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NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
SAUftHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVBNTB
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WSBTERN
Armed raider* In automobile*
swooped down on the South Pacific
railroad abopa at Colfax, Calif., and
after firing several volley* at the win*
dows, which were shattered, and at
the walla of the plant, withdrew as
mysteriously as they had coma. Mo*
body was Injured.
Harold Anderson, alias Eugene Mil
ton, charged with grand larceny, es
caped from the Silver Bow, Mont,
county jail by sawing the bars on a
fourth floor window and lowering him*
self to the ground by a rope made of
blankets. Jack Brown, held on a va
grancy charge, was caught by a dep
uty as he was attempting to follow An
derson.
Earl E. Patterson, teller In the Lum
bermen’s Trust Bunk at Portland, ar
rested recently charged with embezzle
ment of $34,600, has made a confes
sion, according to the police, admitting
Shortages extending over a period of
eighteen months and had said "J. C.
Osier, an automobile denier, received
the proceeds.” A warrant was Issued
for Osier.
Eight of the sixty members of the
United Stutes Nuval Academy of 1881,
who have been attending u reunion of
the class In Toklo, returned to this
country a few days ago on the United
Btates transport Logan. Secretary of
the Navy Denby, a member of the
class, and the rest of the party are ex
pected to arrive on the transport Hen
derson about Sept. 1.
But for her presence of mind, Mary
Miles Mlnter might have suffered se
rious disfigurements recently when
she was thrown Into a window In the
vestibule of her private railroad car
by the Jar of a switch engine, at Vic
tor, Idaho. Throwing up her arms, the
petite blonde star escaped with a se
vere cut on her left arm and numer
ous scratches and brulshes about her
tody.
The public of the United States and
the world at large has been “deliber
ately misinformed as to the results of
prohibition In San Francisco,” and
“there has been a decided increase In
the number of Inmates In state cor
rective Institutions since prohibition
began,” the Grain Trade Association
of the Ban Francisco Chamber of Com
merce said In resolutions made public
recently. The total monthly arrests
In the city for Intoxication have
“steadily and rapidly Increased since
the first month of prohibition,” the
resolution said. They continued that
not only has there been an Increase
In the number of Inmates In state
prisons, Insane asylums and Institu
tions for the feeble-minded, tyut a
decided Increase In serious crime.
WASHINGTON
American citizens sending parcel
post packages to Mexico no longer
need worry about them being lost. Ef
fective July 1, a regular registered in
demnity will be paid by the Postoffice
Department for packages sent to the
42entral American republic that disap
pear while in transit. This notice was
.sent to all postmasters by Third As
sistant Postmaster General Glover.
Representative Lemuel P. Padgett
•of Tennessee died at his home In
Washington.
Robert B. Kerr has been nominated
to be postmaster at North Urosvenor
Dale, Colo.
Brig. Gen. Oliver Lyman Spaulding,
former assistant secretary of the treas
ury and for many years prominent In
public affairs In Michigan, died recent
ly at his home In Washington, aged 80
years. General Spaulding served
throughout the Civil war with the
Twenty-third Michigan (hfantry.
Retail food prices In fifteen out of
twenty-four representative cities In the
United States showed an Increase dur
ing the month from June 15 to July 16,
the Department of Labor's bureau of
labor statistics announced. A 2 per
cent Increase was noted at Denver and
a 1 per cent Increase at Salt Lake City.
American relief work In soviet Rus
sia will continue for three or four
months at least. Secretary Hoover an
nounced upon his return from New
York, where he met with Col. William
N. Haskell, head of the American re
lief administration forces In Russia;
former Governor Goodrich of Indiana
and other officials to decide thd fu
ture program for Russian relief.
Nullification of the decision of the
Supreme Court, ordering dissolution of
the Southern Pacific-Central Pacific
combine would be of “untold disadvan
tage to the mountain and middle west
ern states,” according «o a letter from
Governor Shoup of Colorado, received
by Senator Phipps. Similar letters and
telegrams have been received by other
senators from western and middle
western states urging that no action
be taken by any federal agency to nul
lify the purpose of the Supreme Court
decision.
