The Dolores star., 1924-07-25
CONDENSED r { c ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN

the county Jail at Bozeman, Mont, for
the murder of Mrs. John Sprouse at
Central Park, Mont, in November,
1920. Up till the last moment Danner
maintained his apparently Indifferent
attitude.
Charles W. Doris of Long Beach,
was indicted by the county grand jury
at Los Angeles on two counts on first
degree murder. The Indictment
charged Doris with murder on June
30 of his wife, Therese Doris, and
Henry ID. Meyer, wealthy Pasadena
resident. The man and the woman
were found slain in Doris Long
Beach apartment.
Mrs. Vera Goyle Of Oakland. Calf
burned to death in an airplane which
crashed TO the ground in the foothills
east Of the city and Dewey Ward, pi-
lot, was badly injured. The crash of
the plane from height of 200 feet was
witnessed by about 800 persons, includ-
ing Wards wife and small child. Spec
tators had removed Ward from the
plane, when the gasoline tank explod-
Mrs. Goyle.
Decision against the Washington
Water, Light and Power Company in
the S1,00O,000 suit in equity brought
against it by the Equitable Trust Com
pany of New York and the Guarantee
Bank and Trust Company of New York
and others, was announced by Judge
]. Stanley Webster in Superior Court
at Spokane. Under the decree the
several properties of the power COM
pany will be sold as separate units
under the mortgages held against
them.
Dave Steele, for twenty years IL
reputable citizen of Nesika, Lewis
county, Washington, was taken back
to Kentucky in charge of deputy
sheriff, to answer a charge of murder
alleged to have been committed TWEEN
ty-two years ago. 1t Is said that Il
drunken man, walking along the West
Virginia side of fork of the Big San
dy river, was shooting in the Steele
home on the Kentucky side and that
Dave Steele shot across the river and
killed him. Steele was recognized at
Nesika six weeks ago by deputy
sheriff from Pike county, Kentucky,
who came to Nesika to return another
prisoner charged with murder, and his
arrest and extradition followed.
WASHINGTON
Forest fires of the past in which
there was heavy loss of life and prop
erty include: 1871, Peshtigo, Wis, L.
100000 acres devastated and 1,5OO
lives lost; 1881, Michigan, 1000 900
acres burned over and 13S lives lost
1894 Phillips, Wis, 300 lives lost
1894, Minnesota and Wisconsin, mil
lions of acres of timber burned, 400
astated: Hinckley, Sandstone, Barron
EFT, Perley, Clayton, Shell Lake, Cum
berland and Granite Lake 1910, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon, several hun
dred lives lost; 1918, Cloquet, Mimi,
S3O,0O0,000 of timber and property de-
stroyed and 400 lives lost.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas was
expelled from the fashionable Chevy
Chase Country Club at Washington as
a result of an exchange between him
and DIR. James F. Mitchell, prominent
surgeon, on the golf links few weeks
ago.
In an effort to reduce the amount of
work for the new board of tax appeals,
the treasury has created division of
review in the office of the solicitor of
internal revenue, which will give final
opinions on tax cases before they are
sent to the appeals board.
Governor Bryan of Nebraska the
vice presidential nominee, announced
that he had no intention of resigning
his position as governor. Such a step,
he said, would be unusual and unnec-
essary. He declared, however that he
would withdraw his candidacy for re-
election as governor.
Arrests by the police for prohibition
law violations in Washington during
the last fiscal year totaled 1855, Mai.
Daniel Sullivan, head of the police de-
partment, reported to the city commits
doners. The number was 1,2O7 more
than for the previous year. The
amount of liquor seized was less by
about 1000 gallons
An expedition of exploration into the
little known parts of China will be con-
Quoted for the next two or three years
by agricultural explorers of the De-
partment of Agriculture. The scien-
lists, who will soon sail from San
Francisco for Shanghai on the steam
ship President Wilson, are DR.. p. H.
Dorsett and his son, ]. Fl. Dorsett.
Robert Yellow Tail, Crow Indian, OF
Lodge Grass, Mont, on the Grow In
dian reservation in Big Horn county,
filed with the sec tetary of state as a
candidate for tie Republican nomina-
hon for representative.