The Colorado statesman., 1922-01-28
eAuoHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDEMNED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western s.-,p.p.s u,iOu S.., s.-va.l
WESTERN

II. w. Robb, sheriftpreache OF
Polk county, Iowa, has resigned as
pastor of the Federated church, ito
avoid criticism when execute Orrie
Cross and Eugene Weeks" Cross and
Weeks will be hanged in April.
Thieves cut hole in the plate glass
window OF Samuel and Company. in
Ban Francisco, jewelers., and removed
5000 worth of pearls and platinum
jewelry, the firm reported to the po-
lice. The street is one of the busiest
in the city.
Emil Umann, assistant manager of
q downtown theater in Kansas City,
was held up in the play house by two
armed men and robbed of $4,000 in
cash, part of the theater's payroll, he
reported to the police. In escaping,
one of the bandits dropped a satchel
containing $500.
Fire of undetermined origin partly
destroyed the Turner building, one of
the older business structures at Mus
kogee, Okla, causing damage esti-
mated at $250,OO0. The Melton hotel
occupied a large part of the building.
The clothing stock of Max Davidson,
which is valued at $150.Oo0, was de-
stroyed.
Mrs. Louise F. Wurtzbarger will be
taken to the Colorado state peniten-
tiary at Canon City to serve the ten
year sentence recently imposed upon
her in Federal Court for killing her
husband at the Chemawa Indian reser-
vation, near Salem, Ore. District At
torney L. w. Humphreys received in
structions from Attorney General
Daugherty to send her to that prison.
Steve Maslich, convicted with Nick
Obllzalo of the murder of Marco Laus
in a ravine near the state prison in
Utah on Aug. 8, 1919, was shot to death
by a firing squad in the prison yard.
The men are alleged to have commit
ted the crime to obtain 81, 100 in gold
carried by Laus. Masllch recently
failed in his appeal to the Supreme
Court and the governor denitd re-
prieve. Obllzalo's appeal is now pend
ing before the Supreme Court. Mas
Itch, few minutes before his death,
protested his innocence, declaring that
Oblizalo killed Laus.
WASHINGTON
Figures on the cost Of living in twen-
ty-one cities issued by the bureau of
labor statistics, showed declines from
June, 1920, to December, 1921, ranging
from 12.5 per cent at Los Angeles to
2l.6 per cent at Cincinnati, while de-
clines from September, 1921, to Decem-
ber ranged from unchanged at Scran-
ton to 30 per cent at st. Louis.
There is no parallel in the records
of the bureau of markets and crop
estimates to the fall of S21.22 or SO
per cent in the average value an acre
of the ten crops constituting nine
tenths of all crop production, which
occurred in the two years from 1919
TO 1921, 1t was announced by the De
partment of Agriculture. The decline
was found by the department to have
been from S35.74 in 1919 to $14.52 in
1921.
Miss Garland Johnson of Bridge
port, w. Va, has just been awarded Il
$4,000 university scholarship for hav-
ing written the best essay on Good
Roads and Highway Transport" The
contest was conducted by the good
roads and highway transport education
committee of Washington, d. c., and
the contest was open to all high school
pupils.
The hope of the late Henry Stead,
Australian publisher and journalist,
that each nation touching on the Pa
cific ocean establish ministry of
friendship" was conveyed to Secre-
tary Hughes by Alexander Hume Ford,
director of the Pan-Pacific Union. Mr..
Ford said the hope was expressed by
Mr.. Stead in his last written message"
just prior to his death.
The treasury appropriation bill, the
first of the annual appropriation meas
ures, was passed by the Senate, carry
ing S120,2720o0, us compared with
Sis, 100000 authorized by the House.
Included was 50 9.250,000 for enforce
ment of prohibition and new provi-
sion authorizing the government to
concentrate bonded liquor in a few
warehouses, to save expense of guard
fng. The bill goes to conference.
Exports of manufactures fell off by
s2,OO0,0oO,000, shipments out of the
country of raw materials dropped by
nearly 81 900 900, 900, and foodstuffs ex-
ports declined by about $50o00o,0o0
during 1921, the Commerce Department
announced. Imports showed similar
declines in the various groups of com
modities.
Railroads and public utilities
throughout the country have been ad-
vised by government officials to stock
up to capacity with coal before April
/, in the face Of the bituminous strike,
which appesrs inevitable at this time.