The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-11
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EvgNTs AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERiNos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union News ssrvios
WESTERN

we're burned to death when Mrs. John
son by mistake poured gasoline into
The kitchen stove to hurry a fire.
Gerald DeWitte, 10 years old, is q
prisoner In the Stanislaus county jail
a. Modesto, Calf, charged with muir
der I'm connection with the shooting
and death of Louis Cooper, Jr., an IL
year-old playmate, near Turlock'
where both resided.
The climax of the police depart
nent's war against speeding and reck-
ess driving was reached at Sioux
City, Iowa, when Judge Sam Page
sentenced James Wilson and A. q.
Anderson to three days each In the
county Jail after they had been found
Euilty OF speeding through the heavy
.raffic.
With his brother In the engine cab
witness to the accident, Jess .. Sims,
~ years old, drayman, was ground
to pieces at Marshalltown, Ia, when
struck by a Minneapolis & st. Louis
train in the local yards. 1t is believed
Sims intended to board the pilot of the
locomotive in order to see his brother,
Walter, who was fireman on the en-
CINE.
Oregon agricultural college officials
announced an egg-laying record by Il
pullet on the ranch of G. B. Coon, To-
Gated Just outside the city limits of
Portland. For 13I consecutive days
this pullet has laid an egg, the college
authorities say. The previous record
Is said to be an egg a day for ia days.
The chicken, White Leghorn, has
laid 207 eggs in 219 days.
Utah, forty-first state in population
ten years ago, and the 1920 population
pf which was announced by the census
bureau as 449, ,446, has shown the larg-
est percentage of growth of any state
thus far announced in the fourteenth.
rensus. Its rate of growth, 20.4 per
rent, was almost as large as that for
The decade ending with 1910, but its
numerical increase was exceeded In
that decade.
The hunters and trappers made away
with 534 predatory animals in Utah in
July, hunters report, after receiving of
ficial reports from the state, This fig
hre only includes the known bagged
game, the poisoned animals and those
dying from gunshot wounds; those not
found. OF course, not being included.
There wera 3 bears, 80 wildcats, PIG
coyotes, 81 badgers, fox, l skunk, PIG
porcupines.
WASHINGTON
Army recruiting again broke all
peace-time records in August, accord
ing to statement by Adjutant Gen
eral Harris, showing 1922 enlistments
for the month. July enlistments were
1881.
Gold imports continue to exceed ex-
ports, according to figures made public
by the Federal Reserve Board for the
ten days ended August Goth. Imports
of S2,113,O0O against exports of $1,766,-
900 We're reported for the period. Sill
yer imports aggregated $1,264,OOO
while exports of that metal continued
to decline, the figure for the ten days
being $428,755.
The War Department has issued an
order permitting men of the regular
army, including those In Germany,
from New York state to register for
and cast their ballots in the election
this November.
Mai. II. S. Green, officer in charge
Of the Quantico, Va, marine barracks
post exchange, was knocked uncon-
scious Mt his quarters in the camp by
A robber, who escaped with $4,000 of
the funds in his possession. His as
sailant abandoned $1,000 in checks
md silver which was included in the
exchange receipts, and took all the
currency. Major Green is now In the
post hospital, but will recover.
An injunction restraining the ship
ping board from foreclosing $5,000,-
900 mortgage on the plant of the Pusey
& 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.
Postmaster General Burleson has or
iered the removal of eleven clerks in
the Chicago postoffice for soliciting
or causing to be solicited sums of mon
ey from the public, and for publishing
or causing to be published false and
slanderous statements relative to the
postal service"
Census figures announced in Wash
lngton give the state of Vermont 352,-
l21 population, a decrease of 1888, or
minus ] per cent. Kent county, Mich
gan, containing Grand Rapids, is given
s3,O41, an increase of 23,s96. or Is per
rent.