The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-12

has been named by President Hard
ing as federal circuit judge for the
eighth judicial circuit, to succeed the
late Judge Hook.
Rafael Olquin, 100 years old. was
found dead in his bed at his residence
at Sandoval, n. NJ. He had not been Ill
and had led an active life despite his
age. He is survived by six sons and
four daughters.
The Farmers State Bank of Win
side, Neb., is closed and in the hands
OF Paul Zuelow, state bank examiner.
Bad loans and constant Withdrawals
are given by the examiner as the
cause of the failure. He estimated
the loss at about 100000.
Four armed bandits held up the
cashier of the Liberty theater at Port
land, Ore, and escaped with between
81 900 and $4,000, the receipts from
Saturday night and Sunday shows.
Three of the robbers overpowered the
cashier and made quick job of the
inside work.
Without candidates there can be no
election, the village trustees of Pal
mer, ILL.,, decided. That little town of
$50 inhabitants viii forego all election
Joys Nov. 8, because none Of them are
anxious for office, although their
mayor, the city clerk and one Of the
trustees have left their village.
The locking out of 3,700 employees
in the mill work industry in Chicago
is intended as a step toward establish
ing the open shop in the carpenter
trade, union officials declared. The
mills include sash, door and window
and fixture mills. employing approx
mately 1000 carpenters.
The memory of the late Franklin X.
Lane, for nearly eight years secretary
of the interior, is to be perpetuated
thru one of the loftiest peaks in the
Tatoosh range within Mount Rainier
National park. The department of the
interior has announced that the geo
graphic board had decided to name the
peak Mount Lane. 1t has an altitude
of 5000 feet, rising one-third of mile
northwest of Cliff lake, in Pierce
county, Washington.
WASHINGTON
A bill appropriating S250,000 to be
used in refunding losses by Liberty
Loan subscribers through failure of
five banks in which they had placed
partial payments has been passed by
the house and sent to the senate. The
banks were located in Pennsylvania
California, Ohio, Minnesota and North
Dakota.
Returns from more than 600 mutual
savings banks for the year ended June
80 reveal unanticipated conditions"
90 ON
Comptroller Crlssinger "Notwithstand
ing unfavorable conditions he said,
these savings institutions gained both
in number of depositors and volume
of deposits"
Advances aggregating S553,750 to
finance institutions for agricultural
and livestock purposes have been an
nounced by the war finance corpora
ton. Seventeen advances were made
to institutions In Nevada, Iowa, Ne
braska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Texas and Georgia in amounts
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000.
Charges that Haitian natives We're
killed or inhumanly treated by
gendarmes, acting on order of Ameri-
can marine officers, were challenged
before the special Senate investigating
committee by Lieut.. Col. Alexander s.
Williams, who acted as assistant COM
mander and later as commander of
the gendarmes between August 1916,
and July, 1919.
Y. Bryan Yamashita, representing
the Japanese peace society, has ar
rived in Washington to attend the con-
ference on limitation of armament.
Mr.. Yamashita came to the United
States at the age of 10 and. he said,
received his education "at the hands
or former Secretary of State William
J. Bryan, then an instructor at the
University of Nebraska.
Expenditure OF $3,669 $50 on the dis
abled former service man and his
family and total of S19,361, $50 for
all purposes is proposed by the Ameri-
can Red Cross during the current fis-
cal year, II was announced at the or
ganization's national headquarters.
This represents reduction of more
than S5,0OO,000 from the $24,492, 740
total spent during the last fiscal
year.
Selection of fourteen regional d.
rectors under the national employ
ment conferences emergency relief
program has been announced by Sec
retary Hoover. The directors will act
as liaison officers between commit
tees. Those selected include Mortimer
Fleischbacker. San Francisco; Win
slow B. Aver, Portland, Ore, and
james S. Gibson. Seattle. Wash.
The total public debt Sept. 30 stood
at S23,924, los, 1896, while Oct 81 the
total was 500, ASS, Jas. 1860. making n
decrease for the period of $4e4.9 $780,
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