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THE WORLD.
DURING THEPAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENBED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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WESTERN
R. B. Leady, recently appointed pro
hibition enforcement group chief for
North Dakota, has been arrested on a
charge of violating the prohibition
laws. He was placed in the Cass coun
ty jail in default of $5,000 ball.
The body of W. L. Pierce, aged 50,
of Salt Lake City, was found in the
washroom of a train when it reached
Havre, Mont. His throat was cut and
conditions led to the belief that he
had taken his own life.
Gen. J. T. Dlckman, commandant of
the Eighth corps area, and Gen. Alvaro
Obregon, president-elect of Mexico, re
viewed the Twenty-fifth infantry at
Camp Stephen D. Little at Nogales,
Aria. A military reception at the offi
cers’ club followed.
A high wind that passed thru Santa
Clara, Calif., tossed J. Bingwall, a 15-
year-old boy, into a tree; knocked over
George Campra and a horse he was
hitching, uprooted fruit trees, demol
ished several private garages and
. caused considerable minor damage.
The Luders gin, fifteen miles south
east of Stanford, Texas, was burned,
making the second gin burned within
the last few nights by fire apparently
of Incendiary origin. In each Instance
the owners had received letters warn
ing that the gins would be burned un
less they closed until cotton reached
forty cents a pound.
After hearing the plea of 10,000 Jap
anese farmers of California, transmit
ted through President Samuel Gompers
of the American Federation of Labor,
the twenty-first annual convention of
the California Federation of Labor at
Fresno, Calif., unanimously adopted a
resolution favoring the alien land
amendment on the November ballot.
The action was taken without debate.
Gen. Felix Diaz arrived in Vera
Crus from Tlapacoyan, virtually the
prisoner of Gen. Guadulupe Sanchez.
An effort will be made. It is said, to
convince Diuz that he should leave the
country. Provisional President de la
Huerta having declared public opinion
would not permit him to remain as u
free citizen because of distrust of his
attitude toward the government.
WASHINGTON
No bids were received by the ship
ping board for the 3,588-ton wooden
steamship Chiino, which caught on fire
at Claremont, Va., Sept. 4th, and now
lies bottom up in fifty-six feet of
water. The ship was advertised for
sale “as it is and where it is.”
Contributions to political campaign
funds are taxable Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue Williams declared in a
statement “advising members of all
parties" that they will not be allowed
to deduct amounts given to campaign
funds from their income tax returns.
President Wilson has directed that
on Sunduy, Nov. 14, the American flag
be displayed at half-mast on all pub
lic buildings and naval and military
posts “as a token of the nation’s par
ticipation in the memorial services
held for the heroic American soldiers,
sailors, murines and others who gave
their lives to their country in the
World war.**
Commerce with the far east thus far
this year has amounted to approxi
mately twenty per cent of the foreign
trade of the United States, compared
with seventeen per cent last year, ac
cording to a summary Issued by the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce.
It was intimated at the State De
partment at Washington that negotia
tions with Japan over the alien land
and immigration controversies is pro
gressing and that there are signs of
an agreement being reached in the
near future. Whether the agreement
would be reached before the California
referendum on the amendment to the
alien laud law to which Japan objects
was regarded as doubtful.
A saving of 30,000,000 tons of coal
annually, representing $150,000,000 in
value and the labor of more than thirty
thousand miners and the release of
vast railroad carrying capacity for
other freight were pictured as among
the possibilities to result from the pro
jected eastern Industrial region super
power electric system, in nn address
by W. S. Murray, before the Water
Power League at Washington.
The crop reporting board of the
bureau of crop estimates, Department
of Agriculture, made public the fol
lowing estimates, based upon Oct 1
reports of Its correspondents: Winter
wheat, production 532,041,000 bushels;
yield per acre, 15.6 bushels; compared
with December estimate of 14.7.
The states of Arizona and North
Carolina were shown In population an
nouncements by the Census Bureau to
have had during the last ten years the
largest numerical Increases in their
history.
rowan
TwMkty-three persons were killed
and many seriously Injured In the col*
Uslon of two passenger trains near
Venice.
Some thirty persons were Injured
when a passenger train, traveling from
Paris for Argenteull, collided with an
other passenger train running from Ar
genteuil for Paris.
American relief workers In the Cri
mea, now controlled by General Wran
gel’s anti-Bolshevist forces, have been
ordered to Increase their distribution
of supplies and foodstuffs to SOO tons
per week.
Demands for Immediate Increase In
wages has been telegraphed the Ger
man minister of labor by the confer
ence held at Bochume of four miners’
unions composing the Miners' Federa
tion, says the Vorwaerts.
Horse racing In Argentina received
a blow when President Irlgoyen ve
toed a bill authorizing the Jockey Club
to continue to hold meetings on Thurs
days. The veto condemned gambling
and declared the Sunday holiday was
sufficient.
