The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1922-06-01
A BRIEF RECORD or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EloN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Frank Norton, charged with bur.
ylary, has escaped from the Los An
relies county jail by climbing creased
Eater pipe leading from the floor Of
he windowiess laundry, forty feet to
4 skylIght. The pipe had been creased
70 prevent just such escapes.
japanese Of California have entered
4 new field Of industry, that Of pro-
lucing motion pictures. The Pacific
Film Exchange, Inc, Of San Francisco,
ieclared to be the first all-Japanese
picture company In California, hns
He'd articles Of incorporation with
Secretary OF State Frank c. Jordan at
Sacramento.
Californias alien land law violates
40 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
,pinion rendered in San Francisco by
Judge W. w. Morrow OF the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals, and
Judges NJ. r. Dooling and W. H. Saw
ielle Of the United States District
Court.
Frank P. Kelsey of New Harmony,
Utah, Is 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 q $1,000 bond. H. 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 F6, N. NJ, It was announced
In Phoenix recently by W. s. Norviel,
commissioner for Arizona. At that
meeting 1t probably will be determined
whether the commission will continue
10 function and whether compact can
be agreed to for use Of the waters Of
the Colorado BY the seven states In the
Colorado basin, Norviel said.
Members Of the Ku Klux Khan In
Los Angeles will support klansmen In
volved in the Inglewood night riding
fatal party Of April q, regardless Of
action by imperial officers Of the or
ganlzation in Atlanta, Ga. Paul B.
D'Orr, attorney for the raiders. as-
serted. He said be had been assured
of financial support for defense Of
the night riders TO the extent Of S40,-
600. regardless of the imperial khan
officers withdrawal of moral and f.
nsnclal support.
WASHINGTON
Horizontal and nationwide reduc-
lions In freight rates averaging about
10 per cent have been ordered by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
President Harding would be re-
quested. under joint resolution In
troduced in the Senate by Senator Nc.
Nary, Republican. Oregon, to call
another conference Of the powers
which ratified the International opium
agreement Of 1912 for the purpose Of
considering further means Of suppress
ing international traffic In opium, CO.
caine and their derivatives.
Five seamen were injured recently
in an explosion aboard the submarine
HIS while the craft was on patrol duty
off the Coronado islands, forty miles
from San Diego.
The government would lose from ST.
275,OO0,OOO to 81. 1876, 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-
tatlon 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
tanning 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.
able.
Lower passenger fares on the rail.
roads will follow the cut In freight
rites, high government officials de-
clared In Washington. A strong senti.
ment Of the Interstate Commerce
maintains that lower pas.
senger fares are essential to larger
revenues from the travelling public.
r. W. N0rcross, chief engineer of
he United States forest service Of the
department, advises Lew
ston, Idaho. that S475,000 has been up
for the construction Of the
evils and CLARK highway between
.swiston, Idaho, and Missouia, Mont.