The Colorado statesman., 1922-06-24

WESTERN
Two men, trapped by a fire, were
entombed on the S00-foot level of the
Quartet mine at Searchlight, Utah.
They were believed dead by members
of a rescuing party which saved two
other men from the burning mine.
The Los Angeles county grand jury
which has been investigating alleged
activities of the Ku Klux Klan, sub
mitted a report to Superior Court
Judge Frederick w. Houser. The
Judge, after perusing the document,
ordered it filed and kept secret
With Washington selected as the
next convention city, officers elected,
the business of the forty-eighth annu-
al session of the Imperial Council OF
the Shriners was wound up by grand
pageant spectacle which brought to a
close the golden jubilee of Shrinedom
in San Francisco.
The Rev. Donald d. Stewart, widely
known in California as a temperance
worker, was arrested near Sierra Ma
DIRE, twenty miles northeast OF Los An
geles, on charges that he had commit
ted bigamy in several states and had
swindled his wives out of thousands
of dollars.
Eagle Boat No. 81, which went
ashore on a reef near Cattle Point,
San Juan island arrived at Seattle,
having pulled off the reef under her
own power. She escaped serious dam
age The boat was officered and
h,rY Of ha nd
Tacoma naval militia units.
Hearst hall and Hearst hall annex
were destroyed and the pathology
building of the University of Califor-
mia was damaged in a campus fire,
with estimated loss of 100000 recent
ly. The university infirmary was
threatened by the flames and Its pa
tients were removed but the building
was not reached by the fire. The
origin of the fire was undetermined.
More than 100 pieces of firearms
have been turned in to the National
Guard by strikers in the Carbon
county, Utah, coal district. Women
took most of the guns to military
headquarters. Some of the women
called members of the guard to their
homes and gave them weapons, while
others called at headquarters and
asked that militiamen be sent to
their homes.
Two hoboes were killed outright and
George Welch, third knight of the
rail, so badly injured he died in hos
pital at Redding Calf, when a freight
train on which they We're riding was
derailed near Sims. The three were
riding in Il car laden with lumber and
when the sudden stop, due to the de-
railment, came were crushed beneath,
the lumber. One of the two killed
outright was n boy aged Is.
WASHINGTON
The American Federation of Labor
may yet be torn apart by internal
strife before 1t really gets down to
work and prepares to adjourn. Friends
of John l.. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, and
opponent of Samuel Gompers for the
presidency of the federation last year
in Denver, have started a full-fledged
boom for him again.
The use of radio to cure the exter-
nal manifestations of cancer was eX-
planned recently by DIR. T. Howard
Plank of Chicago before the National
Society of Physical Therapeutics.
The Ford offer for Muscle Shoals
cannot come before Congress at this
session, Senator Norris stated in the
Senate during debate on charges that
propaganda is being carried on in IA
yor of adoption of the Ford offer.
A bill denying entrance to Ameri-
can ports of any ship, foreign or do
mestic, on which liquor is sold, has
been introduced by Representative
Edmonds, Pennsylvania, ranking Re
publican of the merchant marine
committee, which drafted the ship
subsidy bill.
The purchase of 74,025 acres of
land to form the nucleus of the new
Allegheny national forest in Pennsyl-
vania has just been authorized by the
National Forest Reservation Commits
sion in Washington. Twenty-seven
tracts of cut-over and burned lands,
on the headwarters of the Allegheny
river in Warren, Elk, Forest and Nc
Kean counties, We're contracted for at
an average price of $2.75 per acre.
]. Morton Howell of Ohio was nomi-
pated by President Harding to be the
first American minister to Egypt. DIR.
Howell is the present diplomatic agent
and consul general for this govern
ment in Egypt, having been named to
the post about ten months ago by Pres
ident Harding. He has been a prac-
ticing physician, and for many years
close personal friend of the Presi-
dent. DIR. Howell's home is in Dayton.
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