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Pithy News Notes From All Parts of Colorado Wwmw ir Pit— l>n» comirg Kvrrr*. The Rod Cruw ChriftMu l«tl Mk will t*k« plooe all o?«r tkc L'rlM State* from December 1 t© 11, 1919. The nation export* from Colorado f 150,000 of the mjOBIKOOO to be raised In the United States In December to combat tuberrulooi* la this country, according to atafemtßta made at the opening dinner of the local campaign committee In Denver. The average yield of potatoes In Colorado this year la apparently about 110 bushels per acre. This la considerably below the normal aver age, the low yields In some of the principal producing district a being due to unfavorable weather condi tion*. A 6-ceut fare ha* gone into effect on nil local street «wr lines of the Trial dad Electric Transmission Railway and (la* I'otnpuny. Application for in creased fare was grauted by the Colo rado public utilities commission. No increased fare I* effective on the In terurban coal camp line*. The body of an unknown Mexican was founl partly concealed In a hay stack on the farm of C. N. Johnson, two miles northwest of Atwood, by Mr. Johnson, when he went to the stack to repair a fem-e. The body of the un known Mexican with bruises nt>otit the head and face indicated that his death bad been a violent one. Mrs. T. E. Rea of Longmont, while ill Boulder, said that she was feeling fine, despite the fMCt that no food has passed her lips for twenty-six days. She wo* advised by her physician to fast for a month in order to reduce her flesh. She has lost ut thy rate of a pound a clay. She la able to do part of her house ©fork. / Residents and towo govern ment of Haxtuu, Phillips county, filed before the State Public Utilities Com mission a petition which asks that the Burlington railroad be ordered to erect a new railroad station at llax tun. Growth of the town and the in crease of business at the station make a new depot Imperative, the petition declared. A tremendous explosion awakened the inhabitants of Golden and investi gation showed that a great part of the big "M" on Mt. Zion had been blown away. Student* at the Scliool of Mines blame the explosion cm men from Denver University, believing it done In revenge for the dynamite ex plosions which broke many of the win dows at the Denver University. Every Colorado doughboy who lias been “over there” knows It as the “Lib erty Cross.** The kaiser calls It the double cross. To the Knights Templar It Is a mark of their readiness to fight for the good and the true. And that is the reason why the doable-barred Red Cross has been adopted as the emblem of the Colorado Public Health Associa tion which is fighting for a hundred per cent health record in this state. Preliminary figures on the produc tion of winter wheat la Colorado this year, non* being compiled by the Stitt* Co-operative Crop Reporting Service, show that county leads all other counties la (he state in the production of this crop, with a total output of dose to 2,000,000 bushels. Only three other rountle*, Washington, Weld and Yuma, have produced more than 1,000,- 000 bushels of winter wheat this year and ten coantie* Ip the state, Chaffee, Clear Creek, Denver, Gilpin, Hinsdale, lake, Mineral, Rio Grande, San Joan und Teller, rejmrt no production of this crop. The total production Is approxi mately 11,000,000 bushels, the Urgent on record. The State Board of Capitol Man tigers have awarded the contract for build ng the state's new $500,000 of fice building at Colfax avenue and Sherman street, Denver. The bid was $457,000, the lowest of four received. Final estimates by the Btate Co-op erative Crop Reporting Service on the total production of potatoes In Colo rado this year apparently will show a considerable increase In the output over the SjOMjBOO bushels Indicated by the October eat lamte. Though it Is yet too early to give definite figures It now appears that the production will be above 10,000,000 huahela and perhaps as high aa 11.000,000 bushels. Three scenic routes from the East to the Pacific will touch Montrose when the new scenic route between Silverton and Durango Is completed, placing that city on the direct route from the eastern slope to Durango and the west. Tlie Silverton route will probably be the most henutiful of i|»e*e three routes and the most