FOREIGN
Dr. Wang Chong Hoi has accepted
the acting premiership of China, after
the costomary three refusals. It has
been announced.
MaJ. W. T. Blake has completed an*
other lap of his airplane journey
aroond the world, arriving at Delhi,
India, a few days ago.
Twj hundred passengers perished
when a five-car train was burned be
tween Kiev and Schevetowka, says a
report from Kiev. Included among the
victims were eight Zionist pioneers,
who were proceeding to join their
group on the way to Palestine.
Horatio Bottomley, former publisher
of the anti-American publication,
"John Bull/' was expelled from the
House of Commons, London, by a
unanimous vote. Bottomley recently
was sentenced to seven years’ Impris
onment for embezzling funds from pa
triotic organizations he organized.
Locusts have become so numerous
In Luzon that their bodies covered the
railway tracks, * causing the driving
wheels of the locomotives to slip, and
prevented the movement of a passen
ger train from Manila to Calamba,
twenty-five miles from Manila. An ex
tra engine was called before the train
could be moved.
The Prussian minister of the in
terior Issued a decree ordering the re
moval of all monarchist emblems from
the Interior and exterior of all com
munal and state buildings, besides
signboards, milestones, frontier stones,
etc., which bear similar emblems. The
decree thus carries Into effect a threat
made several months ago.
The whole Chilean cabinet resigned
recentl- following the retirement of
Armando Jaramlllo, minister of the in
terior, and Angel Guurlllo, minister of
justice. The resignations were precip
itated by disagreement with the gov
ernment's policy concerning the recent
prototol signed In Washington with
Peru, for settlement of the Tacna-Ar
ica controversy.
President Obregon has gone to Ocot
lnn, a resort near Guadnlajnra, for sev
eral weeks to recuperate from his ill
ness, It was learned recently in reliublc
quarters. His condition Is Improving
steadily. The president Intends to re
turn to Mexico City as soon as pos
sible in order to consult with depart
ment heads relative to his message to
congess when It opens early In Sep
tember.
GENERAL
Samuel de Grossky, aged 108, died
at Chicago a few days ago. “Eat care
fully, drink only moderately, let smok
ing and chewing alone; above all else,
i be faithful to your religion,” was the
advice he was fond of offering to his
seven children, forty-five grandchil
dren and twenty-seven great-grand
children.
In a letter to the Society for Pre
vention of Cruelty to Children, a Mal
den woman protested vigorously
against permitting Mary Agnes Vochee
tain, 14 years old, to preach In Boe
ton. The woman writes that the girl
would be serving herself and the com
munity much better by playing In
stead of preaching.
'Report was confirmed by W. J.
O’Connor, assistant manager of the
American Smelting and Refining Cons
pony’s smelter at East Helena, Mont.,
that the wage scale at the plant would
be Increased 60 cents a day. The
smelter will thus be paying the same
scale which will prevail In other places
In Montana for similar work, said Mr.
O’Connor.
The wet and dry issue played the
major role in political activity In pre
paration for Ohio’s primary election.
In some sections of the state, while
ministers from their pulpits were urg
ing support of candidates for state of
fice Indorsed by the Anti-saloon
League, persons on the outside filled
the church-goers automobiles with un
signed campaign literature strongly at
tacking the 'Anti-Saloon League and
the candidates Indorsed by It.
Surfuce and elevated railway em
ployes at Chicago voted 9,022 to 5,066,
to accept a 10-cent un hour slash in
wages and return to work, thus ending
a strike which parulyzed the city’s
electric transportation system. Shortly
after the result of the vote was an
nounced, the first elevated train waa
pounding toward the “loop.”
