The Holly chieftain., 1924-02-28
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOlNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN


An earthquake of moderate inten-
sity was registered on the seismo-
graph of the University of California
last week. 1t was apparently south by
southeast from Berkeley, Calf, and
about 225 miles distant, 1t was an
nounced. The estimated distance
would place the center near the small
town of Pathway in Kearn county.
The first conviction of the campaign
by Wyoming and federal authorities
to stop the dumping of short weight
and adulterated foodstuffs into Wyo-
ming was secured in Cheyenne when
the Independence Coffee Company of
Denver, through Its agent entered IL
plea of guilty of distributing short
weight coffee. A fine of S25 and costs
was imposed.
w. H. Warren, who has been in the
county Jail in Los Angeles since Jan.
15 following his arrest in San Diego
on charge of passing worthless
check, has confessed that he killed his
wife and S-month-old baby in San Pc
dro last December. according to an an
nouncement by sheriff's officers inves-
tigating the case. Warren, according to
the reported confession, threw the bod
les into a pit that later was swept by
oil fire.
A hotel or public resort is respons-
ible for the full amount of any val
liable lost or stolen after being en-
trusted to its care, the District Court
of Appeals in San Francisco held in
granting Carl Muehlebach, wealthy
Kansas City hotel owner, and Mrs
Meuhlebach, full return on jewelry
valued at $4,000 which was stolen
from the safe of the Hotel Paso
Robles at Paso Robles, Calf, in jan
uary, 1921.
Several hundred .men and boys
perched on Dead Beat HILL" over
looking Ascot speedway, battled forty
policemen and special officers of Los
Angeles when the latter tried to dis
lodge them from their gratuitous view
of the race course by using tear
bombs. Many heads were battered in
the melee, and two men, Special Of
ficer Jerry O'Brien and Larry Speer,
were taken to the receiving hospital
with bad scalp wounds. -Four men
were arrested and charged with in
citngsa riot and battery.
WASHINGTON
A complete investigation of the fed
eral government land grants to the
Northern Pacific Railway Company is
planned by congressional leaders. 1t
probably will be conducted by joint
committee Of the House and Senate.
The principles which will guide
awards on all claims arising from the
sinking of the Lusitania are set forth
in decision handed down by Judge
Edwin B. Parker, umpire of the Ger
man-American mixed claims commits
sion. disposing of fifty-seven cases.
Under Judge Parker's decision, which
was made public few days ago, the
German government must pay about
81 100000 in eighty-eight separate
awards to Americans for losses sus-
tanned through death. injury, property
damage or otherwise.
Henry Breault, torpedo man, second
class, proved such a hero when the
submarine S-5 sank near Panama last
Oct. % that he is to receive n medal
of honor from Secretary of the Navy
Denby.
A total of S56,75S,513, of which ST.
100000 would be available for i'm
provement of highways during the
coming fiscal year, is carried in the
annual agricultural bill reported by the
house appropriations committee. The
total is $16,OS2,94O less than the ap-
preparation year ago, when S32,3Oo,-
600 was allotted for state and road
construction, and is $47l,312 less than
budget estimates.
The last ray of hope that the pro-
posed Polar expedition by the giant
navy dirigible Shenandoah might yet
be made was believed to have faded
when the House naval affairs commit
tee definitely refused to take up the
Rogers resolution giving congressional
approval to the project. High naval
officers are still clinging to the hope
that President Coolidge may yet re-
quest that Congress authorize the eX-
pedition.
A charge that Senator Phipps, Re
publican, Colorado, had voted as
member of the appropriations commit
tee to put money into his own pock-
et' was made in the Senate by Sen
ator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona. The
Arizona senator was protesting against
the reduction by the committee from
$765, 900 to S515,0O0 for the Yuma lrri-
CATION project in California and Ari-
IONA. He asserted that the Southern
Sierra High Power Company now sup
plies electric current in the district