traveled. ThU route will go from Montrose to Ouray ami Durango, thence into New Mexico, through Arizona near the Grand Gallon of the Colorado and on into southern California. “As Governor of Colorado, I desire to heartily aprove of the work which has beeu carried on by your organiza tion for several years," states the g* emnr In a letter to John M. Kennedy, Jr., executive secretary of the Stir Health Association. As a result of the large Increase In acreage cultivated without Irrigation In Colorado, there has been a sharp decrease in tlie i»er acre yields of near ly all cn»fi« In tlie state In the i»aat tan years. One of the most marked dm creases is la the average yield wf wheat. | CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS. Inquiries M de by the State Inal glutton Department through county soar as ora, show a very rapid Increase la the BBubw of farm (factors owned and operated by farmers themselves In the more Important agricultural counties la the state. The reports made by county assessors curly this yeor indicated that there were approx! mat el y 2,500 such farm tractors In the state on April Ist. and later reports from dealers show that the number i* now perhaps 1,000 greater than the assessors showed. Groand has been broken at Brigh ton for the erection of the new wheat products plant of the Midland Cereal Products Company, which Is to be lo cated opposite the Great Western Su gar refinery. The building will be constructed of steel, concrete and glaaa. and when ready for operation It will coat about $150,000. Part of the plant equipment will be two huge grain elevators. Moorman A Two good, contractor* of Denver, are In charge of the construction. One thousand of Denver’s poor and helpless will eat Thanksgiving dinner this year as the guests of Superin tendent A. B. Boler of the Denver Res cue Mission, and of the char!table business men who are to donate to the dinner fund, according to an an nouncement made by Mr. Boler. laist year the mission gave out 400 ticket* and this year the number is to he in creased by six hundred. A thousand I>enver busluesn men liave been asked to aid In the work. Plans are under way for a lauding field and one of the finest aviation stations in the West, to take care of the travel that is expected in the northern part of the state next sea son at lx>veland. Sportsmen inter ested In aeronautics say that flight* will be common then in the Estes Park reglou and around the horn from Denver to Greeley, through Loveland ami Fort Col lins. Jeaae Harris, former mayor of For: Collins and ooe of the most noted horsemen in the United Stales, died at Ft. Collins of neuralgia of tlie heart, an ailment that had kept him inactive In public life for many years. He had been a member of tlie state hoard of agriculture, of tlie penitentiary »nd re formation board and was ele<-ted may or of Ft. Collins in 1011 by tlie greatest majority ever polled by n candidate. The Michigan-4 'olorado Copfcier Com pany of Bedrock, in the west end of Montrose county, will erect a 150-ton oil flotation mill at their mines In stead of the ltMMon mill as original ly planned. The company has recent ly increased their holding* in claim* and expect* to increase their output at least 100 per cent by spring. This mill will lie the first unit In a aerie* of mill* which they ex|>ect to «*>n strurt as tlie output l« Increased. Between 400 ami 000 more people this year visited the Mesa Verde Na tional park during tlie open season, which Hosed on Nov. Ist. than did I*** year, according to the official regis ter, which shows that 2J& 12 peq|»lKen tered the |iark. This does not Include several hundred more people from nearby points who have been occasion al visitors, but merely represents the majority of tourists. "File your statement now; you may die and the fucts die with you," 1* the admonition directed by State En gineer A. J. McCune In notices being Issued to holders of water rights or claims who must file supplemental statements in his offices before Jan uary Ist, next under act of the last Legislature. This Is the first and last notice the state engineer will Issue. The laujidry mark on a collar lie was weariug led to the detection of W. L. Ha set wood, 28. a waiter, who confessed, according to Deputy Thief of Detective* Washington A. Ulnker. at Denver, that