The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-15
The WORLD IN
PARAGR AP H S
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

electrocuted when crowbar he was
carrying came in contact with live
wire carrying 2,300 volts.
With the passengers, most of the
crew and $2,500,000 in gold and silver
bullion safely landed, Capt. c. J. Hol-
land and four members of his crew re-
manned on the Pacific mail liner Cuba
at the spot where she struck reef
Spanking neatly done" might be the
sign on the door of the headquarters of
the Chinatown squad at the Hall of
Justice in San Francisco. Police Cor
poral Jack Floyd is the official spank
er, and rarely day passes that he
does not imprint his trademark on
some incorrigible Chinese youth.
United States District Judge John S.
Partaridge denied petitions for writs
Of habeas corpus whereby fifty-seven
Russian refugees who came to San
Francisco recently on the United
States transport Merritt, sought to
have set aside an order of the Depart
ment of Labor directing that they be
deported to Hardin, China.
Cooperation between fish and game
departments of western states to enact
laws which would help in conserva
ton of the nations wild life was
urged by c. A. Jakways, Montana state
game warden and president of the
Western States Game Wardens' Asso-
citation at session of the annual
meeting of the association at Missoula,
Mont.
Los Angeles harbor and other points
on the southern California coast felt
the effects of terrific storm raging
far out at sea and believed by mari
ners to be partly caused by the ty-
pfoons that followed the Nippon earth
quake and tidal waves. AS a result of
a heavy surge that swept into the har-
Dor and a strong current running up
the coast the Los Angeles harbor has
suffered damage estimated at $4,000.
Seven United States navy destroyers
and the Pacific mail liner Cuba were
wrecked, the navy vessels crashing on
the rocks in II dense fog off Arguello
Light, seventy-five miles north of
Santa Barbara, and the passenger
steamer on a reef off the southeast
end of San Miguel island, thirty-five
miles off the Santa Barbara port.
Twenty-Five enlisted men of the de-
stroyers lost their lives in the naval
disaster, and all the destroyers were
reported as total losses.
WASHINGTON
Brig. Gen. Frank Il. Mccoy has been
selected to act as director general of
American relief in Japan.
Naval foodstuffs stored on Mare Is
land near San Francisco, were shipped
to Japan for the relief of earthquake
sufferers, in compliance with orders
received from Secretary of the Navy
DENLY.
Two applications for permission to
construct traffic bridges across San
Francisco bay have been approved by
Secretary Weeks. Both of the struc
lures would be south of San Francis
co. Frank Webb proposing to build
from Dumberton point and John l..
Harrington from Little Coyote point
Rush L. Holland of Colorado Springs,
assistant attorney general of the
United States, returned to his desk at
the Justice Department recently after
spending two months abroad on an Of
ficial mission.
The Alabama Power Company
agreed to extend the time until Sept.
"a, within which the government must
determine whether it will sell to the
power company its interest in the Cor
gas unit and transmission line of the
Muscle Shoals Alabama properties.
Mrs. Florence Killing Harding has
ended her Washington residence, leav-
ing Washington few days ago to
spend the next several weeks with rel
atives and friends in Marion. She
plans to close up the affairs of the
late President, including the filing of
the will, but her plans for the future
still are indefinite.
Freight rates on fiber brooms in car
loads, from Burlington, VT, to Boston,
Hartford, Conn Hoboken, Toledo,
New Orleans, Kansas City and Oak
land, Calf. were found unreasonable
in tentative report by examiners for
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The examiners finding has not yet re-
ceived the approval of the commission.
Only one of the twenty nine repre-
sentative cities reported decline in
the retail cost of food in the year end
ing Aug. 10, Dallas showing II decrease
of l per cent in figures compiled by
the bureau of labor statistics of the
Department of Labor. Twenty-one OF
these cities, however, reported de-
creases in the month from July 10 to
Aug. 10, while seven showed advances,
and one, Richmond, Va, remained un-
changed. The increase for the year
ranged from less than one-half of l
per cent at Seattle to IL per cent at
philadelphia.