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LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED FROM TILEGRAPHIC REPORT# THAT COVER THE WEEK'S EVENTB. OF MOST INTEREST KEEPING THE READER POSTED ON MOST IMPORTANT CURRENT TOPICS, W»»tem Newspaper Union News Bervlr*. WESTERN The House of the Moutuna Legis lature has gone on record us favoring the return of the railroads to private ownership. Governor Ben W. Olcott lias been sworn into office as the successor of the late Governor James Withy combe of Oregon. Charged with criminal assault on a young girl, former inmate of a chil dren's home of which he was chaplain, the Rev. Francis C. Berry, past <H) years old, was sentenced to 99 years in Duilas, Texas. More than 29,000 licensed drinking places in the six “wet” states of the central West —Illinois, Wisconsin, Min nesota, Missouri, Kentucky and Ohio —are to go out of existence July 1, if America abolishes the liquor traffic under the President’s wartime prohi bition order. The medical fraternity of Kansas City is baffled by one of the most un usunl cases in the history of medical science in the middle West. A 1(5- year-old flrl is unconscious—has been so for over fifty-five days—and there is apparently no signs of when she will regain consciousness. Approximately 29,000 cases of tech nical violations of the selective serv ice law have been discovered by fed eral investigators at Olympia, Wash., Clureuce I. Beanies, special United States district attorney, announced in Scuttle. Mr. Itenmes said several hun dred of the cases would be prosecuted. The Supreme Court of Montana up held the constitutionality of the work men’s compensation act in the suit of the heirs of Murty Shea against the North Butte Mining Compuny. Shea was one of the miners killed in the North Butte disaster. It is said sixty fire other cases depended upon the Judgment In the Shea case. To assist in making the coming Vic tory Loan a success, u squudron of eleven uirplunes, Including two cap tured German Fokkers and command ed liy MaJ. Carl Spatz, a famous American aviator, will leave North Islund, neur San Diego, for u tour among seventeen principal cities of the West and South, according to an nouncement by Col. Harvey Burwell, oominnuder of Rockwell field. Invltulions for a mass meeting In Chicago on May 1 have been sent to various parts of the country from So cialist headquarters in that city. Ac cording to tiie invitations, tiie meet ing is to lie a "convention for amnesty and free speech," and its purported objects are to bring about the release of all "political prisoners," such ns William l>. Haywood and others of the Industrial Workers of the World, g'li vleted of disloyalty ; cause the repeal of the espionage net mid “take such other slops as * all be found wise to establish freedom of action ami speech." WASHINGTON Naval stations and yards were di rected by Secretary Daniels to restore to Ills former position upon discharge every man who left non-combatant work to enter a fighting branch of the service. Amendment of tiie federul reserve act by tin* Congress Just adjourned has resulted in Increasing from $22, 789,900 to $49,408,340, the combined surplus of the twelve federal reserve banks, said n reserve hoard statement Just Issued. Italy has been warned by tiie Amer ican government that unless siie puts an end to delays in movements of re lief supplies to the newly established Jugo-Slavic and Czecho-Sluvic states, steps will be taken to cut off the flow of American foodstuffs to Italy. Allied railway representatives in Si beria, the State Department was in formed in Washington, held an infor mal conference in Vladivostok to for mulate plans for restoring lines ami rolling stock of the Siberian roads, and to extend service into European Russia as far as possible. The cotton futures rider to the guarantee wheat price bill, which was signed by President Wilson, has be come effective. Under It, only thirteen grades of cotton —from low middling up—am lie delivered on future con tracts and all cotton so delivered must be classified by government graders. Secretary of War Baker lias an nounced that he has selected Gen. Ed ward G. Kreger, now in Cuba, to as sume the duties of Judge advocate dur ing the absence of General Crowder, who Is going to Cuba to advise its government on certain election law re forms. Among the fifty-three cases of con victions under the espionage act in which President Wilson has granted clemency Is that of Frederick Krafft of Newark, secretary of the Social ist party In New Jersey. He wss granted s foil pardon. FOREIGN Premier Clemenceau has resumed his official tasks. King Peter of Serbia soon will re tire In favor of Prince Regent Alex ander, according to a Flume dispatch to the Idea Nnzionale, quoting advices from Belgrade. As a result of representations of American officials, the British govern ment has consented to the removal of nil censorship on business, commercial and all other messages. A republic has been officially pro claimed in Luxemburg. Princess Char lotte, who succeeded her sister, Marie