The Dolores star., 1923-04-20
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OoiNGS AND HAPPENINGS TINT
EARk THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

EDWARD Malone, plot, WIS hllleu'
and Herschel Mckee, mechanic, prob
ably fatally injured in an airplane ac-
cident at Los Angeles, recently. The
men attempted flight in plane
owned by a commercial aviation com
pany.
Benton Stables, Carson City Nevada,
n historic landmark best known as
the starting place of Horace Greeley
on his famous stagecoach ride with
-Hank" Monk, is about to pass. In
late years the building has fallen into
decay and was recently condemned.
Six months in the county Jail is the
punishment meted out to Miss Ella
Wolfe, is years old, of Salem, Ore
gon, who was driver of an automobile
chat ran down and fatally injured II
woman. Miss Wolfe applied for Il
parole, but the court refused to con-
slider it.
a dispute over land deal at Tur-
lock, Calf, resulted in the probably
fatal shooting of Mrs. Joseph Curtner
Meyer, and the suicide of Benjamin
Morgan, who shot her. Morgan is al
ieGed to have set fire to Mrs. Meyers
home and then laid in wait until she
came TO the door
William ]. Gloria has resigned as
legal adviser to Samuel f. Rutter, fed.
eral prohibition director for California,
as u protest against recent alleged
trough house" methods of prohibition
agents and what he terms Rutter's
failure to punish agents guilty of un-
warranted Offenses, according to II
story appearing in the San Francisco
Examiner.
Investigation of the circumstances
surrounding the Staying of Benjamin
q. Bailantyne, son of u prominent Salt
I.al.e City family and formerly teller
III Salt Lake City bank, was contln-
Ied by the police following their an
nOuncement that Mariner +. Browning,
nephew of John NJ. browning, noted
gun inventor, had admitted he killed
BaIiantyne in sef-defense.
Famed as the Rose City" Portland,
Ore, is in danger of losing that title
unless greater activity is taken by the
people in cultivation of the flower, ac-
cording to organizations which have
started "a movement to stimulate in
terest The Chamber of Commerce and
the Portland Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton are back of this effort, one of the
first steps being the formation of rose
clubs among the children
WASHINGTON
President Harding says political
campaign talk is premature ana threat
,I,. for tt.fr,
because of it.
President Harding believes that if a
reduction is made in federal taxes it
should apply all along the line and not
solely to surtaXes.
Appealing to the Republican mem
bers of Congress for unity OF action
and to the administration for cooper
alton, Senator Wesley l.. Jones of
Washington, who led the adninstra-
tion fight for the shipping bill recent
ly, issued statement declaring that
Unless the majority functions in the
uext Congress it will be discredited.
Oil companies wholesaling gasoline
can furnish retailers tank and pump
equipment under an agreement that
handling the gasoline of the company
owning the equipment, the Supreme
Court recently held in cases brought
By the federal trade commission.
The radical tax revision program as
outlined by Representative Frear, Re
publican, Wisconsin, was assalled by
Representative Hawley, Republican,
Oregon, ii member of the house ways
and means committee. "If it is desired
TO help the farme- and laboring man,
an increase in the tax burden on bust
ness certainly will not do it," said Haw.
ley. II cannot figure just what the
theory is on which these proposals are
based
"About $1OOO0O,OOO in War Savings
Stamps and certificates due and pay
able ON Jan. l, 1928 are still outstand-
InS," according to Lew Wallace, Jr.,
director of the United States govern
kuent savings system. THAT means
Eoxs of interest for more than three
en0ntlfS, although the government has
done everything possible to induce the
people to exchange those stamps for
the new treasury savings certificates"
His vacation ended, President Hard
fn& las returned to Washington and
hos hlned his mind toward the cares
OF pr"1iems Of state. The departure
Of the presidential party from Angus
q, ia, brought to close vacation
vt five weeks for the chief executive,
four weeks OF which were spent In
Florida and one In Augusta
Ho
tour of the Middle West and Pacific
coast will start about June 30, when he
p9ans to leave Washington for Alaska
II has been announced officially at the
White House.