Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-07-06
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoINos, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Ruth Hathaway, 20, prisoner in the
Butte Jail on vagrancy charge, was
found almost dead Of strangulation
after she had tied 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 ST.
100000 hotel for which company Is
being organized. The available ground
10 1873 by 1872 feet, including the site of
the present Finlen hotel, one of the
pioneer houses Of the city.
"Flagrant effort has been made in
an anonymous way to mislead the pub
lie into the belief that the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company is 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, aspir-
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 Leavenworth prison. where
they were held for wartime offenses.
1t was learned at the White House re-
Gently. They are Clyde Hough Of
Rockford, H., serving q fifteen-year
sentence az a conscientious objector,
and Vincent st. 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-
plained recently by DR.. T. Howard
Plank Of Chicago before the National
Society of Physical Therapeutics.
After an all-day fight the House
passed bill to continue certain pub
lie land offices which under legislation
enacted this session would have been
closed July l. The House, by vote Of
11s to 90, amended the Senate bill to
continue the offices at Bellefourche,
8. D.; Waterville, WASH; Dickinson,
N. D.; Waterville, WASH; Dickinson.
N. D.; Del Norte and Sterling. Colo:
Clayton and Fort Sumner, N. NJ; Har-
rison and Camden, Ark, and Alliance.
Neb. 1t struck from the bill provisions
by the Senate for the continuance of
offices at Timber Lake and Lennon,
g. D.; Williston and Mino, N. D.;
Broken Bow, Neb. Durango, Colo, and
Springfield, Mo. After having, in COM
mittee of the whole, adopted an
amendment which would have reduced
the offices to be continued to Belle
fourche, S. D.; Del Norte, Colo; Wa
terville, Wash, and Alliance, Neb., the
House revised itself by adopting the
Senate bill as reported by the House
committee on public lands. The bill
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 $289,OOO
600. Some minor amendments were
adopted and the report went back to
the Senate for final action before be-
Ing sent to the President.
Former United States Senator Cor
nelius Cole of California, who will be
100 years old in September. was
caller at the White House recently, his
first visit in twenty-five years. He was
accompanied by Senator Shortridge,
Republican, California. Senator Cole,
who served In the Senate from 1867 to
1873, is said 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 $16,5OO,OO0, was announced by
the War Finance Corporation. The ap-
plicatious approved were from Okla
homa Cotton Growers Cooperative
Association, $8,OOO,OO0; Arkansas Cot
ton Growers Cooperative Association,
$7,5OO,O0O; Oklahoma Wheat Growers
Association, $2.5OO,OOo, and the Texas
Wheat Growers Association, $500, 900.
Despite the coal strike and the
threatened railroad tieup, business in
the United States continues to improve,
high officials Of the Treasury Depart.
ment said recently. The improvement
was accounted for by heavy summer
buying Of stocks In preparation for
winter trade.
Freight rates throughout the United
States on practically all commodities
have been reduced by 10 per cent since
the carriers of the country put into eff
feet the decision rendered last month
by the Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion in the general rate case.