The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-22
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Rudy Knepper, golfer de luxe, is the
newly crowned Mississippi cham
pion, dethronlng the reigning title hold
er, George Won Elm, by up and to
90 in a stirring match at the Omaha
Country Club course. 1t required thir-
two holes to decide the issue, although
there was scarcely ever a doubt as to
the final outcome.
Sheriff George White Of Santa
Cruz county was killed and Manuel
Martinez and Placido Silvas convicted
murderers. escaped when an automo-
bile In which the prisoners were being
taken to the state penitentiary at
Florence, AriE, overturned on the No
gales-Tucson highway near Continen-
tal, eighteen miles south of Tucson.
A coroner's inquest in Los Angeles
found Mrs. Clara Phillips responsible
for the death of Mrs. Alberta Mea-
dows, her supposed rival for the affec-
tions of A. L. Phillips, her husband.
The law having had its way with the
smiling prisoner, husband and wife
were then permitted to see each other
for the first time since she was ar
rested. Mrs. Meadows was beaten to
death with a hammer.
Twenty men and women, passengers
aboard the Tourist, an excursion boat,
which, became disabled ten miles off
Newport, on the Orange county coast,
south of Long Beach, Calf, were res
cued by the fishing smack Music and
brought to Long Beach. When the
Music sighted the Tourist the latter
was wallowing In the trough of the
sea, engine disabled and n sail set to
keep her head in the wind.
WASHINGTON
Clerks employed in postoffices
throughout the United States will, dur
ing the remainder of the summer sea-
son, be permitted to enjoy half holi-
day each Saturday, providing the work
assigned to them has been completed
by noon on that day, under an order
Issued by First Assistant Postmaster
General Bartlett.
Ordinary expenditures of the govern
ment during the fiscal year just
closed fell off by 1,393,0O0,000 as
compared with the previous year,
while public debt disbursements
showed a decline of 50, 131 100000, ac-
cording to a statement of classified ex-
penditures for the twelve months end
ing June 80, issued by the treasury.
While optimism as to the outcome
of the railroad strike was reflected at
the White House, there was further
evidence that the administration in
tends to keep n firm grasp on the sit
uation and that every force at the
command of the government will be
utilized to insure maintenance of
necessary interstate transportation.
The final official step in the consum-
nation of the Japanese-American trea-
ty of Yap, concluded during the arma-
ment conference was taken by Presi-
dent Harding when he issued presi-
Dental proclamation to the effect that
the treaty had been concluded. The
treaty recognizes Japans mandate
over the little island, but stipulates
that America shall enjoy open door"
privileges and equal rights with
Japan.
A charge by Senator Lenroot, Re
publican, Wisconsin, that threats to
slash rates in the agricultural sched-
ule has been used in an effort to keep
Republican senator's in line on rates
in the cotton schedule OF the pending
tariff bill, enlivened Senate debate re-
Gently on that measure.
The farm population of the United
States on Jan. l, 1920, was 31,614,2 ,269,
or 29.9 per cent of the total population
of the country according to returns of
the last census announced in Wash
ington by the census bureau. OF this
number, 81 1,350,640 were enumerated
in rural territory and 255,629 on farms
located within the limits of cities and
other incorporated communities having
$500 inhabitants or more.
President Harding recently sent
kilograms directing the operators of
all bituminous mines shut down be-
cause of strike conditions to resume
operations at once, and requesting the
governors of those states in which the
mines operate to furnish such military
protection as may be needed. If state
troops find 1t impossible to cope with
the situation, federal troops, 1t was
understood, may be employed even.
tually.
Urging Congress to enact new legis-
lation TO destroy an alleged Standard
OIL monopoly in the gasoline trade, the
federal trade commission charged the
corporation with ''perpetuating the
very monopolistic control which the
United States Supreme Court sought