Fifteen persons were killed and
twenty-five Injured, more or less seri
ously, when two Cincinnati, Lebanon
A Northern passenger trains crashed
together head on at Lester road cross
ing In Pleasant Ridge, near Cincinnati.
One of the engines was driven back
wards, telescoping the first coach be
hind It and killing everyone inside.
Police believe the swindlers who sold
a pawnbroker a gold brick in San
Francisco recently are the same men
who sold a Juarez merchant a brass
brick with the Mexican mint stamp on
It for $14200 last summer. The Juarez
man took his brick to an assayer and
succeeded in capturing the swindlers
and getting his money back. The gang,
said to be composed of Mexicans and
Arabs, had been working In various
parts of Mexico and managed to es
cape to the United States.
A special commission of the grand
lodge of Masons In New York state
headed by Supreme Court Justice
Arthur C. Tompkins, grand master,
sailed on the Frederick VTH. to con
stitute the first Masonic lodge In the
republic of Finland. It will be located
at Helsingfors.
France will Impose penalties of an
economic and financial character upon
Germany because of her refusal to con
tinue payments on the debts contracted
by her nationals with allied nationals
before the war, It was said In official
circles at Paris,
OHEYKWNE WELLS MjQOBPj
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 15-10—Colorado State Pair, Pu*
Aug. 10-11—Crowley County Fair.
BU JKir. C, Vt-Bept. I—Latimer County
Fair. Loveland. „ ~
Sept. 5-B—Arkansas Valley Fair.
Rocky Ford. . _ .
Sept. 6-1 Boulder County Fair.
Longmont. _ .
Sept. 6-I—lnterroountain Fair and
Stock Show. Grand Junction.
Sept. 6-I—Phillips County Fair.
Holyoke.
Sept. 1-I—Washington County Fair.
Sept 18-15—Delta County Fair.
Hotchkiss. __ .
Sept 11-16—Weld County Fair. Oree-
I# Sept 11-15—LaPlatta County Fair.
Durango. _ _ ...
Sept. 11-16—Logan County Fair.
Sterling. .
Sept 11-16 Baca County Fair.
Springfield. .
Sept 18-15—Adams County Fair.
Brighton. „ _
Sept 14-16—Conejos County Fair,
lfanaska.
Sept 14-16—Elbert County Fair.
Xpt' li-,»—We.t.m . Slop. Mr.
Montrose.
B«pL lt-11 Trlnld.S-L.. AotBU
County Fair. Trinidad. _
Sept 10-11-Kiowa County Fair,
Kads.
Sept 10. 11. 11—Morgan Agricultural
Fair. Fort Morgan. _ .
Sept 10-91—Rio Grande County Fair.
Del Norte. _ .
Sept 11-11—Pueblo County Fair.
Goodpasture. _ .
Sept. 11-11—B1 Puo County Mr.
Cal ban.
Sept 11-11—Lincoln County Mr.
Hugo. _ ,
Sept 10-11—Huerfano County Fair.
Walsenburg. _ .
Oct. 1-6—Kit Carson County Fair.
Burlington. _ .
Oct 8-s—Douglass County Fair.
Castle Rock.
Morrison.—Francis T. Green, 13, wai
drowned at Allen’s lake, near Morri
son, Colo., while swimming with boj
companions.
Denver. —Reports reaching Adjt.
Gen. P. J. Hamrock of the Colorado
National Guard indicate thut 500 of the
normal force of 1,100 rull employes are
working at La Junta, despite the strike
of certain of the rail employes.
Pueblo.—D. Z. Bray and Mr. and
Mrs. Phillip Morrow, negroes, were
drowned recently when they were
caught by a wall of water ns they were
crossing Peck creek, ten miles west of
Pueblo, In an automobile. Mrs. D. Z.
Bray was saved.
Loveland. —As William Jullffe of
Berthoud was driving a load of hay
along the highway, a swarm of bees
descended upon his wagon. The team
was stung to death and Mr. Jullffe has
been In a serious condition since. He
lives one mile south of Berthoud.