Adelaide, on the throne, has fled and is probably in Switzerland. An American relief commission has arrived in Constantinople and is en gaged in preparing for transportation of food and medical supplies ami clothing Into the Caucasus, Anatolia, Armenia, Cilicia and Syria. On the casualty lists of the French army, the word “missing” is written opposite the names of 314,000 men. In vestigations have established the fact that of this number all hope for ap proximately 120,000 must be aban doned. Following the reception of German Fast African troops, headed by Gen. Lettow Vorbeck, in which tens of thousands of people took part in the Pnriser IMatz, a crowd stormed the Hotel Adlon In an anti-American dem onstration. The committee of jurists appointed to consider the war guilt of the ex kaiser and others has decided that the sovereign of a state cannot be pro ceeded against, but the decision must be ratified by the peace conference as a whole before it is effective. Discovery of a nation-wide Bolshe vist woman’s organization in Finland, through the arrest of an 18-year-old girl, is reported in dispatches from Helsingfors. It was said that a com plete list of Bolshevist agents had been obtained from the prisoner. A settlement has been reached be tween the Berlin strike lenders and the government, according to Information from the German capital. The strik ers had the support of the Spartacans and in the fighting which accompanied the movement many persons were killed. Great Britain operates the world’s largest flying boat. The machine is 27Vfc feet high and has a total span of 123 feet. It is a trlplane, the bottom wing being shorter at either end than the upper two. The hydroplane weighs 23,400 pounds and is fitted with five Rolls-Royce engines. SPORT Illinois Wesleyan University won the basketball championship of the lit tle nineteen for Bill), defeating .lames Milliken University of Decatur, 17 to 15, in tlie title game played in Bloom ington. By a vote of 11 to 4 the State Sen ate of Nevada passed the 25-round boxing hill over the veto of Governor Boyle and it now becomes a law. The Assembly passed the bill over the gov ernor's veto last week. Jimmy Hanlon, the Denver light weight. defeated Bobby Waugh at Fort Worth in a 15-round bout. This is the second time In a week that Han lon trimmed Waugh, the first at Hot Springs, Ark., in ten rounds. It Is hoped to have the Olympic games of 1020 held in Rome, but no definite decision as to this has yet I been reached. Premier Orlando was recently approached by the Italian Olympic committee on the question and a reply is expected from him with in a few days. GENERAL Twenty-five dollars a glass—which is merely at the rate of SIOO a quart— will be the price of imported cham pagne after July 30 —if there happens to be any left then —according to an announcement of local dealers of New York. China’s first woman lawyer. Mile. R. Tcheng, has arrived in Canada from the Orient on her way to Paris, where she will represent the peacs conference for the Associated Press of China. A commercial airplane which will take Its place with the tugs, barges, lighters and other necessary auxiliar ies of a large steamship company is soon to make its appearance in New York. The plane, according to A. K. Clegg, vice president of the Kerr Steamship Company, will be used to transmit to vessels at sea clearance papers and other documents for the handling and discharge of cargo at ports of destination. A mammoth hydroplane with a wing spread of 250 feet, the largest yet de signed, is now under construction for the American navy at League Island, Philadelphia, It was revealed by an aeronautic expert. The giant uirshlp will be driven by five Liberty motors of 400 horsepower each, and will de velop a speed of ninety miles, with a cruising radius of 3,000 miles, it was declared rendering it capnble of crossing the Atlantic without a stop. The wireless telephone and the wire less telegraph were used in mid-ocean by Lieut. Commander A. K. Younie, senior surgeon on board the transport Sierra, to prescribe for patients on the transport Powhatan and the Brit ish steamer Pollac, which were many miles away. Howard Chahdler Christy, famous artist, has filed a petition for divorce from Mrs. May bell Thompson Christy, his w ife and former model. The artist charges gross neglect of duty, «HM absence and i intnii i assist him fcy fev mods of living. / THB CHBTBNNB UGOSD COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. George Andrews, 86, a resident of Boulder since 1863, is dead from pneu monia. He wus one of the largest in- Jividual property owners in the city. Former Governor Ellas M. Ammons has been selected as president to head Denver’s next Stock Show, at the an nual meeting of the directors held in Denver. Oil excitement caused by the spud ding in of three wells in the Round Butte field, west of Carr, has caused an unusual number of visitors and workmen to go to that locality. The annual value of Colorado’s farm output has increased more than 125 per cent since 1910, yet less than Dne-fourth of the