The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-08


we're shot and killed by bandits when
travelling in Szechwan province, Aug.
ii, according to letter from Men
chow received in Shanghai.
Count Gombei Yamamoto has been
appointed premier of Japan to sue
ceed the late Baron Kato, who died re-
Gently. The appointment followed a
summons to court by Prince Regent
Hirohito, who acted upon the advice
of the Genro, or elder statesmen.
A dispatch from Berlin says 1t has
been learned on good authority that
former Crown Prince Frederick VIII
liam has asked to be allowed to re-
turn to Germany and that the Prus-
sian cabinet is prepared to permit him
to reside in Castle Oehis, near Breslau.
Believed the youngest boy ever
charged with murder in Canada, Peter
Sawicki, aged u, is in provincial Jail
at Dauphin, awaiting hearing on
charge of killing Mrs. Anna Kunka at
Pine River in dispute over cattle.
He said his mother told him to shoot
Mrs. Kunka after she had been bested
by the woman in n fight.
Minister of Agriculture Lebreton an
nounced his intention of invoking Ar
gentines recentIy-enacted antitrust
law to determine If meat trust exists
in Buenos Aires. An investigation to
be conducted by the federal attorney
is expected to inquire into the activ-
tiles of British and American packing
concerns doing business in Argentine.
Great Britain will not abandon her
right to reparations or her claims to
the debts which other nations owe her.
the earl OF Birkenhead, lord high
chancellor in the Lloyd George cabinet,
declared in an address. 1.-The position
would be a monstrous one that we, n
victorious nation, should be the only
country in the world paying indem-
nity," he said.
Continued fall of grain prices in the
world markets threatens to make Rus
sian grain exports Improbable and is
having a tremendous effect on the
Russian peasantry in the lowering of
prices in the home market. AS coun-
ter measure, the council of commits
sars has ordered the remittance of a
number of taxes on all grain destined
for export. This, the government be-
lieves, will to certain extent allevi-
ate the situation.
GENERAL
Miss Emile Bullow of New York
was reelected president of the Ma
tional Association of Women Lawyers.
Women's rights in the pulpit were
demanded by the International Asso
citation of Women Preachers in Chi
cago.
The battleship Colorado, most pow
erful sea fighter of the United States
navy, went into commission at a Cam
den, n. j., shipyard. The ceremony
planned for the official passing of the
ship from her builders to the navy
was simple one.
Calling for improved conditions for
Americas destitute childhood, and urg-
ing that the nation close the doors to
undesirable" immigrants, were the
two high lights in the address of Sec
retary of Labor James ]. Davis before
the Alabama Legislature.
Frederick w. Upham, treasurer of
the national Republican committee, re-
turning to New York on the Leviathan
from a trip abroad, said there was no
question but that Chicago would be
the scene of the 1924 Republican con-
vention. A majority of the members
themselves in favor of Chicago, he
said.
Fire gutted the Cosmopolitan cafe,
the largest restaurant in Nogales, So
nora, few days ago. The Nogales,
Ariz., fire department crossed the In
ternational line and assisted in efforts
to control the blaze. Damage is esti-
mated at 100000. The Cosmopolitan
cafe was popular gathering place for
visitors from the United States.
Asking that the election of Hiram
w. Evans as imperial wizard of the Ku
Qux Klan be declared by the court as
null and void, William Joseph Sim
mons, organizer of the khan, and
Kamelia, filed an answer to the suit
brought against him in June by knights
of the order. The suit sought to re-
strain Simmons from organizing the
Kamelia women's order of the khan.
Two hundred leading business men
of Nashville, Tenn, all members of the
Nashville Exchange Club, observed
Labor day in overalls, welding picks,
shovels and other implements in COM
pletely installing playground for
children at the Davidson County Tu-
berculosis hospital. Five thousand dol
fx, n,,tl
by the club, intended to help the child
rem in their fight against disease.
william C. Durant. head of the Du-
rant Motors, soon will open bank in
| New York to be known as the Liberty