The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
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LATE LIVE NEWS
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FROM ALL SOURCES
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MENTs, suFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN

w EO EhN
President Harding became the engi-
neer of his own train few days ago.
He arose early at Falcon, Idaho, and
for more than an hour rode the cab
of the engine that pulled his train
toward the Pacific coast.
The Santa Fe Railway Company's
store of lumber at San Bernardlno, val
ued at S1000,000 was destroyed by fire
believed to have been started by an in
cendiary. Fire departments from six
adjacent cities were called on to fight
the enormous blaze.
The closing of the Merchants and
Farmers State Bank at Chino, Calf,
by the state superintendent of banks,
after an investigation by Edward f.
Dishman of the State Corporation De
partment, has resulted in a nationwide
search for six stock brokers who are
under Indictment in connection with
the banks failure, Dishman announced
In San Francisco.
A contract between q citizen and an
alien ineligible to citizenship whereby
the latter Is to settle upon agricultural
land for the purpose of preparing it
1OI ltI0lNlllS MuSS5 Ia LIS
work and sharing in future profits on
an equal basis, is not violation of the
alien land law passed by the Califor-
MIA Legislature NOV. 2, 1920, the Su-
preme Court decided at San Francisco.
President Hardlngs power of speech
failed him few days ago for the first
time since he left Washington. Stand
Ing at Artists Point, overlooking the
Grand Canon of Yellowstone National
Park, the chief executive was asked
what he thought of the scene before
him. He admitted his inability to re-
ply, saying that the grandeur of the
canon was beyond his power to de-
scribe.
The law permitting the state to quar-
antine against alfalfa hay is unconsti
tutional as constituting an embargo,
and is so unlimited in its scope as to
be unreasonable, counsel for the Ore
gon-W Washington Railway and Naviga-
ton Company contended In Superior
Court at Olympia, Wash, in the So
called alfalfa weevil case" The bur-
den of testimony by the state tended
to prove that stringent regulations
were needed If the alfalfa weevil is to
be controlled.
WASHINGTON
A reorganization within the Treas
ury Department with the shifting of
several of the more important bureaus,
Is provided for in regulations issued at
Washington. Simultaneous with the Is
suing of the regulations, it became
known that Assistant Secretary Ed
ward Clifford, whose Jurisdiction with
in the department will be materially
changed under the reorganization is to
resign.
DIR. j. r. Mohler, chief of the bureau
of animal industry, announced he had
concluded arrangements to commence
on July the vaccination of stocker
and feeder cattle at public stockyards
against hemorrhagic septicemia, also
known as stockyards pneumonia and
shipping fever Until the work Is
placed on the stable basis the govern
ment will furnish the vaccine and
trained veterinarians to administer the
treatment at actual cost.
Treasury officials revealed here for
the first time that the proposal to seize
liquor carrying liners in American wa
tiers had reached the stage where new
regulations to carry such policy into
effect had been drafted in tentative
form and were in the hands of the pro-
hibitlon unit.
More than 10000 acres of public
land in four Western states were
thrown open few days ago to entry
ax-caryipa Tho
prises the second largest offering of
public domain for homesteading In
several years. The exact dates for fill
ing will be announced by local land
offices. Lands thrown open under the
order include: California, 10000
acres in San Bernardino county, near
Kelso, and in San Diego county, near
Campo. Colorado, 1880 acres in Cos
tilla county, near Russell. Nevada,
22.o00 acres in Nye county, near Car
rara. Utah, 10000 acres in Washing
ton county, near Central. In addition,
about 1000 acres in Juab county, near
Mona, Utah, will be opened to ex-
service men after the state has made
selections from the tract in accordance
with public land grants to 1t.
The United States District Court in
San Francisco denied a motion asking
for the dismissal of n petition by
Charles Lockard, an owner of the Sc
attic Club in the Pacific Coast Base
ball League, that w. Il Mccarthy,
president of the league, be compelled
to seit him us a director of the par
ent organization. Mccarthy has re-
fused to permit the participation of
the Seattle Club in the regular league
meetings on the ground that there liz