The Colorado statesman., 1924-08-09
The WORLD IN
PAR A C R ZAP H S
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

WESTERN
The California Grape Growers Ex-
change announced II few days ago that
Il disposed of the entire supply of its
BOO members in five hours, whereas
the selling campaign usually takes sew
sral days.
With wall of flame on two sides
and rapidly closing the gap on the
third side, the town of Floriston,
Calf, in the Truckee canon, was re-
ported deserted as its $50 inhabitants
lied before the advancing forest fire
with their portable belongings.
II. ]. Hammond, Sr., president of
the defunct First National Bank of
Clayton, n. NJ, was adjudged in CON
tempt of Federal Court by Judge o. l..
Phillips of Ration, n. NJ, in hearing in
bankruptcy when he refused to answer
questions as to the disposition of
$4,000 of alleged assets.
William Lane, owner of the Salt
Lake baseball club, plans to purchase
the Vernon baseball club from Eddie
Meier for approximately Si75,000. and
group of Salt Lake capitalists Will
buy the Bees at a figure considerably
under that sum, according to Lane,
who is in Seattle during the Seattle
Silt Lake series.
Thomas f. Baxter president of the
Holt Manufacturing Company of
Stockton, Calf, was elected Il director
Of the Western Pacific Railroad Com
pany at a meeting of the board of dl-
In, GnY
ceeds II. II. Pardow of San Francisco
who was elected at the last annual
meeting to fill temporarily the place
of Thomas S. Montgomery, San Jose,
Calf, who was forced to resign be-
cause of i'll health.
For the first time since the Indians
rorsook the bow for the rifle, an
American deer was killed with an ar
row recently. The animal fell to Miss
Virginia Ayres of San Francisco who
nses fifty-two pound bow, nearly
double the strength of the ordinary
womRn's target weapon, and steel
hewed arrows. Miss Ayres, with w. J..
Hackmeier, went hunting near Clover
dale. She first sighted the game and
brought down a buck with an arrow
through the body. Hackmeier, not to
be outdone, also dropped a buck with
an arrow, but the animal ran u mile
before dying.
WASHINGTON
American Charge Schoenfield at
Mexico City reported to the state de-
partment that he had taken up with
the Mexican government the case of
Mrs. Rosalie Evans, a British subject,
who was shot and killed near Texme-
lacan, and that the Mexican authorities
had given assurance that every effort
would be made to apprehend and pun
lsh the murderers.
John w. Davis is ready to present to
the country his case as the Democratic
presidential candidate. In his Long
Island home he put the final touch to
his address accepting the nomination
by the New York convention. He will
deliver it at Clarksburg, w. Va, on
Monday, Aug. II, in inaugurating what
he has determined to make an lnten-
sive campaign.
President Coolidge spent last Sun
day resting, preparatory to putting the
finishing touches on his speech of ac-
ceptance of the Republican presiden-
tial nomination, to be delivered at the
formal notification exercises ut Wash
ington, Aug. II.
Commercial damage in Sac Pnulo,
Brazil, as result of the recent fight
ing there is estimated at from $1,000
600 to $7,5OOOOO, the department of
commerce was advised by Trade Com
missioner Il. NJ. Connell. One-tenth
of the damage was to machinery.
Mrs. w. J. Pettus, wife of the chief
surgeon of the San Francisco Marine
hospital, plans to leave soon for the
lonely ranch in the Puebla valley of
Mexico where her sister, Mrs. Rosalie
Evans was shot and killed. Mrs
Pettus will look after her sisters body
and also plans, it was said mt the
Pettus home, to supervise operation
of Mrs. Evans ranch. This will in
clude not only the harvesting of the
seasons crops and employment of
farm hands, but also the carrying on
Of her sisters fight to prevent seizure
of the estate. She also intends to
make every effort to bring to justice
Mrs Evans slayers.
On request of Lieut.. Lowell II.
Smith, commanding the army world
flight, orders We're issued by the air
service cancelling plans for Il celebra-
ton in honor of the aviators when they
reach Washington. Lieutenant Smith
had urged that no ceremonies be held
until the flight had been completed
and it was Indicated that efforts
wo&d be made to have his wishes
met in other cities