The Holly chieftain., 1923-10-04
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
= PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. ooINes. ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEAR3 OF MANKIND
WESTERN

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In one Of the greatest races ever
staged in the Western League, Okla
home City won the 1923 championship
when Tulsa, their close rival, dropped
a double-header to Omaha, while the
Indians were idle with Denver because
OF wet grounds. This gave Oklahoma
City twO-game lead.
Tourists from all parts of the
United States spent $7,7OO.O0O in the
Rocky Mountain national park during
the 1923 tourist season, according to
an estimate of the Department of the
Interior announced in Washington.
The number of visitors to the park
from outside the state is estimated at
$4,000. Travel to and through Mesa
Verde National park, Colorado, is esti-
mated 70 have brought $4,OOO,OOO to
the state in the last season.
Philip G. Valentine. son Of John ].
Valentine, former president of the
Wells-Fargo Express Company, was
granted parole from the California
state prison at San Quentin by the
board Of prison directors. Valentine
had served one year of sentence of
from one to three years on charge
of driving an automobile while intox-
Ocated. His arrest followed an acci-
dent in which Miss Marian Donald Jf
San JoOse was run down and serious
ly injured.
Nebraska and Iowa are slowly re-
inn thn oln
bursts and floods which brought death
to twenty-five persons, injured scores
and caused unknown property dam
age last week.. The Red Cross had
three companies of the Iowa National
Guard and persons who did not consid-
err themselves SO hard hit at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, where six persons were
killed in the tornado which struck that
city, demolishing houses and uprooting
trees, were shOuldering the bulk of the
relief work.
A. Cotsworth, Jr, general passenger
agent of the Burlington at Omaha,
who was summoned from tour of his
territory to the scene of the wreck
near Casper, made the following
statement: "The wreck was one Of
those frightful affairs which, seeming
ly, cannot be prevented by any amount
of precaution. 1t is a matter of defi-
mite record that about z 80 o'clock
Thursday evening the section foreman
not only walked over, but climbed un-
der and examined that bridge as part
of his regular duties. Everything at
that time was all right, and the water
was only about two feet deep in Cole
creek. The accident happened less
than two hours later, and the creek
was then raging torrent, eighteen to
twenty feet deep. A local cloudburst
to the north at about that time can be
the only explanation to such sud-
denly changed situation"
WASHINGTON
Revival of the United States Grain
Corporation, with authority to pur-
chase 20O,OOOOOO bushels of American
wheat in the open market is the plan
most favored by the Coolidge admins
tration for the relief of the agricul-
tural industry, 1t was learned in Wash
ington. The purchase price would be
$1.5O a bushel If the plan is finally
adopted.
Officers of the United States army
are preparing to launch campaign
for Shorter hours and less work"
They will base their demands on re-
ports of the medical corps, which show
that constantly growing number of
officers are being either totally or par
TALLY incapacitated for duty each year.
The United States attorney in Los
Angeles has been asked by Lloyd's
London agency to proceed against a
band Of armed lntruders who are al
legged to have taken possession of the
wrecked steamer Cuba on the rocks
near Point Arguello. The agency said
1t believed that government interfer-
enec was necessary in order that legal
claims should be preserved.
Postmaster General New, who is
working on new chapter in the great
drama, "Why Mail Goes Wrong" has
announced that special campaign is
being conducted to direct the attention
of postal workers and the public to the
frequent miscarriage of letters because
of the similarity in the names of towns
in various states. Mail addressed, for
instance, to Summerton, S. c.; Sum-
mertown, Ga; Summervllle, S. c., and
Lumberton, frequently Is sent to the
wrong place due to illegible writing.
Request was made Of President Cool
idge few,days ago by delegation of
dozen farmers and bankers from
Minneapolis federal reserve district
that special session of Congress be
called to enact legislation for relief Of
wheat growers through revival Of the
United States Grain Corpora ion. The
delegation further asked that u reduc-
ton in freight rates on wheat and flour
be made, but said after their confer
ence that the President had made no
promises to them other than that he