Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-11
Worlds News

telephone messages OF talks paSSeQ
through the telephone offices of the
country. This was an increase of
1872 per cent over 1917
Naples, Italy, has just lately ex-
perienced snowfall for the first
time in many years; the mountains
around Naples are covered with snow
and the temperature is low The
outline of the crater of Vesuvius can
be traced in white.
Sentences have been imposed by
naval court-martial on the officers
in command of the destroyer squad
ron off the California coast several
months ago, resulting in the loss of
more than score of lives. The Off
GERS have been denoted Captain
Watson, who was in command Of the
squadron, has been reduced $50 num-
bers, and Commander Hunter, 100
numbers. Captain Watson now
stands sixty-siNth on the list of cap
tains.
Educated in England, graduate
of Oxford, and possessed of many
modern ideas, the young monarch of
Siam has been threatened with open
rebellion by his people because he
was determined to abolish the royal
harem; but he found that he could
not overthrow the age-old custom; so
the young king capitulated and began
to assemble the quota Of 1000 wives
allowed. Divorce in Siam is easy,
costing only SO cents
Because of the law providing that
district judge cannot pass on cases
involving articles worth more than
half billion marks, lawsuit for the
possession of darning needle, has
been carried from the Holstein dis
trict court to a higher tribunal. AS
darning needle in Germany now
costs a billion paper marks, the
woman who lost her suit in the lower
court for the possession of the needle
is carrying the litigation further in
an effort to get the better of the
neighbor with whom she is disputing
Major H. G. l.. Strange, K. c., of
Fem, Alberta, winner of the worlds
championship wheat seed prize at
Chicago, is advocating the more gen.
eral growing of alfalfa in Alberta as
a sure and profitable crop He claims |
that Don Bark, of the Canadian Pa
cific Department of Natural Re. |
sources station at Brooks, Alberta,
has perfected alfalfa seed that is
IDEAL for that province
Production of meat in 1928 was the
greatest in history exceeding 1922
figures by one and a half billion
pounds, according to estimates by the
Institute of American Meat Packers.
A big jump in pork production was
largely responsible for the increase,
100000 more hogs being bought
oy the packers than in 1922.
The National immigration Confer
snce, which met last month at the
Hotel Astor in New York, resulted
N the first interchange of views by
authorities representing
Ill phases of American life, on this
vital subject which is at present en-
the attention of business
and the nation. Originally projected
by the National Industrial Confer
ence Board as an "open FORUM"
wherein the widely divergent views
)f various social groups and indus
rial organizations might find ex-
preston, the conference resolved it.
self into" constructive means of
placing on record recommendations
or an orderly and broad revision of
he nations immigration laws. More
han 500 persons attended the ses-
'ions Of the conference, which were
leld in the north ballroom of the
Hotel Astor, and included among the
800 delegates were prominent repre-
'entatives of industry, finance, educa-
ion and public service.
Detailed figures on the cost of liv-
ng, the trend of the nations employ
nent, and Of general wage changes,
made public by the National Indus
trial Conference, show that while
household expenses of the nation for
he period ended November Is last
we're the highest since 1921, general
business is slowly improving after
he mid-year recession
Canadian wheat growers think, or
hope, or at least say, that they have
| new, hardy wheat" which can be
grown in northern regions Of the Do
ninion. The new wheat Is an adap-
.ation of the Australian Minister
Wheat" originated by Professor Pye,
'f the Agricultural College of Vic
.oria, Australia
According to official figures submit
ed to the French Chamber of Depu-
les, France has obtained 3,950,00O
ons of coal from the Ruhr district
since the ending of the passive re-
'istance, also 143,O00 tons of by
PRODUCTS and 100000 tons of mine tim
Der. The Bankers Trust Company is