arable land in the itate is now in cultivation. A party of members of Congress, many accompanied by their wives, nave left New York for a visit to the Panama canal. Among them will be Representatives Reavis, Nebraska, and l'aylor, Colorado. Eleven hundred jobs for returned •oidiers and sailors have been ob tained through the Rocky Mountain Auto Trades Association. This state ment was made by Harrison Golrt •mith, secretary of the association at Pueblo. Thomas Wilson, a leaser on the Portland mine at Victor, was serious ly and possibly fatally injured when he fell forty feet down a stope at the 800-foot level, fracturing Ids skull. He was taken to the district hospital. Wil son’s wife and five children live in a suburb of Hollywood. The SIO,OOO Carnegie public library dedication was uttended by 500 people from Florence and adjacent communi ties. The building site, consisting of three lots on the corner of Pike’s Peak and Second streets, is the gift of Mrs. A. R. Gumner, and the 3,000 books are the gift of the Florence public library. Western slope beet growers, at a meeting at Grand Junction, served no tice on the Western Sugar Company that the $lO flat beet scale must be granted at once if the company ex pects any beets on the slope this sea son. The growers declared otherwise they would put the acreage Into wheat. A posse from counties adjoining Denver are scouring the roads and hills in search of two bandits who, after pillaging the village of Mount Morrison, eighteen miles southwest of Denver, blew up the postoffice, rifled the contents of the safe and set fire to several buildings, the blaze threat ening to destroy the entire town. Teachers’ salaries, vocational edu cation, after-war school finances, re construction In education and the new school legislation will_be among the subjects to be discussed at the super intendents’ and principals’ spring con ference of the Colorado Education As sociation in Denver at the East Den ver High school, April 18 and 10, ac cording to an announcement from Supt. (». E. Rrown of the Greeley schools, chairman of the conference board of directors. Posing as a colonel in the United States army, a man giving the name of Lloyd Garrison of Boston won the heart and almost succeeded in marry ing Mrs. Louise McPherson of Colo rado Springs after a brief courtship. A marriage license obtained at the county clerk’s office spoiled the plana of Garrison. The police did not lika i lie cut of his uniform and haled him to headquarters where In* confessed that Garrison is not Ids right name and that he is not a colonel. He is being held for further investigation. A SIOO,OOO corporation is in process of formation by the farmers of Eaton to be known as the “Eaton Potato Flour Factory." It is planned to use all cull potatoes in the manufacture of flour, and the mill to be erected will have a capacity of 10,000 pounds of flour every twenty-four hours and will employ nearly 100 men and women. A fire in the coni mine at Somerset lias been burning since Feb. 25, and lias not yet been placed under control. The United States mine rescue car for Colorado is on the scene, and a special group of eight Colorado Fuel Sc Iron Company employes, trained In mine rescue work, has been sent from the southern coal fields of that com pany. “Arbitration is not u substitute for preparedness, but only an adjunct to It,” Gen. Leonard Wood declared in an address at Colorado Springs. “The na tion which is organized and strong can arbitrate more successfully than one which is unarmed. Belgium trust ed to a treaty but the Swiss trusted to organized national defense, and the Imche did not even try to go that way. The next time France and Belgium will be ready. Will we?” A big irrigation enterprise was started .when L. C. Moore, C. R. Ev ans, and, associatedNvith them, R. W. Fleming of Fort Collins, for them selves and their associates, purchased the Poudre valley ditch and Douglass reservoir, and all of the property of the Poudre Gallon Irrigation Coulpany. This ditch -Is one of the largest in the state and reaches, or will nltf mately reach, a large acreage of flfte farm landa which need only a supply of water to make them as valuable as any lands In Larimer or Weld conn ttea. COLORADO MEWS NOTES. Northern Colorado beet growers will ecelve at least $16,800,000 for their 919 crop of beets. There is every In lication that even this vast sum will •e raised several millions of dollars »efore the final sum is reached. Ap ►roxlmately 140,000 acres of beets had ►een signed up for by the Great West ern Sugar Company In northern Colo •ado and it Is possible that the final 'igiires will reach 160,000. Basing the >cet crop, however, only on 140,000 icres and with an average of twelve ons to the acre, on the $lO flat rate i ton to he paid by the Great Western Sugar Company, there will be 1,680,000 :ons of beets or $16,800,000 pald-to the larmers. The greatest building boom in the History of Pueblo is in sight Muni cipal Improvements are contemplated .vhen spring comes. Two new paving district petitions have been filed with fhe city