The Holly chieftain., 1924-02-14
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIhes, ACHIEVE
rENTs, suFFERlNGs, HOPES
y AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN

WESTERN
The Santa Fe has abandoned for the
time being the proposed construction
Of new line between Pennington and
Gallup, n. NJ, distance of about 125
miles, according TO an announcement
made In Chicago. 1t was decided that
the traffic in the new territory would
not justify the ss,0O0,0O0 outlay.
A district farm loan association.
comprising twenty-one farm loan assO-
Citations of southern Idaho was formed
at Twin Falls last week. The new as
sociatiOn was formed after days
meeting with representatives from the
federal land bank of Spokane. E. G.
Davis of Buhl was elected president
Of the new organization.
The body of John NJ. Quinn, former
ly of Denver. general manager OF the
Vitagraph Company, who died ut a
Hollywood sanitarium, has been sent
to Chicago for burial. Albert E.
Smith, president of the film company,
accompanied the body. Heart disease
caused Quinn's death few hours aft
er his arrival in Los Angeles from Chi
cagO, his physicians said.
Resolutions criticizlng the federal
immigration bill recently introduced
by Representative johnson of Wash
lngton, before Congress and protesting
against the proposed allotments of i'm
migrants, were adopted at San Fran
cisco by members of the Italian Fed
Grafton of California. The bill, ac-
cording to speakers, is deliberately
favorable to the Nordic races"
Although 1t Is only eight years since
Los Angeles completed, at cost of
$GO, 100000, a conduit to bring water
from Ownes river, 240 miles distant,
this source of supply soon will become
inadequate and the cost of the pro-
posed supplementary system probably
will reach $1OO,O0O.0OO. William Null
holland, water supply engineer, is re-
ported to be at work on preliminary
plans for tapping the Colorado river
and extending conduit or other means
of transporting the water to Los An
geles.
Resolutions urging Congress to en-
act the American Legion program for
adjusted compensation for world war
veterans and demanding congress
sional investigation Of an alleged
powerful campaign by big business
interests to defeat the measure by
methods of misinformation and init
midatlon' were adopted at mass
meeting in Seattle Of western Wash
lngton ex-servlce men. Virtually all
the thirty-two American Legion posts
Of western Washington were repre-
sented at the gathering.
WASHINGTON
Chief Justice Taft has recovered
from his recent attack Of indigestion.
Congress is slowly recovering Its
equilibrium, upset by developments in
the oil inquiry
In Its latest search for valuable min
eral wealth the government is sending
q party Of expert engineers on mid
winter expedition to the tip of Alas
ka on the Arctic to survey some $4,000
square miles Of uncharted wilderness,
rugged mountain chains and large
stretches of undulating treeless plains
| The House defeated resolution
proposing constitutional amendment
to prohibit issuance Of tax-exempt se-
curities. The vote, which came after
TWO debates, was 247 to 1873, or seven
less than the required two-thirds.
| Recommendation Of more frequent
grain crop reports during the growing
season and enlargement of the per
sonnel Of the federal crop reporting
organization was made to the Depart
ment Of Agriculture by group OF
grain growers, dealers, threshers, mil
lers and representatives of boards OF
trade called by Secretary Wallace tt
suggest Improvements.
The United States Senate, will
which Woodrow Wilson was In violen
conflict during the latter days of hi,
administration, paid reverentIal 'tribut,
to the former President. With bowet
heads, the senators on the floor ant
the spectators in the galleries, heart
from Senator Joseph T. Robinson, tn,
Democratic leader, announcement O.
Mr. Wilson's death and then from Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodge. Republican
Massachusetts, the former President.
most bitter political opponent, a tri
butte to his great-ess.
Refusal of the German government
to put Its embassy flag at half staff IL
honor of Woodrow Wilson resulted il
n demonstration In front of the EN-
bassy building and the calling of po
lice reserves. Nearly $50 taxi drivers
including many ex-service men. assem-
bled Mt the German embassy at Massa
chusetts avenue and planted pole II
the front lawn with nn American fla]
Mt half mast.
William G. McAdoo has announce,
| that ha had Terminated hiS profocvi nm