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AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD. FROM ALL SOURCES SAYINGS. DOINGS. ACHIEVE MENTS, SUFFERINGS. HOPES AND FEARS OF MANKIND. Wtitcrn N»wfp*ppr Union New* Service. WESTERN The State hank at Murphy, Texas, was robbed of $12,500 by safe blowers. After being in the Gold Hunter mine at Mullan, Idaho, since Nov. 15th, when they were entombed by a slide of earth, I*. H. Grant and Eiuil Sayko, miners, were taken out alive after two weeks. Drastic and far-reaching rules for fuel conservation in Lincoln have been issued by the fuel conservation com mittee of the Commercial Club, adopt ed with the sanction of the mayor and members of the city council, who will give their force If necessary. An American negro who deserted recently from the Tenth United States cavalry is reported to be the leader of a hand of approximately 300 Yaqui Indians who ruided the eastern part of the Moctezmua District in Novem ber. Two masked bandits entered the of fice of the American theater at Butte, Mont., and after beating into insensi bility Miss Emma Peterson, the cash ier, and John Kelly, the janitor, robbed the safe of all its contents. It is es timated the robbers obtained $1,000. Guarded by ten armed deputy sher iffs headed by Sheriff ltolph, Walter Thomus Mills, lecturer and writer for the Nonpartisan League, spoke at Prosser, Wash., to an audience com posed of sympathizers and about fifty former soldiers. Mills eulogized the American government and confined his speech to Americanism and patriot ism. Direct from D>ndon a statue of the late Queen Victoria was received at Victoria 11. C. recently to he set up on tlie grounds in front of the British Columbia parliament buildings. The statue weighs three tons. It was ready for shipment last year. British Col umbia officials did not have it shipped at that time because they feared Ger man submarines. Sheriff William Viersnm of Sioux County, Orunge City, Iowa, would like to hear from some one who cun identi fy the Itody of a man found dead one mile west of I retail, lowa, in Novem ber. lie was evidently about -45 years of age, five feet tall and weighed about 140 pounds. The only identifi cation marks found was the tattoo on his left arm of an anchor, cross and heart with the initials C. T. below it. General appearance would indicate he was a man of inure than passing con sequence. WASHINGTON The board of temperance, prohibi tion and public morals of the Meth odist Episcopal church announces tliat it contemplates no general campaign against the use of tobacco, hut would confine its efforts to u fight against Its use by minors. Earnings of the federal farm loan banks during the six months ending Nov. 1 were $858,033, according to fig ures made public by the farm loan board. This was a gain of more than $250,000 over the previous half year earnings and an Increase of approxi mately $050,000 over profits of the hunks for the coresponding six months a year ago. Documentary proof that Venustlano Carranza knew of the plan of San Diego and that Carranza’s generals knew of raids planmsl across tin* United States border ami participated in them even while Carranza’s recog nition by the United States was being thrashed out in Washington, is now In tlie hands of the American stale department at Washington. Indications that large numbers of Liberty bond holders are trading their government securities for stock in fraudulent ventures prompted Secre tary Glass to renew Ids warning to bondholders against being persuaded into sueli exchanges. In ;i formal Statement, Mr. Glass asserted that the high rate of return on some of those stocks was in itself sufficient to arouse suspicion. Testimony that Frederic Howe, former commissioner of immigration at Ellis Island, had ordered deporta tions of radi(*als In-Id up. although final deportation orders had been re ceived from the Department of Labor, was given to the House Immigration Committee by Percy A. Baker. super iutendent of the Island. Baker pro duced an order he hud received from Howe last Starch. Navy department officials expressed surprise at the action of the supreme council In allocating one German bat tleship and destroyer to each of the ullien and associated (towers for ex perimental purposes. The United States had not asked for any of the German vessels and said they would bo of little use to this country, even for experimental work, as It is as serted there was little tlie American navy can learn from tl»* 4 *«riuau vos* •eir. FOREIGN Lady Nancy Astor has been elected to her husband’s former seat in the house of commons by a majority of 4,- 000. Three million American tourists art expected In France in 1920 and 1921, It was estimated by Henri de Fert, the new president of the French Motor Touring Club. Huron .Tames Rothschild’s winnings when his horse, Hrigand, won the Cam bridgeshire at Newmarket, England, recently are stated to total approxi mately $1*90,000. The firepits of Mount Kilauea which for months was level with the main crater and overflowed frequently, col lapsed and fell 400 feet. Ten earth quake shocks accompanied the col lapse. Adelina Patti, famous prinm donna, who died Sept. 27, at her castle in Wales, left a fortune valued at £110,- 000. She bequeathed her