The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
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WESTERN
Residents in the bottom of the city
Of Thermopolis, in the Big Horn basin
of Wyoming, were driven from their
homes by clOudburst that sent five
foot torrent down the Big Horn river
into the town. No lives are believed to
have been lost
Protected by armed guards from a
mob pent upon lynching him following
the Staying of Catarino Martino, a min
er, on Bingham's crowded main street,
M. Fonez, a fellow worker, was in Jail
at Bingham, Utah, held in connection
with the shooting.
Reports gathered in Los Angeles
from all sections of southern Califor-
mia showed that the recent earthquake
was general, but there was no serious
damage outside of San BernardinO and
| nearby towns. The shock was felt
from Santa Barbara to the Mexican
border and east into Arizona.
The liabilities of A. W. COote, Los
Angeles broker, against whom bank
ruptcy petitions were filed recently,
may reach $5,O00,000 or more, w. H.
Moore, Jr., receiver, stated Moore
said that a credit of $3,000,0O0 origin
ally allowed had been wiped out,
bringing the liabilities to around $5,-
100000.
John Nagle, commissioner Of immi-
grafton of San Francisco, demanded
that the ToyO Kisen Kaisha post GER
titled check for $4,000 as a fine and
guarantee Of passage money for the re-
turn to the Orient of fifty-eight Rus
slams brought to San Francisco by the
company, before the company's liner
ShinyO Maru would be permitted to
sail.
The savings of small investors have
increased the assets of building and
loan associations by nearly $5OO,00O,-
900 and have resulted in a membership
increase of more than 100000 mem
berS, according to the annual report of
H. f. CellariuS of Cincinnati, secre-
tary of the United States League of
Local Building and Loan Associations,
presented at the annual convention OF
that body at Tacoma, Wash.
WASHINGTON
The high level revenue receipts es-
tablished during the last fiscal year is
continuing and in some cases increas-
ing. A report issued at the treasury
showed that during the first three
weeks of the new fiscal year beginning
July /, ordinary receipts totaled $14S,-
$4,000, which was $33,895,000 in ex-
cess of total expenditures chargeable
against ordinary receipts
More than a million dollars was
turned over by the alien property Gus
todian in New York City to the estates
of the owners of the chemical firm of
P. Beirsdorf and Company of Ham
burg, marking one of the largest
claims paid by the government in con-
nection with the seizure of alien prop
erty during the war years. The sum
represented proceeds from the sale of
the trade mark ''Pebeco," used as the
name of a tooth paste.
The American Mining Congress reit-
Grated it's demand for a court hearing
on the silver purchases made by the
government under the Pittman act in
letter written by it's secretary, J. f.
Callbreath, to Acting Secretary Gill
bert of the treasury. The letter was
in reply to a recent letter by Mr.. Gill
bert, in which he expressed surprise
at the action of the board of govern
ors of the western division of the con-
gress in advocating court action
In granting permission to the Ore
gOn Short Line railroad to build nine
ty-eight miles of new line between Rog-
erson, Idaho, and Wells, New, the In
terstate Commerce Commission re-
quired the road to begin construction
by Jan. l, 1924, and to conclude it by
June 80 1925. Failing to do so, the au-
thorization will be Cancelled. The new
line will shorten present railroad dis
tances between San Francisco and
southern Idaho.
Increase of the peace-time regular
army of $4,000 officers and 10000
men in order to permit aIl-year-round
INSTRUCTION of civilian cOmpOnentS of
the army Oh Ill0 OulISQ States, 10
urged in a resolution adopted unani
mously by the National Council of the
Reserve Officers Association, which
met in Indianapolis recently. The res
olutions were received a few days ago
by Secretary Weeks and sent to the
War Department budget committee, |
which is laboring with next years es-
Inmates.
Applications for admission to the
civilian military training camps over |
the country rolled into the various |
corps area headquarters so fast that |
the War Department was compelled to |
undertake emergency provisions to |
care for 5000 or 1000 who applied in
excess of the 10000 it had been ex-
pected to accommodate.
United States Senator Hiram John
l. 1,