The Colorado statesman., 1924-04-19
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK TIL PROGRESS
OF THE AGE

Three members of Northern Pacific
engine crews were injured near Wins
ton, Mont, when one helper engine
backed into another which had stopped
to make repairs. The injured were
Engineers Eugene La Bonte and Peter
Lehne, and Fireman George Matson.
They were brought to a Helena hos
pital None was fatally injured, ply
sicians stated.
In order that tramps on their post
| winter exodus from California may not
carry the fOot-and-mouth disease into
| Utah, y. A. Hinciley, commissioner of
agriculture, asked officials of the
Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and
Western Pacific railroads to have all
trains stopped at the Nevada Califor-
mia line SO that the transients might be
subjected to dsinfection.
Six new infections of the foot and
mouth disease were received In re-
ports in one day by the State Depart
ment of Agriculture from the branch
| offices in the quarantined districts.
Figures by the department show the
total number of livestock destroyed TO
date in combating the epidemic is
49,601, consisting of 81 herds The
total is made up of 25,110 cattle, 9,54S
hogs, 14,604 sheep and 239 goats.
The North Platte river. which last
September 81 swallowed and retained
| the bodies of q dozen or more victims
of the Cole creek disaster to Burling-
ton passenger train No. 30, has given
up the body of Charles Guenther,
prominent resident of Douglas. Re
ceding waters of the recent flood in
the river left the body high and dry
on sandbar twenty miles below the
| scene of the wreck, where 1t was
found by Robert Hintz, section fore
man for the Burlington.
There is not single animal in the
| Denver Union stockyards infected with
| foot and mouth disease and there has
been no trace of the disease there ac-
cording to the report of state and fed
eral inspectors which officially lifted
the embargo against outgoing ship
ments of live stock from Denver. The
| lifting of the embargo came after a
two weeks ban on outgoing shipments
| of live stock in which time the inspec-
| tors conducted number of tests and
inspections and gave particular atten-
| ton to n number 'f calves which were
| suspected for time of having become
infected with the disease.
WASHINGTON
Sumner Welles. American commits
sioner to the Dominican republic, has
been Instructed by President Coolidge
| to offer the friendly assistance of the
| United States for establishment of
peace in Honduras.
| Surplus electric power from the pro-
posed Boulder Canon dam on the Colo
| RADIO river would find IL market in Los
| Angeles, II. a. Painter, electrical en-
| gineer of the Los Angeles power and
light bureau told the House irrigation
committee. Painter testified the city,
If its present growth continued, would
require 100000 horsepower by 1885
or 1910. He said that by 1899 Califor-
| nia's available power resources wC::ld
| he developed to the limit.
| The United States Senate by vote of
| ~ to has voided the gentlemen
agreement between United States and
Japan.
The Johnson Immigration bill was
passed by the House. The measure
would practically bar japanese, would
fix quotas ut per cent. based on the
1890 census, and would provide for ex-
animation of immigrants overseas
Appointment of Albert B. Fall as
secretary of the interior was worth
| 100000 to him, the late Jake Hamon
told H. w. Ballard. Los Angeles oil
man. Ballard testified before the Sen
| ate oil committee. at was to be paid
| S15O,O00 down and the balance over II
period of four years" Ballard said.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, million
aire draft d0dger, voluntarily relin-
quished and forfeited his rights of cit
| izenship when he fled the country aft
er his conviction by IL court martial of
| evading the draft. according to ruling
made by Raymond F. Crlst. commits
| sioner of naturalization. "Bergdoll is
forever incapable of holding any office
of trust or profit under the United
States or of exercising any rights of
| citizenship"
| Some action designed to encourage
participation by women in the coming
election was predicted by leaders at
| tending the thirty-thlrd Continental
Congress of the Daughters of the
| american Revolution. President Cool
idge, addressing the convention, point
| ed out that for the first time in a ma
| tional election the women of the
United States have known far in ad-
vance that they would have a voice in