The Raymer enterprise., 1923-05-10
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

WESTERN
George S. Whitfield was found gull.
ty of murder In the first degree at
Vancouver, Wash, by jury before
which he had been tried, charged with
having slain Anna Nosko, II years old,
near battle-ground, Wash.
V. Peter, fireman, third class, one
Of nine members Of the crew Of the
U. S. S. New York. scalded when the
battleships starboard steam evapora-
tor exploded, died In Los Angeles Six
others were reported In critical cOndl.
ton.
One man, Identified by the police as
Michael Raymo Of Elmira, N. Y, Is
dead, another Is believed to have been
wounded, and a third Is under arrest
at Salt Lake City, while police are In
vestigntlng the connection Of the three
with an alleged band Of automobile
thieves which operated In Salt Lake
City for several weeks.
Governor Richardson has signed a
bill legalizlng and regulating the use
Of voting machines In California. The
bill was introduced at the request OF
publishers, election officials and 9TH
ers interested In securing prompt and
accurate election returns. The bill
permits supervisors to install
machines, but does not require them
to do so.
James Il. Hovey, his wife and two
small children lie dead, with bodies
badly mutilated, In their ranch home
thirty-five miles southeast Of Malta,
Mont. and u baby girl Is believed
fatally injured, following an Ak and
club attack made by Hovey on his
family, prior to his suicide few
days ago. II Is believed that Hovey
was suffering from an attack Of In
sanity. for which cause he was once
placed In a state institution. Two boys
aged 8 and II made their escape and
called neighbors to the scene.
Two repentant runaway wives sat
In the county Jail ut Los Angeles,
weeping in the arms Of their husbands
because, In place Of being allowed to
return to their homes, they must serve
long terms In the penitentiary. They
were Martha Deckman, 22, the wife
who left her husband on Kansas
farm to get kick out Of life." and
Delhpa Ament, who didn't get along
with her spouse and so left him In
Oregon and came to Los Angeles.
Both were sentenced by Superior
Judge Shenk to serve maximum Of
ten years In the penitentlary on grand
larceny charges growing out Of a
series OF boulevard holdups In which
they were the companions Of four
boys.
WASHINGTON
The American flag is too long In
proportion to It's width to be artistic
and reduction of 12l per cent In
the length of the present standard
size has been decided by the Fine
Arts Commission to be the most arts.
tic proportion.
Headquarters of the National Aero
nautic Association in Washington an
nOunccd that because VI technlcality
1t could not fully recognize the non.
stop distance record set by Lieuten-
ants Kelly and MacReady in their
flight from New York to San Diego.
Announcement that the government
in thirty days will begin to vigorous
ly" enforce the law as interpreted by
the Supreme Court to prohibit Amer
lean and foreign ships from carrying
lIQuor within the three-miie limit, was
made by Attorney General Dnugherty.
The cost OF living In the United
States last March was 6S,S per cent
higher than the average Of the year
1915, according to d computation an
nounced by the Federal Bureau Of
Labor Statistics, based on retail COM
modify prices and housing costs In
thirty.two cities. Food was AZ per
cent higher, clothing T4.4 per cent,
housing GA per cent fuel and light
SG.2 per cent, furniture ia per cent.
Director Scobey Of the mint recently
announced that only 100000 ounces
Of silver remained to be purchased
under the terms Of the Pittman Act.
He also made public supplemental reg.
ulations governing the remaining pur-
chases, which, he said, were intended
TO make certain that American miners
receive the benefits Of the act up to
the latest possible date. The regula.
tions, highly technical In character,
make few changes In those already In
force.
A decision was handed down by the
Supreme Court under which the Fed.
eral government Will be permitted to
compel the Yuma County Water Users
Association to begin the payment Of
to reimburse 1t for
money advanced In the lower Colo.
fsdo irrigation work. The court
found that water users located on the
Yuma project In Arizona could be
,harged with q cost Of S75 per acre,
which they resisted on the ground
hat the original contract with the
nonfamnlafed n char1o of