Gunnison news-champion., 1922-01-06
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PRocREss
OF the AGE.
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WI0TERN

. Chinese merchant. There were be-
tween fifteen and twenty Chinese in
the place at the time OF thes hooting.
bling game. There was 81 go In mon.
~ on the table.
A woman's hand, II Is expected, will
spring the trap when Earl Throst, con.
fessed slayer Of Inga Magnuson. 10
hanged on March Q. Mrs. Gunda Mar.
tindaie. sheriff of Ailamnkee county,
Iowa, Is required by law to conduct
the execution. Il have to spring the
trap on Throst. and I'll do my duty"
Mrs. Martindaie said.
The first meeting OF the Colorado
River Commission will be held In
Washington the latter part Of January.
Secretary Hoover announced. The com
mission later will meet In the South
west, Mr.. Hoover said. and hold pub
lie hearings upon the definite prob
lens connected with the improvement
Of the resources OF the Colorado river.
Lieut.. John Eberwine, an officer ON
the destroyer tender Melville, In port
quarters ON that vessel with q bullet
wound In his body. Fellow officers
said that he had been despondent be-
cause he was one Of the several hun
dred officers who would suffer loss OF
rank as q result Of recently ordered
Changes In the navy.
Eastern scientists to whom was
shipped the ashes In which II was be-
lieved quantity Of rndium lost In the
Axtell hospital ut Newton, Kan. would
be found, report that they have recov-
cred about $500, or about one-third
Of the radium lost, from 800. pounds
of ashes, II was learned. On the sup
position TINT the radium had found its
way Into the hospital furnace the ashes
were shipped east for analysis.
Eleuterio Corral, 10 years Of age,
and Rumaldo Losano, II, will be
hanged mt Silver City, N. NJ. on Jan.
70 unless the governor commutes' their
sentences. The Supreme Court which
recently affirmed their conviction Of
first degree murder for killing Ven
turo Bencomo. jaIler at the Grant coun-
~ jail, fixed the date for execution.
The youths were f0iled in q plot to es-
cape when their sentence was af-
firmed, files and keksaws being found
secreted in their cells.
WASHINGTON
Deaths from cancer in the death reg
istration area OF the United States In
yopn sntupx1 ..,,xr,x tr,a te.l.. - OHn .r
cording to report by the census bu-
reau, which on basis OF proportional
population estimates the total Of
deaths for the entire country at $1,000,
or an Increase OF 5000 from the esti-
mate for 1919.
The exchange Of notifications Of the
treaty between the United States and
Colombia Is expected TO take place
within few days, II was learned MT
the State Department. The depart
ment was officially advised that the
pact was signed by the acting presi-
dent of Colombia aud the minister for
foreign affairs on Dec. "a.
The Southern tariff conference, rep
resenting sixty-four Southern indus-
tries. will meet in Washington Jan. 8
and 10, It was announced. to discuss
the associations attitude toward the
American valuation plan Of the pend
ing tax bill and to urge an increase In
duties on farm products, especially
vegetables, oils, poultry. live stock.
woel. hides. sugar and rice
The area sown to winter wheat this
ban Il A, ,292 900 acres, which II IL per
rent less than the revised estimated
Area sown in the fan Of 1920. which
vas 4A.S47,O 900 acres. the Department
Df Agriculture announced. The area
Down to rye is 5.1S4.O00 acres, which
b z2.6 per cent more than the revised
estimated area sown In the fall Of 11oQ
which was 4,228,O0O acres
Indications that the turn Of The year
y being marked BY striking Inn
In the business and eco
Bomic outlook" Of the country and the
world generally were dlec0ssed By
Of the Currency Crissin-
pr IN forecast for 1922. There can
Be no doubt. he mid. that both the
political and economic index figuree~
are registering improvement at 0is
timc ''when political and economic con-
altions 20 Intimately interaet."
Declared to be members Of N N
gang Of bandits whose op-
sfations during the last two years have
netted approximately &2,600.00o IN hot
nrom many eitie4 Herbert Cox and |
Herbert Wilson wers held In I'm n |
Los Angeles By federal and county au-
lh0fitieR.
Two de6sa1Ents wefe diamisssd aDd
l1even otheED UeaV bo9nd over - the
lexf tern a. Ckinlnnl District Ce9Ft
lndes bends q $4,000 fbr trfal a !
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