commissioners and two peti tions asking for the creation of two Dther paving districts are being cir culated among the property owners and the response Is such that there Is ao doubt but that they will be Included In the work this spring. An employment bureau for the re turned soldiers and sailors has been opened at Denver In the Knights of Columbus building, by the National Catholic War Council, under whose auspices all K. of C. work is carried on. It Is open to soldiers and sailors of any creed and every effort will be made to secure employment for them. No fees will be charged. Lieut. James B. Kenney, recently returned from the service, Is in charge of the bureau. A proposal for a bond issue for SBO,OOO is likely to be submitted to the taxpayers of Logan county shortly in the Interest of a dormitory for the Ix>gan County Industrial Arts High school. The need of a dormitory has been apparent for a long time, and it is declared that many of the rural children are prevented from attending the high school because of the lack of accommodations for lodging In the city of Sterling. State superintendent of schools has offered a bronze tablet to the school showing the largest holding per capita of War Savings stamps. It is said that Pittsburg, Pa., and Breckenrldge, Colo., pupils are running “neck and neck” with $75 to the pupil. Mrs. Melissa Hayden, superintendent of schools of Summit county, Colorado, is confident that the Breckenrldge schools will prove to be the winner of the bronze tablet. Finding little to do since the cessa tion of hostilities, the Women’s Coun cil of Defense of Trinidad has formed itself Into a Community Welfare League. The business men of the city have set out to raise SI,OOO as a sink ing fund necessary to equip the head quarters of the organization. Late reports show that considerably more than the desired amount has been raised. Capt. James F. Abbott, son of Mrs. Eugene H. Abbott of Greeley, has been appointed attache of the JJnited States to Japan with headquarters at Toklo. Far six months Capt. Abbott has been stationed at Washington as military intelligence officer and previous to this had been sent to Chinn, Japan and the Far East to investigate con ditions there. Mrs. Dora Belle Johnson, wife of W. D. Johnson, proprietor of a hotel at Fountain, thirteen miles south ol Colorado Springs, was drowned when she accidentally fell into an abandoned well in the rear of the hotel. Thers was only four feet of water in thi well and the woman fell head fore most, burying her head in the mud. The next few days will determine whether there is any oil in Pueblo county. The drillers operating at the well of the Overland-Big Eight, fivs miles west of Pueblo, have gone through the red beds and claim to be in the cap rock, which is just above the supposed oil-bearing sands. Murl Edminstou of Montrose, con fessed slayer of Vincent Corado ol Telluride, was taken from jail at Tel luride, and at a night session of courl in Grand Junction was sentenced by Judge Black to twenty to twenty-five years in prison. Edmlnston, after kill ing the Telluride man and hiding th* body, stole bis automobile and several hundred dollars in cash that he car ried. Mrs. R. R. Rose is being held in the county Jail at Sterling on a charge ol stealing an automobile. The car, which belonged to E. L. Harris of Wil lard, was stolen from in front of th« postoffice In Sterling on the night ol Feb. 15. Mrs. Rose was captured in Holyoke. Her husband was also ar rested at the same time In Fleming, and Is also being held. Seventy-eight new,* members were • dded to the Rocky Mountain Auto Trades Association, and its annual .wo-day convention closed at Pueblo with a big banquet and smoker at the Congress hotel. Optimism marked the ;rade talks made both days. Colorado Springs was selected for the 1920 meeting. Nine farmers of the Deer Trail sec tion have filed suit in the District Court at Littleton asking for the an nulments of contracts they entered into with the Bankers’ Mortgage Com pany of Deer Trail, in which they were .nduced to buy stock at S2O a share with n small payment down. Blackleg lias made its appearance aiuimg'the cattle around Kersey, and voral farmer* have’ lost valuable I calves from this disease. Veterinarians are busy vaccinating the herds of dairy cows which seem to be the i worst affected hy the disease. WILSON AND TAFT SPEAK ADDRESS BIG CROWD IN THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE IN NEW YORK. POWERS WANT LEAGUE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY BAILB FOR EUROPE AGAIN ABOARD THE GEORGE WABHINGTON. Western Newspaper Union News Service New York, March 4.