The Colorado statesman., 1922-01-07


OF other distinguished japanese are
touring California to investigate con-
ditions as they concern the japanese.
young woman, gnrbed as II man,
entered a restaurant ut st. Louis, lev
eled n revolver at the proprietor and
ordered him TO hand over the contents
of the cash drawer or get plugged"
She got $27.
Alfred NJ. Oehls, 26 years old, chief
petty officer of the navy, died aboard
the U. S. 8. Idaho at San DIEGO, after
q quarrel with a shipmate lu which
Oehls was struck over the head with
marllnsplke and killed.
Toy Hing Lip, a counter" in Chi
nese gambling house was shot and
killed at Helena, Mont, by Chung Hay,
a Chinese merchant. There were be-
tween fifteen and twenty Chinese in
the place at the time of thes hooting,
the plate at the time of the shooting,
bling game. There was 81, ,929 in mon
ey on the table.
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
at Los Angeles, was found dead in his
quarters on that vesse! with bullet
wound in his body. Fellow officers
said that he had been respondent be-
cause he was one of the several hun
dred officers who would suffer loss Of
rank as a result of recently ordered
changes in the navy.
Eleuterio Corral, 16 years of age,
and Rumaldo Losano, II, will be
hanged at Silver City, N. NJ, on Jan.
20 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-
ty Jail, fixed the date for execution.
The youths were foiled in plot to es-
cape when their sentence was af-
firmed, files and hacksaws being found
secreted in their cells.
WASHINGTON
Diplomatic relations between Ger
many and the United States were re-
humed officially when Carl Lang,
charge d'affaires from the Berlin gov
ernment, presented his letters of ere
dence and was received by Secretary
Hughes.
An appropriation for the enforce
ment of prohibition during the next
fiscal year amounting to $9,000,OO0,
perhaps slightly more, as compared
with the Treasury Departments re-
quest for an appropriation of S10,OOO,-
0O0 will be recommended to the House
by its appropriations committee. An
appropriation of approximately S9,000,-
600, members of the subcommittee
framing the treasury appropriations
bill hold, will permit rigid enforcement
of the national liquor laws.
The Southern tariff conference, rep
resenting siNty-four Southern indus
tries, will meet in Washington Jan. o
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,
wool, hides, sugar and rice.
The area sown to winter wheat this
fall is Al ,2o3, 900 acres, which is 1.2 per
cent less than the revised estimated
area sown in the fall of 1920, which
was 44,947, 900 acres, the Department
of Agriculture announced. The area
sown to rye is 5,1S4,000 acres, which
is 22.6 per cent more than the revised
estimated area sown in the fall of 1920,
which was 4,22S,0o0 acres.
Indications that the turn of the year
is being marked by striking i'm
provement in the business and eco
nomic outlook" of the country and the
world generally were discussed by
Comptroller of the Currency Crissin-
ger in forecast for 1922. There can
be no doubt, he said, that both the
political and economic index figures"
are registering improvements at this
time when political and economic con-
ditions so intimately interact."
Declared to be members of an in
ternational gang of bandits whose op-
erations during the last two years have
netted approximately $250o,0oo in loot
from many cities, Herbert Cox and
Herbert Wilson were held in jail in
Los Angeles by federal and county au-
thorities.
Two defendants were dismissed and
eleven others were bound over to the
next term of Criminal District Court
under bonds of $4,000 for trial on
charges of murder in connection with
the killing OF three men at Wilson,
Okla, the night of Dec. TO-