The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIoN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.


For the first time in it's history, Salt
AXE City has at its head a Socialist
mayor.
While George NJ. Cox, a Santa Fe
telegraph operator, lay murdered at
his key at Summit, on Cajon Pass,
Calf, every train on that division,
both freight and passenger, ran wild.
Henry Mouseon, a negro, who shot
and killed the twelve-year-old daugh-
ter of d. Merrell, farmer near Pecan
Gap, Tex, was hanged from a tele-
phone pole in a public square at Coop
er by mob.
Detective Peter Hart was shot and
killed in Chicago while watching
South Michigan avenue garage said
to be the headquarters for the gang
of automobile bandits led by James
B. Perry.
The display of the red flag of anar-
ohy or any other banner emblematic
of organized opposition to the law of
California will be a crime if the bill
fathered by the Grand Army of the
Republic becomes law.
Trains are stalled, wires are down
and cattle are dyong in the worst
storm the Wood River district of Ida
ho has experienced in thirty years.
For two weeks a blizzard has ragged,
entirely isolating several points from
communication, light and water.
The 100000 bonds rendered in be-
half of Eugene Clancy OF San Fran
cisco were not approved by the Chi
cago court because of objections made
by District Attorney Miller, who pros
ecuted the union leaders in the Indi-
annapolis dynamite conspiracy" trial.
Mrs. Edyth Ellerbeck Read, mem
ber of the lower house of the Utah
Legislature, died at Salt Lake from
nervous prostration. She was elected
on the Republican ticket at the last
election, and her condition became
critical following an exciting cam
paign.
Scenes of wild disorder occurred on
the floor of the lower branch of the
Wyoming Legislature when Speaker
Martin l.. Pratt and Speaker Pro Tenn
pore w. j. Wood engaged in two sep
arate fist-fights, during which Speak
er Pratt threw Wood from the speak
er's platform.
A solution TO the problem of dispos-
ing advantageously of the frost-bitten
fruit in the citrus belt was partially
reached at Los Angeles when it was
decided to experiment with oranges
and lemons in the manufacture of de
paturated alcohol. Thousands of tons
of fruit may be used for this purpose.
Joseph Tuffree, who would have
been 103 years of age in less than one
month, died at his home in Marshall
town, Ia, after brief illness with the
grippe. Tuffree is said to have been
the Oldest member of the Order of
Elks in the world. having Joined the
organization on his one hundredth
birthday.
The method to be used hereafter in
executing criminals in the State of
Utah mas become a topic widely dis
cussed since the Legislature convened
two weeks ago. The latest idea ex-
pressed is that the condemned crimi-
nails be allowed to take their own lives
after they have exhausted every
means to have the death sentence set
aside.
George w. Norris, Republican, was
elected United States senator to sue
ceed Senator Norris Brown by the Ne
braska Legislature. The vote was taken
in the two houses separately and was
unanimous in both houses. Norris was
the choice of the voters in the state
primary The Democrats have ma
jority of the Legislature on joint bal
lot.