The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT.
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Burglars broke open eighty vaults on
NIX floors Of the Paulson building In
Spokane, Wash, and stole IN excess OF
100000. This Is the largest burglary
ever committed in Spokane, according
to local police.
Chris Chfolis, %, was instantly Killed
and Charles v. Herman, 80. was IN
jured, possibly fatally, when the auto
mobile they had entered in the races at
Lagoon, an amusement resort near
Salt Lake City, plunged through the
fence.
Jeffrey HiIdreth and hts slayer,
Monte p. Rose, sleep together tn Fall
River cemetery at ReddfnG, Calf. They
had been friends for several score
years until a law suit estran1ed them
and led to a quarrel as a result of
which Rose slew HiIdreth and then
himself.
Spreading over an area that totals
between 1000 and 5000 acres, the Mar
BILE creek forest fire, near Avery, Ida,
about eighty miles east OF Spokane,
Wash, has developed under brisk
wind into what forestry officials con
slider to be the largest fire In the Idaho
territory Since 1919.
Thomas Lynch, his wife, Mary, their
daughter, Katherine, aged A, and
nephew, Philip, aged 3, were killed and
four other members Of the Lynch fam
fly and another woman suffered burns
which are expected to prove fatal In
collision between the Lynch automo-
bile and n street car in San Francisco
Report was confirmed by W. ].
O'Connor, assistant manager of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany's smelter at East Helena, Mont,
that the wage scale at the plant would
be increased SO cents day. The
smelter will thus be paying the same
scale which will prevail in other places
In Montana for similar work, said Mr..
O'Connor.
WASHINGTON
Operators from the coal-producing
districts of six states have been asked
by Secretary Hoover to cooperate
with the government and the railroads
in n plan to insure the distribution of
fuel to the carriers and public util-
tiles and to prevent profiteering dur
ing the strike emergency.
Republican and Democratic senator's
ioined in demands for prompt payment
of American damage claims against
Germany and Austria but differed as
TO procedure during three hours debate
on the bill of Senator Underwood of
Alabama, the Democratic leader, which
proposed an American claims commits
sion.
In comprehensive report submit
ted to the Senate by Chairman Norris
of the Senate agricultural committee,
Henry Ford's offer for the purchase
and lease of the governments war-in-
itiated projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala,
is condemned in unusually strong lam
guage, while the Nebraska senator's
bill, proposing development of the
properties under government-owned
and controlled corporation, is de-
scribed as 1.-The most wonderful plan"
that has ever been proposed in the his
tory of the country.
Secretary Hughes has been author
lied by President Harding to enter in
to negotiations with the principal mar
itime nations of the world with the
view to holding conference in the
United States for discussion cf
means of preventing oil pollution of
navigable waters, especially in import
ant harbors.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has declared that an emergency
exists in transportation in territory
east of the Mississippi river, which re-
qulred it to direct the routing of ship
ments of all essential commodities and
to fix preference and priority for the
movement of food, perishable products,
coal and other fuel, and live stock.
Failing to get action from the SEN
ate finance committee majority, Sen
ator Lenroot, Republican, of Wiscon-
sin, launched his fight in the Senate to
limit to 60 per cent ad valorem the du-
ties in the pending bill on coarse wools,
both in the raw and the manufactured
state. His proposal met with sharp op-
position from spokesmen for the COM
mittee and senators engaged in the
production of wool, and there were fire.
quent and, at times, sharp exchanges
President Harding has accepted the
invitation of the Flathead Indians of
Montana to become an honorary men,
ber of their tribe. President Harding.
in his reply of acceptance, said he had
no objection to a proposal to have
mountain peak on the Indian reserva-
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