The Colorado statesman., 1922-03-18
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTs
CONDEMNED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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eide in his cell by hanging himself
with bed sheet Mccoy was about 80
years old.
Ellis Lewis Garretson, in 1920 imper-
ial potentate OF the order of the Mys-
tic Shrine of North America, died sud
denly at his suburban home at Taco
ma, Wash.
Customs inspectors at San Francis
co told of another manner of hiding
whisky on incoming ships. They To-
Gated and confiscated 224 bottles of
Scotch whisky tied to the anchor Of
the steamship Melville Dollar.
Joseph Feltin, As, was shot through
the head and killed at San Jose. CAL,
by his father, Louis Feltin. 80, as the
result of an alteration between the
two as to whether a neighbor should
be given permission TO erect a shed on
their property.
George II. Kirk, a well known bank
er and farmer of Benchland, Judith
basin, Mont, has announced his can
didacy for the Republican nomination
for congressman to succeed Hon. Carl
II. Riddick. Mr.. Kirk 10 q brother of
the late John Kirk, a former mayor of
Butte.
New evidence, which he asserts will
show that Mrs. Louise Peete, serving
q life term at San Quentin prison, was
not the murderer Of Jacob Charles
Denton in Los Angeles, has been
found, according to 8. g. Hahn, an at
torney of that city, who visited the
prison to obtain a deposition from
Mrs. Peete.
Air Mail Pilot Paul P. Scott walked
into Dele, Utah, recently after spend
ing n night lost in blizzard, accord
ing to wireless dispatches received at
the Reno air mall field. He was
forced TO land when he ran into n
storm and in walking to Dele, was
lost in the blizzard. He was unin-
jured and his plane was not damaged
When Edward Gilbert, mining eI-
pert, died at his home in Los Angeles
recently he widowed two wives, one
in Los Angeles and the other in Chi
cago, according to reports. Gilbert
was said to have disappeared from his
home in Chicago nineteen years ago.
Then, it is reported, he went to Mex
leo, where he was married again. And
for seventeen years he kept the secret
of his purported Chicago marriage
from his second spouse.
WASHINGTON
The comptroller Of the currency Is
sued call for the condition OF all ma
tional banks at the close of business
Friday, March 10.
A threat to blow up every Polish
consulate in the United States and
Canada was contained in letter
signed American Ukrainian Black
Hand, which was received at Washing
ton by Senator willis, Republican, Of
Ohio, in an envelope postmarked
Cleveland, March 49, A list embracing
the Polish legation here and the Pol
ish consulate at New York City, Chi
cago, Detroit, Buffalo and Pittsburgh,
and at Winnipeg and Montreal, Can,
was embodied in the letter.
Cotton consumed during February
amounted to 473,073 bales of lint and
$500 bales of llnters. compared with
395,115 of lint and 37,565 of linters
consumed in February last year, the
census bureau announced recently.
The Supreme Court dismissed the
writs of error by which Alexander
Howat and other labor leaders sought
to have reviewed the decision of the
Kansas state courts holding them
guilty of contempt of court for their
refusal to appear before the Court of
Industrial Relations.
In investigating the record of Bennie
f. Taylor of Crystal Springs, Miss, n
soldier who died at Camp Beauregard
in 1918, the United States veterans
bureau has found that Taylor exclu-
sive OF cousins, was closely related to
per cent of the total population of
his home town of 1896 residents.
Officials of the public health sery-
ice announced their sanction of the
continued observance OF May II, ami
versary OF the birth of Florence Night
ingale, as national hospital day. The
service will join In uring the public to
visit hospitals on that day as an edu-
cational demonstration In the interest
OF better health.
A national anti-blue law conference
will be held at St Louis June %, "a
and rs, the Anti-Blue Law League for
America, Inc, has announced. 1t is
expected at this conference, 1t was
said, to settle the question of whether
or not the people of the United States
want blue laws and interference with
their rights as TO the observance of
Sunday"
BY vote of 80 to so, the House
passed bill appropriating $1,000,000
to buy seed grain for farmers in
northwestern states who lost their
crops in recent drouths.