The Holly chieftain., 1923-03-08
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WESTERN

WESTERN
The whole West is right happy over
President Hardings selection of DIR.
Hubert Work for secretary of Interior,
judging from the number of kilograms
and letters of congratulations pouring
in on him.
Carlson Buzelli shot and killed his
wife, seriously wounded his son, Har-
ry, % years old, and then ended his
own life after barricading himself In
his residence and engaging In pistol
battle with police reserves ut Port
land, Ore.
The newly organized mine workers
union ut Butte, Mont, has decided to
demand of the mining companies day
wage of So, the abolition of the rust
ling cards." and other minor changes.
The wage now is S4.75. The union
claims $500 membership.
Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin, mo-
ti0n picture stars, were engaged again,
after having endured six hours of an
guish, when Miss Negri broke their en-
gagement to marry because she had
read in u newspaper statement cred
tied to her fiance that he was too
poor" to marry her lust now"
Sale to the port Of Seattle commits
sion of the water front property known
as the Skinner and Eddy plant No. 2,
u twenty-acre tract adjacent to the
Seattle, WASH, business district, has
been announced by the shipping board
at Washington, d. G. The sale Is SUBJ
ject to the approval of Seattle voters
at an election to be held In May.
Permission has been given the Utah
Central Railroad Company, new cor
poration with $1,000.OOO 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 u branch to a Utah junction and
will make available for operation of
a large coal mining area.
When the cases of A. N. Mckay and
several others charged with violation
of the anti-clgarette law came up be-
fore City Judge Boel Pratt of Salt
Lake City they were indefinitely post
poned. Too many serious cases are on
the calendar, the Judge ruled. The at
tention Of Salt Lake City residents has
switched from the trial of alleged vio-
lators of the cigarette law to the State
Legislature, where efforts to pass u
substitute cigarette measure are under
way.
WASHINGTON
The administration shipping bill was
finally killed In the Senate.
History will record that no Congress
has handled Its responsibilities more
satisfactorily than the Sixty-seventh,
Representative Mondell of Wyoming,
the retiring Republican floor leader,
declared in his farewell address on the
House.
A plan of vast magnitude for the
consolidation of all western railroads
into four systems, which would open II
new era of railway development and
systematic and cheaper transporta-
ton, was submitted to the Interstate
Commerce Commission recently by
Hale Holden Of Chicago, president of
the Burlington lines.
The composite forms credit measure,
formerly passed by the House and Sen
ate In the closing hours of the session,
was signed by President Harding. One
of the last measures to be enacted by
the Sixty-seventh Congress. the meas
ure was rushed to the White House
after final Senate action and the Pres
ident affixed his signature.
President Harding signed the smoot-
Burton bill under which Congress ap-
proved the plan by which Great Brit
ain will pay her $4.6O0,0O0,O00 war
debt to the United States during the
next sixty-two years. The Presidents
signature was the concluding act In
the long string Of official actions nee
essary to the settlement Of the great.
est single war debt.
Vice President Coolidge appointed
the new Senate commission directed to
make broad investigation Of the gold
and silver Industry. Senator Nichol
son, Republican Of Colorado, author OF
the original resolution, was appointed
chairman, and others are Senators Cd
die, Republican, Of Nevada; GoOding
Republican, Idaho; PIttman, Democrat
Nevada. and Walsh, Democrat, Mon
tana.
Senator Samuel d. Nicholson of Colo
RADIO Is at the United States naval hos
pital for observation and treatment
1t is stated he Is not bedfast and there
is no cause for concern to his friends
He is resting after being bit tagged
out from heavy work.
Appropriations aggregating $2O,95O,
600 for modernization of battleship.
and reimbursement of contractors as
result of the naval scrapping pro
gram under the Washington arms con