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LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS THAT COVER THE WEEK'S EVENTS. OF MOST INTEREST KEEPING THE READER POSTED ON MOST IMPORTANT CURRENT TOPICS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. EASTERN By a vote of 20 to 14 the Connecti cut. Senate refused to ratify the fed eral prohibition amendment. Action by by the Connecticut Senate Is the first vote against ratification thus fur tak en by any branch of u Legislature In the United States. Business conditions are character ized by slackening of production, re luctance of commercial buyers to ac* quire stocks of goods In anticipation of reduction of prices, and by only a slight falling off of retail business, says the federal reserve hoard’s monthly review. Adolph S.. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, was called as u gov ernment witness In the federal trial of Jeremiah A. O’Leary, charged with violation of the espionage act, to re fute charges made In O’Leary’s paper. Bull, that the Times was controlled by Britisn influence. Mr. Ochs denied that his paper was controlled by Brit ish Influence or British money. Among the civilian passeugers aboard the Espagne, which arrived In New York "from France, were Edmond Bapst, newly appointed French amhtis ..idmnJuDan, and J. C. Case, an art- Ist, f *\vent to France to paint por traits of General Pershing and other American commanders. 'M. Bapst, who Is on his way to Tokio, was formerly French minister to China, and suc ceeds Marcel Pehinney, former prefect of the Seine, who-reeently returned to France. WESTERN The Supreme Court of Montana held nine members of the House of Repre sentatives front Silver Bow county, whose seats are contested, are entitled to pa.v and mileage until the contest is decided. A detnchment of 532 men of the First United States Infantry and a ma chine gun company from Camp Lewis are in Tncoma to guard government property and to hold themselves ready for action in any emergency that may arise ns a result of the strike. The Infantrymen are equipped with rifles, bayonets and bund grenades of the type used by American troops in France. The Western Fruit Jobbers’ Associ ation, at its fifteenth annual meeting, adopted resolutions condemning the service of the American Railway Ex press Company operating under feder al control. The association demands Immediate Improvement in terminal facilities and transportation service of the express company in the interest of shippers. The present method of adjusting claims of shippers also was criticised. WASHINGTON The total strength of the United States army on Nov. 11, when the armistice was signed, was 3,703.2 73 officers and men, including the ma rine corps on duty with the army in Europe. The annual postofflce appropriation bill carrying a total of .$400,000,000, and providing for the expenditure of $200,000,000 additional for road build ing in the next three years, was passed by the Senate without a record vote. Without debate the Senate adopted tlie resolution of Senator King of Utnli which received the approval of the foreign relations committee and In which Acting Secretary I’olk acqui esced, calling upon tlio State Depart ment for information regarding steps taken to settle American claims grow ing out of the Mexican border depre dations. There were more than 370,000 trials by courts-martial of American soldiers during the war, Secretary Baker in formed the Senate in response to a resolution of Senator Borah of Idaho, asking for the facts of trials of sol diers. Mr. Baker said that 22,000 cases were heard by general courts innrtlal and the remainder by special or summary courts. Enlargement of the functions of the war finance corporation and continua tion of its operations for probably a year after peace is declared will be asked of Congress shortly by Secre tary tllnss. Directors of the corpora tion discussed with Mr. Glass a pro posal to authorize the body to finance foreign trade transactions through banks in this country. A new offering of treasury certifi cates of Indebtedness amounting to >0,000,000 with interest at the rnte of per cent was announced In Washington by the treasury. The cer tificates will be doted Feb. 13 anti will be payable July 15 next. Subscription books will Information regarding Americans held prisoner in Germany and 're ported as released was made public In Washington by the War Department, as follows: John Swenson, Seattle, and Jdeut. Courtland W. Knight, Pasa dena, Cal., now at Hartford. England. -FOREIGN The direct coat of the war la esti mated at $200,000,000,000 In London. A Dublin dispatch reported that all Sinn Felners interned in England will be released immediately. The Luxembourg Chamber of Depu ties adopted tentatively a bill granting women the right to vote and to be elected to office. A delegation frotn the Aland islunda conferred with Premier Orlando of It aly concerning their claim for annex ation to Sweden. The premier assured them of Italy’s support. Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, former ‘German colonial minister, in an Inter vitw at Weimar, declared that Ger many would not sign a pence that de prived Germany of her colonies. King George is expected formally to open the fishing season in Febru ary at Balmoral on the Dee. While a devoted sportsman, the king hat not angled since the war began. Government trooprf have captured the Bremen town hall and most of the government buildings, it was re ported in dispatches received at Co penhagen. The Sparticans were said to be retiring. News reached Dublin, according to a dispatch from that city, that Ed ward do Valera, Millroy and John McGarry, three Sinn Felners elected to the British Parliament last Decem ber, had escaped from the Lincoln prison. A dispatch from Milan says that a sensation has been caused in Italy by the proposal in the American Con gress to exclude immigration to the United States for four years, a meas ure which threatens particularly to affect Italians. The government is determined not to relaxjts efforts to limit the sale of pulque and tiachique. The Chamber of Deputies has approved the decree of June 27, 1017, which in creased the internal revenue taxes on these intoxicating hevereges from 25 to 50 per cent. It is expected that similar action will he taken by the Senate and the president. SPORT « Benny Leonard's proposed two-year tour around the world, during which time he does not expect to defend his title, is being severely criticised in boxing circles In New York. Con O’Leary, one time welterweight bpxer, was sentenced at Milwaukee to three years at Fort Leavenworth pris- I on on a charge of counterfeiting. lie | pleaded guilty to making bogus dimes. 1 Napoleon Lajoie, former star second ! baseman, has been tendered the man j ugement of the Sioux City baseball j club of the Western League, riceord j ing to an announcement made by Har ; ry A. Kells, president of the Baseball Booster Association. Few changes will be niude in the i personnel of the Kansas City Ameri can Association club, according to ! President George Muehlehach. “We i may take on a couple of new pitchers ' and a catcher, hut otherwise will lie much like the pennant-winning team of Inst year,” said President Muehle hnch. “Frank Graham of the Oklaho ma team of the Western League will be one of the new pitchers. lie has already been signed.’* GENERAL Prof. George Herron and, William Allen White have been appointed American delegates to the joint con ference of the associated powers and Russian factions at Prinklpos. The Belgian government has asked the United States to lend it -100 loco motives and 2,000 passenger cars, in addition to returning nil of the 359 lo comotives which were placed at the disposal of tlie American expedition ary forces. The shortage of tlie rice crop is causing unusual anxiety throughout Japan. The crop this year Is 30,000,- 000 bushels less than the average. As the annual consumption is 300,000,000 bushels, the supply for the next year is short exactly 10 per cent. More than fifty generals of the Mex ican army who took up arms during the revolution have asked the chief executive to release them from their military duties so that they may re turn to civil pursuits. Most of them have been without commands anil have not been engaged in active serv ice for several years. The announcement from New York that representatives of British and American oil. mining and cattle in terests in Mexico were coming to Paris to lay their claims before the peace conference is attracting much attention in American government circles, and is causing speculation as to how Mexico affairs may be pre sented. if at all. *• Details of the robbery last Sep tember of Mrs. Grace M. Chevalier of Boston, who was held up in her apartment in the Allston district while jewelry valued at $8,500 was stolen, were made public by the po lice for the first time upon receipt of word that Frank Seaman had been arrested in Cleveland for the crime. Arrangements were being made to have Seaman returned to Boston f'r trial. Governor Philipp had another e" - perience with a maniac the other day. following his turning down of a mad man who asked for $20,000,000. This time the stranger was a shab bily dressed man who entered the governor’s private office and on be ing asked what he wanted he de manded the governor’s political plat form for 19 20. Reports reaching Chicago indicate that the syndicate of sure thing swindlers operating in Florida reeort cities hare gathered approximately $1,000,000 since early winter. THE CHEYENNE RECORD. