The Colorado statesman., 1923-08-11
The WORLD IN
PAR A crap H S
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
UoINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN


downtown street, several hundred /.
w. w. members invaded police head
quarters at Seattle to demand his re-
lease. They promptly dispersed when
the police armed themselves with riot
guns and fire hose.
Nearly all the sacramental wine of
the Sacred Heart church at Turlock,
Calf, was stolen recently. During the
night the housekeeper heard noises In
the church, but refrained from calling
the priest. When the robbery was
discovered there was only enough
wine left for the celebration of the
mass in the morning.
q. E. Weikert, general manager of
the California Olive Growers, Inc, an
nounced the prices ut which the pack
ers will purchase olives from the grow
ers' organization. They are: Mission
and ManzanillO variety, mammoth size,
picking fruit, $3.50 Il ton; extra large,
S1S5 Il ton large $i30 II ton; medium,
$50 II ton, and under SAG a ton.
a total of 500 permits for the sale
of cigarettes were taken out during
the first two months of Utah's new
NiSbICl law " LIZ co hlsilC
public in Salt Lake City. The rev.
enue received for the sale of stamps
for cigarets aggregated $4,000. The
report was for the entire state. The
hew cigaret law went into effect
May s.
Months and possibly years may be
required to determine fully the status
nf thousands nf IpllarS nf GnenritinS in
the hands of A. w. Coote, broker, Los
Angeles, who failed recently and who
has been adjudged bankrupt, according
to attorneys representing creditors in
court proceeding in the matter.
Coote's liabilities have been estimated
at $5,000,000.
Believed to have become temporarily
deranged, Mrs. julius Lindenstruth,
wife of Major Lindenstruth, U. S. A,
retired, of San Jose, Calf, shot and
killed her 3-year-old son, Arthur, and
then committed suicide herself by
shooting. The shots did not awaken
Major Lindenstruth and the tragedy
was not discovered until he awakened.
A farewell note was found.
The last type set by Warren G..
Harding has been plated in gold and
is to be sent to Washington to be kept
with other relies Of the late president.
When Mr.. Harding was in Fairbanks,
Alaska, the farthest northern point
reached on his tour of Alaska, nine
teen days ago, he set the type in the
composing room of the Fairbanks
News-Miner. At that time he was pre-
sented with a gold makeup rule by
printers of interior Alaska.
WASHINGTON
Former President Woodrow Wilson
actively participated in the Harding
state funeral in Washington, 1t was Of
ficially announced.
A warning was issued by the budget
bureau that sharp cuts must be made
in federal expenditures during the COM
ing months to bring the governments s
expense for the current fiscal year
within $3,OOO,OO0,0OO.
Three air mail planes were used by
the Postoffice Department to distribute
quickly the newspaper and motion pic
ture films of President Harding's fu-
neral.
Manuel Herrick, former representa-
tive in Congress from Oklahoma, re-
newed his request in court for $4,000
damages from Miss Ethlyn Chrane, his
former stenographer, for breach Of
promise to marry him.
Railroad rates for sugar transporta-
ton were held to be generally reason
able in interstate commerce commits
sion decision rendered on complaint of
sugar refineries along the Atlantic sea-
board, at New Orleans and on the
Pacific coast. Carriers were denied
permission to reduce charges from the
which would make them lower than
existing rates from the Pacific coast
to intermediate points. At the same
time the present comparative basis of
rates from the New Orleans refining
centers to the middle west and from
the Atlantic coast to the same destin-
ations were held to be reasonable as
they stand. Proceedings brought by
carriers and refineries were dismissed.
The Veterans Bureau is considering
an offer of Nebraska state officials of
the state soldiers home at Grard ISL
and, for use as a bureau hospital but
Director Hines said that conditions i'm
posed in the offer had made it impos-
sible to accept so far Further infor-
nation has been requested of Cover
nor Bryan, and the bureau also has un-
der consideration report from its dis
trict manager regarding the Grand ISL
and site. The district manager is said
to have indicated that the site would
not be suitable for the bureaus pur-
poses.