The Colorado statesman., 1922-09-23
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
y BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

ton by the United States Forest Serv-
ice from it's San Francisco office.
Three fires on the SHASTA National
Forest have burned over 10000 acres.
With a total of 07,740 visitors this
season, Yellowstone Park has broken
all records for travel and leads its
nearest rival, Yosemite Park in Cali
fornia, by more than $500 tourists, ac-
cordlng to figures announced by Hor-
ace NJ. Albright. superintendent of the
Yellowstone.
James Il. Mahoney, convicted of
murder of his aged and wealthy wife,
Kate NJ. Mahoney, in April, 1921, was
sentenced in Superior Court at Seat
tie, Wash, to be hanged Dec. l. Ma
honey's counsel gave notice of an ay-
peal to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Seven men were injured in fire in
the engine room and crews quarters of
the motorship William Donovan, a
lumber carrier The vessel was saved
from destruction by flooding the hold
and permitting it to sink in the harbOr
at Los Angeles Damage was esti-
mated at $4,000.
Wage increases for mine workers in
all mines of the Coeur dAlene noun
tains will be effective on Oct. Z, it was
announced at Wallace, Ida. Miners
will receive a 75-cent increase to 50 a
day; muckers will receive II 5O-cent
wage increase to $3.50; timber men
will get a 75-cent increase to $3.50.
Connection between the Argonaut
mine at Jackson, Calf, where forty
seven men entombed more than three
weeks, and the adjoining Kennedy
mine resulted in the discovery of the
bodies of all the men. Formal an
nouncement was made that the crew
on the 3,6OO-foot level, all members of
which are ArgOnaut miners, had won
the $1,000 bonus offered by the mine
officials to the first crew to break in
TO the Argonaut.
Edward f. Winkler, a member of a
band of six men who attempted to hold
up the Golden State Limited on the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific mt
Jaynes station, Six miles from Tucson,
Ariz., on May 10, was arrested in Albu
querque. He admitted. his identity and
told officers n detailed story of the at
tempted holdup in which II. Stewart,
an express messenger, killed Tom Du-
pat, one of the holdup men, and foiled
the plans of the band.
WASHINGTON
The Senate adopted the conference
report on the new Republican tariff
oil. thereby completing Congressional
action en- the legislation.
With his open palm, Representative
Oliver Democrat, Alabama, gave Rep
resentative Dempsay Republican, New
York, a slap on the cheek in the
House the other day during the hub
bub which usually attends calling of
the roll, and then as he was attempt
ing to strike a second time, members
rushed between them. AS eXplana
tions came later, the HouI. found that
the encounter was due to a misunder-
standing.
Mrs. Harding now safely on the road
to complete recovery from her recent
serious illness, probably will spend the
entire recuperative period at the White
House.
The soldiers bonus bill was vetoed
by President Harding. In returning
the measure to Congress without bis
approval, the Executive in n message
TO the House declared that he was in
accord with the avowed purposes of
the bill, but that he could not subscribe
10 its provisions.
Without Il record vote the House
approved the conference report on the
soldiers bonus bill. The measure now
goes to the Senate, and with final ac-
ton there it will be sent to President
Harding. An effort to send the sol
diers' bonus bill back to conference for
the insertion of land reclamation op-
tion failed.
Approval by Congress of the rates
on dyes agreed upon by the Senate and
House conferees will mean the final
doom of the newly created American
chemical industry, DIR. Charles II. Her
ty, president of the Synthetic Organic
Chemical Manufacturers Association
of the United States, declared in
Washington.
The highest coal production since
the big strike was called on April 1
WAS attained last week when between
100000 and 105O0,0OO tons We're
produced, the geological survey an
nounced at Washington. OF this
amount, between 100000 and $4,000
tons were anthracite.
This week is expected to mark the
close of second session of the sixty
seventh Congress. Enactment of the
tariff bill and final disposition of the
soldiers bonus bill are expected to
provide the principal features of the
closing week of legislation.