Nejt year’s budget for France, total
ing 28,000,000,000 francs, Is being
trimmed down by President Mlllerand
and Frederic Francls-Marsal, the fi
nance minister. It Is proposed to fix
the reparation expenditures which are
recoverable from Germany at 24,000,-
000,000 franca.
A dispatch was sent through official
channels to Paris for confirmation of
the Copenhagen report that the French
General, Weygand, had proceeded to
South Russia to take supreme com
mand of the Baron Wrangel's anti-
Bolshevik forces. If the report Is true,
It Is said, the action of France Is In
tended to give larger moral support to
the Wrangel government In pursuance
of the French policy which was Indi
cated when France recognized the
Wrangel government
GENERAL
Mrs. Elizabeth Niles, 92 years old,
who with close clipped hair and a uni
form that concealed her sex, is said
to have fought beside her husband
thru the Civil war, is dead at Rari
tan, N. J.
Capt. R. W. Schroeder of McCook
field, holder of the world altitude
record, will retire from the air serv
ice as soon as he returns from
France, where be flew In the Gordon
Bennett race.
A gift of $15,000 by the Rockefeller
Foundation to the American Hospital
Association, on condition that $5,000 is
obtained from other sources, was an
nounced at the closing session of the
association's convention at Montreal.
Gold valued at approximately $9,-
500,000, consigned to the federal re
serve bank, arrived at New York on
the steamship Aqultania. This is the
fourth recent shipment of gold from
the Bank of England, making $38,-
000,000.
Two Brooklyn Boy Scouts have ar
rived in New York from San Francis
co, completing a round trip made part
ly on foot and by picking up rides In
automobiles and wagons. The boys,
J. F. Budd and A. G. Greiner, began
their Journey July 31, arrived at San
Francisco Aug. 28 and started back
- three days later.
The Santa Fe railroad handled 25
by per cent more business in the first
eight months of this year, represented
by carloads, than it did in the corre
sponding period last year and 11.2 per
cent more than for the same period in
191 S, according to a bulletin Just is
sued by the railroad's general office at
Topeka, Kan.
Public bequests totaling $865,000 are
contained In the will of W. Murray
Crane, filed for probate at Pittsfield,
Mass. The will is twenty-eight pages
long. The widow, Mrs. Josephine M.
Crane, received $750,000 and the in
come from a trust fund of $1,000,000.
The total amount of the estate of the
former United States Senator was not
given.
Twelve members of the crew of the
steamer Speedwell, wrecked in a trop
ical hurricane in the gulf, and one
passenger, were picked up in a life
boat by the steamer Lake Superior,
according to radio advices received at
New Orleans.
The 1920 corn crop promises to be
the largest in the history of the coun
try by more than ninety million bush
els. A yield of 3,216,192,000 bushels,
compared with the previous record
production, of 3,124,746,000 bushels in
1912, was forecast by the Department
of Agriculture from a condition of
89.1 on Oct. 1. The yield would ex- j
eecd that of last year by practically |
300,000,000 bushels. |
Charles Ponzi can pay less than one
dollar in three on the claims of
creditors of his shattered scheme of
high finance. The extent to which the
millions entrusted to Ponzi had been
reduced was revealed by C. N. Ritten
house, auditor for the federal receivers
of Ponzi, at a hearing oh a bank
ruptcy petition against Ponzi in the
Federal court. To meet liabilities which
he set at $7,500,000, the auditor said
Ponzi had total assets of $2,195,685. |
Seaman Eugene Paquette of Dover,
N. H., reported drowned when washed
overboard from the destroyer Golds
borough off Tampico, Mexico, on Sept.
30, has been rescued by the destroyer
Hatfield, that vessel reported on Its
arrival at Miami, Florida.
Fire, originating in a negro tene
ment house on Simmons alley, at
Helena, Ark., swept parts of four
squares destroying a number of busi
ness establishments and between forty
and fifty tenements. Loss was esti
mated at about $650,000. No injuries i
have been reported. I
TUB CBTWW RECORD.
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union Neva Service,
A. J. Bryant and Navajo Martinas,
prisoners in the San Joan county jail,
escaped by digging out motar between
the bricks in a wall of the jail, last
week at Sllverton.
Denver will have another mountain
park in the near future if plans of
Deputy City Attorney Milnor E.
Gleaves for the acquirement of 340
acres near Georgetown materialize.
William Norell of Walden accom
panied a shipment of cattle to Omaha,
and while the train stopped near
LaSalle, Colo., a couple of tramps held
up one of the men who were with
Norell and secured between sls and
S2O.
Colorado’s coal production amounted
to 885,000 tons in August, according to
figures based on railroad shipments,
announced by the geological survey.
The August output exceeds that of
July by 34,000 tons, the figures show.
During the first eight months of the
year 1920, Colorado produced <5,129,000
tons.
Demands for skilled and common
labor are being met more promptly in
Colorado this fall than for several
years, according to a statement made
by Labor Commissioner W. L. Mor
rissey. Farmers and fruit growers In
many sections of the state, where hun
dreds of men and women are needed
for a rush season, have been able to
secure ample help, reports coming to
this office show.