he broke Into a Jew elry store at Sterling. Colo., and stole $3,500 worth of Jewelry. The Windsor Beet Growers* Associa tion will demand $lO a ton for sugar beet* for the 1020 season and one-half of the profits tlie Great Western Sugar Company may make through the opera tion of Its Windsor plant. This would be equivalent to sl2 to sl4 per ton for beets. The price paid for beets for 1010 was $lO per ton. Governor Shoup lias officially en dorsed the health-educational work which la being carried on by the Colo rado Public Health Association and the campaign which the organisation has launched to raise $150,000 for Its work In 1020 by the sale of health bonds and Red Cross Christman seals from De cember Ist to 11th. A warning of n counterfeit SSO bill ha* been sent out by secret service department, and experts are working on the rase. Operatives claim the bill to Im* the most dangerous counterfeit discovered since the surplus SIOO Mon roe silver certificate in 1880. A forty-acre tract one mile from Colorado Springs, was designated a* an aviation landing field by the Pike's Peak Aero Club, and suitable hangars, markings, etc., will l>e erected at once. Farmers In tlie Hoyt district will have the heat wheat crop In the history of that section of the state, according to reports from the dry land farmers. Most of the winter wheat was sprouted before the heuv.v snow mid this Insure* a heavy stand this fall. Additional anows will give the wheat moisture for next summer und the farmers are all Jubilant. A bill providing Indmnntty to Colo rado Htlaens whose arms and animunl Itlon were seized by federal troops dur ing the 1814 coal strike Itecume law with the President's signature. SS—■«» INJUNCTIONS GRANTED INJUNCTIONS MAY ■< NADI AMMAN ENT IN KENTUCKY TWO FKKKAL JUDGE* THINK DRY LAW IS UNCON STITUTIONAL. Vmti H..1.M ■■ CM T.». I.IIM IxMil.rlll., Kj, Not. IS.—Alton*** for distilling interests apparently -wmi another round In the fight on war time prohibition In Federal Court here. Judge Evans in a case brought by l.oulsvi!le distiller* announced W* be lief that the law la unconstitutional and at the conclusioa of the pleas of attorneys said he would Issue an in junction restraining government In terference with the sale of the distil ler* tax-paid whisky. Whether the In junct lon would he temporary or per manent, the court said, rested with Attorney General Palmer. Providence. R. I. —Judge Arthur I* Brown in the federal District Court issued a temporary injunction against IVarvey A. Baker, United States at torney, and George F. Shaunessy. col lector of internal revenue, restraining them from enforcing the provisions of tlie war-time prohibition act. Tlie injunction was issued upon the petition of the Narragnnsett Brewing Company. The sale of 4 i*cr cent beer wn* im mediately resumed by Providence 1!«|- our dealers. Tlie opinion is the first constitu tion of tlie Volstead (prohibition en forcement) act handed down by any court in the country* It virtually states the belief of the court that the entire war-time prohibition act is un constitutional and cannot lie enforced. The court in handing ilown its «lecl sion said: “In view of the probability (hat tlie act in question will ultimately lie held unconstitutional and of the Irrepara ble damage that would result from its immediate enforcement, and as. In view of tlie evidence afforded by the presidential proclamation* and other cl ecu m *t»n res. Its immediate enforce ment is not imperative. 1 am convinced that the plaintiff** rigid la a pretiro inary injumtion is Hear.". STRIKE IS CALLED OFF Miners Nearly All Back to Work In Minas. Indianapolis. Ind. —Judge A. B. An derson In Federal Court approved the order of the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America call ing off the strike of bituminous coat miners. Judge AiMlersmi characterized the order as a "good faltli effort” to comply with his mandate. Tlie text of the order follows: “Indianapolis, lnd.. Nov. 11. 1011). "To tlie Officer* and Members of tlie United kffne Workers of America: "Dear Sirs and Brothers —In obed ience to the mandate Issued on Nov. 8 by the United States Court, district of Indiana, Judge A. R. Anderson presid ing, the undersigned hereby adviae you that tlie order of Oct. 13 directing a cessation of operations In the bitu minous coal fields of your Jurisdiction is withdrawn and canceled. Yours fraternally, "WILLIAM GREEN, "Secretary-Treasurer. "JOHN U LEWIS, President." AMEND ARTICLE TEN. U. 8. Senate Passes Reeervation to League, 4$ to S 3. Washington.