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. Sheriff Sum Thomas of Pueblo has sworn in fifty-seven deputies at the steel mills to replace former guards. Harry J. Wolf, mining professor at the State School of Mines, states that Colorado oil shale deposits are a state and national asset. All the Weld county sugar mills are assured long campaigns next season, because of the Immense beet tonnage contracted for the county."* Prof. William Black, instructor of mechunicul engineering lit the Univer sity of Colorado since 1917, died at Boulder at the university hospital fol lowing an operation for appendicitis. Being at the crest of the Continent, Colorado contains the headwaters of some of the principal rivers of the United States, including the Colorado, Bio Grande, Platte, Arkansas and Ke publicnn. John .Johnson, his wife and four children, of NlWot, miraculously es caped deulli Sunday, when his cur left the road on u sharp curve four miles outside of Boulder and plunged into n creek. Reports show that in Denver lasi year there were 120 cases of typhoid fever, 777 of scarlet fever, 394 of diph theria, 841 of whooping cough, 2,644 of measles, 884 of chicken pox and 10.1 of mumps. The residents of Lake county are solidly in favor of the proposed $21,- 000 for repairs for the Battle Moun tain road, in Bugle county, in pluce of tlie proposed repairs to the roads in the western part of that county. Two Cripple Creek hoys who fought with the famous "Devil Dogs” at Cha teau Thierry have returned to their homes in Cripple Creek for a visit with relatives. Both were wounded in action. They are Dewey Nulph and Willard Allen. Opposition to the proposed $20,000,- 000 bond Issue for good roads was unanimously opposed by resolutions passed by the Weld County Farmers’ Union, which is composed of repre sentatives of the twenty or more lo ad unions in the county. The grand encampment of Odd Fel -1 lows will he held in Denver Feb. 17. It was scheduled to he held In Fort Collins last October, and was post poned on account of the Influenza epidemic. The military council of Patriarchs Militant will meet the eve ning of the opening, day at , 17fil Champa. The final feature of the pro gram will ite a grand hall. The mysterious disease which has been killing many cattle around Crest, Colo., and which started in the west ern part of Morgan county, where it destroyed entire herds, has been dl ngnosed us corn stalk disease by vet erinarians from the Stute Agricultural College at Fort Collins, and there is no cure for it save to keep the cattle out of the corn fields. All the Weld county sugar mills are assured long campaigns next season, hecuuse of the immense beet tonnage contracted for In the country, accord ing to Hi Tymothy, agricultural super intendent of the Greeley factory. He says that the Greeley factory has con tracted more than 9,000 acres, and that Windsor and Eaton have con tracted about 26,000 acres between tjiem. Although H. Lee Craft, special agent of the Department of Justice, went to Fowler to arrest one man on a charge of evading the druft, he brought to Pueblo another on the same charge, and through u peculiar cir cumstance, the name of the man caught Is the same as the man sought. He is James M. George, and he is held In the local Jail awaiting action on tlie part of government officials. Hundreds of farmers are making good profits even - year on non irri gated land In Colorado that was con sidered .worthless for agricultural pur poses ten years ago. Dr. George Norlin, acting president of the University of Colorado, an nounced at Boulder that the resigna tion of Dr. Livingston Farrand, presi dent of the university, was expected by the board of regents. This statement follows closely upon the announcement front Washington that President Wil son had appointed Dr. Farrand as president of the American Red Cross, the appointment to take effect March 1. Colorado's own, the 157th infantry, has been ordered home. The an nouncement was made at Washington that the 40th division, the "Sunshine division." composed of men from Colo rado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and California, would soon be aboard trans ports bound for the United States. Other Colorado units, in addition to the 157th. attached to the 40th division are the 115th ammunition train and trench mortar battery; the 115th en gineers and engineer train, and the 115th sanitary train. The ‘flu” situation here continues wfth little Improvement In Leadvllle. There is a crying need for nurses, for ns yet but few women have proffered tbelr service*. More than one-thlnl of the school pupils are absent, due to flu. Fear of the dread disease is tem porarily