The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1922-06-08
NEWS TO DATE !,
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

Western NsSpapr Cntsa S<vS SsfvloD
WESTERN $685.
Half Of Plneville's (Ore.) business
section was wiped out by fire which
caused damage estimated at 100000
before 1t was checked by dynamltlng.
Otto steinen, pioneer. trapper and
later civilian scout for the army in
campaigns In Arizona and New Mex
leo, died at his home In Los Angeles,
Thomas Lee Woolwine. district at
torney Of Los Angeles county. has an.
nounced his candidacy for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor OF
California.
The ownership OF the Los Angeles
Evening Express has passed from the
Edwin T. Earl estate to +. A. Dickson
and r. W. Kellogg, according to an an.
nouncement they authorized.
Forest fires are threatening the
Northwest In many places. From cen,
trail Oregon, southern Washington and
British Columbia come reports Of de-
yastation by the red menace.
y The highest honor In the gift Of the
National Association Of Real Estate
boards came to l.. r, Eppich Of Den
YER, when he was elected president for
the long term at the election for Of
ficers recently in San Francisco.
Lucille Erfe. IS years old, was none
the worse despite her encounter with
locomotive on railroad trestle near
Spokane, Wash. The engine knocked
the girl into the Spokane river The
crew stopped and fished her out. She
lost her pocketbook.
Closing OF the Mexlcan-C California
border to all persons save those show.
ing signs Of having been successfully
vacclnated has been urged upon the
United States public health service by
the State Board Of Health, after an in
vestlgation Of an epidemic of smallpox
in Mexicali Mexico.
Donald +. Stevenson. railway brake
man. confessed ut Everett. WISH. nc.
cordlng to the police, that he killed A.
A. Amour, Seattle salesman, whose
body was found In patch OF woods
near StanwOod, Wash. According to
the police, Stevenson says he killed
Amour with club during fight over
the question whether or not they
would rob furiner In the vicinity to
procure funds to buy ''moonshine."
WASHINGTON
A reduction Of S5l, 362, 749 in the pub
lie debt OF the United States in May
was announced by the Treasury De-
partment recently. The nations total
gross debt on May 81 was SO, l3S,S3S,.
607
President Harding took action al.
fectlng more than $1,000 postal clerks
ar.l carriers throughout the country
when he approved II recommendation
of the Postofficc department for the
establishment Of n strict elghthour
basis for postal employees.
Chief Justice William Howard Taft
Of the Supreme Court will leave this
country about the middle of June for
England, where he will spend several
weeks in survey of the English
courts, Il was announced The tour
will be unofficial, Taft snid This is
the firstt inc that chief justice has
made such II trip during his term of
office.
The House bill authorizing loan OF
S50O00O0 to Liberia as urged by the
administration was reported favorably
by the Senate finance committee.
Jennie T. Musser Of Salt Lake City
has been nominated to be collector of
customs for District No. IS, with head.
quarters at Salt Lake City.
A new bill for regulation of future
trading on grain exchanges, designed
TO meet the recent decision Of the Su.
preme Court holding the present trad
lsg act imperative in part, was intro
ducd in the Senate by Senator Capper
Republican, Kansas, chairman Of the
unofficial Senate agricultural bloc and
author Of the original act.
Cyanide was placed on the free list
recently after long battle on the tar.
In schedules In the Senate. The com.
mittee amendment placing a duty of
10 per cent nd valorem was stricken
out on motion offered by Senator
Oddie of Nevada and adopted 10 to IA.
The restoration Of cyanide to the free
Est is vitality important to the mining
industry Of the west and to the citrus
industry OF California, where the
chemical Is used as a fumigant against
destructive insects.
The Senate commerce committee
unanimously agreed to incorporate In
the rivers and harbors bill provision
committing the government to an ulil-
mate expenditure OF S1,39i.O00 for the
construction Of a deep-water harbor at
Corpus Christi, Texas. The entire pro.
ject calls for m expenditure Of 5000
600.
The resignation of Alvin Hovey-
King Of New York us commercial at.
tache At Mexico City has been an