The Colorado statesman., 1923-10-20
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dent of the railways employees depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor, the six Cheyenne federal shop
crafts called off the fifteen months
strike against the Union Pacific Rail-
road
Thomas Baron, his mother, L. Rich
ardson and five other persons have
been arrested at Kimball, Neb, in an
alleged plot to burn that city because
of its wickedness." The three named
are said to be leaders in u small re-
ligious sect at Klmball.
Hopes for the finding of additional
bodies from the wreckage of curling
ton passenger train No. 80 at Cole
creek were practically abandoned when
the hoisting of the huge locomotive
from the sands failed to reveal the
bodies of Engineer L. ]. Spangler and
Fireman Ollie Mallon, engine crew.
Conspiracy to paralyze the rice in
dustry of the Sacramento valley and
extend the paralysis into the agricul-
tural industry of the entire state
through a general strike of the l. w.
w. was exposed in Sacramento by @.
S. Morrill,, chief of the state bureau of
criminal Identification, who sent tele-
grams TO all district attorneys and
sherlffs in the state warning of the
proposed action.
A total of 81, 800 acres out OF the
aggregate of 25,0O0 acres of oil leases
offered at auction at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, by the governmental on
the Navajo Indian reservation-were
sold under the hammer. Two groups
of leases were offered. Group 1 leases
cover land in wildcat" territory, and
Group leases are in the Hogback
structure, where the Midwest Oil &
Refining Company has two producing
wells.
w. Mont Ferry, vice president and
managing director of the Silver King
Coalition Mines Company, who was
chosen chairman of the silver produc-
ers' organization at the silver confer
ence held in Reno, New, on Sept. 4
and ., announced in Salt Lake City
his fact-finding and recommendation
committee, which was authorized at
the time of the conference The duties
of the committee will be to collect all
facts concerning the silver industry
and make recommendations for i'm
provements. The study will be made
from world standpoint but particu-
larly from the standpoint of the silver
producers of North and South America.
WASHINGTON
President Coolidge has suggested TO
Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, that Il freight rate re
duction be put into effect by the rail
roads on wheat designed for export
and that railroads institute the same
rate on export coal as on coal for do
nestle use.
Wealthy Americans who violate the
eighteenth amendment and reds who
denounce constitutional provisions
designed to protect property, Senator
Borah of Idaho declared in an ad-
dress in Washington, are both travel
ing the road of lawlessness, sowing
the seed of destruction and undermin-
ing the whole fabric OF law ana
order.
President Coolidge has decided to
follow the course of President Wilson
and President Harding in refusing to
abrogate certain commercial treaties
which Congress directed should be
terminated in 1920. The treaties, thir-
ty in number, prohibit the United
States from instituting preferential
tariff duties on imports carried in
American DultomS.
Another me~~age assuring Governor
General Wood of the support of the
Washington government in his disa
greement with a group of native po-
litical leaders in the Philippines has
been sent to Manila by Secretary
Weeks. 1t is expected in Washington
that General Wood will make 1t public
in connection with the latest phase of
the internal controversy in the islands
A sweeping inquiry into the "entire
field of activities and responsibilities
of the bureau of reclamation was IN
stituted with the assembling in Wash
ington of the special advisory COM
mittee, invited by Secretary Work to
undertake that task. Former Governor
Thomas Il. Campbell of Arizona was
elected chairman and DIR. John A
Widtsoe, former president of the Uni
versity of Utah, vice chairman and
secretary.
Successful completion of the recent
fiye-day test in tn" transcontinental
air mail service was only possible, in
the opinion of officials of the Postof-
flee Department, because of the ex-
treme care taken to keep mail planes
in perfect condition. Each of the sew
enty air mail ships is inspected daily
in the most minute detail
Postoffice department expenditures
during the last fiscal year were $685.
$4,000, with revenues of $685.
S2S, 900, showing an apparent deficit of
S24, ,O65, 900. 1t was announced a few
days ago by Postmaster General New.