The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-01
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT.
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Selection of the Finlen site at Butte,
Mont, was announced by the citizens
hotel committee as location OF a ST.,
100000 hotel for which a company is
being organized The available ground
is 1873 by 132 feet, including the site of
the present Finlen hotel, one Of the
pioneer houses of the city.
Fred Ramsey died at Yakima, Wash,
recently of hemorrhage caused by a
stab in the shoulder, accidently inflict-
ed by his 4-year-old brother, Robert,
as they were at play at the home of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. O. 7. Ram
sey. The wound was made with pen
knife and it is said it caused internal
bleeding which could not be stopped.
Mrs. Lydia Adams Williams, asplr-
ant for the Republican nomination for
United States senator from Nevada,
has taught her male oponents a new
political maneuver and her tactics are
arousing lively interest. The feminine
senatorial candidate is following the
circus companies across the state and
in this way finds opportunities to ad-
dress large audiences.
President Harding has commuted
the sentence of two more political
prisoners and ordered their release
from the Eeavenworth prison, where
they We're held for wartime offenses,
il was learned at the White House re-
Gently. They are Clyde Hough of
Rockford, ILL.,, serving a fifteen-year
sentence as conscientious objector,
and Vincent st. John, nationally
known ten years ago as secretary
treasurer of the l. w. w.
WASHINGTON
Former United States Senator Cor
nelius Cole of California, who will be
100 years old in September, was n
caller at the White House recently, his
first visit in twenty-five years. He @as
accompanied by Senator Shortridge,
Republican, California. Senator Cole,
who served in the Senate from 1867 to
1873, is said to be the last surviving
member of the body that tried Andrew
Johnson for impeachment.
After an all-day fight the House
passed bill to continue certain pub
lie land offices which under legislation
enacted this session would have been
closed July /. The House, by vote of
11S to 9S, amended the Senate bill to
continue the offices at Bellefourche,
s. D.; Waterville, Wash. Dickinson,
n. D.; Waterville, Wash. Dickinson,
n ~ II ,,Nln
Clayton and Fort Sumner, n, NJ; Har-
rison and Camden, Ark, and Alliance,
Neb. 1t struck from the bill provisions
by the Senate for the continuance of
offices at Timber Lake and Lennon,
S. D.; Williston and Mino, n. D..
Broken Bow, Neb. Durango, Colo, and
Springfield, Mo. After having, in COM
mittee of the whole, adopted an
amendment which would have reduced
the offices to be continued to Belle
fourche, S. d.. Del Norte, Colo; Wa
terville, Wash, and Alliance, Neb., the
House revised itself by adopting the
Senate bill as reported by the House
committee on public lands. The bill
now goes to the Senate.
The House adopted the conference
report on the 1922 naval bill, accept
ing Senate increases which put the
total appropriation around S2S9,000,-
600. Some minor amendments were
adopted and the report went back to
the Senate for final action before be-
ing sent to the President.
Actual knowledge is necessary to
obtain II search warrant, it was ruled
by Judge Benjamin f. Bledsoe in the
United States District Court in Los
Angeles, sustaining motion to quash
an Indictment charging violation of the
olsIead act by Louis Guerreri and
Andren Michaeli, proprietors of win
cry.
Increased prices of agricultural
nent of the turiff bill. will mean "A
tax upon American people amounting
10 S1,316,569, ,449, according to II state
ment made by Senator Walsh, Massa-
chusetts, Democratic member of the
Senate Finance Committee. Senator
Walsh estimated that the burden due
TO the tariff win amount to $13.13 per
capita more than the present Under
wood act and S3.63 per capita more
than the former Payne-Aldrich act.
About S,000,0O0 cantaloupes have
rotted on the ground in the vicinity OF
Brawley, Calf, the growers having de
cided to cease picking for day and
take the resultant loss in the hope that
as a consequence overstocking of