The Holly chieftain., 1924-04-24
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE
WESTERN

Huuhe u RAIN AT least one and one II uar r.
ter inches within an area seventy-five
miles In diameter in the vicinity OF
Hanford, Calif., between March l5 and
| April 10, was given check for 5000
by farmers who engaged him.
| The 5I3 men who walked out ut the
Midvale. Utah, plant of the United
States Smelling, Mining and Refining
Company ut Salt Lake City, when their
new wage demands were not met, have
| returned TO work, accepting 25-cent
daily increase. to be effective alI year.
The men asked for SO cents daily when
they quit
In order that tramps on their post
winter exodus from California may not
carry the foOt-and-mouth disease into
Utah, A. A. Hinckley, commissioner of
agriculture, asked officials of the
Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and
Western Pacific railroads to have all
trains stopped at the Nevada Califor-
MIA line so that the transients might be
subjected to disinfection.
The state of Arizona will interpose
no objection to a request by w. II.
Grosh, aged iather of Ted Grosh, slain
university student, that he be allowed
to spring the gallows' trap to execute
William B. Ward, Globe negro, who
was convicted of the youths murder,
1t was announced in Florence by Il. b.
Sims, superintendent of the state prls-
on. We will offer no objection II Mr..
Grosh wants to be the executioner,"
said the superintendent.
California and Arizona, sovereign
states of the Union, are in arms
against each other over the cattle in
fection quarantine. Measures to pre-
vent the spread of the foot and mouth
disease from California into other
parts of the United States have
brought about an extraordinary sItua-
tion where armed guards from each of
these states are face to face on the
border neur Yuma, Ariz.
The issue between the United States
Of America and the Mammoth Oil Com
pany concerning the validity of the
Mammoth's lease on the Teapot dome
naval oil reserve, Wyoming, became
Joined in Cheyenne when the Mammoth
filed its answer in Cheyenne to the
governments bill of equity praying an-
hulment of the lease on the ground that
it was obtained through colluslon and
fraud. The MammOth's answer pruys
that the governments bill In equity be
dismissed. 1t contains sweeping de-
nial of the governments charges.
WASHINGTON
Senate Democrats went on record
for cash and insurance bonus bill In
minority report of the finunce com
mittee made public by Senator Walsh
of Massachusetts. although 1t was in
dicated on the floor the party would
support the pending straight insurance
| bill ito assure enactment into law OF q
bonus measure" The report declared
| such plan would cost the government
about $1,000, 100000 less than the pend.
ing bill.
| A new air record was made few
days ago when Lieut. Homer b. Chan.
dler, U. S. A., ended flight of 2,3Ol
miles at Mitchell field. breaking the
elapsed time flight over the eastern dl
vision of the model airways. He made
the journey in three days, six hours
The best former record was five days
made by Lieut. NJ. L. Elliott.
The Interior Department announced
the opening of about 341, 600 acres O1
public land in Colorado. Wyoming Ida
ho, Arizona and Nevada to hOmestea aG
and desert entry Official plats Of the
land surveyed are to be filed in local
land offices, which later will announc,
the dates when the tracts will be avail
able for entry
J. Frank Norfleet, Nemesis" of the
Denver bunco pack, most of whom are
now kenneled at the Colorado state
penitentiary, may be reimbursed fol
his years of man-huntins to bring the
pack to justice if Il bill introduced ir
Congress by Representative Marvin
Jones of Texas and backed by Repre-
sentative William \. Vuile of Denver
goes through. The bill would give Nor
fleet $1,000 which he spent in chas
ing over the country rounding up til,
hunks.
Some action designed to encourage
participation by women in the comm.
election was predicted by leaders at
tending the thirty-third Continental
Congress of the Daughters of tn.
American Revolution. President Cool
idsc, addressing the convention, point
ed out that for the first time in a M
tional election the women of tn.
United States have known far in nd
vance that they would have a voice II
the decision and urged that they cxer
else their right of suffrage to the full
est extent.