The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-15
CONDENSED REco ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAYINGS, DoINGs, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

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A lone robber locked Miss Susannah
Fair in closet OF her home in Los
Angeles and made off with jewelry and
other valuables which Miss Fair told
the police were worth about $25,000.
He locked a maid in the closet also.
The Union Pacific railroad will at
once begin the construction of thir-
ty-five-nile branch line into Utah to
tap the rich section in southern Mil
lard county and the surrounding ter
ritory, according to an announcement
made at Union Pacific headquarters in
Omaha.
Verna Smith, daughter of Lee Smith,
who shot and killed his parents-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Kimmons, and then
shot himself at the Kimmons home in
Eureka, Calf, told the police that she
Ieaped thirty feet from a window of
the home to the ground to escape be-
Ing killed also.
J. Lester Gaskill of Long Beach,
Calf, and Earl Furry of Oakland,
Calf, committed suicide in a rooming
house in Salt Lake City by using the
same pistol. The bodies were found in
adjoining rooms. Each left note ad-
dressed to their respective mothers,
saying that broken health prompted
the act.
Complaint has been filed with the
Department of Justice in Washington.
In behalf of producers and shippers of
the Pacific coast against the alleged
activities of the Southern Pacific rail-
way in endeavoring to "create send-
ment and action against the decision
Of the Supreme Court ordering disso-
luton of the partnership of that road
with the Central Pacific"
Suffering from broken bones and
possible internal injuries, Miss Anna
Selian of San Francisco died while en-
route to hospital following an acci-
dent at Huntington Beach, near Los
Angeles, when she was struck by a
landing passenger airplane. The young
woman was coming out of the surf
when the big plane swooped down to
the beach to take on passengers.
WASHINGTON
Gorozave, the Mexican bandit active
recently in the Tampico oil region, has
threatened to blow up oil pipe lines
and pumping stations unless he re-
ceives payment of $4,000 pesos ac-
cording to a message from Consul
Shaw at Tampico to the State Depart
ment, reporting information received
from the British-owned La Corona
Company. The company said that Go
rozave was making his headquarters
at the Pecare camp.
Charles A. Ritzman, general manag-
er of the Disco Lighting Company of
Detroit, and former captain in the
army, was sentenced In Criminal Court
to eighteen months in the penitentiary
for accepting a bribe of $500 to influ-
ences his action in connection with the
purchase of skid chains for the army
while acting as officer in charge of
the maintenance division of the motor
transport corps during the war. He
noted an appeal and was released un-
der bonds OF $1,000.
United Mine Workers representa-
tives after considering the coal strike
arbitration plan presented by Presi-
dent Harding summoned the general
policy committee of the union to Wash
lngton to pass finally upon the pro-
posal.
The Republican agricultural-tariff
bloc got another setback in the Sen
ate, losing 33 to "a, its fight to make
dutiable imported vegetable oils, used
In the manufacture of uonedibIe pro-
ducts. The Senate then, without a roll
call, approved rates of cents a pound
on cottonseed oil and soya bean oil,
and cents pound on coconut oil and
peanut oil, where such oils enter into
the manufacture of edible commodl-
ties.
The Court of Appeals has denied the
application of Charles w. Morse, his
three sons and eight others Jointly in
dicted for conspiracy to defraud the
government In connection with war
contracts, for a special appeal from
the decision of the District Supreme
Court overruling demurrers filed
against the Indictment. The Court of
Appeals held that no emergency ex-
kted for granting a special appeal in
the case.
General improvement in crop condi-
tions along the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts and in the Northwest, east of
the Rocky mountains, was noted by the
Agricultural Department in its crop
summary for the last half of June,
made public in Washington. Through
out the corn belt" the departments
observers found, small grains were
more or less injured by the unusual
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