The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1920-07-24

WESTERN
The California Automobile Trade
Association has Withdrawn charses
filed with the Department of Justice
that production of oil on the Pacific
coast was being held down in order
TO force up, the price.
A farmer near Salem, Ore, unable
to run because of crippled hip, shot
and killed John Leonardo, escaped pa
tient from the State Hospital for thu
Insane, when Leonardo charged him
with a pitchfork in a field.
= Col. NJ. NJ. FINLEY of Iowa, l6Sth in
fantry, Rainbow division, was chosen
by the nominating committee OF the
first reunion of veterans Of that divi-
sion to head the organization for the
coming year and elected AT the conveD-
ton at Birmingham.
After having refused to accept ex.
ecutive clemency from former Cover
nors Colquitt and Ferguson, Uncle
Bill Edwards, eccentric Texas convict,
aged 40, wrote the governor for a par
don as a birthday present on July 10,
1920. 1t was Immediately granted.
Oil from nearby plants will seized
If necessary to operate the Mare Isl
and navy yard at Vallejo, Calf, when
its present two weeks supply is eX-
hausted, Capt. Q. J. Cheatham, naval
supply officer, announced. On ace
of differences over price, no oil Is be-
ing delivered by oil companies to the
yard.
Union butchers were permanently
njoined by District Judge ]. w. An
derson at Sioux City, Iowa, from pick
citing meat markets which the union
men consider unfair to organized In
Dor. The markets obtained temper
airy injunction a month ago. The union
men will appeal to the State Supreme
Court.
Three men were instantly killed
when an airplane in which they were
riding crashed to the ground at Occur
d'Alene, Idaho The dead are Gus
Erickson, Bonner's Ferry, Idaho; Pc
ter Savage, Kellogg, Idaho, and Pilot
Cleo Shelton Miller of Pullman, Wash.
The accident was witnessed by more
than LOCO spectators.
Fred Delmar, owner of wild anim'
act, suffered badly lacerated arm anf
other injuries when attacked by lion
in n cage at the fair grounds in Siou
CITY. Iowa. The attack was made after
DeImar had jabbed the lion with II
fork. While the lion was chewing Del
mars arm, the trainer gave mighty
lunge. throwing the animal off, am
then ran from the cage.
WASHINGTON
Bids to supply 100000 pairs of
shoes for American bluejackets al
prices ranging from S5.79 to $3.50 per
pair were opened by the Navy Depart
ment. Twelve companies returned
bids. Action was deferred.
Plotted by Admiral Hugh Rodman,
rommander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet,
the destroyer on which Secretary Dan
.els and Secretary Payne left Seattle,
reached Ketchikan, Alaska, in the rec
ord time of thirty-six hours, cutting
five hours off the previous best time
for that run.
The big packers have demanded
more than 100000 from the War De
partment for the cancellation of an ora
contract for meats which were to have
been delivered during the three months
after the signing of the armistice.
Whether this sum or any part OF II
will be paid will be determined by Sec
cretary Baker.
The body of former Surgeon Gen
eral Gorgas, who died recently in Lon
don, will be brought to the United
States on the army transport Poca-
bontas. The War Department an
nounced that the transport has been
ordered to stop at Southampton. Eng,
on the return trip from Europe to
take aboard Mrs. Gorgas and the
body of her husband.
Secretary of War Baker, who IL
chairman of the water power commits
sion, created by the new water powe
act, has appointed committee OF de
partmental representatives TO draw NJ
rules and regulations for the admin
istration of the new act. Maj. Ger
e. Fl. Crowder, judge advocate gen
eral and former provost marshal gen
eraI in charge of the Administrative
of the draft act, is head of the com
mttee.
A gray timber wolf, weighing siXt
pounds or more, was killed the othel
day by James KEGS, who lives east
Richmond, Ind, in a woods adjoinin'
the golf links of the Richmond Countr
Club. The animal had been preying
poultry in the vicinity for sever''
days.
e An agreement has been reached III
tween wholesalers. and retailers
pittsburg, Pa, it has been announce
10 sell bread by the ounce instead
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