, 1922-02-16
NEWS TO Date
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Ne..pnper Union News serrlssl
WESTERN

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washed out recently and train service
was held up in many places MS II result
of heavy rains.
The San Francisco court mas set
March u as the date for starting the
third trial of Roscoe {. U'atty) Ar
buckle, motion picture star, on a
charge of mansluughter in connection
with the death of Miss Virginia Ruppe.
motion picture actress. Both previous
trial ended in disagreements.
Riverside, where, ii is claimed, polo
was first played in California, is hay
ing a marked revival of interest in the
game, with two clubs active. One or
ganizatiOn, the Riverside Polo and
liaclng Club. is playing weekly gnmes
and has arranged for II tournament in
which Santa Barbara. Coronado, Den,
yer and other teams will compete.
Alexander Howat and August
Dorchy. deposed president and vice
president of district fourteen, United
Mine Workers, have been released
from he county Jail at Columbus.
Kan. The $1,000 peace bond in which
they agree to call no more strikes in
the Kansas coal fields was signed and
has been approved by District Judge
Boss.
One of the interesting features said
to have been disclosed in the Holly
wood night life as n result of the ac-
tivity of many working on the Taylor
murder mystery is that there are ten
rival squads who have been supplying
drugs to narcotic addicts. 1t is said
one of the rings gets the drugs from
Canada and the other imports from
Mexico. So bitter have the rival fac
tons become in their quest for new
business, sleuths said, that active war
fare has been engaged in for weeks.
Laughter and screams int prayers
marked the funeral at Los Angeles of
William Desmond Taylor, murdered
motion picture director. A crowd of
30,0OO-almost ten times as many as
could be seated in ST. Paul's Episcopal
pro-cathedral-sought admlttance, and
when that was denied to the vast ma.
jority those left on the outside Of the
structure jammed the streets and
o~verflowed Pershing square, a small
downtown park. upon which the pro
cathedral faces.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway plans the expenditure of S43,-
10000 during 1922 for improvements,
according TO announcement made In
San Francisco by President w. Il. Sto-
rey. During 1921 the company spent
S35,000,0O0. OF the 1922 expenditures
$22,0o0,0o0 will be for new work, in
Guiding seventy-five miles of second
track in Arizona, from Yampai to Grit
fifth, according to Mr.. Storey. Eight
million will be spent for new equip
ment and $1,40O,OO0 for Il new branch
line from Santanta, Kan.
WASHINGTON
The soldiers bonus would cost the
federal government approximately
81 00,0 100000 on the basis of esti
mates prepared for the House ways
and means committee by fiscal off
GERS of the army, navy and marine
corps.
Declaration was made recently by
Mai. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson OF
the Third United States cavalry that
he had sent a letter 10 President Hard.
ing charging that "the army is sui.
fering from n reign of P~russlnnism. u
but Mt the White House and War De
partment II was said that no such let.
ter had come to the department.
Establishment of a farm risk insur.
ance bureau which would insure grow
ing crops of nonperlshable products
against loss or damage resulting from
adverse weather conditions is pro.
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sentative King, Republican, Illinois.
The bureau would have authority 10
fix reasonable premium rates. A re-
volving fund would be created for
payment of claims.
A legislative program contemplate
ing notifications of the treaties grow
ing out OF the arms conference and
passage Of the tariff, soldier bonus,
farm credit and merchant marine bills,
with adjournment of Congress about
June 1, was said to have been agreed
upon at n White House dinner confer.
ence recently, in which President
Harding and members OF the senate
and House steering committees tool
part.
A blow to senatorial dignity is not
oon forgotten. This was shown when,
in the midst Of belated debate on the
Newberry election case, several sen
ators arose and denounced the War
Department for placlng the senate far
back, as they said, in the funeral pro
cesslon for the unknown soldier last
Armistice day.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
Grand Valley reclamation project in
Colorado was included In the Interior
Departments appropriation bill re-
ported TO the House appropriations
committee recently.