entire prop erty to Huron Rolf Cederstrom, her husband, except a few personal arti cles. Six chairs, each of which has been used at one time or another by Mar shal Foch at French general head-' quarters during the war, brought $4,- 000 at public auction in Paris. The marshal's silver berry spoons sold for $5 each. The parliamentary budget commit tees of Chile has appropriated funds for the purchase of aeroplanes and other elements to increase the iffl ciency of the army and navy. The gov ernment has purchased from Finland four naval sloops now in German wa ters. The Polish professor, A. A. Ossen doffsky, chief of the intelligence de partment of the All Russian govern ment, estimates that the world war, Holslievism, Civil war,' starvation and disease has cost Russia a total of 3.1,- 000,000 lives. He places the cost ot Bolshevism at 12,280,000 lives. Of the pre-war population of .1,230,- 000 in the devastated regions of France, four-fifths have returned to their former homes, according to a re port issued by the American Red Cross in Paris. French authorities expect a return of the majority of the remain der within the next few months. The German general staff's story of the war written from the official archives will soon be issued and will tie entitled “The Hatties and Fights of the Great War of 1914-1918.” The account is to contain a consecutive and ordered description of all battles in which German troops participated. The Japanese pence delegation, in announcing that Japan was sending a light cruiser and two torpedo boats to Fit Chow, China, for the protection of Japanese subjects, said instructions had been given the commander of the squadron forbidding the landing of murines or tin* use of arms, except in ease of absolute necessity. The Socialist deputies, De Guise and Ringuier, of the Aisne department have informed the president of the chamber of deputies at Paris that they will introduce a bill when that body convenes asking the government to as sume the expenses in connection with tin? transfer of the bodies of French soldiers from battlefield grave® tii their native village cemeteries. GENERAL The Rev. Dr. Edward Hal lard, 98, who was horn December 2.1, 1820. and was tin* oldest Methodist minister in America, died at his home in Ocean Grove, N. J. Robbers, who burned the vault door with an acetylene torch, looted fifty safety deposit boxes of $10,000 in cash and bonds at the State bank of Free landville, Knox county, 1ml. No clew to the robbers has been found. Federal agents raided an alleged counterfeiting plant in Minneapolis, placed one man under arrest and seized .100 spurious half-dollars, sev eral molds and dies and a quantity o I metal. Maud Powell, the violinist, collapsed during a recital at St. Ismis and was taken to a hospital in a semi-conscious condition. Physicians diagnosed her ailment as an acute attack of stomach trouble. Lieut. Robert Stocker and a civilian named Thompson, believed to have been a radio tester, were drowned when their hydronirplane fell into the Delaware river, six miles below Ches ter. The bodies have not yet been re covered. A final study of the selective draft records made public fixes the military strength of the United States at 19, tmHi.onn in potential military manpower. Registrations for the draft, between the ages of IS and 4.1, totalled 23,908,- .170. almost SO per cent of whom wore listed as “physically fit for military service.” The American merchant marine has expanded from four ships in deep sea commerce before the war to a fleet of 9,773,000 tons in ocean service, accord ing to figures ntude public by the Na tional Marine League. In addition great lakes shipping measures 2,000,- 000 tons, giving a total of 11,773,000, against Great Hritain's 18,000,000 t«m». A scheduled performance of the Gennan operetta, “Der Welsse Hirsh,” by an amateur company in Vettlnger’s ball, Astoria, was cancelled when 200 members of the American inarched to the bull to protest against the iHTfortnance. Clyde Smith of South Bend, Ind„ and Harold Ijine of New York City have been indicted on charges of having worked a confidence game when they disposed of an alleged new process in manufacturing automobile tires to Sol Goldberg, president of the Hump Hair pin Compauy, for $400,000. THB CHBYKNNK RECORD. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Utaton News Service. COMING EVENTS. The Red Crons Christmas Seal sale will take place all over the United States from December 1 to 10, 1919. There are about 10,(XX) lambs bains: fed in the Mesita-San Acasia territory. The proposed auditorium at Mesita seems a certainty. Over $3,000 has been raised already. George L. Murray, son of Mrs. Klla A. Murray, returned to his mother at Colorado Springs after being reported “missing” in the United States army since April. Proposals for a $500,000 bond issue to erect an auditorium, gymansiuin and additional classrooms at the local high school were overwhelmingly de feated at Colorado Springs. William Kdwards of Trinidad, a bra kern a n on the Santa F6 coal run between Trinidad and Sturkvllle, was jolted from the top of a car and was ground to death under the wheels of the next car. Increases of from 15 to 25 per cent in all city salaries are provided in an ordinance adopted by the city council