The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
CONDENSED REC ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoiN c 8. ACHIEVE
MENTo. sUFFERiNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN


that Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Hanna of Ba-
ker, Ore, who were believed to have
been lost, were safe and en- route to
California.
Fire damaged heavily the publish
Ing plant of the Nevada State Journal
at Reno, Ner. The loss was estimated
at $4,000. The flames started in the
basement of the building. The Journal
will be published in the plant of the
Reno Evening Ga ette Company.
The West Folk logging camp, four
miles from Morton, Lewis county,
Wash, was wrecked by a cloudburst,
according to word received in Seattle.
A flve-foot wall of water poured down
Tilton river, wrecking or overturning
nearly every building in the camp.
Fire, at first believed to have been
caused by a short circuit of wires, re-
suited in a damage of $1,000,000 to
the Big creek system sub-plant of the
Southern California Edison Company
at Eagle Rock, near Los Angeles, fol-
lowing the Ignition of $4,000 gallons
of oil.
Flood conditions throughout the
Willamette and Hood river valleys,
Oregon, which turned most streams
into great torrents, are reported much
improved. Almost everywhere the
waters have begun to recede and rail-
roads, public service corporations,
highway bodies and residents have be-
gun to repair the immense damage
done.
Ira Colver Sparks of Peru, Ind.
carpenter and former lumber jack,
figured out what he thought was n
new stowaway scheme-one that
would get him to the Orient at an ex-
pense of only few dollars. But the
scheme didn't work, and Sparks is in
the hospital at Honolulu and due to
be returned to San Francisco as soon
as he is able to leave.
Production of coal in the Kansas
field will not exceed 100000 tons for
1922, as compared to 100000 tons in
1921, and as high as 100000 tons in
previous years, according to an an
nouncement by James Sherwood, state
mine inspector. The falling off in pro-
ductlon Is accounted for by the five
months coal strike and shortage of
coal cars.
San Francisco police were notified
that Joseph Riordan had given himself
up to Los Angeles authorities for the
shooting of Frank Thompson, bridge
contractor of San Francisco, fifteen
years ago. Thompson recovered. 1t is
charged that Riordan and Frank Cor
man attempted to hold up Thompson,
who resisted and was shot. German
was captured and sentenced to life
Imprisonment. Riordan will be brought
to San Francisco for trial on charge
of attempted murder, police said.
WASHINGTON
The drive for official American rep
resentation on reparatlons commission
was formally launched in the Senate
with the administrations attitude un-
disclosed but with II declaration of
war from the Republican 'irreconclla-
bles"
President Harding is convinced, 1t
was disclosed ut the White House,
that there can be no settlement of the
S11,oOO,00o,O0O of war debts to the
United States within the limitations
laid down by Congress payment of
principal within twenty-five years
with interest at Az per cent.
At the first joint meeting of the
British and American debt commission,
Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the ex
chequer and one of the British COM
missioners, declared Great Britain in
tended to repay every cent of its debt
TO the United States, but desired fund
ing arrangements which would dis
turb trade relations as little as possi-
BILE.
AS result of the Senate's recon-
mendation that American troops be
recalled from the Rhine, President
Harding will decide this week, after
consultation with Secretary of State
Hughes and Secretary of War Weeks
whether to take that step or retain the
American force at Coblenz while
longer. About 1,200 American soldiers
have been retained on the Rhine by
the Harding administration for diplo-
matte reasons which have not been dis
closed
The first step toward enactment of
agricultural relief legislation was TAX
en- by the Senate banking and currency
committee when it reported favorably
the Capper farm credits bill and rec
commended an extension of the War FL
nance Corporation for nine months
nfter June 30 next.
A partial program of farm credits
legislation was agreed on by the Sen
ate banking committee, which decided
to report the Capper bill substantial
Iy as drawn, and then proceed with
consideration of the Lenroot-Anderson
iiu In addition.