The Holly chieftain., 1923-03-15
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS III THIS AND FOR
EieN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooihes AND HAPPENINGS T,'sT
fiARk THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

oiSuuiLuUOu OF Ine lbTotHeTliOOu Ma
tlonal Bank OF Spokane is expected to
be completed soon.
Vulcan's pipe was out again and
i.assen peak. after spouting smoke and
Steam for more than two hours has
resumed the same peaceful exterior it
has borne for many months.
Tie House Of the Arizona Legisla-
ture at Phoenix, by a vote Of % to -.
resolution calling for the unqualified
ratification OF the Colorado river com
puct.
y charge Of first degree murder has
been filed in Vancouver, Wash,
against George Edward Whitfield, in
an attempt to establish his alleged
connection with the murder of 11-year-
old Anna NOsko while the child was
on her way home from school,
Three members of the California
Legislature and one former member
were among those held up by five
masked bandits and robbed of several
thousand dollars in cash and jeweiry at
the Dreamland Cafe, Il road house
twenty-four miles from Sacramento.
The cigarette law which in recent
weeks has made Utah famous has been
so amended by the State Legislature
as to make the measure entirely out Of
the freak" class. Under the law as
amended, the sale of cigarettes and
the other forms of consumable tobac-
co Is authorized under license sys-
TEN. But the advertising of cigarettes
is prohibited and the advertising of
other forms of tobacco is authorized
only in newspapers.
Discussion and possible revision OF
the Colorado river compact will be the
object of u conference of the League of
the Southwest to be held at Santa Bar
bara for five days early in May, 1t is
announced by the Santa Barbara
Chamber Of Commerce. The confer
ence Is expected to be attended by
more than 1000 delegates, the COVER
n0rs of California, Colorado, Arizona,
New Mexico, Nevada and Utah, Secre-
tary of Commerce Hoover and other
cabinet officials.
Eluding revenue cutters which for
days have been patrolling the heads,
and dry agents who have been watch
Ing the coast line, two-masted auxil-
iary schooner from Vancouver slipped
into San Francisco bay and succeeded
in landing rich rum cargo of 1000
cases of imported whisky, valued ut
100000. A fleet of auto trucks were
waiting at Lugana cove as the schoon-
er slipped in the Golden Gate and
hove to close by the army transport
docks.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Of the Interior Work per-
formed one of his first official acts
when he took over a historic piece of
ground in the states of Utah and Colo.
RADIO, set aside in proclamation is.
sued by President Harding on March
2, to be preserved for posterity. This
ground has been designed as a nation
III monument and the Indian word
"Hovenweep," meaning deserted val.
ley" is the name that has been given
1t.
The country now faces the unaccus.
toned prospect Of nine months with
out session Of Congress. The Sixty.
seventh Congress has passed into his
tory.
A law and half day for 624 days
was the record of the SiXty-seventl
Congress, Frank W. Aondell of wyo
ming, retiring Republican House lead
er, said in statement inserted in the
Congressional record.
The federal farm loan board, ut the
conclusion of three-day conference
with the federal land bank presidents
gave assurance that farmers of the
country will have the benefit of the
governments financial aid, authorized
in the recently enacted rural credits
legislation, by the time the spring
planting begins.
Gov. Thomas w. Hardwlck an
nouncef at Atlanta, Ca, that he would
| uStCpl an upPoiitihtht uS sptClttl us
sistant United States attorney general
ut the expiration of his term as cover
nor of Georgia. Governor Hardwick's
term as chief executive of Georgia will
expire on the fourth Wednesday In
June, when he will be succeeded by
Clifford NJ. Walker. who was elected
in the general election last fall.
City detectives have been detailed tc
investigate fire which did damage
estimated at several thousand dollars
in an annex to the government print
ing office. Tiremen reported thai
they found separate fires burning
simultaneously on two floors and wef,
unable to discover the cause.
Claudius Fl. Huston, assistant secre
rary of commerce, has resigned to be
come president of the World Com
merce Corporation, a new oil compan,