The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-17


barn of the City Ice Company, burn
ing TO death 11S horses and three mo-
tor trucks and resulting in damage
estimated at 100000.
Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Searle have
been acquitted of charges of killing
Mrs. Hilda Neamy, whose body was
found in the furnace of her home in
Lead, S. D., last January. Mrs. Neamy
was Mrs. Searle's mother.
A. ]. Cooper, %, an employe of the
Union Pacific railroad, was killed at
North Platte, Neb., when he was struck
by a switch engine that was running
wild Cooper stepped from behind Il
train into the path of the runaway To-
comotive.
Eggs have been nationalized in soviet
Russia, according TO dispatch re-
ceived by the Department of State at
Washington. A decree apportioning
the amount of eggs to be consumed in
each soviet district has been signed by
NicoIai Lenine. If the hens do their
fun duty all will be well.
Hundreds of head of cattle have been
rushed to the border by both Ameri-
can and Mexican owners of ranches
in northern Sonora and many of them
already have been crossed into the
United States. Efforts will be made
to place the livestock on grazing
ground on this side of the line until
the situation in Sonora is stabilized.
Appeals to the people and legsla-
tures of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
California, Nevada, New Mexico and
Arizona will be made by Governor
Thomas Campbell of Arizona, the new
ly elected president of the League of
the Southwest, to obtain contributions
10 finance an educational campaign
for the Colorado river basin project,
covering 244, 1000 acres.
Residents of Sitka say that the
herds of seal migrating northward to-
ward Bering sea this spring are great
er than they have seen in years and
that the migration is three weeks
ahead of its usual time. Countless
thousands of the seal have been pass
ing Sitka. Government officials say
the great size of the migratory herd
is evidence it pays to protect
DtHlu StnAtHtt luS p''b BdSS'u III
the Superior Court on Nichon Martin,
convicted by jury on March 29th at
Prescott, AriZ., on II charge of having
murdered Arthur De Steunder, an
overseas veteran of the Canadian
army, whose partly burned body was
found on the desert near Yampa, Ariz.,
last October. Martin was sentenced
TO be hanged June % next.
Clarence Sage, former chief special
officer of mining company at Jer-
ONE, Ariz, was found guilty by jury
at Prescott, Ariz., in Superior Court
of an assault charge preferred by Mrs.
Florence Schendel, II years old. She
had testified policemen had taken her
from her room in a hotel and turned
her over to Sage and two men com
panionS, who forced her to accompany
them to Sage's apartments under
threat to place her in Jail with Mexi-
can prisoners if she refused.
WASHINGTON.
The United States Bituminous Coal
Commission, which settled the dispute
between soft coal miners and opera
tors, declared in n formal statement
that present prices of bituminous coal
"were ineXcusable" and "out of all re-
lation to the increase in the cost of
production caused by higher wages
granted by the commission"
A bill to re-enact the law imposing
tax of so per cent on excess war
profits has been introduced by Rep
resentative Johnson, Republican, South
Dakota, as a means of raising rev.
enue for soldier bonus. There also
would be a levy on the privilege of
issuing stock dividends The bill would
be made applicable to profits of 1919,
1920 and 1921, and Mr.. johnson fig
ured it would raise 81 00o,000,00o.
Capt Ronald Amundsen, discoverer
of the south pole and now leader of a
north polar expedition, has not left his
ship, the Maude, for a final dash to
the pole. The denial of the recent re-
port from London that the Amundsen
dash had actually begun was received
in Washington by Gilbert Grosvenor,
president of the National Geographic
Society,
All German cargo vessels taken over
by the government have been disposed
of TO private interests, the weekly
sales report of the Shipping Board,
made public, shows. During the week
ending April 10th the board sold
twenty-eight vessels for sd, ,751 ,065.
The Sells bill providing pensions of
from $12 to S13 month for disabled
veterans of the Spanish-American war,
Boxer uprising and the Philippine in
surrection was ordered favorably re-
ported by the Senate Pensions Com
nittee.