Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-06-01
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioN COUNTRIES. -.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WESTERN

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Frank Norton, charged with bur-
glsry, has escaped from the Los An
roles county Jail by climbing a creased
water pipe leading from the floor OF
the windowless laundry. forty feet to
Z skylight. The pipe had been creased
10 prevent Just such escapes.
japanese Of California have entered
q new field of industry, that Of pro-
aucing motion pictures. The Pacific
Film Exchange, Inc, of San Francisco,
declared to be the first all-Japanese
picture company in California, has
filed articles Of Incorporation with
Secretary of State Frank c. Jordan at
Sacramento.
California's alien land law violates
no provisions of the constitution of the
United Stntes, nor does 1t conflict with
the treaty between the United States
and Japan, according to the unanimous
opinion rendered in San Francisco by
Judge w. w. Morrow Of the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals, and
Judges NJ. T. Dooling and w. H. Saw
telle Of the United States District
Court.
Frank P. Kelsey Of New Harmony,
Utah, Is under arrest at st. George,
charged with attempting to kill the
family Of Francis Prince. He appeared
before Justice Ellis J. Picket Of Salt
Lake City and was bound over to the
District Court on $1,000 bond. He is
alleged to have caused poison to be
placed in q can Of coffee. The mem
bers Of the family tasted the coffee,
but did not drink sufficiently thereof
to cause death.
A meeting Of the Colorado River
Commission will be called by Herbert
Hoover, late in July or early In August
In santa F2, N. n, 1t was announced
In Phoenix recently BY w. 8. Norviel,
commissioner for Arizona. At that
meeting 1t probably will be determined
whether the commission will continue
to function and whether compact can
be agreed to for use Of the waters of
the Colorado bv the seven states in the
Colorado basin, Norviel said.
Members Of the Ku Rux Kan in
Los Angeles will support klansmen in
volved in the InglewoOd night riding
fatal party of April q, regardless Of
action by imperial officers of the or
ganization In Atlanta, Ca, Paul b.
DOR, attorney for the raiders. as
serted. He said he had been assured
Of financial support for defense Of
the night riders to the extent Of $40.-
600, regardless of the Imperial khan
officers withdrawal Of moral and f.
nancial support.
WASHINGTON
Horizontal and nationwide reduc-
tions In freight rates averaging about
10 per cent have been ordered by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
President Harding would be re-
quested, under joint resolution in.
troduced in the Senate by Senator Nc
Nary, Republican. Oregon. to call
another conference of the powers
which ratified the international opium
agreement of 1912 for the purpose of
considering further means of suppress
ing international traffic in opium, CO.
caine and their derivatives.
Five seamen were injured recently
in an explosion aboard the submarine
H-3 while the craft was on patrol duty
off the Coronado islands, forty miles
from San Diego.
The government would lose from ST.
275,00O.OOO to SLABS, 100000 If the Mus
Gle Shoals waterpower project were
leased to Henry Ford under the terms
of his present offer, Hugh L. Cooper,
army engineer, who built the dam, told
the Senate agriculture committee.
Cooper urged the Senate committee to
draft its own lease and termed the
offer made for the project
''just plain foolishness."
President Harding was represented
at the White House as merely hopeful
that voluntary reduction in transpor-
tation rates would result from last
nights White House dinner
conference attended by nineteen of
the leading railroad executives of the
Obstacles In the way of OBJ
tanning voluntary action by the rail-
.oads in the way of rate reductions on
he thorOughgoing basis desired by
he administration were described at
he White House as somewhat formid-
lble.
Lower passenger fares on the rail-
,oads will follow the cut in freight
'ates, high government officials de-
Jared In Washington. A strong senti-
Dent of the Interstate Commerce
maintains that lower pas
enger fares are essential to larger
evenues from the travelling public.
T. w. Norcross, chief engineer of
he United States forest service Of the
department, advises Lew
ston, Idaho, that $4,000 has been ap-
ropriated for the construction Of the
,ewis and Clark highway between
.ewiston, Idaho, and Missoula, Mont