The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1923-06-29
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

Admiral Edward Simpson assumed
command of the Twelfth naval dis
trict and San Francisco naval operat-
Ing base. He relieved Rear Admiral
A. S. Halstead. who has been ordered
to Washington TO become president OF
the naval board of inspection and sur
Sey.
The purchasing agents of western
states as far east as Colorado Will
convene in San Francisco Sept. 2I-SO,
for their annual convention. d. Is.
Gray, secretary, states that these men
represent purchasing power of APP
proximately S1,5OO,OOO,OOO a year.
More than 400 are expected TO attend.
\ two-car train of the Pacific Elec-
tric system bound from Sawtele to
Los Angeles was wrecked near Sher-
man junction. The station master at
Beverly Hills sad it struck stalled
automobile which caught fire, fatal
Iy burning a woman driver. The Pa
cifIc Electric Company said numer-
Gus persons We're injured.
With oil production and develop
ibtlAb Al sNbANAlSAAA NtAA4A'l ana - 't4Ah
Ing records, the standard Oil Com
pany of California has decided to
forego further development and cur
tail production SO far as possible, it
was officially announced at Los
Angeles. The company will extend
its storage facilities and await Il
break in the market.
1.s4fI
coach at the University of Washing
ton, and in his college days ut Dart
mouth n member of the mythical ALI
America" football squad, was killed
in logging accident at Brookings,
Ore, Place coached football ut Ohio
Wesleyan College from 1908 to 1905,
and at the University OF Washington
in 1906 and 1907. He was succeeded
at the local school by Gilmour Dobie.
now coach at Cornell University.
Later Place practiced law in Seattle.
X. II. Mcdonald, arrested mt Liv-
ingstOn, Mont, after an exciting chase
by deputy sheriff from Billings,
Special Officer William Olson and
Deputy Sheriff C. Il. Gilbert, pleaded
guilty and was fined 500 in the JUS
tice Court on a charge of gambling on
Northern Pacific train No. .. Melon
aids partner got off the train ut Lo-
gan and has not been apprehcnded.
The two men were playing cards with
Mike MOwrey, complaining witness,
and the Billings deputy recognized
them as the same two who had been
arrested and fined on a similar charge
in Billings recently.
Flights which army aviators hope
will eclipse any achievement of the
air since aviation began will be at.
tempted in San Diego, Calf, by Rock.
well field pilots. The aviators vino
have been selected to 90 after the rec
Ords are Capt. Lowell II. Smith and
Lieut.. Johns L. Richter. Captain
Smith and Lieutenant Richter hope
not only to pass the world endurance
record held by Lieutenants Kelly and
MacReady, but to stay in the air
three times as long us did those two
airmen. This they hope to accomp-
lish by taking aboard gasoline, Oil
water and food while in mid-air.
WASHINGTON
Director ScObey, of the mint, an
nounced the acceptance of tenders of
100000 ounces of silver, offered
under the Pittman act, including all
tenders up to June .. The total of
accepted offerings under the act was
brought up to 2OO,52O,OOO ounces
which, it was said, is expected to
satisfy requirements Of the law.
Secretary of Interior Work has an
nounced that eighteen reclamation
projects in eleven western states
would be surveyed with the 1928 900
appropriated by the last Congress for
that purpose. These projects are in
Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho.
Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ore
gon, Texas, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming.
The government has accomplished
the task of living within its income
In the past twelve months and has
accumulated surplus of 5000, 900, 600
in addition, President Harding said in
a speech at meeting of department
heads and bureau division chief, CON
stitutng the government business or.
ganization." Further reductions. he
said, would be made in expenditures
in the coming year
The treasury department announced
that 1t had accepted subscriptions
fotaIing S1S9,S33, 500 to the latest Issue
Of certificates of Indebtedness. A