The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-20
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

WESTERN
c. S. TOwnley, brother of A. G.
Townley, former president and ut
present national organizer of the Non
partisan League, was killed in an au-
tomobile grade crossing accident near
Lincoln, Neb.
Los Angeles police are seeking the
owner of a small automobile which
carried gunmen who shot and killed
William S. Fisher, a private detective,
as he was walking along the sidewalk
near his home in the southwest section
of Los Angeles.
The meeting of the Pacific Coast
baseball league broke up at Portland,
when directors representing the Oak
land Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and
Portland clubs walked out after their
refusal to vote on a resolution grant
ing the Vernon club equal territorial
rights with the Los Angeles club at
Los Angeles.
After fifty hours deliberation the
jury in the trial of Frank Robinson,
former sheriff of Nueces county, Tex
as, and three other defendants
charged with the murder of Fred Rob-
erts, large ranch owner, last October,
acquitted the defendants according to
a telephone message received in San
Antorio from Laredo, where the trial
was conducted.
A concurrent resolution calling for
ratification of the Colorado river
compact signed by representatives of
seven Western states AZ Santa Fe, N.
NJ, last November, was introduced in
the senate of the sixth Arizona legis-
lature by Senator Keene st. Charles of
Mohave county. Passage of the reso-
luton by both houses would be re-
quired for ratification of the compact.
The south cut bank of the Red river
was made the boundary line between
Texas and Oklahoma by order of the
Supreme Court at Washington in the
famous Red river case. The decision
is compromise of the conflicting con-
tentions of the United States and Tex
as, the cut bank for most of the dis
tance, where the contest centered at
the Big Bend, being between the bluffs
which the United States insisted
should be made the boundary, and the
south bank of the river at its normal
WHICH itAub DC
made the line.
WASHINGTON
Representative Bourke Cochran,
Democrat, New York, declared in the
House that regardless of any effort the
government might make, the eight
eenth amendment could not be en-
forced in certain sections of the coun-
try.
Representative Thomas, Democrat,
Kentucky, a Democratic member of the
House judiciary committee, declared in
minority report that the committee
failed to investigate impartially the
Keller impeachment charges against
Attorney General Daugherty.
The Supreme Court reversed de-
cision of the federal District Court of
Colorado which held that Ray Jaynes,
David Karen and others could not
be prosecuted in the federal courts on
charge of conspiracy to prevent
William BascOm and others from driv-
ing sheep over public land in Moffat
county, Colorado.
Premier A. Bonar Law instructed
Chancellor of the EXchequer Stanley
Baldwin, now in Washington heading
the British debt funding commission,
to insist upon further interest rate
reduction. He suggests the United
States would consent to 3 per cent
upon the $4,277 100000 owing. The
premier approves payment of the debt
with bonds.
The American government will make
no reply to the German protest
against the French movement into the
Ruhr, it was said at the White House.
1t was said further that the Washing
ton government can see at this time
no way by which its desire to be help
full in the reparations crisis can be
advanced and is not. therefore, moving
in the matter in any way.
An unusual tribute was paid by the
House Tuesday to Representative
Stedman, Democrat, of North Carolina,
the only Confederate veteran serving
in that body, when he rose to plead for
federal consideration of bill to per-
mite the erection in Washington of n
monument to the Southern Negro
Nanny. The entire membership, Re
publicans and Democrats, cheered Mr..
Stedman for several minutes.
The Midway Irrigation Company of
Utah won its suit in the Supreme
Court of the United States to prevent
diversion of percolating waters by the
Snake Creek Mining and Tunnel Com
pany, and sale to others than those
supplied by the irrigation company.
For the first time in fifty years con-
gressmen next year will have no free
seeds to distribute to their constitu-
ents. The senate sahttered the half
oo,,+,ry tradition nv missing the nrri-