The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-12
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN
western Newspaper Union News ssrie'J

which provided the right of house
wife to claim damages for injuries sus-
tanned In performance Of her domestic
duties, was killed by the judiciary com
mittee.
Detective G. b. Handy was shot
dead at a Salt Lake City hotel by Tom
Burns, who in turn was shot by Chief
of Police Joseph Il. Burbidge. Burns
died within an hour Chief Burbidge
narrowly escaped death, shot grazing
and bruising his shoulder.
Nebraska Indians of the Winnebago
and Omaha tribes, appearing before
the legislative committee on medical
societies at Lincoln, denied that the
use of the peyote bean was harmful or
that 1t was in the nature of narcotic.
The committee had under discussion
the bill to regulate the use of the bean
and mescal.
Des Moines, Iowa, has raised $751;
640 for entertainment Of the Imperial
Conclave Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine,
June IA, 10 and 10, the first day of the
solicitation. Business men pledged
$4,000, Sea-Ga-Zig temple added $780,
900 and individual Shriners contributed
an additional $12, $40. Sea-Ga-Zig tenn
pie plans total fund of $125, 900.
Because 1t was charged, newspaper
men abused privileges accorded them
for obtaining news in the Mare Island
navy yard at Vallejo, Calf, an execu-
tive order has been issued reviving war
time provision for news censorship at
the island. Correspondents must sub
nit their news stories to the command
ants office for approval before pub
lication.
Charles Leslie Bune, grain sam
pier employed by a milling and eleva-
tor company in Ogden, Utah, is dead
and Ward A. Dunn, an electrician, is in
a serious condition from the effects of
gas, caused, 1t is said, by the fermen-
tation of moist grain in an elevator.
Bune toppled over shortly after he
went for a sample and Dunn collapsed
in trying to drag Bune from the dan
ger spot.
Although tempted by lucious fruits |
scattered about his cell and by appetiz-
ing victuals served to his cellmate, DR.. |
Health Engmark, 45, a hunger striking |
chlropractor, had not weakened as he
entered on the third week of his vol
untary fast in the Los Angeles Jail.
Engmark accepted a ninety-day sen
tence rather than pay $500 fine follow
ing his conviction on a charge of prac-
ticlng medicine without license.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson's veto of bill to
give title of seventy-six acres of
swamp land In Montana to the Milk
River Valley Gun Club Of Montana was
sustained by the Senate, II TO o. In his
veto message President Wilson said
that the land should be made public |
game preserve.
Charges that q combination exists in |
the coal trade to maintain high prices |
of coal and to shut off the supply of
coal to dealers who cut rates were put |
before the Senate committee consider
ing the Calder coal regulation bill by |
]. C. l.. Ritter, who said the "cOmbin |
alton" put him out of business.
World trade conditions have shown
little Improvement since the first of
the year, excepting in the Scandinavian
countries and Belgium, but prospects
for the future are somewhat brighter, |
the Department of Commerce was in |
formed in reports from its representa-
tives in Europe, Asia and South Amer |
ica.
American steam locomotives export |
ed last year totaled I'LL and were val |
ued at $53,629,S ,S47, the federal trade
commission has announced. This was
an increase of $50 locomotives over
1919. Before the war, Great Britain
and Germany controlled the European
locomotive market, but recently the
United States has been the only coun-
try prepared to ship locomotives in
quantity"
The first move to exempt the salary
of the President from income taxes
was made in the House by Represen-
tative Pell, Democrat, of New York.
His bill would exempt not only the |
$4,000 salary OF the President, but |
also the salary of the vice president |
from provisions of the income tax |
law. Beginning March 4, the Presi-
dent will have to pay an income tax
of about $4,000 a year.
Staunch defense of the work accomp-
iished by the American liquidation
commission in disposing of millions of
dollars of war supplies to France and
other European governments after the
armistice was made by Edwin b.
Parker, New York lawyer, former
chairman of the board, in testifying
before the House committee, investI-
eating the conduct of the war.
The joint resolutions directing the
stopping Of enlistments until the regu-
lar army Is reduced to 175,000 men was
nassed by the House over President