The Colorado statesman., 1923-10-06
The WORLD IN
PAR A C R A P H S
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

In one of the greatest races ever
staged in the Western League, OKLA
home City won the 1923 championship
when Tulsa, their close rival, dropped
q double-header to Omaha, while the
Indians were idle with Denver because
of wet grounds.
Steve Yovanovich, "king" Of the
Yovanoyich tribe of gypsies, re-
nounced his crown in Los Angeles u
few minutes before the time set Tor
his coronation. He announced MS
conversion to the Christian religion.
His action was taken in the Angelus
temple in Los Angeles, where hun
dreds had gathered to see MIN
crowned king of all the American
gypsies.
]. Frank Norfleet of Hale Center,
Texas, who for the last four years has
devoted practically his entire time to
seeking out the men who fleeced him
out of $4,000 in Fort Worth, Texas,
In November, 1919, completed his
work, as the last of the alleged bunko
men is now in the tolls Of the law. M.
p. Hunt, a salesman of Salt Lake City
lust at present, but formerly known as
w. b. Spencer, of Texas, is the man
Identified by Norfleet as the last of
the bunko men.
The sixth Arizona Legislature will
not be called into extraordinary ses-
sion for some time, "at least not for
thirty days" Gov. George w. p. Hunt
said in Phonelx upon his return from
Washington where he headed an Ari-
zona delegation which presented Il
state plan for development of the
Colorado river. The governor assert
ed he believed the Arizona delegates
made progress at the Washington
conference with the federal power
commission, for the development of
the river under the ARIZONA plan" Of
state ownership.
A. Cotsworth, Jr., general passenger
agent of the Burlington at Omaha,
who was summoned from tour of his
territory to the scene Of the wreck
near Casper, made the following
statement: THE wreck was one of
those frlghtful affairs which, seeming
ly, cannot be prevented by any amount
of precautlon. 1t is a matter of defi-
mite record that about Z 80 o'clock
Thursday evening the section foreman
not only walked over, but climbed un-
der and examined that bridge as part
OF his regular duties. Everything at
that time was all right, and the water
was only about two feet deep in Cole
creek. The accident happened less
than two hours later, and the creek
was then a raging torrent, eighteen to
twenty feet deep. A local cloudburst
TO the north at about that time can be
the only explanation to such u sud
denly changed situation"
WASHINGTON
Declaration that the child labor
question is the vital one of the hour
was emphasized by President Samuel
Gompers in his annual address at the
opening of the forty-third annual con-
vention of the American Federation
of Labor at Portland, Ore. He dis
cussed this question before he turned
his attention to 'reds" and radicals.
Revival of the United States Grain
chase 200,00O,000 bushels of American
wheat in the open market is the plan
most favored by the Coolidge admins
tration for the relief Of the agricul-
tural industry, 1t was learned in Wash
ington. The purchase price would be
$1.50 u bushel If the plan is finally
adopted.
Treasury operation during Septem-
ber resulted in net decrease in the
public debt of $74 4,414,870, leaving the
governments total outstanding obliga-
lions at $50, ,125, 5,614,247. The figures
compiled in Washington revealed also
that the general fund which had sunk
to S252, ,456,23S at the end of August,
had grown during September to $422,-
1882.
Delegates from forty-two nations,
including scientists, public health off,
clals and manufacturers of dairy pro-
ducts and machinery, assembled in
Washington for the opening session Of
the Worlds Dairy Congress. Discus
sion by experts of the Department of
Agriculture of progress in various
phases of the industry occupied much
of the program for the two days ses-
sion.
Vast geological changes in the
Andes mountains are being pushed
slowly eastward and the California
coast ranges forced northward are in
progress, in the opinion of DIR. Bailey
Willis, professor emeritus of geology
at Leland Sanford university. The
eastern part of Japan. he said. prob
ably is moving westward. DIR. Willis
has just returned to Washington from
South America where he was sent by