The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-23
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIoN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OoiNcs 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 80
| 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 at 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
cials.
l AkUNAiCcS autOmOUllt uIiNcIS CpU-
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 an
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, G. B. Smith, Killed at his home
In Worley, Idaho, last November, by
jury which reported in District Court
at Occur D'Alene, Idaho. Judge w. F.
Naughton adjudged the boy juvenile
delinquent and paroled him to the
custody Of his mother.
John Bog, S4-year-old Indian, said to
be one Of the last surviving leaders of
the Nez Perce Indian war, died at
Koskia, Idaho, recently. Bog was a
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, 1t 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 letter
signed American Ukrainian Black
Hand, which was received at Washing
ton by Senator Willis. Republican, Of
Ohio, in an envelope postmarked
Cleveland, March 13. A list embracing
the Polish legation here and the Pol
ish consulate at New York City, Chi
cago, Detroit. Buffalo and Pittsburgh,
and at Winnipeg and Montreal, Can,
was embodied in the letter.
Cotton consumed during February
amounted to 473,073 bales of lint and
$500 bales of linters, compared with
395, ,115 Of lint and 81 7,5e5 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 DIR. Hubert
Work as member of his cabinet. DIR.
Work is the first medical man to en-
ter the cabinet since the administra-
tions Of Washington and Adams.
The Federal Reserve Board has ad-
vised the Kansas City Federal Reserve
Bank that 1t sees no objection to the
erection Of branch of that bank In
Denver, Colo. The Denver branch, 1t
was said, will probably cost about
$5O0,OOO. 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-half the number
with which it emerged from the Wash
ington conference. That, In effect,
will be the result of the threatened
cut to $4,000 men, according to naval
estimates.
The resolution Of Senator Lodge,
Republican (Massachusetts), extend
ing for twenty-five years the loan of