram B. Adams near
Loio Hot Springs, in Missoula coun-
ty. Is the first death this year in
Montana from spotted fever. accord
Ing TO reports received by the State
Board Of Health. The disease Is
caused by the bite Of an infected
woodttck. Nine cases have been re-
ported to the board this year.
WASHINGTON
The McKellar resolution directing
an inquiry into the causes of increes-
Ing prices Of gasoline would be broad
ened so that the Senate Investigating
committee could employ attorneys and
summon witnesses and records under
substitute resolution introduced by
Senator La Toilette, Republican, Wis
consin. chairman of the manufactures
committee, which will htte charge Of
the inquiry.
An army of 100000 men with an av-
eragc officer strength for next year Of
approximately 1850 has been agreed
upon by the Senate appropriation sub
committee which has charge of the
| measure.
Steps are being taken by the gov
ernment to forstall tendencies toward
rising prices of bituminous coal at the
mines it was said Mt the White House.
1t is stated Secretary of Commerce
Hoover has the investigation and ac-
ton in charge.
Acceptance by the government OF
Henry Fords offer for development of
the Muscle Shoals projects was recon-
mended to members Of the Senate agri-
cultural committee in conference In
| Washington by Thomas A. Edison, who
recently surveyed the Alabama prop
ties in company with the Detroit man
ufacturer.
President Harding was asked in a
memorial presented to him recently by
Thomas i. Flaherty, secretary of the
National Federation of Postoffice
Clerks to assist in obtaining proper
observance" of the postal eight-hour
law. Mr.. Flaherty said that many
clerks in the large postoffices were
working ten hours daily.
Approval of twenty-nine advances
for agricultural and live stock pur-
poses aggregating S676,OOO, has been
announced by the War Finance Cor
poration. Distribution of the loans in
cluded: Colorado, s245,0O0 Idaho,
10000: Kansas, $4,000; Minnesota,
$4,000; Nebraska, $4,000; New Mexi-
co, $1,000; Oklahoma, $21 1000, and
Texas, $4,000.
Without roll call the House voted
II special fund Of half million dollars
for use by the Department Of Justice