at Colorado Springs. Patrolmen, fire men and city clerks fared best with increases of from $20 to $85 monthly. Officials of the local district office of the United States forest service have begun co-operative work with the Sun Isabel Public Recreation Associa tion for the development of a new Colorado national playground on the San Isabel forest. Expert yegginen opened the safe at the Portland (Colo.) postoffice and es caped with $1,200 in stamps, thrift stamps and liberty bonds, and robbing the drug store In which the postoffice is located of another $1,200 worth of Jewelry and stock. There were twice as many babies born in Pueblo in October than there were deaths, according to statistics given out by the city hoard of heulth. Of the babies horn, the majority of them were boys. The health report shows that there were eighty-six babies horn In October and fifty-three were hoys. The body of the unidentified man, murdered several months ago, which was found by three women strolling across tin* prairies near Pueblo, is be lieved to he that of Tony Lapresto, 85 years old, a former saloonkeeper of Aguilar, Colo., who disappeared last January after threats of blackmail had been made to him. A contract has been awarded by the Slate Highway Commission to George toupuiue of Grand Junction for the construction of the first quarter of a mile of the proposed concrete road from tills city to Palisade. Appropria tions have already been made for an additional three miles on this road, ex tending the concrete roadway to Fruit dale. Ten miles of the new roadway up Rig Thompson cufion leading to Estes Park, have been completed and auto ists declare the road one of the best and safest mountain highways in the state. The road bed is from twenty to thirty feet wide at ail points, thus elim inating much of tin* danger to passing vehicles that lias always heretofore ex isted. Discovery of an artesian water iwisin in the luirseii dry farming district northwest of Grover has caused great rejoicing among cattlemen and farm ers. The flow was struck on tin* Wick ort ranch, which is fifteen miles north west of Grover. There is a volume sufficient to keep a two-inch pipe filled, and the water is free from sul phur and other distasteful eon tents. An engineer who investigated the well believes that the artesian basin lies under a large acreage of land. George Golden, negro, serving a life sentence, made a sensational dash for freedom at the state penitentiary at Cafion City, hut was captured after he had scaled the twenty-five-foot wall, swam the Arkansas river and reaciied the foothills in South cafion. Stickers, human and otherwise, come in all varieties! The gayest of 1020 stickers is the* Christmas seal which lias been issued by tin* Colorado Pub lic Heulth Association. It's redolent of Christ inns cheer as a fir tree all trimmed with candles or a brisk snow storm or a bright red holly wreath hung in the window. It’s done in soft blue, and green and red and has a Santa Claus climbing down a chimney, his back bent under the cheery mes sage he carries of “A Merry Christ mas, Health and a Happy New Year.” That’s a new message for Old Man to carry. It’s the message of the Colo rado Public Health Association to every man, woman and child of Colo rado. It’s going on letters and hills and Christmas packages and mail of every description through the medium of “health” Christinas seals which an? a national Institution. Salaries of K1 Paso county officials and the maintenance of the courts and Institutions of the county will cost approximately $250,000 during 1020, according to two separate budget esti mates which were presented to the county commissioners by Harry Schol ton, chairman. The greatest “take” of trout spawn In the history of the stute. numbering altogether about 12,000,000 eggs, lias lust been completed by the state fish md gain*? department, under |K*rsonnl •supervision of Roland G. Parvln, state mine sod fish commissioner COLORADO NEWS NOTES. Nearly every state in the Union Is represented by at ieust one student at Denver University, Chancellor Henry A. Buchtel stated in giving a resume of the work of the school in the fifty-five years of its existence. The total number of students en rolled this year in all department is 1,800, the chancellor said. Thirteen hundred of these are from Denver and the remaining 500 from forty dif ferent states. Dr. Buchtel said that in spite of extensive advertising em ployed by all universities, the fact re mains that every school draws the great majority of its students from its immediate vicinity. A total of 3,772 degrees have been conferred by the university to date. tfhe carrier pigeons and equipment of the Navy Department will be used next year by tile United States Forest Service for conveying fire reports from lookout stations and fire fight ers “at the front” to National Forest Headquarters. The value of the birds In mountainous and lake regions where, in many places, travel Is diffi cult on account of the lack of roads and trails, and there are but few tele phone lines, will be especially great. The test of the birds for this use was carried out on a limited scale this sea son, but it encouraged the Forest Ser vice officials to believe that pigeons can be employed profitably on a large scale. Figures compiled by the State Im migration Department show I hut the per capita valuation of property in Colorado for assessment purposes this year is $1,40.1, compared with $1,- .