crippling many business houses. Field peaa are among the best feeds for fattening hogs and lambs. Colo rado produced nearly worth of Hold peas In 1018. and produced tmm them some of the finest meats m the country. COLORADO NEWS NOTES. Original jurisdiction was assumed bj the Colorado Supreme Court in the civil servlet wrangle arising from the appointment of two commissions, ono by the outgoing governor, Julius C. Gunter, and the other by Gov. Oliver H. Shoup. The court, sitting en banc, auhorised a writ of ouster to issue, which compels the members of the Gunter commission to make reply as to why they should not be removed from office. In announcing that the writ may issue, the court let it be known that it would consider no dis puted facts. This will limit the de cision as to who in law constitutes the' 'civil service commission. Greeley farmers and promoters of the bean industry are not happy over the prospects of the 1919 season for Weld county. Although plans have been made and equipment and capital gathered to handle 30,000 acres of seed beans annually, the prospects in dicate that not more than 8,000 acres will be contracted, and at present only 4,000 nre contracted. Prospects for the pinto bean industry are darker than those for the seed bean. Resolutions condemning the repeal of the Sunday closing l&w and gam bling on race horses were adopted at a meeting of the Ministerial alliance in Denver The resolution against the Sunday closing faw was aimed at a bill pending before \he Legislature providing for the repeal of the stat utes requiring the closing of places of amusement on Sunday. A bill by Representative Bashor and Rockwell, with the dual purpose of protecting game and migratory birds and prohibiting foreign-bom un naturalized residents of Colorado from carrying firearms, was passed on second reading after several mem iters of the House had expressed doubts as to its constitutionality. All returning soldiers are invited to become honorary members of the Pueblo Commerce Club, with all the privileges of paid, members with the exception of voting. A letter of Invi tation and a membership card Is sent to each Pueblo man who returns from the army camps or from overseas service. The international control of min erals, advocated by the League of Free Nations’ Association of New York, would hurt Colorado by reduc ing the prices of the racer metals, such as tungsten and manganese, is the contention of the United States Geological Survey officials in Denver. Members of the United Mine Work ers af America will appear in Boulder in the District Court February 17tli and ask District Judge Neil Graham for permission to institute civil pro ceedings looking to the recovery of $77,000 the Bnnk of Louisville. With the arrest of Edjjar Winston, a Pullman porter charged with Im porting and selling liquor, police at Colorado Springs have unearthed a ring of porters who have been work ing tlie trains between Kansas City and Colorado with great success. With the killing of Joe Bruno at Walsenburg the long-feared Black Hand society of Huerfano county Is believed to have been partiy broken up, nnd Sheriff Neelley hopes he has baited a long reign of terror on the part of Italian black handers. R. B. Dixon, owner of a ranch a short distance above Steamboat Springs, received a check for $5,137 from the Yampa Valley Milling nnd Elevator Company ns payment for part of the crop raised on seventy acres of dry land last year. Tlie livestock situation in southwest ern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico is, to a considerable extent, in a pigearious condition, due to the ina bility of the stockman to get feed for their stock and the ranges are deeply covered with snow. Tom Foley, wealthy Chinese laun dryman and a character for thirty five years on the Western slope, was found murdered at Ouray. Robbery is believed to have been the motive. Jesse N. Funk of Calhan, one of the three American soldiers who have been recommended by General Persh ing to receive congressional medals bravery in action, is 20 years old and is the son of Mart Funk, a well-known rancher living four miles northeast of Calhan, El Paso county. News of his son’s citation for bravery in action has Just been received by his father, who Is more than proud of the youth. The United States Railroad Admin istration abandoned all hope of saving the Colorado Midland railroad from Junk when John Barton Payne, legal adviser to Director General Hines, re jected a final proposition presented on behalf of the company that the government should take over the road, pay $140,000 a year rental and assume all costs of betterments and replace ments. The building of roads and trails and performance of other needed develop ment work in the Rocky Mountain