The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-19
GENERAL


President Harding has signed the
good roads bill, carrying an appropria-
ton of S75,O00,OO0 for road building,
and S15,00O,OO0 for forestry projects.
Mrs. LYDIA Southard was sentenced
to serve from ten years to life In the
Idaho state prison for the murder OF
Edward f. Meyer, her fourth husband
She was convicted after trial lasting
several weeks. The court imposed the
maximum penalty under the Idaho
laws. Attorneys
Charles Wilison, IS years old, high
school student, was found hanging in
the bath room at his home by his
mother. Willison, she told police, had
gone to the bathroom two hours before
to bathe The boy is the third Chica-
go school student who has committed
suicide by hanging in recent weeks.
At Watertown, Mass, is being built
sixteen-inch howitzer which Will re-
volve in complete circle, fires at a
depression of degrees TO 65-degree
elevation, and is fired by compressed
air. The rifle weighs seventy-eight
tons, shoots twenty eight miles, using
shells weighing 2,340 pounds. The gun
is thirty-five feet long and the total
weight of gun carriage and all Is 2o2,-
34S pounds. This is the first gun of
its kind in the country, and is built for
coast defense.
Commodore Ellsworth Price Bert
holf, retired commandant of the
United States Coast Guard, died In
New York at the age of 5S. In 1898 he
received gold medal and the thanks
of Congress for heroism in saving the
lives of 200 American sailors frozen in
on fleet of whalers at Point Barrow.
To accomplish this feat, he led party
of three 1,700 miles overland in the
frozen Arctic country. He retired as
coast guard commandant in 1919.
Wishing one and all happy New
Year, the western Gamers beg to ad-
wise that the price of canned goods OF
every description will be sharply ad-
vanced about Jan. 1-perhaps an aver
age of 20 per cent. The Gamers in
convention in Chicago say the pack
this year, principally of beans, peas,
corn, tomatoes, fruits and salmen, will
be about 100000 cases short.
Big Tim Murphy, union leader, FORM
er state representative and an alleged
gunman, was found guilty in Chicago
by jury In Judge Kenesaw Nj. Lam
dis court of plotting the S36O,OOO mail
robbery at Dearborn station last April.
Vincenzo Cosmano, union president
and protege of Murphy Edward Gel
rum, alleged driver of the bandits
cor and Paul Volanti also were non-
victed.
Governor Thomas E. Campbell is
sued a proclamation of emergency, au-
thorizing the board of directors of
state institutions to expend $3.50 in
repairing damage done to the capitol
building and grounds by the Cave
creek flood Parties interested in the |
control of Cave creek met In the gov
ernor's office and agreed to steps to
be taken to prevent future floods sim
iliar to that of last August.
William Hayes was sentenced at
Ironton, Mo-, to be hung for compiled
ty in the murder at Herculaneum last |
Feb. % of Andrew Deck, federal pro-
hibition investigator. The jury deliber-
ated twenty-five hours. Hayes is the
fourth man to be given the death pen
atty for the murder of Deck. Otto and
Jess Thomas are yet to be tried.
The new electrically driven coast |
guard cutter Tampa, replacing vessel
of the same name, torpedoed and sunk
during the war; was dedicated to the |
service of saving life and property at |
yea.