The Dolores star., 1924-03-07
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OoiNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

was arrested in Los Angeles at the in
stance of the company, charged with
embezziement and forgery Involving
$4,000
Utah's wealth was 1888. Az 900 at
fhec lose of 1922, the census bureau
announced in Washington. That was
an increase of 3d. per cent over 1912.
The per capita wealth was S3,247, an
increase of 63 per cent.
Destruction of some 1900 head of
caftie and hogs, infected with hoof-
hnd-mouth disease has been started
ty federal and state officials as the
mos; drastic step thus far in the fight
against the scOurge in California.
Ten California counties are under
strict federal or state quarantine,
while provisional quarantine has
been placed on eleven others, in a
fight ngainst an outbreak of foot and
mouth disease that has attracted the
attention of the nation.
Two women narrowly escaped death
by asphyNiation and more than SjO,-
900 worth of motion picture films were
destroyed by a fire that started in
cutting room of the William Fox stu
1ios In Hollywood The women were
Misses Catherine Vose and Josephine
Rompagne.
Heavyweight hens have mark to
shoot at to beat the record made in
Los Angeles by a Rhode Island Red
belonging to Mrs. Wilson Lapman. The
fowl laid an egg more than three inch
es long and weighing in excess of six
ounces, an achievement which Its own
er says has not been egualed in any
American barnyard this season.
Forty-nine Hindus were locked in
Pullman at the railroad station at
Calexico, Calf The Hindus arrived
In bond from Hong Kong, billed to
Mexico, but immigration officials at
BeXicali, just across the border from
CaleNico, refused admission to them,
although their passports bear the visa
of the Mexican consul in Hong Kong.
There is no room for them in Mexico,
u WAS explained.
Twenty-eight thousand dollars in
currency WINS scattered along the right
OF way of the Southern Pacific com
paDy for 125 miles when the sack con-
tanning the payroll of the Nevada Con-
soidated Copper Company at Ely.
New, was thrown from the train at
Cohre, junction point. The sack
bounced back under the car and was
FOrn open The loss was not discov-
cred until the train reached CarlIn.
WASHINGTON
Tw" major amendments were fncor-
porated in the revenue bill by the
House amid storms of debate involv-
ing series of personal exchanges,
threats of Republican organization
leaders to vote against the passage of
the entire bill and a warming from
Representative Mills, Republican. New
York, of the possibility of presiden-
tiaI veto. The session ended in a row
over reduction of the automobile
taxes.
Estimates that $1,000 Indians may,
upon application. become American
citizens, without sacrificing any of
their tribal rights, were made by the
Indian office in a report on the Sny-
der bill. recently reported favorably
by the House committee on Indian af-
fairs. TwO-thirds of the country's In
dian population now enjoy American
citizenship.
New terms and conditions under
which the government would dispose
OF its entire merchant fleet, cOmpris-
ing ,3:3;J vessels of various types, were
announced recently by the shipping
board in general advertisement call
ing for bids. Records show that only
a quarter of the whole tonnage now is
In operation, the remainder comprising
the "laid up" fleet
The news bureau of the Republican
national committee has issued a state
ment declaring the act which gives the
secretaries of the navy and interior the
power To lease public oil reserves was
fathered by Senator Walsh, Democrat,
Montana. That section under which
Secretary DENLY acted in signing the
Doheny and Sinclair leases, the state
ment said, was written by former Sec
retary Josephus Daniels.
Karl g. Schuyler, Denver attorney,
took the stand in the Senate oil inves-
iigation to explain the million-dollar
oil contract which ]. Leo Stack of
Denver and Fred Bonfils, publisher of
the Denver Post obtained from Harry
y. Sinclair for quitting the claims on
Teapot dome. In lengthy prepared
statement, Schuyler strongly defended
the contract under which Sinclair
agreed to pay Stack and Bonfils ST.
600 600, and repudiated all reports that
the settlement resulted from newspa-
per attacks on the oil magnate