The Holly chieftain., 1923-07-05
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioM COUNTRIES
|lN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF. THE AGE
WESTERN

WESTERN
Presenting In Butte report on the
postwar revival of business, President
Harding declared that national mobil-
izution by business, labor and govern
ment forces to overcome depression
was no less an Accomplishment than
the great cooperation to win the war"
The. Santa Fe Railway Company's
store oflumber Mt San Bernnrdino, val
ued ut $1,000,000 was destroyed by fire
believed to have been started by an in.
cendiary. Fire departments from six
adjacent cities were called on to fight
the enormous blaze.
The closing of the Merchants and
Farmers State Bank at Chino, Calf,
| by the state superintendent of banks,
after an Investigation by Edward r.
Dishman of the State Corporation De-
partlnent, has resulted in u nationwide
search for six stock brokers who are
under Indictment In connection with
the banks failure, Dishman announced
In San Francisco.
George Parker and Rule johnson es-
capped from the Linn county Jail at AL
bany, Ore, where they were being held
in connection with the murder of ex-
Sheriff W. ]. Dunlap. Parker was cap
tured a few minutes after he got out.
He was seen by Sheriff Frank Richard
before he had climbed over an Iron
fence that surrounded the rear Of the
jail. Johnson is still at large.
A contract between citizen and an
alien Ineligible to citizenship whereby
the latter is to settle upon agricultural
land for the purpose of preparing 1t
for planting, receiving wages for his
work and sharing In future profits on
an equal basis, is not violation Of the
alien land law passed by the Califor-
MIA Legislature Nov. 2, 1920, the Su-
preme Court decided at San Francisco
President Hardings power of speech
failed him few days ago for the first
time since he left Washington. Stand
ing at Artists Point, overlooking the
Grand Canon of Yellowstone National
Park, the chief executive was asked
what he thought of the scene before
him. He admitted his inability to re-
ply, saying that the grandeur of the
canon was beyond his power to de-
scribe.
The law permitting the state to quar-
antine against alfalfa hay is unconsti-
tutional as constituting an embargo,
and is SO unlimited In Its scope as to
be unreasonable, counsel for the Ore
gcn-Washington Railway and Naviga-
tion Company contended in Superior
Court at Olympia, Wash, In the So
called alfalfa weevil case" The bur-
den of testimony by the state tended
to prove that stringent regulations
were needed II the alfalfa weevil Is to
be controlled.
WASHINGTON
A reorganization within the Treas
ury Department with the shifting Of
several of the more important bureaus,
Is provided for In regulations issued at
Washington. Simultaneous with the is-
suing Of the regulations, 1t became,
known that Assistant Secretary Ed
ward Clifford, whose Jurisdiction with
in the department will be materially
changed under the reorganization is to
resign.
Increase in wages of deck, and en-
gineer officers, radio operators and
members of the stewards department
on shipping board vessels ranging from
81 to $40 month, has been announced
by Vice Chairman I. v. O'Connor of
the board. The Increases are effec-
tive Immediately.
Railroads operating in the Rocky
Mountain and Pacific Coast states
were in effect authorized by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission to In
crease by 10 per cent their freight
rates on corn and cereal products usu-
ally classified as coarse grain" The
Increase, which does not affect wheat,
is authorized in shipments from Mis-
sissippi Wiley points to the Rocky
Mountain-Pacific Coast area.
DR.. ]. r. MohIer, chief of the bureau
Of animal industry, announced he had
concluded arrangements to commence
on July 2 the vaccination of stocker
and feeder cattle at public stockyards
against hemorrhagic septicemia, also
known us stockyards pneumonia and
shipping fever. Until the work IL
placed on the stable basis the govern
mert will furnish the vaccine and
trained veterinarians to administer the
treatment ut actual cost. @
The United States District Court In
San Francisco denied motion asking
| for the dismissal Of petition NV
Charles Lockard, an owner of the Sc.
attic Club In the Pacific Coast Base
ball League. that w. II. Mccarthy,
president Of the league, be compelled
to seat him rs a director Of the par
ent organization, Mccarthy has re-
fused to permit the participation Of
the Seattle Club In the regular league
meetings on the ground that there Is
evidence Of 1t being owned In part BY