park will be possible result of a bill passed by the national House of Rep resentatives annulling the limit of SIO,OOO a year placed upon upkeep and development expenditures by the orig inal law creating this national play ground in Colorado. Oil in commercial' quantities has been struck at Akron. Drillers on a water well at the Burlington round house encountered a good flow at a depth of 1,450 feet, and experts who have made an examination declare the flow la good for seventy-five barrels a day. Martin Henderson, said to be a well to-do Leadville citizen, was found dead In his room in a local hotel In Pueblo. The cause of death Is st present un known, although Dr. W. H. Campbell, county coroner, Is inclined to believe the cause of death was heart failure. THE KINSHIP OF THE NEW AMERICAN Aims and Ideals of the United States and Canada Will Soon Be Signed. The war is over, peace will soon be .igned, the fighting nations have sheathed their swords, and the day of reconstruction has come. What of It! Hundreds of thousands of men, tak en from the fields of husbandry, from the ranks of labor, from the four walls of the counting house, and the con fines of the workshop, taken from them to do their part, their large part, in the prevention of the spoliation of the world, and in the meantime removed from, the gear of common everyday life, will be returning, only to find in many cases old positions filled, the machinery with which they were for merly attached dislocated. Are they to become aimless wan derers, with the ultimate possibility of augmenting an army of menacing lqafejrs? If they do It It Is because their ability to assist in laying new founda tions, in building up much required structures, is underestimated. Men who have fought as they have fought, who have risked and faced dangers as they have, are not of the caliber likely to flinch when it comes to the resto ration of what the enemy partiqUy de stroyed, when It comes to the recon struction of the world the ideals of which they had in view when they took part in the great struggle whose Divine purpose was to bring about this re construction. Inured to toll, thoughtless of fatigue, trained in initiative and hardened by their outdoor existence they will re turn better and stronger men, boys will have matured and young men will have developed. They will decide of themselves lines of action and thought, and what their future should and will be. On the field of battle they developed alertness and wisdom, and they will return with both shedding from every pore. Action was their by-word and it will stand them in good stead now that the din of the battle no longer rings in their ears, or the zero hour signals them to the fray, and it will continue during their entire existence. But if they return to find their old avocation gone, their places filled, the institutions with which they were con nected no longer exist, new walks of life nnd employment must be opened to them. It may be that the counting house, the factory, the workshop will have lost their attraction. The return ed soldier will look elsewhere for em ployment ; within his reach there is al ways the “Forward-to-the-Land” ne cessity. In this lies the remedy that will not only take care of a multitude of those who may not be able to return to their former occupations, whose de sires are not to do so, whose health prohibits them from indoor life or whose outdoor habits from the past one, two, three or four years have given them such a taste and desire for it that confinement would be un bearable. Farm life will thus appeal to them, and the Indications are that it will be taken a*dvantage of by thou sands. It means much to them as well as to the Continent of America that provides the opportunity to the world at large, and to the stricken and fam ished nations of Europe, who. not only today, but for years to come, will re quire the sustenance that can only largely be supplied by the United States and Canada. By following the pursuit of agriculture the returned soldier will continue the cause he so greatly advanced when fighting on the field of battle. Both countries have undeveloped areas yet open to settle ment. There Is little need here to direct attention to the wealth that has come to the farmers of Canada within the past few years. It is not only in grain growing that unqualified and almost unequaied success has followed hon est efTort. but the raising of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs has been large source of profit. These >*re facts that are well known to the many friends nnd acquaintances of the thousands of farmers from the United States who have acquired wealth on the prairies of Western Canada. Farms of from one hundred and sixty to six hundred und forty acres