The Colorado statesman., 1920-10-02

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WESTERN
A man who registered at Great
Falls, Mont, hotel as w. Il. Sullivan of
Denver, was kicked to death in quar-
rel in the business district in that city.
His assailant is alleged to have been
Il. r. Gust Il Great Northern railroad
employe, who was arrested.
FL. Williams and Harry Lund were
killed and Mrs. Lund and Mrs. Will
liams and three Williams children were
Injured when a gasoline speeder on
which they were riding jumped off an
elghty-foot trestle on logging road
between Wheeler and Cochran, Ore.
Holbrook, Ariz.-Leonard Douglass
was instantly killed at Adamana, Ariz.,
when a motor truck he was driving
was struck by a Santa Fe train. His
body was taken to Holbrook. Relatives
at Fort Stanton, N. NJ, have been no.
tilted. Douglass was employed by an
Oil company near here.
Suit for $1,7OO,145 Inheritance taxes,
interest and penalties alleged to be
unpaid was filed in the United States
district court at San Francisco by the
government against the estate of the
late Henry Miller millionaire Cali
fornia cattlcman.
Raw alcohol that cost him S15 a
quart was watered by Pete konwinsky
and sold in pop bottles at SO the bot
tie, Konwinsly told the judge at Al
bion, Nebr. His only expense was n
commission of 80 cents bottle, which
he paid agents" who attended to his
sales of the 5000" concoction.
The Santa Fe railroad handled %
by per cent more business in the first
eight months of this year, represented
by carloads, than it did in the corre-
spending period last year and 11.2 per
cent more than for the same period in
1918, according to a bulletin just is
sued by the railroads general office at
Topeka, Kan.
The University of California student
who maintains an automobile for his
or her own use will not be looked upon
with favor hereafter, declares a recent
editorial in the student daily, the Cali
fornian. President Barrows has issued
q statement condemning the custom
and appealing for standards Of great
er simplicity, especially in dress.
While Jake Kramer, a farmer liv-
ing near Fort Morgan, was trying to
fix a tractor, his left leg became
caught in the moving machinery and
was torn off above the knee. Kramer
and another man were using tractor
to pull their plow. Something went
wrong with the tractor, and Kramer
left his plow and climbed to the top
of the tractor to adjust it. The motor
was still running, and as he stopped
over he slipped and his left leg was
thrust into the machinery.
WASHINGTON
Missouri has a population Of 3,403,-
SAT, an increase of 110,212, or 3.3 per
cent, over 1910, the census bureau has
announced.
A feet of 2S5 wooden steamers to-
falling 994,235 deadweight tons, has
been offered for sale by the shipping
board. The sale will be private and
bids will be received until Oct. 8, and
then opened.
News that Roberto Pesqueira, flnan-
cial agent of the Mexican government
Mt New York, called on Under Secre-
tary Davis at the state department to
urge immediate recognition of the new
Mexican regime. caused something OF
a stir at the Mexican embassy An
official statement issued by the EN-
bassy said that 1t was the only agency
II fn, In,
United States.
Rent rrofiteering has been renewed
with such relentless vigor in the ma
tion's capital this summer that return
Ing members of Congress are up IL
arms, so much so that some of then
are seriously discussing removal o
government departments to other sec
tions of the country to get even will
the "unconscionable" landlords, who's
robbery" Senator Kenyon of Iowa
said, would make Captain Kidd ant
his band of pirates look like pikers.
Replacing lost milk bottles adds t.
the price of milk paid by city consum
ers, an investigation by the department
of agriculture has disclosed, altho NJ
attempt was made to fix the amour
added to consumers bills for this rea
son. In at least twenty-seven cite
Junk dealers were found to carry on I
regular traffic in milk bottles.
To forestall the possibility of bi
luminous coal shortage anywhere IL
the country this winter coal operator
are bending every effort to attain
weekly output of more than 100000
tons of soft coal from now to Dec. ]
said a statement by the National Goa
association.
Gradual return to the law of suppl.
and demand as governing influenc,