—On the eve of his return to the peace conference, President Wilson delivered an address at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, urging establishment of a League of Nations. Former President Taft, speaking from the same plat form, also outlined his reasons for be lieving that a league should be formed to prevent future wars. Governor Smith of New York presided at the meeting. Governor Smith opened his speech by paying a tribute to the part the New York soldiers had played in the war. “The war is not yet won," he said, “and will not be won until the Golden Rule is written into the international law of the world." He Introduced Mr. Taft* as the man “who had worn the purple of the Pres ident of the United States and with grace and honor." As the President and ex-President Taft emerged from the room in which they conferred and walked through the thronged wings onto the stage, Mr. Taft said: “I don’t know on which side of you I should walk, Mr. President," He was on the left, and the President smiled and nodded. Mr. Taft was greet ed with loud handclapping. “A League of Nations covenant is in dispensable to the treaty of peace, if the war is to accomplish the declared purpose of this nation and the world,” former President William Howard Taft told the audience at the Metropolitan Opera House in an exhaustive discus sion of the league principles, preceding the address of President Wilson. An adherence to the Washingtonian policy of avoiding foreign alliances could not be applied to the present in ternational status, Mr. Taft declared, “because the Interests of the United States are inevitably Involved in the preservation of European peace." For the United States to withdraw from the project, he asserted, would make the League of Nations merely “a return to the system of alliances and the ‘bal ance of power,’ with a speedy recur rence of war, in which this country would certainly be involved, as it was in the present struggle." The rank and file of the American people are standing firmly behind President Wilson, declared Governor Smith la presenting “the world leader of today—the President of the United States." The President began speaking at 9:50 o’clock. The President declared he was con vinced "by unmistakable evidences from all parts of the country" that the nation was in favor of the League of Nations. "I am more happy because this means this is not a party issue,” he said. “This is not a party issue and no party in the long run will dare oppose it.” The President said au effective working agreement for a league of Nations was sought abroad. Intrigue cannot stand publicity, and if the League of Nations w'ere nothing but a big debating society it would kill intrigue. Under the covenant, he said, it is the “friendly right” of every nation to call attention of other nations to any thing which endangers peace. Germany never would have gone to war if she tiad first discussed the situation with Serbia, he declared. “I am amaxed—not alarmed, but amazed—that there should be in some quarters such a comprehensive ignor ance of the state of the world,” said Mr. Wilson. “Those gentlemen do not know what the mind of men .is Just now. Everybody else does. “I do not know where they have been closeted; I do not know by what Influ ences they have been blinded: but I do know that they have been separated from the general currents of the thought of mankind. “And I want to utter this solemn warning, not in the way of a threat; the forces of the world do not threaten, they operate. The great tides of the world do not give notice that they are going to rise and run; they rise in their majesty and overwhelming in might, and those who stand in the way are overwhelmed. Now. the heart of the world is awake, and the heart of the world must be satisfied. “What are we to say. then, as to future? I think, my fellow cttlsens, that we can look forward to it with great confidence. 1 have heard cheer ing news since I came to this side of the water about the progress that is being made in Paris towards the dis cussion and clarification of a great many difficult matters; and I believe that settlements will begin to be made rather rapidly from this time on at those conferences. “But what I believe—what I know as well as believe. Is this: That the men engaged in those conferences are gathering heart as they go. not lostng it: that they are finding community of purpose and community of ideal to an extent that perhaps they did not ex pect; and that amidst all the interplay of Influence because it Is infinitely complicated amidst all the interplay of Influence, there is a forward move ment which is running towards the right. Men have at last perceived that the only permanent thing in the world is the right, and that a wrong settle ment Is bound to be a temporary set tlement—bound to be a temporary set tlement for the very best reason of all. that it ought to be a temporary settle ment. and the spirits of men will rebel against it. and the spirits of men are now in the saddle. “God give us strength and vision to do It wisely. God give us the privilege of knowing that we did it without counting the cost, and because we were true Americans, lovers of liberty and of doing right.” President Wilson went aboard the U. S. S. George Washington at 12:05 o’clock this morning with Mrs. Wilson and other members of his party. The steamship is scheduled to sail for France at S:l6 a. m. Wednesday. Must Report Allowances. 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