The Holly chieftain., 1924-03-13
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooihGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

| 'our men, heavily armed. held up
the Antelope Valley bank, Mt Lancas-
ter, Calf, locked four employees and
customer In n vault, and escaped
with $500 cash.
Charles Peter of Salt Lake CITY.
Utah, arrested recently charged with
grand larceny In connection with his
alleged promotion of stock In silver
mine ut P0catello, Idaho, succeeded in
causing several hundred persons to in
vest Sl,lOO,OOO In the stock, Assistant
District Attorney Hart of New York
City snld.
/ Strict economy by all light and pow
er consumers in southern California
ana the San Joaquin valley is recon-
Llended by special committee sur
veying the field to offset IL Every seri-
Gus situation" due to drought, accord
ing to statement issued in Los An.
geles by l.. S. Ready, engineer for the
State Railroad Commission,
Every effort possible is being made
to have the most enthusiastic and lary.
est crowd of good roads boosters in
attendance on the twelfth annual con-
ventfon of the United States Good
Roads Association and the Bank
head National Highway Association
and the United States Good Roads
show that Will convene in Albuquer-
que. on Muy 2631, 1924
Utah's second mine disaster in ap-
proximately quarter of century,
that of mine No. of the Utah Fuel
| Company, which occurred at Castle
Gate two weeks ago, and in which IT,
lives were lost, will prove to be Il large
economic loss to the company. Con
serVutively estimated, the three blasts
that wrecked the interior of the mine
and snuffed out the lives of 172 per
sons all withing period of approx
mately twenty minutes, caused finan-
cial loss of'Sl 100000
A total of 10.2S4 animals have been
Killed In the campaign against Cali
| fornia's epidemic of the hoof and
mouth disease. The epidemic Is the
first in the history Of the state and
the worst on record in the country
since 1915, when the disease spread to
| twenty-five states. So treacherous is
the disease that it may be weeks or
even months before the epidemic is
stamped out and fresh outbreaks may
be expected at any moment, said DIR.
J. p. 1verson, chief of the division of
animal industry OF the State Depart
1 ment of Agriculture,
WASHINGTON
The Mckenzie bill providing for ac-
ceptance of Henry Ford's offer for
Muscle Shoals, passed by the House,
is now in the hands Of the Senate.
Chief Justice Curtis ID. Wilbur of
the California Supreme Court will lay
aside the ermine of his office to take
up the weightier duties of the post of
secretary of the navy. rendered the
office by telegraph, Justice Wilbur re-
sponded, accepting the portfolio sur
rendered by Edwin T. DENLY last
week. He will'leave San Francisco for
Washington rs soon as his appoint
ment is confirmed by the Senate.
! cSHulol ltIlopl vi "lStOnSlH ms
resigned as chairman and member of
the public lands committee, which Is
investigating oil deals Involving gov
ernment lands.
In the midst of intermittent explo-
sions from the oil and Daugherty com
mittecs, searches for cabinet officers
and oil counsels, President Coolidge
was invited to go lion hunting. Miss
Albertus Tchener II Cussels, ColO
school teacher, Sent the Invitation and
described lion hunting in the South
Platte cnnon as truly royal sport
worthy Of any of the men of the cap
ital.' The President did not indicnte
whether he would accept.
II Attorney General Daugherty ad-
! eiscd the Senate that the packer dis
! solution Consent decree" of 1920 had
been fully carried out except for the
clauses dealing with unrelated com.
hiodities and to the stockyards, and
that these provisions had been carried
out "in spirit" Only one of the "big
five" group has not discontinued dis
tribution of unrelated lines, he said,
! while considerable progress has been
made in disposing of stockyard mar
keting companies.
President Coolidge has issued an ex-
ecutive order directing the bureau of
Internal revenue to permit inspection
of income and profits tax returns by
congressional committees upon passage
of II resolution by either house re-
questing such privilege. The new or
der became effective Immediately up.
on promulgntion.
The Senate refused by vote of "a
to 2S to approve an appropriation of
S5,oOOO0O to lie loaned to farmers to
finance purchases of fertilizers. 1t
was the first record vote of the ses