‘184.04 last year. There is an increase of approximately $71,000,000 in the as sessed valuation of property as re turned by the State Tax Commission, tlie total valuation of property for as sessment purposes in the state tills year being $1,495,200,050. The high est per capita valuation is in Cheyenne county, $2,080.00, and the lowest is in Huerfano county, $806.61. These per capita figures are based upon a popu lation of approximately 3,000,(XX) for tile state. Appropriations to be asked of the State Legislature under the special ses sion program will aggregate approxi mately $215,000, it was indicated after members planning to introduce bills covering the subjects stipulated by the governor had made known the amounts to be sought. With the state already facing the problem of meeting appro priations by the regular session that were $77S,7(K».00 in excess of the esti mated revenues for the biennial period, officials in the offices of tin* state treasurer and state auditor are puzzled as to how the state will ob tain funds to meet the additional bur den. Population in Colorado per square mile of area this year, according to compilations made in the State Immi gration Department, is 10.20, com pared with 9.92 last year and 7.7 as returned by the Census Bureau in 1910. The population of the state ap parently has increased approximately 88 per cent in the past ten years, as compared with 48 per cent in the pre ceding decade. The county of Denver, of course, is the most densely popu lated, having approximately 4,914 per sons per square mile. Hinsdale county is the most sparsely populated, with 0.51 per square mile. Denied the release of coal shipped in by rail. Manager W. W. Campbell of the Mesa flour mills is keeping the mill in operation by hauling in coal by auto truck. Mines of the upper valley are operating with normal forced of miners, but coal loaded out is being confiscated for essential in dustries and railroads. Two million bushels of wheat are tied up in the wheat-growing districts of eastern and northeastern Colorado on account of the impassible condition of the roads following the recent storm, according to William C. Reid, Inspector for the State Utilities Commission. Calculations made in the office of the State Immigration Department show that approximately 20 per cent of area of the state at the present time is included in the national forests. Min eral county, with 93.52 per cent, has the largest forest area in proportion to its total area, while Gunnison county, with 1,125,01X1 acres, has the largest actual forest area. There are twenty counties having no forest area within their borders and four counties having less than 5 per cent of their area within the national forests. The Kobey block, a large two-story brick building in the heart of the business section, occupied by business firms on the ground floor and offices on the second floor, was practically gutted by a fire ot Aspen, Colorado. Tbt k loss to building and contents will appregate from $75,(XX> to $1(X),(XX>, one-third of which is covered by in surance. Denver responded liberally to the ap peals of the 500 “tag girls” who solic ited funds for the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, and $10,310.35 was collected, according to h report is sued by G. W. Lawrence, secretary of the association. Probably no section of the state is as free of unemployed soldiers as is the county of Montrose, according to Ho mer Graham of Montrose and a mem ber of the state committee recently ap pointed by Governor Slioup to see that all returned soldiers, sailors and mar ines are procured employment. A. F. Fanner, u fruit grower of the Surface Creek district. Delta county, already this season has received re turns totaling $10,201.90 from his twen ty acres and, in addition, he has on hand 1,200 boxes of apples that will net bim $1 or more a box. STRONG NOTE TO MEXICO U. S. DECLINES TO BE DRAWN FROM THE MAIN ISSUES. MUST FREE CONSUL SHARP WORDS FROM NOTE TO PRESIDENT CARRANZA BY UNITED STATES. Western .\>«.«pap<T I'nion Newsservice. Washington, Dec. 2. —The govern ment's note to Mexico, made public at the hour of its delivery In Mexico City, renews the request for the im mediate release of William O. Jen kins, the American consular agent Im prisoned at Puebla, and bluntly charges Carranza with attempting to becloud the issue. In the sharpest language yet addressed to the Car ranza government, and probably more (minted than one government usually addresses another in a formal diplo matic communication, the United States says it regards Mexico’s plea of judicial reasons for not releasing Jenkins as “mere excuses,” and gives notice that it will not be drawn away from the main fact and into a dis cussion of “irrelevant and unimport ant matters.” The attitude of the Carranza gov ernment in the matter, the note says, has been to “assume a willful indif ference to tile feelings of the Ameri can people ami the conclusion drawn hy the government is that Mexico has sought to divert the attention of the American people and the Mexican people as well from the fact that Pu