—Squarely Joining the isaue with President Wilson, the Sen ate adopted a reservation qualifying the obligations of the United States under Article 10 of the League of Na tions covenant. A solid Republican lineup, reinforced by four Democratic votes, put the reservation across ex actly as it came from tlie foreign rela tions committee and In virtually the language which the President declared on his western tour would cut tlie heart out of the covenant and mean the rejection of the treaty. The vote by which the reservation won was ,48 to 38. Ealaoaa Do Big Business. Agua Prteta. Sonora, Mex. —The sa loon again made its appearance here after a dry spell of about five years, and immigration officials on the other side of the line at Douglas, Aria., are swainped with applications for passports. So far four saloons are operating full blast and doing a "land office business.” Will Maks 2% Beer. San Franciwo, Calif. —Ralph Snmet, president of the California Brewers' association, notified the internal rev enue collector here that he would be gin at once the manufacture of beer containing 2% per cent alcohol, ac cording to an announcement by the collector. Hald for Murder. Marysville, Cal. —Mrs. Fred J. Wil son and her brother, Frank A. MeCor mlck, must stand trial-for first-degree murder for the kflllnir «»n Nov 1 of Charles Hrtrvrv h wealthy sheep raiser, following «< preliminary hear ing. Brown was shot to death during n quarrel that was jMleged to have been precipitated by jqhargcs of Mrs. Wilson and MeCOMck that Brown had been pijrliii.Mdup attention 'll* Mrs. O. J. Howard, a sister of McCor mick and Mrs. Wilson. AMERICAN ROOM IN VERSANLES PALACE In the "American Independence mom" In Versa Hiss palace two marble | tablets have been placed recently, setting forth In English and French George j Washington’s everlasting glory aa a patriotic Htlsen and lander. Many paint j lags and other Washington la also are on exhibition In the room. U. S. STARTS I.W.W. ROUNDUP Federal agents assisted by STATE OFFICERS START CLEANING. THE NATION IS ROUSED ARMED CITIZENS TURN OUT TO PREVENT JAIL DELIVERY IN OLYMPIA, WASH. Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 14. —A reporr that I. W. W. were gathering Ht Bor deaux, Wash., In preparation for m- I tacking the Thurston county jail at j Olympia to release three men arrested !at Centralis, brought every available i citizen who could secure a weapon to the Jail, a message to the I.edger from Olympia says. Memlier* of the sher iff** force and local police, aided by j former soldiers, boarded a Tacoma | eastern train at Bismarck, a suburb, land on arriving In Tacoma arrested eighteen passengers, alleged to Ik* I W. W. Other suspect* are believed to ! have left the traiu Just liefore reach ing Bismarck, and a posse went lu i search of them. The men arrested ) came from Mineral, Wash. ! Tlie prisoner*. It was stated, in i elude Commodore Brand, suspected or being the slayer of Lieut. Warren Grimm: Attorney Elmer S. Smith ani John Doe Reynold*. While brined- citizens were assem hllng at the Jail, the three prisoners were rushed Into an automobile and were started for the state reforms tory at Monroe, Wash. Seattle, Wash. —Raids were con : ducted In Washington ami Oregoi. cities by state and federal officers on I Industrial Workers of tlie World i headquarters, and many arrests wen* i made of alleged members of the or- I ganfxation. j Governor Louis F. Hart announced ! he mould organise a state-w ide round !up of Industrial Workers of the i World, Bolshevik! and other radicals. | and called upon all state officers to i cooperate with federal and county of j fleers to work to that end. The gov | ernor received messages asking him •to convene the Legislature to puss stringent antl-Industr.al Workers oi the World lows. Federal officers raided the office of the Seattle Union Record, seized | the entire plant and arrested several employ**, Including E. B. Ault, editor. The raids were the outgrowth of the i billing of four former soldiers at Cen- I trails, 100 miles southwest of here, by alleged I. W. W.'s. I Seventy-four alleged members of tlie Industrial Workers were arrested in a hall at Spokane, and at Portland., Ore, men alleged to be members of | the organisation were being held for examination. One of the inen arrest i ed at Portland, Frank Briley, told his arresting officer* he believed the j Centralis outrage was a “frame-up against the I. W. W.” Rainbow Camp Sold. I New York.