The Colorado statesman., 1922-12-23
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Muriel Stark, aged months. was In
stanuy killed when the water jacket
of kitchen range near which her cot
had been placed exploded in her home
in Vancouver, b. G. The child was
struck by flying fragment of iron.
Air Mail Pilot Henry G. Boonstra,
lost in a blizzard while flying with
government mail from Salt Lake to
Rock Springs, Wyo., was found alive
and well at Higby ranch, near Coal
Vile, Utah, by searching party.
William A. Farr and Rex Aylett,
confessed that they were the two BAN
dts who shot and probably fatally
wounded Miss Roylance Fitzgerald on
Il road south OF Salt Lake City as the
elimination of series of highway
robberies that have terrorized Salt
Lake City motorists for months past.
Capt. George MacKlnnon, master of
the Pacific mail passenger steamer
Newport, has been accused formally of
sailing away and leaving in peril the
lumber schooner Svea when the two
vessels collided near Port San Luis
few days ago. A complaint was filed
with the federal steamboat inspectors
at San Francisco by Capt. Karl Roh-
berg of the schooner Svea.
Eight union trainmen leaders were
convicted of conspiracy to obstruct in
terstate commerce for their activities
in connection with strike last Au-
gust against the Santa Fe railroad by
verdict of jury in the United States
District Court in Los Angeles. In this
strike some twenty trains were aban-
doned in the Callfornia-Arizona desert,
leaving the passengers stranded.
WASHINGTON
Announcement was made that the
Department of Justice was preparing
10 file "A suit against the Wright-Mar-
tin Aircraft Corporation to recover Il
$3,601,715 war claim.
The budget bureau left out the an
nual item of $360,00O for free seed dis
ribution by senators and representa-
dives, and ii was not placed in the bill
by the appropriations committee.
Ed Hayes entered the headquarters
of the l. w. w. in Salt Lake City and,
it is alleged, at the point of n revolver
held up Pat Nee, secretary of the Salt
Lake City branch of the l. w. w, and
Thomas Hodges, who happened to be
in the room.
The Postoffice Department has esti-
mated that waste of $1,740,000 an
nually results from wrongly addressed
mail. A survey just completed re-
veals that the average number of let
ters received at postofflces daily with
improper addresses was 3753Sl, and
that the salaries of postal employees
required TO readdress this mail
amounts alone to more than $1,00O,OUU
ii year.
The refusal of Representative Kel-
Ter, Republican, Minnesota, to respond
TO subpoena requiring him to give
under oath the information upon which
lie based his impeachment charges
against Attorney General Daugherty,
has created II precedent of such posi-
bic far-reachlng Importance that the
House judiciary committee decided to
refer the whole matter to sub-com-
mttee for investigation.
Three Mexicans were killed in
running fight with mounted customs
inspectors and Texas rangers near Mi
rando City, Webb county, Texas, ac-
cording to u report received in San An
tonic by Deputy Collector of Customs
Ed Cotulla. No member of the federal
force was injured.
An attack on the Norris bill for gov
ernment development of Muscle Shoals,
Alabama power project, was made in
the Senate by Senator Ladd, Republl-
can, North Dakota, who also criticized
the author of the bill, Senator Norris,
Republican, Nebraska, for having sup
ported the federal reserve act. Both
are members of the new progressive
group and also of the Senate farm
bloc.
An investigation by the Senate for
eign relations committee to ascertain
"the true state of affairs in Nicara-
qua, the facts concerning American oc-
cupation of that republic in 1910, why
American forces are still quartered
there, and the connection between
certain New York commercial houses
and the Chamorro clan government of
Nicaragua" was proposed in resolu
ton introduced by Senator Ladd, Re
publican, North Dakota.
The Senate has extended the right
of world war veterans to siXty-day
preference on all homestead entry
claims to Americans who served with
the allied forces during the war. The
measure, already passed by the House,
would effect thousands of veterans in
the Northwest who served in the Cana
dian army.
An appropriation of $32,3O0,oO0 for