ebla, second largest city in Mexico, is overrun hy bandits, while the civil authorities are negligent.” The ultimatum was served and' no time was given in which tills govern ment expects Jenkins to he released and neither was there any statement in the note as to what the course of the American government would lie if tiie renewed request for his release was denied. After a conference with Secretary Lansing, Chairman Porter of the House foreign affairs committee ex pressed the opinion that “the State Department means business this time.” ■ Chairman Porter indicated that he was in accord with *ho government’s present policy in dealing with the Mexican situation. “The danger to the United States of this condition of continual unrest and feeling of hostility toward us in Mexico,” Mr. Porter said, “lies in tlie fact that it provides a fertile field for anti-American propaganda and even a base for attack upon the United States hy any foreign country that affected a combination with Mexico. By this the spirit. If not the letter, of the Monroe doctrine would be vio lated. Quiet Lynching Affair. Macon, <»u.—An unidentified negro was lynched near here after he had shot and seriously wounded Hansel Rosier, Jr., a farmer's son. The -mob worked so quietly that the neighbor hood knew nothing of the lynching un til the negro’s body was found hang ing from a tree near a church. Rosier will recover, physicians said. Ratify Suffrage Amendment. Bismarck, N. I>. —North Dakota has become the twentieth state to ratify the federal suffrage amendment, when the House approved the suffrage reso lution already passed hy the Senate, 102 to 0. A copy of the joint resolution will he certified to Washington at once. Avenge Death of Angeles. El Paso, Texas. —Fighting like mad men to avenge the death of Felipe An geles, 1,000 soldiers under Francisco Villa fell upon the Eightieth regiment of the federal army, 070 men, at Rancho Kspuja, north of Santa Rosa lia, Chihuahua, twenty-four hours after the (’hapultepec officer Imd been shot down hy a firing squad, and massacred all hut two members of the regiment. This word was brought to El Paso by Dr. L. M. Gomez, an American citizen, who fought for eighteen months as an aviator with the American army in France. Want Information on Troop*. Washington.—Information as to how long American soldiers are to he kept in Siberia was sought of the State Depart ment In a resolution hy Representative Rhodes, Republican, Missouri. It asked also if Japan had defined its Siberian policy and for the strength of British. French, Italian and Japanese forces in Siberia and whether any selective ser vice men are among the American troops there. To Speed Coal Output. Chicago.— Governors of seven soft coal-prnducing states at a conference here agreed that the state govern ments should take “all possible” steps to obtain the production of coal* and recommended to the federal gov ernment that a complete fuel admin istration, with an administrator for each state, appointed by the govern ment tie perfected immediately. The state executives also requested equita ble distribution of coal under uniform and rigid regulations in all states. THE JOY OF MOTHERHOOD Came to this Woman after ■Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to Restore Hei- Health EUenaborg, Waih.— ’’ After I «u married 1 was not well for a keg tine ■ and a good deal of the time was not able to go about. Our greatest desire was totewediM day my bnabaad came back from town with a bottle of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound and wanted me to try it. It baougkt relief from my trophies. I improved in health so I ooolddomy housework; we now have a little one, all of which I owe to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.”—Mrs. O. S. Johnson, R. No. S, EUenaborg, Wash. There are womea everywhere who long for children in their homes yet are denied this happiness on account of some functional disorder which in moat eases would readily yield to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 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Many cases of Deafness are caused by Catarrh, which is an inflamed condition of the Mucous Surface*. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be cured by HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE. All Druggists 75c. Circulars free. F. J. Cheney * Co., Toledo, Ohio. Denials make little* faults great. HEALTH RESTORED Nr. Eiickt Wu Down WHk KU Mf Coapliint; Fonnd Dou’( the Indy Needed. “Kidney trouble pnt me in ■ bad way.” says Thomas A. Knight, Re tired Insurance Agent, 624 N. Ninth St, East St. Louis, HI. “It came on with pain across my back and the attacks kept getting worse un til I had a spell that laid me up. Morphine £ was the only relief I and I couldn’t move M “ 1 without help. The kid- 9 ney secretions were scanty, painful and filled with sediment. “I waa nnable to leave the honse. could St US not rest, and became utterly ex hausted. The only way I could take ease was by bolstering say self up with pillows. For three months I wss In that awful con dition and the doctor said I had gravel. Boon's XMaey Mi* brought pm hack to good health and I have gained wonderfnUy In strength and weight." •worn to before M, A. M. EOOMAXX, Notary FOM& DOAJ?9vSv