The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
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penitentinry and fined $1,000 by Fed
eral Judge George A. Carpenter of Chi
cago for violation of the Mann act.
Alison b. Cole and Vincent Crammer
condemned Nebraska murderers, have
been reprieved by Governor McKelvie
until Nov. IL in order to allow time
for disposal of applications which
were filed in Federal Court. Cole has
received fourteen reprieves and Cram
mer twelve.
Eighty pupils in the printing class
at the Central High school at st. Louis
went on strike" because a non-union
man was appointed instructor, posi-
tion formerly held by union printer.
The board of education recently ruled
that no one connected with organized
labor would be employed in the public
schools.
1t required three rounds from five
army rifles at Salina, Kan, to kill Sny-
der, trained elephant. belonging to
circus. The animal had gone mad with
hundreds of persons massed about the
animal tent. Before being killed the
elephant upset many cages containing
animals and threw one cage, contain
ing four lions, thirty feet
Mrs. Luze Corral de villa, wife of
Francisco Villa, who has resided in
San Antonio, Texas, four years, has
departed for Parral, Mexico. to join
her husband. There were twenty
others in Mrs. Villas party. The
Villas will be established on the Ha-
cienda del CanutiIo, one of the
ranches set aside for demobilized
Villistas
} Dog fnnciers of San Francisco
learned of the death in Alexandria,
La, of Bilmer Bingo. champion Aire-
dale, who won many blue ribbons at
Frisco bench shows. Bilmer Bingo,
owned by Or. w. c. Billings, formerly
of the government health service in
San Francisco. was killed by dia-
mond-head moccasin snake in the
grounds OF the Billings home.
WASHINGTON
The United States Shipping Board
bns announced the sale of five Hog
Island built ships for S7,23S,12 to the
American Fuel and Transportation Cor
porntion.
Approval of a loan of S6,T03, 400 to
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Com
pany and SS96,925 to the Terminal
Railroad Association of st. Louis, has
been announced by the interstate COM
merce commission.
President Wilson, in telegram to
ttua Of hn Mt hra ctt ta min a
workers in Pennsylvania, refused to
grant their request to reconvene the
Joint scale committee of operators and
miners for the purpose of considering
new wage award.
Controller of the Currency Williams
asserted that the records of his office
confirm Senator Owens recent charges
that certain New York banks have
loaned $500,000000 at extortionate
and burdensome interest rates, run
ming as high as 80 per cent.
That the shortage of newsprint will
be overcome by new paper mills in AL
aska, has been predicted by Col. w. b
Greeley, chief of the forest service
who has just returned from a months
inspection of timber and water power
on the Tongass national forest.
Roy Fl. Kuehling, held by the police
for investigation in connection with
the drowning of his wife, Gertrude "
Kuehling, was released after the grand
jury in the District of Columbia court
had voted not to return an Indictment
against him. Kuehling was exonerated
by coroner's jury from blame in con
nection with the death of his wife
which occurred while they were canoe
ing on the Potomac river.
An injunction restraining the ship
ping board from foreclosing $5000t
600 mortgage on the plant of the Pusey
x Jones Co., Wilmington, Del, was
granted by Justice Siddons in the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court. The
action was designed to give the com
pany opportunity to file suit against
the board with the Court of Claims in
connection with counter claims arising
out of the Communicating of the plant
by the government at the outbreak OF
the war.
An ultimate settlement of the pc
troleum controversy between the
Mexican and United States govern
ment satisfactory to both countries is
expected by DR.. A. Tore Diaz, recent
ly appointed Mexican minister to Bra
I'll, now in Washington on his way to
his new post.
Attorney General Palmer has begur
collecting evidence against several as
sociations of California fruit growers
1t was learned at the justice depart
uent, following the institution of anti
trust proceedings against the Califor.
MIA Association Of Raisin Growers.