The Dolores star., 1924-07-18
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

ter's famous unit, the Seventh regi-
ment, which figured heriocally in
Clusters last stand" died at Seattle.
bankers of Cvanno, entered the Mon
tana state prison to begin serving sen
tences imposed almost three years ago
in connection with the failure of the
State Bank of Cvanno.
Indictments against nineteen physi-
clans involving allegations that they
operated diploma mills or were bene-
ficiaries of such operations, were
voted by the San Francisco grand
jury. Among them was DIR. Robt. Ad-
cox, now under sentence in Missouri.
Damage estimated at S1T5,COO was
done at Culver City, Calf, by fire
which destroyed the largest of several
stages owned by the Hal Roach Stu
dos, Inc. The blaze, according to stu
do officials. was started by II sToke
pot which had been used during the
afternoon in filming a scene.
A crew of fifty men was sent to
Noxon to fight serious forest fire
on the Montana-Idaho line in the Cab
met forest. Thirty-five men We're
fighting the blaze and reinfOrcements
We're sent in an effort to check the
fire, which is said to be burning valu-
able timber and advancing rapidly.
Three guests at Aldrich lodge. Il
summer resort about twenty-siX miles
HnI N-n IL. md
eral others sick as n result, doctors
believe. of eating ripe olives. The
dead are Mrs. PGUl Ache and Paul
Ache, Jr, wife anG son of proml-
nent oil man of Pittsburgh. Pa, and
a Yale University student named Gil,
lespie.
The state examiners office at Chey-
enne was notified of the failure of
four small Wyoming banks TO open
for business last week. They are :
Carpenter State Bank, resources of
about S65,OOO; Hlllsdale State Bank
resources about SG5O0O; Cowley State
Bank, resources about $4,000 and
Bank of Upton, resources about $780,
900. All are state banks. Carpenter
and HlllSdale are small towns near
Cheyenne. COwley Is in northwestern
Wyoming and Upton in northern Wyo-
ming. The Citizens National, Chey-
enne, which closed recently, was taken
over by the national bank examiner
WASHINGTON
During the last fiscal year the gov
ernment purchased Liberty bonds of n
face value of S295,97S. $50, at a cost
of S294 1927, ,O19, for application on the
public debt, the Treasury Department
announced. The total public debt re-
duction was about 1,1OO million dol
lars
The Wyoming & Colorado Short
Line Railway Company applied to the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
authority to construct 3SOmile line
from Casper. Wyo, southwest, to the
Colorado-Utah state line. The new line
would traverse an unserved cattle ter
ritory, oil and gas sections, iron and
coal fields and a lumber region.
Vast tracts of land suitable for the
establishment Of rubber plantations
have been found in the Philippine
islands by party of Investigators
sent to the Orient by the department
of commerce at Washington, accord
ing to Mark Baldwin of the United
States department of agriculture. who
has just returned with the expedition,
which he accompanied as soil expert.
These lands are on the island of
Mindanao and adjacent smaller
Islands. MindanaO has an area equal
to that of Indiana NEARLY so per
cent of the rubber produced in the
world is consumed in the United
States, and, so far as is known, prac-
tically all is grown within fifteen
degrees latitude Of the equator" says
bulletin of the department of agri-
culture telling of the expeditions
work. "The possession of the terri.
tory within the climatic range of Dos
6ible rubber production offers an op-
pOrtunity for United States capital to
engage in one of the most important
industries in territory within the
restrictions Of our own government"
Twenty-one hundred income tax re-
funds totaling $4,000, provided for BIZ
the new revenue law as 25 per cent.
reductions on 1923 incomes, were
mailed out recently by the Treasury
Department Acting Secretary OF the
Treasury Winston announced that
sixty days would be required to make
the total refunds, totaling 1O5S,OOO
which aggregate sum of $4,000, 900.
e. l.. Doheny and f. l.. Doheny, Jr.,
attacked the indictments returned
against them in the District of Colum-
bia Supreme Court as a result Of the
Senate oil disclosures