The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-21
CONDENSED REcoRD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
eAYINGs, DOING ACHIEVE
MENTS, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
ANDFEARs OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

WESTERN
The assembly body Of the California
Legislature tabled bill for the aboli-
ton of capital punishment. One of
the speakers for the bill was Warden
Johnston of San Quentin prison, who
said he did not believe In capital pun
ishment.
Marshall Kent, alias Kent Marshall,
alleged to be the head of Il national
organization of confidence men. is un-
der arrest in Los Angeles on a federal
charge of using the mails to defraud.
Kent was arrested at the request of
federal authorities In New York, who
stated that he was wanted in Jack
sonville, Fla.
Spokane, Wash, police are seeking
a man whose advances caused young
girl to leap from his speeding car, and
who, when pursued, shot and wounded
the motorcycle officer pursuing him.
The girl, Gladys Homer, is in a hos
pital with a fractured skull, possibly
dying. The motorcycle officer, ]. Il.
Cashatt, Is in another hospital, with
bullet in his right lung.
Actual construction on the first half
mile of grade for the new Montana
Wyoming Railroad Company has start
ed The cross sections of the loca-
tions have been completed for dis
tance of two miles and work is stead
lily progressing. The contractors all
expect to be working within two
weeks between Miles City, Mont, and
Ashland.
Twenty-three hundred miles will be
covered by the representatives of
Omaha wholesaling. jobbing and re-
falling firms who will make the 1923
trade extension tour now being
planned. The boosters will leave
Omaha on May 20 and visit ninety
western Nebraska and Wyoming cit
les. Principal cities in Wyoming
which will be visited are Cheyenne,
Rock Springs, Laramie, Rawlings and
Green River.
WASHINGTON
Although pointing out that in some
cities there was great need of new gov
ernment buildings, Secretary Mellon
stated in a letter to Chairman Madden
of the House appropriations commit
tee that 1t might be well to consider
the advisabllity of restricting govern
ment construction as much as posi-
BILE in view of the present boom of
home building.
Business conditions are steadily get
ting better, Secretary of Labor Davis
announced recently. He based his OBJ
servations on reports to the Depart
ment of Labor from 5,453 manufacture
Ing establishments for March, showing
an increase at 81 per cent in number
of men employed, 3 per cent increase
In total wages, and 2.S per cent in
crease in average weekly earnings.
Numerous applications for the job
as prohibition director for Colorado
have been sent to the United States
Treasury Department ut Washington.
The office was left vacant when the
resignation of Emmett III. McClena-
han was accepted by David A. Blair,
commissioner of internal revenue in
Washington. Recommendation by
United States Senator Lawrence Q.
Phipps will be awaited before an ap-
polntment is made.
The first social function of any i'm
portance since Mrs. Harding's illness
last fall was held Il few days ago at
the White House, the President and
Mrs. Harding entertaining informally
100 friends in official and unofficial
life The guests included the members
of the cabinet and Supreme Court, sew
eral members of the Senate and House
and few representatives of the diplo-
matte corps.
II nt.tf n1
to Investigate charges that Turkish
soldiers had mutllated the body and
destroyed the coffin Of George Dilboy,
an American soldier to whom con-
gressional medal of honor was award
ed after he met his death in the World
war, have confirmed them. In pre-
liminary report the agents said those
responsible for the PROCLAMATION were
apparently actuated by cupidity rather
than by malice or any Intentional act
of disrespect."
The grain futures trading act was
declared valid and constitutional by
the Supreme Court. 1t was the second
time the court had passed on the val
ldity of a grain future trading law,
previous statute based on the taxing
power llc iio'
Ing been held unconstitutional. The
law upheld was based on the right to
control Interstate commerce.
Establishment of seaplane mail serv-
ice between New Orleans and Pilot
town, La, has been announced by the
Postoffice Department. BY this serv-
Ice late mail for foreign countries will
be placed on outgoing steamers ut
Pilot Town, 100 miles down the Mis-
slsslppi river, saving from day to
two weeks time in delivery at Cuba,
.,,,,,,,o Uara Cruz and other nOintS