The Holly chieftain., 1923-05-31
The WORLD IN
PARAGR HIS
A BRIEF RECORD OF Pacing
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE

OF THE AGE
WESTERN
George Griffith. escaped convict.
who jumped out of passenger train
window while being returned to a
penitentiary and who was thought to
have been hiding In the hillsl near
Forsyth. Mont. was found dead on
the banks Of the Yellowstone river,
six miles enst Of Forsyth. His skull
was fractured.
A resolution offered by Rayenel
Macbeth, secretary Of the Idaho Min
Ing Association. protesting against the
withdrawal of 14.500,OOO ounces of Sill
yer for subsidiary coinage under the
order Of the United States Treasury
Department, was presented to the
Northwest mining convention at Spo-
kane
Automobile bandits shot Dave An
tink, cashier Of the Sun Drug Com
pany Of Los Angeles, according to the
police. and escaped after robbing him
of $3s,350, which he was carrying to
the bank In satchel. Antink. whose
wounds were not serious. said he be-
lieved the driver Of the robbers car
was hit by one of the bullets he fired
at the men as they fled.
A shortage of railroad refrigerator
cars to move the crops of the inter
mountain region this fall, as was ex-
perienced last year, was forecast by
G. w. Luce of San Francisco, freight
traffic manager of the Southern
Pacific lines at q meeting of the in
termediate rate association in Salt
Lake City. Upwards of fifty rail-
road rate experts from the West and
Middle West attended.
Clara Phillips Town" story of her
escape from the county jail at Los
Angeles last December in which she
said Jesse Carsen, under arrest with
her and her "baby sister," Eta May
Jackson, at Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
sawed the bars Of her cell and was
the only person to assist her, was re-
garded by special officials as trap"
to mislead them in their investigation
of her getaway.
Challenging the right Of Congress
and the internal revenue commissioner
to place restrictions on the practice
of medicine, more than fifty Butte
physicians have organized the Assocla-
tion for the Protection of Constitu-
tional Rights. The organization will
make test case of the suit recently
filed by United States District Attor-
ney John L. Slattery against DR.. ]. B.
Freund of Butte, charging violation of
the law pertaining to liquor prescrip-
tions. DR.. Freund is charged with is
suing l02 liquor prescriptions within
ninety days, two more than the num-
Der allowed by law; with, issuing two
prescriptions to the same patient In
less than ten days, and with writing
a prescription on other than regula-
ton form.
WASHINGTON
Detailed plans for the development
proposed by the Ford Motor Company
on the Mississippi river between st.
Paul and Minneapolis have been filed
with the federal power commission by
engineers and attorneys representing
Henry Ford, with an application for
n permanent license covering the pro-
ject.
Legitimate manufacturers Of Canad-
ian whisky are suffering so much by
the counterfeiting Of their labels and
caps by persons who make synthetic
liquor that they are helping to run
down the rum runners, according to
Judge F.. L. Porterfield, divisional
chief for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
Governor William E. Sweet Of Colo
RADIO and Francis B. Sayre, son-in-
law Of ex-President Woodrow Wilson,
are among the signers Of new petit
ton to President Harding asking him
to release the fifty-two political
prisoners" who were convicted and
imprisoned and are now serving sem
tences for violating, the espionage law.
Partial reorganization of the mixed
claims commission, constituted to ad-
judIcate war claims totallng S1,479.-
100000 of the United States govern
ment and American citizens against
Germany, was caused by the retire
ment of former Justice Day of the
Supreme Court as umpire Of the COM
mission. Judge Edwin b. Parker Of
Texas, American member of the com.
mission, was appointed Immediately
by President Harding to succeed Mr..
Day.
According to report recently com.
piled by G. II. Kardell, assistant
United States agricultural statistician
for the Eighth District, no severe
damage from frost has been reported
from the region including Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona. Nevada, Utah
and Wyoming. 1t Is further reported
that the growth of crops and ferd on