Boulder. —A bond election has been
called by city officials for Aug. 22, on
a reservoir project for University hill,
Involving an expenditure of SIOO,OOO.
The growth of the city In that direc
tion mokes necessary the construction
of a storage reservoir, city officials
claim.
Boulder. —Mrs. Mitchell Leavitt, 24
years old. Is believed to have been fa
tally Injured, and her husband, Mitch
ell Leavitt, 20, suffered fractures of
shoulder blade and Jaw* and may lose
an eye, when their car failed to make
a turn on the highway at Boulder a few
days ago.
Trinidad. —J. K. Thatcher was pain
fully Injured when a motor truck which
he was driving was struck by a rail
road handcar at a grade crossing at
Trinidad. The truck was completely
turned over and nearly demolished.
None of the occupants of the handcar
were Injured.
Colorado Springs. Maywood Wat
son, 12 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Watson of Grand Junction, Colo.,
was severely Injured when a motor car
driven by his father plunged over a
seventy-five-foot embankment in Ute
Pass highway a few days ago. Mrs.
William Emmal, a sister of Mrs. Wat
son, also was painfully Injured while
Mr. and Mrs. Watson escaped with
comparatively slight Injuries.
Trinidad—Stella, 11-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. und Mrs. Paul Coml, was se
verely injured when a railroad torpe
do, with which she was playing, ex
ploded. She hit the torpedo with an ax
on the sidewalk In front of her home.
Brush.—Fire caused by an exploding
film resulted In a stampede of the au
dience und damuge of SSOO at the Em
erson theater at Brush. Because of a
teachers’ Institute that was being held
a special feature was being shown and
the film pavilion was crowded. Sev
eral received minor Injuries In th«
rush for exits. The coolness of sev
eral ex-service men who were In the
audience prevented anyone being seri
ously Injured.
Grand Junction. —The fourth violent
death in western slope counties in two
days was reported recently In the
death of Del McKinney, 23 years old,
resident of Mesa. McKinney was swim
ming in the Gunnison river, near Del
ta, when overcome by heart disease.
The other three deaths are: Suicide at
Frulta of Fred T. Turner, 42 years old;
drowning at Ekert of Lillian Williams,
2 years old, and the crushing out of
the life of Charles Kile, 4, near Cedar
edge, under a coal wagon.
Colorado Springs.—The geographical
center of Colorado is located at a
point In Park county, thirty miles
northwest of Pike's peak, according to
data given ont by the United geologi
cal survey at Washington. The de
partment has recently compiled data
showing the geographical center of
every state in the Union.
Superior.—Seven cars of a Colorado
ft Southern southbound freight train
were derailed 200 feet west of the de
pot of Superior a few days ago. The
cars were badly damaged. Iron ore |
was scattered for a great distance.
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.
Canon City.—There nre 537 P r ' so "‘
ere In the Colorado elute prison at
Canon City, according to a report t
the governor’, office from the peni
tentlnry. Only once In the history
the atnte hue there been more than
that number In confinement. The rec
ord was established In February, lUIO.
The prison population hns increased
43 per cent since December, lU-U
--loung men, ninny well educated, are
.welling the prison roll today. In shnrp
contrast to the criminals of the hist
generation, the report suld. The
smallest prison population In Colo
rado'. history wa. recorded In »■
following the coming of prohibition in
the state In 1010, according to Thomas
J. Tynan, warden of the prison, the
warden hlnmcs the aftermath of the
war and the Illicit llouor traffic for
the present Increase.
Denver.—lmxueaittie. relief from the
Interstate Commerce Commission .s m
sight In the prompt movement nf fruit
and perishable produce from the west
ern slope this season, following a de
tailed conference between the Ifater
state Commerce Commissioners of the
federal government and representative
fruit growers of Mesa, Delta, Mont
rose, Garfield and Eagle counties. Ap
proximately 8,953 cars of peaches,
pears, apples, potatoes and onions were
shipped from these five counties last
year, and it was estimated that 11,7.71
cars would be shipped this year.
