The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-24
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Mexico died at his home in Las Vegas
a few days ago. He was taken sick
Tuesday and developed pneumonia. He
was 4S years old and is survived by his
widow, one son and five daughters.
The two oldest children, Jose and
Emily, were attending the University
of Missouri at Columbia.
Burglars entered the Great Northern
station at Belt, Mont, knocked the
dial off the safe with sledge, blew
open the safe with nitro and carried
away the entire cash cOntents-53 cop
per pennies-the agent having depos-
tied the receipts earlier in the day
and left only the 50 cents. There is
no clew to the identity of the burg
lars.
The dead bodies of Agnes Black, a
divorcee, and Robert NJ. Snyder, a
watchman, each with bullet wounds in
the head, were found in Snyder's
apartment in n downtown rooming
house in Seattle. Deputy County Cor
oner Howard f. Mcdonald, after an in
vestigation, said Snyder had evidently
shot the woman and then taken his
own life. Unrequited love, he said, APP
peared to have prompted Snyder's act.
Flames and smoke are belching from
the crater of volcano, supposedly eX-
tinct for centuries near the Colorado
line In New Mexico, according to auto
mobile travellers reaching Walsenburg,
Colo, from the South. The eruption
is said to be from a cone near the
Ration pass. The travellers did not go
near enough the eruption to ascertain
whether lava or ash was being thrown
from the old crater, but declared
smoke was issuing from a fissure in
the ground near Folsom, New Mexico.
Officials of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company at
Denver have received instructions
from the American Telephone and Tel
egraph Company to submit license
blanks to all owners of commercial
radio broadcasting stations in this ter
ritory with a view to eliminating in
fringements on the companys patents.
The blanks are being mailed out this
week. A number of suits recently
were instituted by the company to
protect its patents affecting radio tel
ephone broadcasting, and each deci-
sion so far rendered has been in favor
of the telephone company.
WASHINGTON
Republican members of the Senate
foreign relations committee were told
by President Coolidge at a White
House conference that his position
with reference to the world court
question was the same as indicated
in his message on the subject and in
various statements since made.
william NJ. Butler, manager of PresI-
Rent Coolidge's preconvention cam
palgn, has issued a statement declar-
ing 94S delegates to the Republican
national convention have been selected
who are instructed or favorable to the
nomination of Mr. Coolidge The num-
Der necessary for a choice is 800. The
statement gave Senator Hiram john
son fifteen delegates.
Edward b. Mclean, editor and pub
Usher of the Washington Post, has is
sued the following announcement II
have much pleasure in announcing that
1 have arranged with George Harvey,
former United States ambassador to
Great Britain, to become editorial di-
rector of the Washington Post on
June l."
1t is estimated that 3O3S,2S3 veter-
ans will be entitled to the insurance
policies provided by the soldier bonus
bill, while $3.50, ,5S3 will be paid cash of
$50 or less. The bill also provides for
payment to dependents of deceased
veterans of the amount of adjusted
service compensation to which they
should be entitled.
Forest fires which have been raging
in northern Montana are reported as
being under control. Favorable wealth
er and an absence of wind enabled fire
fighters to conflne the fires to areas
which had been partly burned over.
Reports from Whitefish and Kalispell
indicate that the fires, which have de-
stroyed several thousand acres of tim
ber have been checked and that no
more ranchers had been driven from
their homes.
The federal grand jury in Montana
was justified in returning an indict-
ment against Senator Wheeler, Demo
crat, of that state, in the opinion of
Senator Sterling, Republican, South
Dakota, who submitted minority re-
port to the Senate in his capacity as
member of the special committee
which investigated the incident.
Cyrus Il. Woods, American ambassa-
dor to Japan, has rendered his resig-
nation to President Coolidge and asked
TO be relieved of his duties at Toxic
as soon as the president can conven-
Innflv rpnlncn him.