—('amp Mills, on I*ong j Island, was sold to the Chicago j Wrecking company for $281,000. Work will begin itnmeiHately on the dis mantling of the cantonment. It wn* there the fumous Rainbow division trained. Sly* U. S. Net Neutral. Berlin.—Dr. Karl Helfferich. former German vice chancellor, on the wit ness stand before the war Investiga ♦*on committee, began s long drawn snt vilification of the United State* culminating with the declaration: "America maintained a mere paper neutrality; President Wilson was sat isfied to make money out of Euro pean blood and suffering." This dec laration was greeted with “bravos” from the spectators and mady German newspaper men. SMASH HEADQUARTERS FOUR KILLED AND NINE WOUND ED ARMISTICE DAY. ■ % AMERICAN LEGION MEN WRECK ANARCHIST BUILDING—ONE LYNCHED. Cent nil ia. Wash., Nov. 12.—Four meinliera of the American Legion are dead, two other former service men are In a precarious condition und sev eral others were wounded alien per sons said to be members of the Indus trial Workers of the World fired on an Armistice day )Mirade here. Another Minn, said to have been one of those who fired on the marchers, was lynched by a mob. At least eight sup nosed Industrial Worker* of the World are In local Jail guarded from n mol* of several hundred by former comrades of the man shot ilown. The shooting hegnn when the pa rade drew abreast of the Industrial Workers of tlie World ball here, ac cording to witnesses, the bullets going over the liends of the crowds watching the parade. Onlookers say shot* mine from every direction and that sni|ter* In the upper window* of the I. W. W. headquarters building fired Into the line. The dead: Arilinr McElfresh. Central la. Ben Cnsagramla, (’entrails. Warren Grimm, Centralla. Pule Huhbnrd, Centralla. Gathering np persons suspected of affiliation «Hth the radical order, some of the former service men took i hem to Jail, while other* of the marchers-tore out the front of the building where the I. W. W. headquar ter* were located, seised and burned a quantity of radical literature and all the fnrnlture. and distributed among liemselves and Centralla Htlzens the arms and ammunition stoied In the headquarters. According to ex-service men, who said they were present, Hnhhard’s party cuught the man they were chas ing. ufter he hod i.red at them several times, on the hanks of a small stream which runs through the town: Hub bard and the man grappled, they said, and the supposed I. W. W. fired direct ly Into Hubbard’s body. George Ste vens, another of the crowd chasjng the gunman, kicked the pistol from the 1. W. W.’s hands. A rope then was placed shout the man’s neck, thrown over the crossarm of n telephone pole, and he was hoist ed Into the air. The police persuaded •lie crowd to let the man down before **e was dead and l»e was taken to Jail. T. C. Rogers, mayor of CentraHa: A. C. Hughes, chief of police, and other citizens addressed the crowd In front of the Jail tonight, asking the citizens not to attempt to lynch the prisoners. Indicted far Hauling Bouse. Toledo, O. —Indictments have been returned by a federal grand Jury sgnfnst two railroads on chargee of transporting liquor from*one state to another in violation of nation-wide pro hibition laws. The Cleveland, Cincin nati, Chicago ft Bt. IjOuls and the To ledo. St. I.ouiH ft Western are the com panies named In the indictments. Approves "Victory Medal." Washington. The design for the “Victory Medal” to be given to every American who took part in the world war, has been approved by Secretary Baker. James E. Frazier, a New York sculptor, designed the medal, which will be of bronze about the size of n silver dollar. Swear Flume Fidelity. Flume. —Antonio Grosslch has been re-elected president of the Flume na tional council. After the Inaugural •eremony in the municipal palace ' Jnbrlele d'Annunzio. President Gms dch and all the members of the coun- II were sworn In, asserting their fi delity