, 1923-03-08
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SAYINGS, DoINes, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERiNGs, HOPES
ANDFEARs OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

The whole West is right happy over
President Harding's selection of DR..
Hubert Work for secretary of interior,
judging from the number of kilograms
and letters of congratulations pouring
in on him.
Carlson BUELL. shot and killed his
wife, seriously wounded his son, Har-
ry, 20 years old, and Their ended his
W life after ~barricading himself in
his residence and engaging in Il pistol
battle with police reserves at Port
land, Ore.
Bert Walls, who served in France
with the Ninety-first division, was shot
n killed at Butte, Mont, by his
friend, Bill jenkins. The shooting fol-
lowed an argument over the Slmonish-
Bross boxing bout at Helena. When
arrested, jenkins said: Take me out
n hang me. I'm sorry it happened"
Sale to the port of Seattle commits
sion of the water front property known
as the Skinner and Eddy plant No. 2,
a t~wenty-acre tract adjacent TO the
Seattle, Wash, business district, has
been announced by the shipping board
at Washington, d. G. The sale is sub
ject to the approval of Seattle voters
at an election to be held in May.
Acting as her own attorney, Mar
garet Jean Ramey, ~1S-year-old Fresno
State College coed, addressed a com
bination letter-petition to the Superior
Court, seeking annulment of her mar
riage TO William Earl Swaney of
Sparks, New. In her letter the girl de-
clares that while on her honeymoon,
she discovered she was No. q in II
chain of brides.
Permission has been given the Utah
Central Railroad Company, a new cor
poration with 81, 100000 in authorized
capital stock, TO proceed with con
struction of fifty miles of railroad in
Utah, by terms of an Interstate Com
merce Commission order issued In
Washington. The new line will ex-
tend from Wellington to Huntington,
with II branch to u Utah junction and
will make available for operation of
Il large coal mining area.
WASHINGTON
The administration shipping bill was
finally killed in the Senate.
Hale Holden, president of the Chi
cage, Burlington * Quincy, laid before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
Il plan for consolidation of all the rail
roads west of Chicago into four sys-
TENS.
Appropriations a~ggregating S2O,9JO,-
900 Tor modernization of battleships
..I -
a result of the naval %scrapping pro-
gram under the Washington arms cun-
ference treaty were approved by liz
Senate. The House previously had APP
proved the items.
Possibility of Senate action before
Congress adjourned on the admlnistra-
don request for authority TO particl-
pate in The Hague international court
of Justice, under the League of Ma
tions, was removed through confer
ences between Senate leaders. Leaders
of all Senate factions exchanged
views and, 1t was said, all We're Of the
opinion that the matter would nave to
IS over until the next Congress.
Mrs. Harding, wife of the President,
nus ludut sum DiOSicsS III hcT IcCu-
peration from the severe illness of last
year that she recently received !nfor-
mnlly at tea u group of more than
thirty women In her private drawing
room at the White House. The guests,
with one or two exceptions, were
newspaper or magazine writers.
President Harding signed the Smoot-
Burton bill under which Congress APP
proved the plan by which Great Brit
ain will pay her $4,60O,OOO,OOO war
debt To the United States during the
next sixty-two years. The Presidents
signature was tile concluding act In
the long string OF official actions nee
essary to the settlement of the great
est single war debt.
Continental American membership I'm
the international court set up by the
league of nations was proposed by
President Harding. In a message to
the Senate, asking that II advise and
consent TO such II step. the President
declared participation In the tribunal
offered an opportunity through which
the United States could demonstrate
its willingness to aid in preserving
world stability without in any manner
assuming amy legal relation to the
League"
Failure Of the ADMINISTRATORS ship
subsidy bill In Congress will result In
the establishment Of radical and I'M
expected policy" for the operation OF
the American merchant marine, A. ID.
L.asker, chairman OF the United States
shipping Board, declared after II con
ference with President Harding at the
White House
Selection of Postmaster General
Work 10 succeed Albert Fall as score