The Holly chieftain., 1923-12-06
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiHcs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

Els S1EhN
Sult mas been filed In Superior Cour
ut Iacoma. Wash, to connscatc tn,
hoidinss OF Franz Y Freebooter as tn.
inauguration of compaign to eject nj
".ei,s from lands following the decree
OF the United States Supreme Cour
sustaining the Washington state aIie1
land laws.
Jewish synagogues of Los Angelo.
nave banded together to stop ALLEGED
'ra1ficking In "sacramental wines" b,
canceiing their permits to purchas.
ana hold wine for sacramental pur
poses and by instructing their rabbi.
10 sign no wine permits" or "dele
gate any one else to sign permits"
FIRST prize awarded her nineteen ou
OF twenty times she has exhibited but
yer at the annual state fair at Helena
MONT, Is the record established b,
Mrs. David Graham of Belt, Mont.
"hen she again took first prize in the
ualry display. Her record Is unpar
aiieied in the history of the state OF
Montana, 1t is said,
>. Z. Potter was killed and A, F
Richardson Of Seal Beach and A, l.
BARNES of Compton were seriously In
1ured In an automobile crash near the
state hospital at Norwalk, California
when the automobile in which the
three men were riding and stage col.
iided, according to brief reports re-
cefved in Los Angeles,
The Japanese freighter. Shinkokn
went ashore near Montague island
Prince William sound, Alaska, and
was expected to be total loss, ac.
cording to dispatch received in
Seattle from Cordova, Alaska, The
dispatch said nothing of the fate OF
more than thirty men who were
aboard the Shinkoku.
The police Of Vancouver, B. G., have
positively identified young woman in
the general hospital there as Miss Nell
Austin, 2-year-old Seattle school
teacher who disappeared from Seattle
recently. The woman, who Is dellrious
and talks incoherently, was identified
by photographs OF Miss Austin sent to
Vancouver and by two of Miss Aus.
tins friends who called at the hospl.
tai.
Efforts Of the Montana Bankers AS.
sociation to trace robberies of a NUN.
ber of Montana, Dakota and Canadian
banks, resulted In the arrest at Havre,
Mont, of two women and six men. and
the recovery of large number of
United States, Canadian and industria!
bonds. Among the men taken into Gus
tody were Florian Carnal, former mem
ber of the Montana Legislature, and
Chouteau county attorney, and Henry
LOranger, former sheriff of Hill coun-
ty, Mont.
WASHINGTON
Retailers who represent themselves
as selling army.navy surplus supplies
from the United States government
when In fact they are not so doing,
will encounter opposition from the
Federal Trade Commission. An order
in the matter was issued by the COM
mission against H. MaIlender, an op-
orator of stores in Indiana, West VIr-
glnia and Ohio, under the names of
Army-Navy stores and Army Goods
stores, requiring him to desist.
Representative TinlberIake of Colo
RADIO was chosen a member of the COM
mittee on committees, which selects
the membership of the various House
committees, and fixes the ratio of Re
publican and Democratic representa-.
ton on each body
The claim of the British government
against the United States for f755, 400
in connection with the operations of
the Rio Grande Irrigation and Land
Company. Ltd, has been dismissed by
the American and British claims arbI.
trai tribunal, now sitting in London.
Fred X. Nielsen, agent for the United
States, reported the decision to the
State Department.
Tax collections of the internal rev.
enue bureau during the year ending
June 80 last were S2.G21 ,745,227, or Is
per cent less than those of the pre-
vious year, when they amounted to $3,
1871, 7,451,OOO. The reductions, Commits
siOner David II. Blair said in his an
nual report, were due largely to the de-
crenses of tax rates made by law In
come and profits taxation netted the
government $1,G91 ,OS9OOO, when was
S30j, j,0OO,Ooo less than the total collect
ed from these sources the previous
year.
Tobacco co-operatiycs did a big bust
ness with last years crop, eight pro
ducer-Owned and controlled assOciu.
tions marketing nearly G0O.UUO.OOO
pounds of tobacco. or nearly nc-hnlt
of the total crop produced, the Depart
ment of Agriculture reports.
l Opening of more than 100000 acres
of public lands in the states Of Colo.
RADIO, Nevada, New Mexico. Wyoming
and Utah was announced by the De
partment of the Interior last week