The Raymer enterprise., 1922-03-23
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polhes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WESTERN

Scores Of guests escaped from upper
windows In their night clothes when
the Riverside hotel, the largest hotel
at Reno, was destroyed by fire re.
Gently.
ACHE Mccoy, prisoner at the Ore
gon state penitentiary, committed sui.
eide in his cell by hanging himself
with a bed sheet. Mccoy was about 30
years old.
Ellis Lewis Garretson. In 1920 imper.
ial potentate Of the order Of the Mys-
tic Shrine Of North America, died sud.
denly at his suburban home ut Taco
ma, Wash.
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.
Gals.
Reckless automobile drivers OF Sp0-
kane, Wash. and speeders hereafter
viii 20 to the rock pile. which up 10
the present has been operated for the
benefit Of drunks and vagran's, Police
Judge Witt declared recently. After
this, those going over thirty miles an
hour get no sympnthy--they get the
rock pile" he announced.
Robert Ford, II years old, was ac-
quilted of the murder of his step
father, c. Is. Smith. killed AT his home
In Worley, Idaho, last November, by
jury which reported In District Court
al Occur D'Alene, Idaho. Judge W. +.
Naughton adjudged the boy Juvenile
delinquent and paroled him to the
custody Of his mother.
John Bog, Si-year-old Indian, said to
be one OF the last surviving leaders Of
the Nez Pcrce Indian war, died at
Koskia, Idaho. recently Bog was Il
chief lieutenant to Old Joseph and to
Chief Joseph In battles with United
States troops. He was with Chief
Joseph during the memorable 1900
mile retreat OF the Nez Perce Indians
through Montana and Yellowstone
park,
When Edward Gilbert. mining ex.
pert, died at his home In Los Angeles
recently he widowed two wives, one
In Los Angeles and the other In Chi.
cago according to reports. Gilbert
was said to have disappeared from his
home In Chicago nineteen years ago.
Then, II is reported, he went to Mex.
leo, where he was married again. And
for seventeen years he kept the secret
Of his purported Chicago marriage
from his second spouse.
WASHINGTON
A threat to blow up every Polish
consulate in the United States and
Canada was contained in II letter
signed American Ukranian Black
Hand, which was received at Washing
ton by Senator willis, Republican, of
Ohio, In an envelope postmarked
Cleveland, March l3, A list embracing
the Polish legation here and the Poi.
ish consulate at New York City, Chi
cago. Detroit, Buffalo and Pittsburgh,
and at Winnipeg and Montreal, Can,
ophndind In tho iutfor
Cotton consumed during February
amounted to 473,073 bales of lint and
$500 bales Of liIRers, compared with
95,115 Of lint and 1885 of lInters
consumed In February last year, the
census bureau announced recently.
Customs inspectors at san Francis
co told Of another manner OF hiding
whisky on incoming ships. They To-
Gated and confiscated 224 bottles OF
Scotch whisky tied to the anchor OF
the steamship Melville Dollar.
The current issue Of the Journal Of
the American Medical Association
contains an editorial expressing the
qualification Of physicians that Presi-
dent Harding has named DR.. Hubert
Work as a member of his cabinet. Dr.
Work Is the first medical man to en-.
ter the cabinet since the admlnistra.
tions Of Washington and Adams.
The Federal Reserve Board has ad.
vised the Kansas City Federal Reserve
Bank that II sees no objection to the
erection OF branch Of that bank In
Denver. Colo. The Denver branch. II
was said, will probably cost about
100000. The board, 1t was explained,
is not required by law TO approve the
building plans Of reserve banks, but
generally these plans are discussed
with the board before work is started
Waving the stern wand of economy,
Congress is threatening to shrink the
United States navy to approximately
nine battleships-ha the number
with which II emerged from the Wash.
ington conference. That, In effect,
will be the result OF the threatened
cut to 6o,O0O men, according to naval
estimates.
The resolution Of Senator Lodge,
Republican (Massachusetts), extend
ine for twenty-five years the loan of
Soooo0Oo0 uads to Austria for famine
relie1, has bssn adoptsd uaanimously
By ne eenaie End ssnt 10 the House.