The Colorado statesman., 1920-07-10


WESTERN
Robbers blew open the safe at the
Atchlson, Topeka & Santa Fe passen-
ger depot at Sweetwater, Texas. and
obtained $1,000. II was the fifth time
since 1911 the depot safe had been
robbed.
Pure-bred cattle come high in Iowa.
At a recent sale of forty-odd head of
the Angus variety near Otumwa, an Hv-
erage price of S3,210 was paid for each
animal. "Enunn E." a prize COW,
brought $4,000.
Passenger train No. 81 on the Great
Northern railroad, running between
Sioux Falls, S. D., and ST. Paul. Mimi,
was totally destroyed by fire near
Pipestone, Mimi, the seventy-flVe per-
sons aboard escaping with only minor
injuries.
In n race riot in Denison, Texas, the
outgrowth OF a dispute between ne
gro and white boy, seven negroes were
beaten and injured by mobs of 200 or
more white men and boys. The trou-
BILE started over an argument at base
ball game. None was injured seriously.
Francis IL. Cook, aged TO- publisher
of the first newspaper in Spokane and
owner of the first street car In that
city, died there after a lingering Ill
ness. He was born I'm Marietta, Ohio,
and came to the Northwest in 1871. He
left a widow and eleven grown chill
dren.
Frank Hanson, 4 parachute jumper,
jumped 400 feet to his death from an
airplaDe at Casper, Wyo., when a de-
fective snap on his harness released
him from his parachute. large
crowd was given a thrill as Aviator
Bert Cole attempted to dive his plane
beneath the man and break his fall.
Cole missed him.
A dIspatch to the FL Paso Times
from its correspondent in Torreon,
Mexico, says Francisco Villa has
signed an armistice and agreed to
cease attacks on trains, garrisons or
towns. The rebel chieftain also has
agreed TO surrender under certain con
ditions to be approved by Provisional
President de la Huerta.
Detective william Goodenbour was
instantly killed in pistol battle with
a bandit in the ii. Marx clothing store
at Waterloo, Iowa, and the bandit was
killed by officer William Wilson, who
rushed to the detectives assistance.
The bandit was attempting to cash an
American Express money order, stolen
in Bertha, Mimi, when the officer ap-
peared on the scene.
WASHINGTON
Governor Larrazolo of New Mexico,
decided against the plea of Elbert w.
Blancett for executive clemency and
Blancett will be hanged on July g.
Blancett soht and killed Clyde Ar
mour of Sioux City, Iowa, in Santa Fe
county in the fall of 1916.
Lord Abernon, the newly appointed
British ambassador to Germany, pre-
sented his credentials to president
Ebert Mt Berlin. He declared that the
..world crisis will be overcome only by
general collaboration of which the
basis is maintenance of firm, friendly
alliances and strict execution OF the
peace treaty"
Marked improvement in the yellow
fever situation in San Salvador was
reported in an official dispatch re-
ceived at Washington by the Saliva
dorean legation from its government.
1t was stated that the quarantine at
Sonsonate and nearby towns had been
lifted, and that sanitary conditions
throughout the country are good.
]. S. Eubanks, president of the st.
Louis Yardmen's Association, and the
nantiSt minister
of st. Louis, were escorted out of town
by a citizens committee of nine as
they were about to address mass
meeting of labor union people at Pine
Bluff. Ark. They were taken three
miles from the city. partially stripped,
whipped, and told to leave the city
and stay away.
The War Department has nvaila-
BILE quantity of condemned guns,
mortars and howitzers for donation to
municipal corporations, posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic and Sol
diers' Monument associations, Col. A.
w Maish, ordnance officer of the east
ern department has announced. Appli-
cations may be made to the office of
chief of ordnance, War Department,
Washington.
The federal trade commission has
cited Montgomery, Ward Co., Chica-
go mail order house, in formal com
pIaint of unfair competition in the sale
,f LIQUID roofing cement. The charge
is made that false representations were
made by the company in its catalog
when liquid roofing cement was adver-
tised as containing no coal tar. 1t is
.lnimed 1t did contain coal tar
REPRESENTATIVE Dick /. Morgan of