to Italy and Flume. Ricardo Glgante was elected mayor in succes sion to Dr. Antonio V!o, who, It was said, came into conflict with the or ders of d'Annunzio, who still rules Flume. LEGION GOES AFTER I.W.W. ■X-SERVICE MIN IMASH UR MkADQUARTIRS OF RADICALS. DISAX DPJIEETIHDS DRIVE STARTED TO CLEAN UP NATION OF ANARCHIST GANGS. WMtoni Nswipunr I’llos Wow* Sorvles. Lot Angeles, Calif., Nov. 15. —Indus- trial Workers of the World headquar ters at Germain hall was raided by uaL* formed ex-service men armed with cluba and the place wrecked after a melee lu which several supposed mem bers of tlie radical orgaalaatloa were Injured. Two were taken to the receiv ing hospital. About fifty alleged I. W. W.’a, including five women, were hoisting a meeting behind rioeed doors when the raiders, twenty to thirty strong, broke In the doors. Less than three minutes afterward. It la declared, the I. W. W. were fleeing la wild dis order and the former service men were systematically breaking furniture, smashing windows and tearing down signs. The poii<*e arrived in answer to :i riot call, to find the raider* gone and only the injured men and the wreck of the place as evidence of the fight. N. Stellnk. an alleged Y. W. W„ out on $5,- 000 hail pending trial for criminal syn dicalism, whs found nearby and ar rested. San Francisco. —Nine men were ar rested und a quantity of alleged Red literature was seised in two raids on radical headquarters. Police Captain John O'Meara, who conducted the raids, declared all members of the la dumtriat Workers of the World moot leave town or go to Jail. O’Meara said the raids were the result of informa tion that hoys and girls of school age frequented these places and were be ing taught Socialistic and radical prin ciple*. Spokane, Wash. —Members of the American I/egion here have been sworn in as special policemen to meet what was declared to be an iuvasion of 1,000 to 2,000 members of the In dustrial Workers of the World, due to arrive here from Moptana and other parts of the Northwest. Ar rangements were being made with of fleer* at Fort George Wright here for arms and ammunition for the Amer ican Legion deputy sheriffs, who were to he held in readiness for Immediate action. MaJ. Thomas G. Aston, com mander of the Third battalion of the National Guard, announced he had telegraphed Adjutant General Mom recommending that the two local com panics of guardsmen be mobilised. ORGANIZE NEW BODY FARMERS FORM NEW ORGANIZA TION, FREE OF POLITICS. Chicago.—A new organisation of ag rl cultural ists entered the economic field of the United States today with the preliminary organisation of th« American Farm Bureau federation. That Is the name expected to be offi cially chosen. Its purpose, it waa stated, is "to protect the business, eco nomic, social and educational Interests of agriculture and to represent the farmers of the whole nation.** About 500 delegates from fanners* bureau* and associations In thirty-two status attended the sessions. Help far China Deadlocked. Washington. Differences between tlie United State* and Japan are pre venting the organisation aad opera tion of Hie international consortium for financing China. It waa admitted at the State Department that there was a deadlock, with Japan refusing to withdraw her reservations concerning Manchuria and Mohgalia and th« United Btatea declining to permit Jap an to participate In the conaodDam un less she does withdraw thaut, Hindenburg Kiaooo Ludandarff. Berlin. —During the demsost ration at the arrival in Berlin oftyboohal von Hindenburg, the field MUMBpal kissed Field Marshal von LqdoßdasSf on both cheeks. It was the Aral meeting in several months. Both wore cheered by the crowd In the railroad station, led by former officers. Only a flat fight among the crowd after their departure marred the .ovation. This waa caused by the Socialists yelling,- "Wholesale slaughter!" Shot by Escaping Prisoners. son of Sheriff Maxwell, was probably fatally wounded when he was shot by escaping prisoners in the county Jail. Hi* father, Hugh Mux4 well, was also shot. The shooting and escape occurred as the Maxwell fam ily was delivering supper to prisoner* in the Jail. The sheriff, hi* wife and the son were In a corridor loading from the kitchen of their living rooms to the Jail, add the two Ml were shot by Convey.