The Holly chieftain., 1923-01-04
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAYiNao. ooINos. ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

| tneuter anu confectionery ut Grand
view, Idaho. forty miles south OF
Boise
Erastus Brainerd, 81 years old, for.
merly editor of the Seattle Post Intel
ligencer, and long Lender in public
life In Washington, died few days
ago.
William +. Dixon liked Long Beach.
He often said he hated to die and
leave 1t and he made funeral plans ac-
cordingly. In compliance with his re-
| quest, his ashes were taken in an air.
plane 1000 feet above the business dis
trict and cast into the air.
The automobile of John Danz, who
operates several Seattle motion pic
ture houses, was wrecked by II bomb
| that was thrown in it while 1t was
standing empty in front of his home.
Danz attributed the explosion to labor
controversies he has had recently.
Rejection of his advances toward
Helen Engel, l6 years old and pretty,
last spring, is believed to have so
crazed Emil Neuriter, 40, a ferryboat
proprietor, that he entered her home
| in Seattle and turned Christmas joy
into tragedy by killing her two sisters
| and one of her brothers and then end
ing his own life
Leon Natoli, who has been living in
| a suburb of Seattle, told the police
that with the aid of dog he had
| trained, he had robbed more than 100
Seattle homes this year, they said.
The dog is said to have stood on watch
| outside dwellings while his master.
who is alleged to have used truck to
haul away the loot, worked inside.
DR.. Koliang Yih, Chinese consul gen.
eral at San Francisco, officiated at the
dedication at Hanford, Calf, of the
first Chinese-owned school building in
America-a $4,000 structure financed
| by contributions from local Chinese
residents and promoted for the pur-
pose Of affording Chinese children the
advantages of instruction in their ma
| tive tongue.
A report was received by the sher-
| ifs office ut Marshfield, Ore, that
Mrs. l.. A. Perrie, 40, was choked to
death at her home near Myrtle Point,
Ore, by her husband, rancher, who
then killed james Culver, neighbor,
who had attempted to interfere in Mrs.
Ferries behalf. Perrie, said to have
been crazed by liquor, is reported to
have fought off another neighbor who
IN l,t
dogs and fled from the ranch.
WASHINGTON
Hannls Taylor, former United States
minister to Spain, and recognized au-
thority on international law, died at
his home in Washington.
Senate warfare over the Borah pro-
posal for IA world economic conference
reached dramatic turning point re-
Gently when President Harding threw
| the full force of the administration
| against Senator Borah's plan as con-
| tained in an amendment to the naval
| appropriations bill and, in a letter read
in the Senate, virtually asked for Its
defeat.
Suit to recover 5000 ,16O50 from Gov.
William D. Stephens and other Cali
| fornia officials because of the alleged
illegal sale of $4,000, 600 highway bonds
was dismissed on technical grounds by
Judge Benjamin f. Bledsoe of the
| United States District Court
The following Coloradoans were
| granted commissions in the officers
reserve corps: Finis N. Roberts of
Fruita as first lieutenant or infantry
Jay Norman Fuller of Monte Vista us
first lieutenant of cavalry James Rob.
ert McClelland of Greeley as first lieu
tenant of infantry.
| Former Premier Clemenceau's Amer.
lean visit added $4,000 to the Ameri.
can field service fund fellowships, Ste
phen Bonsal, who managed the tour
announces. The amount Is the surplus
of money received from lectures and
newspaper articles by the Tiger after
defraying the expenses Of his trip.
The first llow to reach the capitol
Of alleged bootleggers was struck BY
Senator Curtis, Republican, Kansas
chairman of the Senate rules commit
tee, when he ordered negro waiter
discharged from the Senate restaurant
The waiter, Curtis said, had dropped O
bottle Of strong smelling hooch on the
floor Of the restaurant.
Immediate return to the owners OF
all small properties seized during the
war was urged recently by Alien Prop
erty Custodian Miller before the
House commerce committee, which Is
considering bill under which 93 pei
cent of all trusts in the hands Of the
government most Of them valued u,
less than $4,000. would be released.
In the course of debate In the Sen
ate, Senator Lodge announced to the
Senate that he was authorized to say
on behalf of President Harding thai
the administration is stanchly opposed
to any cancellation Of war debts.