The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-26
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oNOAbS oAt44ANht toSuPCh NOhNANt
who jumped out of a passenger train
window while being returned to a
penitentiary and who was thought to
have been hiding in the hillsl near
Forsyth, Mont, was found dead on
the banks of the Yellowstone river,
six miles east Of Forsyth. His skull
was fractured.
A resolution offered by Rnvenel
Macbeth, secretary of the Idaho Min
ing Association, protesting against the
withdrawal Of 14,500.O00 ounces of sill
yer for subsidiary coinage under the
order of the United States Treasury
Department, was presented to the
Northwest mining convention at Spo-
kane.
Automobile bandits shot Dave An
tink, cashier of the Sun Drug Com
pany of Los Angeles, according to the
police, and escaped after robbing him
OF SSs,350, which he was carrying to
the bank in satchel. Antink. whose
wounds were not serious, said he be-
lieved the driver of the robbers car
was hit by one Of the bullets he fired
at the men as they fled.
A shortage of railroad refrigerator
cars to move the crops of the inter-
mountain region this fall, as was ex-
perienced last year, was forecast by
G. w. Luce of San Francisco. freight
traffic manager of the Southern
Pacific lines at q meeting of the in
termediate rate association in Salt
Lake City. Upwards of fifty rail-
road rate experts from the West and
Middle West attended.
Clara Phillips "own" story Of her
escape from the county jail at Los
Angeles last December In which she
said Jesse Carsen, under arrest with
her and her "baby sister," Eta May
jackson, at Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
sawed the bars of her cell and was
the only person to assist her, was re-
garded by special officials as trap"
to mislead them in their investigation
of her getaway.
A life production of slxty-three
tons Of milk and three tons of butter,
Is the estimated total output for Idaho
Violet Posch Ormsby, a Holstein COW
owned and bred by the University of
Idaho. "Old Violet" as she Is referred
to at the University, came in for much
publicity in recent Issue of the col
lege paper, for she has just finished
years test during which she pro-
duced 26,S12.4 pounds of milk and the
equivalent In butterfat of 1,259.26
pounds of butter.
WASHINGTON
Governor Sweet, Democrat of Colo
RADIO, who recently visited Washing
ton, Issued warning to Democrats
that 1t would be party suicide" to
nominate wet candidate for Presi-
dent or write wet plank into the 1924
platform.
President Harding has telegraphed
st. Mary's College, at st. Mary's, Kan
sas, commencing plans for dedica
ton of memorial arch in honor of
Lieut. w. 7. Fitzsimons, former st.
Mary's student, the first officer killed
by the enemy in the World War.
President Harding announced he
plans TO go TO Milford, Del, on June
8, to be initiated into the Tall Cedars
of Lebanon, Masonic organization.
George b. Christian, Jr., secretary to
the President and Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt will
be admitted to the order at the same
time.
Detailed plans for the development
proposed by the Ford Motor Company
on the Mississippi river between st.
Paul and Minneapolis have been filed
with tl,n fnl J.
engineers and attorneys representing
Henry Ford, with an application for
permanent license covering the pro-
ject.
Partial reorganization of the mixed
claims commission, constituted to nd
judicate war claims totaling S1,4T9.-
100000 of the United States govern
ment and American citizens against
Germany, was caused by the retire
ment of former Justice Day of the
Supreme Court as umpire of the COM
mission. Judge Edwin B. Parker of
Texas. American member of the COM
mission, was appointed Immediately
by President Harding to succeed Mr.
Day.
Declaring the care of dependents
consumes more than a quarter of the
revenues of the average state, former
Governor Lowden of Illinois said at
the national conference of social work
that some way must be found TO stop
the constant increase of dependents In
proportion TO population. Employment
of social experts and some of the re-
search institutes with view to de-
creasing prison and other institution
al populntion, Mr. Lowden said Drove