The Colorado statesman., 1922-05-27

glary, mas escaped from tne Los All
geles county Jail by climbing a creased
water pipe leading from the floor of
the windowless laundry, forty feet to
skylight. The pipe had been creased
to prevent just such escapes.
Charles E. Siefken, AZ, a special
agent for life insurance company, is
dead from bullet wounds inflicted
when he went to the assistance of his
son, Robert, while the latter was be-
Ing held up by bandit at an oil fill
Ing station in Omaha. The son was
badly wounded by the bandit, who es-
capped.
Fred A. Knox, rnncher, was Instant
ly killed in a roundup staged at
Grants Pass, Ore. Knox was engaged
In catching horse, which had thrown
Its Yider. His own horse became un-
manageable and ran beneath a large
oak tree with low branches, two of
which hit Knox in the head, killing
him instantly.
japanese of California have entered
new field of industry, that OF pro-
ducing motion pictures. The Pacific
Film Exchange, Inc, Of San Francisco,
declared to be the first all-Japanese
picture company In California, has
filed articles OF incorporation with
Secretary of State Frank G. Jordan at
Sacramento.
California's alien land law violates
no provisions of the constitution of the
United States, nor does 1t conflict with
the treaty between the United States
and Japan, according to the unanimous
opinion rendered in San Francisco by
Judge w. w. Morrow of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, and
Judges NJ. T. Dooling and w. II. Saw
telle of the United States District
Court.
Frank p. Kelsey of New Harmony,
Utah, Ia under arrest at St George,
charged with attempting to kill the
family of Francis Prince. He appeared
before Justice Ellis J. Picket of Salt
Lake City and was bound over to the
District Court on n $4,000 bond. He is
alleged to have caused poison to be
placed in can of coffee. The mem
bers of the family tasted the coffee,
but did not drink sufficiently thereof
to cause death.
A meeting of the Colorado River
Commission will be called by Herbert
Hoover, late in July or early in August
in Santa Fe, N. NJ, it was announced
in Phoenix recently by w. S. Norviel,
commissioner for Arizona. At that
meeting it probably will be determined
whether the commission will continue
to function and whether n compact can
be agreed 10 for use of the waters of
the Colorado by the seven states in the
Colorado basin, Norviel said.
WASHINGTON
T. w. Norcross, chief engineer of
the United States forest service of the
Washington department, advises Lew
iston, Idaho, that $40, 900 has been ap-
propriated for the construction of the
Lewis and Clark highway between
Lewiston, Idaho, and Missoula, Mont.
Horizontal and nationwide reduc-
tions in freight rates averaging about
10 per cent have been ordered by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
President Harding was asked in a
memorial presented to him recently by
Thomas #. Flaherty secretary of the
National Federation of Postoffice
Clerks to assist in obtaining proper
observance" of the postal eight-hour
law.
Acceptance by the government of
Henry Fords offer for development of
the Muscle Shoals projects was recon-
mended to members of the Senate agri-
cultural committee in conference in
Washington by Thomas A. Edison, who
recently surveyed the Alabama prop
ties in company with the Detroit man
ufacturer.
The government would lose from ST.
275,OO0 900 to 81, ,435, 100000 II the Mus
Gle Shoals waterpower project were
leased to Henry Ford under the terms
of his present offer, Hugh L. Cooper,
army engineer, who built the dam told
the Senate agriculture committee.
Cooper urged the Senate committee to
draft its own lease and termed the
monetary offer made for the project
"just plain foolishness."
President Harding was represented
at the White House as merely hopeful
that voluntary reduction in transpor-
tation rates would result from last
Saturday nights White House dinner
conference attended by nineteen of
the leading railroad executives of the
country. Obstacles in the way of OBJ
taiEing voluntary action by the rail-
roads in the way of rate reductions on
the thoroughgoing basis desired by
the administration were described at
the White House as somewhat formid-
abba