of the richest soil may be secured on reasonable terms, nnd with an excellent climate, with a school system equal to any in the world, and desirable social conditions, little else could be asked. Canadian statesmen are today busily engaged planning for the future of the returned soldier with a view to making him independent of state help after the immediate necessary assistance has been granted, the main idea being to show in the fullest degree the country’s appreciation of the services he has rendered. But. now that the war is ended, and the fact apparent that of all avocations the most profitable and Independent Is that of the farmer, then? will be a strong desire to secure farm lands for cultivation. Canada offers the oppor tunity to those seeking, not as specula tion but as production. The deepest interest Is taken by Federal and Pro vincial authorities to further the wel fare of the farmer and secure a maxi mum return for his efforts. Large When Yoor Eyes Need Cara rams of money are spent In educational and experimental work. Engaged in Experimental and Demonstration farms, and in the agricultural colleges, are men of the highest technical knowl edge and practical experience, some be ing professors of international reputa tion. The results of experiments and tests are free and available to all. Ed ucational opportunities for farmers are the concern of the Government and appreciation Is shown by the number of farmers who attend the free courses. Agriculture in Canada has reached a high standard, notwithstanding which lands are low in price. Thus upon the United States and Canada for many years will rest the great burden of feeding the world. With free interchange of travel, diffi culties of crossing and recrossing re moved, Canada may look for a speedy resumption of the large Influx of set tlers from, the United States which pre vailed previous to the war. During the war period there was a dread of something, no one seemed to know what: if the American went to Canada he might be conscripted, put in prison, or In his attempt to cross the border he would meet with innumerable difficul ties, most of which, of course, was un true. Thfese untruths were circulated for a purpose by an element, which, it was discovered had an Interest in fo menting and creating trouble and dis trust between two peoples whose lan guage and aims in life should be any thing but of on unfriendly character The draft law of the United States adopted for the carrying out of the high purposes had in view by the Unit ed States kept many from going to Canada during the period of the war. The citizen army of the United States was quickly mobilized, and contained a large percentage of the young men from the farms. In this way many were prevented from going to Canada. That is all over now. There are no real or Imaginary restrictions; there It no draft law to Interfere. On the con trary there Is an unfathomable depth of good feeling, and the long existing friendship is stronger than ever. This has been brought about by the knowl edge of what has been done in the re cent great struggle, each vying with the other. In giving credit for % what was accomplished. In thought and feeling, in language, in aims in life, in work, in desire to build up a new world, there has been bred a kinship which is as indissoluble as time itself.—Adver tisement. The Kind. “The girls use such loud makeup." “Yes; why don’t they take more to noiseless powder?” It Is foolish for a man to kick him self when he is down. A Terrible Ordeal! Gravel and Kidney Stole Caused Intense Sofferiig—Dean’s Brought a Quick Core. Edw. J. Turecek, 4332 Eichelbuxier Ave., St. Louis, Mo., says: “I was taken with a terrible pain serosa the back and every move I made, it felt like a knife being driven into my back and twisted around. It lasted about half an hour, but soon came back and with it another affliction. The kidney secretions began to pain me: the flow was scanty and burned like fire when Kassing. I had severe f>% eadacnes and my bladder got badly inflamed, too, 1 mSr and I noticed little par- \ *SkTMI tides of gravel in the sc cretions. Doan's Kidney Pills had been recom mended to me and I be- Kn their use. The first *• If box brought relief and I passed a stone the size of a pea. It was a terrible ordeal and afterwards a sandy sediment pnd particles of gravel settled in the unne. I got more of the pQla and they cured me. The inflammation left and there was no more pain or gravel. I now sleep well, eat well and my kidneys act normally. DoatCs Kidney Pills alone accomplished this wonderful cure." „ “Subscribed and sworn to before a%” JAMES M. SMITp, Notary PubUo. GetWinkAnySton,lOnnßa> doan's vaav FOSTER-lOLBURN GO. 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