The Raymer enterprise., 1922-07-06
CONDENSED RECORD or THE
PROGRESS or EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, N6s, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS or MANKIND.
WESTERN

Ruth Hathaway, %, a prisoner In the
Butte Jail on vagrancy charge, was
found almost dead Of strangulation
after she had tied a shoestring around
her throat and twisted the knots.
Selection Of the Finlen site at Butte.
Mont, was announced by the citizens
hotel committee as location Of q 81.
100000 hotel for which company Is
being organized. The available ground
Ia 1873 by 1872 feet. including the site Of
the present Flnlen hotel, one Of the
pioneer houses Of the city.
"F1agrant effort has been made in
an anonymous way to mislead the pub
lie into the belief that the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company ls attempt
ing to override the decision Of the Su-
preme Court Of the United States"
said william sproule, president Of the
Southern Pacific railroad. recently, at
Salt Lake City.
Mrs. Lydia Adams Williams, asplr-
ant for the Republican nomination for
United States senator from Nevada,
has taught her male oponents a new
political maneuver and her tactics are
arousing lively Interest. The feminine
senatorial candidate is following the
circus companies across the state and
In this way finds opportunities to ad-
dress large audiences
President Harding has commuted
the sentence Of two more political
prisoners and ordered their release
from the Leayenworth prison, where
they were held for wartime offenses,
II was learned at the White House re-
Gently. They are Clyde Hough OF
Rockford, Ill.,, serving fIfteen-year
sentence as conscientious objector,
and Vincent 81. John. nationally
known ten years ago as secretary.
treasurer OF the I. W. W.
WASHINGTON
The use OF radio to cure the exter.
nal manifestations Of cancer was ex.
pIaIned recently by DR.. r. Howard
Plank Of Chicago before the National
Society Of Physical Therapeutics,
After an aIl.dsy fight the House
passed bill to continue certain pub
lie land offices which under legislation
enacted this session would have been
closed July I. The House, by a vote Of
lis to 8s. amended the Senate bill to
continue the offices ut Bellefourche,
8. D., waterville, Wash. Dickinson,
~ D.: Waterville, Wash. Dickinson,
N. D.; Del Norte and Sterling, Colo.
Clayton and Fort Sumner. n. NJ. TIar-
rison and Camden, Ark, and Alliance,
Neb. II struck from the bill provisions
by the Senate for the continuance of
offices at Timber Lake and Lennon,
T. D.: Willlston and Mino. y. -.
Broken Bow, Neb. a.; Durango, Colo, and
Springfield, No. After having, in com
mittee Of the whole, adopted IN
amendment which would have reduced
the offices to be continued to Belle
fourche. \. D.; Del Norte. Colo. Wa,
tervIlle, Wash, and Alliance, Seb., the
House revised itself by adopting the
Senate bill rs reported by the House
committee on public lands. The bin
now goes to the Senate.
The House adopted the conference
report on the 1922 naval bill. accept
ing Senate Increases which put the
total appropriation around $3.50 .0OO..
600, Some minor amendments were
adopted and the report went back 10
the Senate for final action before be-
Ing sent to the President.
Former United States Senator Cor.
nellus Cole Of California, who viii be
100 years old In September, was
caller at the White House recently, his
first visit In twenty five years. lie was
accompanied by Senator Shortridge,
Republican, California. Senator Cole.
who served In the Senate from 1857 TO
1873, Is snid to be the last surviving
member Of the body that tried Andrew
johnson for impeachment.
Approval Of four applications for
loans to assist In financing the orderly
marketing Of cotton and wheat aggre.
eating $l8JOO,0OO, was announced by
the War Finance Corporation. The np-
pllcatlons approved were from Okla
homn Cotton Growers Cooperative
Association, $1,000 900: Arkansas Cot.
ton Growers Cooperative Association.
T,5O0,0OO; Oklahoma Wheat Growers
Association. $500 900. and the Texas
Wheat Growers Association, $4,000.
Despite the coal strike and the
threatened railroad tieup, business in
the United States continues to improve.
high officials Of the Treasury Depart.
nent said recently. The Improvement
was accounted for by heavy summer
buying Of stocks In preparation for
winter trade
Freight rates throughout the United
Mates on practically all commodities
have besn reduced by 10 per cent since
the carriers Of the country put Into II.
fect the decision rendered last month
y TIE Interstate Commerce Commits. |
sion In the general rate ease