Pueblo.—Establishment of a flood
district at Pueblo will not be opposed
by the rullroads thnt truverse the
Rocky mountuln district. A confer
ence at Denver In the offices of the
Colorado & Southern railroad of legal
representatives and engineers of the
road took up .discussion of the provi
sions of the flood conservation pro
gram. Representatives of the Colorado
& Southern, the Rock Island, Missouri
Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western
and Santa Fd lines attended nnd de
clared themselves In harmony with the
conservation progrutm
Monte Vista.—The San Luis Valley
H. O. G. Stock Association, whose an
nual show, held at Monte Vista, has
become one of Colorado’s important
events, Is perfecting plans for the erec
tion of a magnificent.exhibition puvll
ion on the Stumpede grounds near
Monte Vista. The plans for the build
ings were upproved ut a meeting of
the building committee und bids are
now being solicited for the work and
the contract will no doubt be awarded
In time for the completion of the build
ings for tbe big show in February.
Psgosa Springs.—The archaeological
expedition from the State Historical
and Natural History Society and the
University of Denver, which Is work
ing In the prehistoric ruins twenty-two
miles west of I'agosa. Springs, reports
the finding of a rare piece of pottery
In the form of a mountain sheep. This
Is an extremely valuable object, be
cause of the fact that animal figurines
made from pottery huve been found In
only one or two cases In the prehistoric
ruins of the Southwest.
Walsenburg.—A ranchman searching
for lost cattle came on the bodies of
two men by a wrecked car In an
arroyo of Big Sandy, a creek bed near
the Pueblo-Walsenburg road. The bod
ies were Identified os those of Anto
nio Tessltore and Frank of
Walsenburg. The two men were over
taken by a cloudburst ’.ln the arroyo
a few days ago,
Denver.—Population figures show
ing that the* number of residents In
Denver Is Increasing at such a tre
mendous rate that the city Is virtually
assured of .reaching Jts goal of. "500,-
000 by 1930” were releused recently
from the office of Robert B. Rock
well, member of the "500,000 In 1930"
publicity committee.
Denver. —Denver stands a good
chance to win the national sanatorium
to be built by the Grand Lodge of Col
ored Elks of the World, according to
information received recently.
Sterling.—The body of I». P. Tyrell.
53 yeurs old, hns been taken to his
home In Snyder, where the coroner
will hold an Inquest to determine re
sponsibility for his death. Tyrell was
a garage keeper at Snyder. He was
driving his automobile across the
Union Pacific tracks near Snydei
when his car was struck.
Fort Collins. —The Colorado Agricul
tural College at Fort Collins Is among
twenty-five Institutions designated by
the War Department as distinguished
colleges In Its lust list. Issued in Wash
ington, of distinguished colleges and
honorary military schools for 1922. It
Is the only "distinguished college” In
the Intermountnln region.
Sterling. John Dlllenberg, who
had been charged with the mur
der of his brother, Truey Dlllen
berg, at Sterling, July 3, slashed his
throat while In the county Jail, using
a razor belonging to another prisoner.
He died soon after the Jail officials
found him lying on the floor of his
cell.
Delta. —The 2-year-old daughter ol
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Williams was
drowned In Butte-ditch near Eckert,
eleven miles from Delta.
Caflon City.—Construction • work on
the Cafion City-Florence section of the
Rainbow Route highway'was begun re
cently by the C. A. Allen Construction
Company of Morrison, Colo., to which
the State Highway Commission recent
ly awarded the contract for the re
building of this Important road. The
contract price for the completion of
the road Is $08,842.95. The length of
the highway between Caflon City and
Florence Is practically nine miles, and
extends from Ninth street, Cafion City
through Lincoln park to Florence by
way of Brewster.
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