The Colorado statesman., 1922-08-05
CONDENSED REcoRD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EV-NTG IT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOU URCES
SAYINGS, DoIN ACHIEVE
MENTs, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

were passengers with their parents,
backed off the st. Johns ferry at the
east side of the Willamette river at
Portland, Ore.
Armed raiders in automobiles
swooped down on the South Pacific
railroad shops at Colfax, Calf, and
after firing several volleys at the win
dows, which were shattered, and ut
the walls of the plant, withdrew as
mysteriously as they had come. No
body was injured.
Lives of scores were imperiled re-
Gently as the japanese steamer Hawaii
Maru collided during dense fog with
the Puget Sound passenger steamer
Calista off West Point, eight miles
from Seattle. The Calista sank with
in ten minutes after the accident. All
the Calista's passengers and crew
were saved.
Union printers will return to their
former positions in the newspaper and
job departments of the Billings Ca
zette, according to an announcement.
Printers in the newspaper department
have been on strike since May l, while
those in the job office have been out
for more than a year. The press
rooms are included in the settlement.
Isadore r. Eidelstein, alleged by To-
cal police to be notorious safe bur
glar with a long criminal record, is
accused of having burglarized, single
handed, eighty vaults in the Paulsen
tn
burglary warrant sworn out by Detec-
tive Chester Edwards. There are now
out for the arrest of the vault robber
and the recovery of stolen bonds, re-
wards aggregating $4,000.
The public of the United States and
the world at large has been "deliber-
ately misinformed as to the results of
prohibition IN San Francisco" and
there has been n decided increase in
the number of inmates in state cor
rective institutions since prohibition
began" the Grain Trade Association
of the San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce said in resolutions made public
recently. The total monthly arrests
in the city for intoxication have
steadily and rapidly increased since
the first month of prohibition" the
resolution said. They continued that
not only has there been an increase
in the number of inmates in state
prisons, insane asylums and institu-
tions for the feeble-minded, but a
decided increase in serious crime.
WASHINGTON
Robert b. Kerr has been nominated
10 be postmaster at North Grosvenor
Dale, Colo.
Warnings against unofficial promo
ters of colonization schemes in South
America has been issued by the Com
merce Department which added that
such promoters have been particular
ly active in the Western states Many
Americans going to South America as
colonists have found that they invest
ed their savings in land in the remote
wilderness, the department said.
Carrying orders to eject forclbly If
necessary representatives of the Mu
tual Oil Company from the Teapot
dome naval oil reserve in Wyoming
men of the marine corps left Wash
ington recently for n point forty miles
from Casper, where the company is
drilling well.
American relief work in soviet Rus
sia will continue for three or four
months at least, Secretary Hoover an
nounced upon his return from New
York, where he met with Col. william
N. Haskell, head of the American re-
lief administration forces in Russia !;
former Governor Goodrich of Indiana
and other officials to decide the fu-
ture program for Russian relief.
Vice President Coolidge left Wash
ington recently for Boston, starting a
trip that will occupy two or three
weeks and take him to the Pacific
coast. The vice presidetn plans to
leave soon for San Francisco, where
he will address the American Bar AS
ISOLATION convention Aug. TO- The
present itinerary of Mr.. Coolidge calls
for visits to Portland, Ore, and Seat
tie. but no speeches are planned. He
will return east through Canada
Whether the administration thrift
bill will be enacted before the Novem-
ber elections has again become the
subject of private discussion at the
capitol. There is a more or less gen.
eral belief now in the Senate that the
measure cannot be brought to final
vote in that body before Sept. 10, and
there are those who believe the iron
Ing out of differences between the SEN
ate and the House in conference will
be such slow and tedious process
that 1t cannot be completed before
Congress goes home for the fall. cam
paign.