The Colorado statesman., 1923-03-24
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS in THIS AND FOR
EIoN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

" 11O L IIhN
Mrs II. E. Barrett of Seaside, Ore,
received notice that she had been
elected city manager of the town OF
Warrenton, Ore, located near the
mouth of the Columbia river.
Jay G. Rlchenbach, &c, and Kenneth
z. Brown, 2S, reserve officers of the
United States army air service, were
burned to death at Fort Bliss when the
De Haviland plane In which they were
making a practice flight crashed to the
ground in full view of hundreds of
spectators.
Z. ]. Bedell, manager OF the Hotel
Clunie of Sacramento, and one of the
most prominent hotel men in the state,
was arrested following the shooting of
his brother, Milton Bedell, who is said
to be in critical condition. The shoot
ing followed n quarrel in which Milton
Bedell is said to have attempted to
break into his brothers room.
Plans for a state convention of post
office employees to be held in Seattle
July 4, were made recently at a meet
ing of supervising employees OF the
Seattle, Everett, Tacoma, Bellingham
and Olympia postoffices. More than
1000 postoffice employees from all
parts of the state are expected to at
tend the convention.
To inconvenience the travelling pub
lie through neglecting to post In rail-
way stations the exact time each pas
senger train is due to arrive is in vio-
Iation of the Montana state law and
Is punishable by a fine Of $50 to $500,
according to a communication which
has been sent all Montana counties by
Wellington B. Rankin, state attorney
general.
A fashionably attired woman rode
up in limousine to the entrance of
the Palace hotel in San Francisco,
handed weighty package to an at
tendant, and then disappeared. When
opened, the package was found to con-
tain approximately sixty pieces of sill
ver-ware, believed to have been taken
from the hotel during the fire of 1906
which partially destroyed the city. The
silverware is valued at $1O0.
WASHINGTON
The United States government is
still paying pensions to forty-one
widows of soldiers of the war of 1S12
notwithstanding the fact that los
years have elapsed since the closing
of that conflict, according to statistics
Just compiled by the Department of
the Interior.
The federal farm loan board, at the
conclusion of three-day conference
with the federal land bank presidents,
fa nf ha
country will have the benefit of the
governments financial aid, authorized
in the recently enacted rural credits
legislation, by the time the spring
planting begins.
The first operation under the Anglo
American debt funding agreement
took place, when Great Britain made
payment of $4,02S,000 to the United
States treasury through the federal re-
serve bank of New York. This first
payment was made to reduce the total
British debt to $4,600,000,000, the
amount upon which the funding agree
ment was predicated.
Robbers broke into the Olympia
(Wash.) postofflce recently, drilled
their way into the money order vault,
blew open the stamp safe and escaped
with stamps valued at between $4,000
and $4,000.
A decline of &c per cent in the av-
erage value of plowed lands through
out the country is shown in statis
teal survey made by the Department
of Agriculture. The average value
per acre on March l this year was
S66.53, the department reported, as
compared with $69.S9 on the same date
last year, $S3.7S in 1927.
Four new stamps of the complete
new series to be issued by the Postof-
flee Department have been placed on
sale at the department philatelic agen-
cy. The department said the new
stamps would be sent to postoffices
only when the present supply in their
denominations is exhausted. One of
the new stamps is of 12-cent denomina-
ton and bears portrait of President
Cleveland. The others are 30-cent
stamp, bearing the picture of buffa-
10; 81 stamp with a picture of the
United States capitol, and a 50 stamp,
earring the head of America" taken
from the statue on the capitol dome.
States cannot impose taxes on mort
cages negotiated by the Federal Farm
Loan banks, the Supreme Court held
recently. 1t overruled a decision of the
courts in Alabama which upheld Il tax
of 10 per cent per hundred in accord
ance with an Alabama law ON a mort
gage of the Federal Farm Loan Bank
at New Orleans, signed by ID. w. Cros-
land of Montgomery county State
laws in conflict in this respect We're
held unconstitutional.