The Colorado statesman., 1922-05-13
CONDENSED RE CORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING GS, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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WESTERN

WESTERN
Burglars recently entered the station
of the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific
railroad at Anaconda and escaped with
$500 in money and a number Of bank
railroad tickets.
william S. Estaver, accused Of the
murder of Mrs. Anna g. Johnson, wife
Of q Denver contractor, has been posi-
lively identified as Paul v. Hadley,
life-termer who escaped from the Ok
lahoma state penitentiary, 1t was as
serted by Benjamin Stillman, secre-
tary Of the Arizona state penitentiary
at Florence,
The East won the East versus West
national tennis tournament at Berke-
ley by taking the fifth and deciding
match of the five played, three sets to
two. 1t was anybody's tournament un-
til the end of the last set. The West
took the first set Of the match and
each alternated wins with the eastern
ers taking the final set.
Warm spring weather has caused the
streams in cafons adjocent to Salt
Lake City to overflow their banks and
In the Sugar House district Easements
are flooded and homes, in many in
stances are completely surrounded by
water. There has been no danger to
residents, but property damage is ex-
pected to reach approximately $780,
OOO
Governor Neff Of Texas has ordered
two detachments of state rangers to
be sent to Fairfield, county seat of
Freestone county, to prevent an upris-
ing of negroes which Sheriff w. NJ.
Mayo of Freestone county said was in-
minent The sheriff said the negroes
of the county are threatening to
avenge the death of the three negroes
who were burned at Kirvin.
Service of summons in S2,400
suit was the first note of welcome to
Mary Miles Minter, famous motion pic
ture star, when she landed in San
Francisco from Honolulu, where she
has been resting for the past six
weeks. Evering H. Furman, Los An
geles, alleged Miss Minter had been
forgetful in paying for two etchings
and an oil painting, thev alue of which
was 50, 400.
The bodies of John r. Hanify,
wealthy lumberman, and George An
derson, boatman, were found entan-
gled in the wreckage of the yacht
Quart near Hayward on the Alameda
side of San Francisco bay. The Quart
q twenty-one-foot knockabout, was one
of several small pleasure boats cruis-
ing off Coyote Point, San Mateo coun-
ty. Stiff weather was encountered and
several of the boats met with mishap,
but all were accounted for save the
Quart.
WASHINGTON
Senator Borah demanded in the Sen
ate that Boris Bakhmeteff, so-called
Russian ambassador, appear before a
Senate committee instead of hiding
behind his diplomatic immunity" and
attempting through communications to
the State Department to clear himself
of the serious charges made against
him.
The National Amateur Athletic Fed
Grafton was organized at Washington
by representatives of many leading
athletic organizations to promote more
wholesome sports in America. The
action was taken at the suggestion
first made by Secretary of War Weeks
before the American Olympic Associa-
ton last November.
The Eighth United States infantry
will be kept on the Rhine until the lat
ter part of June at least, Secretary of
War Weeks indicated in letter re-
Gently to Senator Harris, Democrat,
Georgia. "rhe exact date of the ar
rival of the last units of the regiment
at Savannah, where n celebration of
its return has been planned, can not
yet be determined" Weeks stated
The Chinese government has ratified
the Washington conference treaties to
which China was signatory, and the
Shantung treaty, negotiated during the
conference with Japan, according to
advices received by the Chinese lega-
ton at Washington. Thee difference
treaties to which China was signatory
are the general Chinese policies pact
and the convention on Chinese Gus
toms.
President Harding has asked Con-
gress for an appropriation of $1,000
600 for survey and designing of a
dock at Juneau, Alaska, the War De-
partment reporting the construction of
a new dock there would materially re-
duce operating costs and shipping de-
lays.
The experiment of decentralizlng the
work of internal revenue headquarters,
which will be made in the four Pacific
coast cities of Portland, Los Angeles,
rooorno and Can Eroncirco ,orohoi,I,