Benjamin J. Salmon, Denver slacker
who has been on a hunger strike in
St. Elizabeth’s Military Hospital for
the Insane at Washington, D. C., since
July 15, was declared sane by Justice
Bailey of the District of Columbia Su
preme Court, according to dispatches
received. Salmon will remain in the
hospital pending the disposition of
court proceedings against the War De
partment for his release.
If present plans are realised, the
Denver & Bio Grande railroad will be
purchased by the Western Pacific
Railroad Company next month, accord
ing to information received in Denver.
The property is to be sold at the fed
eral building in Denver, Nov. 20, un
der an order of the United States Dis
trict Court to satisfy a judgment for
$38,000,000 obtained by bondholders of
the Western Pacific Railroad.
District Judge G. H. Brad fie kl of
Boulder has set Oct. 23 as the date
for the hearing of the motion for a
change of venue In the murder«trial
of Rienzl Dickens, who Is now at the
home of his mother in Longmont. At
torneys for Dickens claim that preju
dice Is so strong against their client
in Northern Colorado that it would be
Impossible for him to get a fair trial
in Boulder, Larimer or Weld counties.
Affidavits supporting this claim were
filed in the District Court two months
ago. Later District Attorney Fleming
filed counter affidavits denying that
this was true.
The average size of farms In Colo
rado this year, as reported by county
assessors, is 285.7 acres, compared
with 280.8 acres last year. The aver
age size of farms as reported by the
census bureau in 1010 was 293.1 acres.
It is possible that the average size of
farms as reported by the census bu
reau this year will be considerably
greater than that reported to the Im
migration Department, since assessors
report only farms on which land is
actually being cultivated, while the
census bureau receives reports on a
considerable number of very large
farms used only for grazing purposes.
These pasture farms will increase the
average size of all farms considerably
over that reported by county assessors.
The celebration of the opening of
the Poudre cafion road as far up as
to the Rustic, which is to. be given
Oct. 12,-Columbus Day, will be an elab
orate affair, and plans are rapidly
taking shape for the occasion.
Complete reports made by county
assessors to the State Immigration De
partment show 3,427 farm tractors
owned and operated by the farmers of
Colorado, an increase of 1,180 over the
number reported by assessors last
year. Every county in the state but
six reports farm tractors in operation,
and every county but three, Adams,
Arapahoe and Washington, reports a
larger number than was reported last
year. Some idea of the rapid increase
in this class of farm equipment may
be gathered from the reports made by
a few counties this year and last year.
Logan county reported 225 farm trac
tors last year and 369 this year; Phil
ips county, 146 last year and 244 this
year; Elbert county, 71 last year and
131 this year; Prowers county, 27 last
year and 81 this year; Weld county,
365 last year and 504 this year. Weld
county ranks first in number of farm
tractors and Logan county second.
Alfred M. Pettingill, Rio Grande
fireman, was killed under an engine
at Texas Creek. The engine on which
Pettingill was firing was “double
heading” with another. He - said to
the engineer he was going to the sta
tion for a moment and got down from
hla engine. The other engine un
coupled and moved down the track a
shdtt distance. When Pettingill failed
to show up, his engineer investigated
and found Pettingill badly mangled
under the engine. How he got there
oo one knows. He died on the way
to the Sal Ida hospital.
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.
Final tabulations of returns of
county assessors on agricultural sta
tistics, made by the State Immigration
Department, show a total of 5,009,591
acres in cultivation in the state this
year, including wild hay, compared
with 4,820,946 acres reported by coun
ty assessors last year. Since present
indications are that the reports of
county ussessors are about ten per cent
incomplete, the total area in cultiva
tion in the state this year Is above
5,500,000 acres, not including orchards.
These reports include 49,117 farms on
which land was actually cultivated
this year. The Census Bureau* found
46,170 farms in the state in 1910, and
the area reported to the bureau as un
der cultivation in 1909 was 2,253,145
acres. According to these figures,
there has been an increase of 144
per cent in the cultivated a-ea in the
past 11 years. Since the reports made
to the Census Bureau were perhaps
not absolutely complete, the actual in
crease in cultivated area was no doubt
somewhat short of the figure given
above, but it was considerably more
than double that of 1909.
Reports made to the State Immlgra
tino Department by county assessors
indicate that there has been an in
crease in the percentage of Colorado
farms operated by tenants since 1910.
According to these reports 24 per cent
of the farms reported this year arc
operated by tenants, compared with
18.2 per cent reported to the census
bureau in 1910. About 1.5 per cent of
the farms reported this year did not
show the character of the tenure of the
farm operative, while the remaining
farms were operated by owners or by
homesteaders who have not yet proved
up. Homesteaders of this class were
treated as owners by the census bu
reau in 1910. Of the farm acreage re
ported by assessors this year approxi
mately 20 per cent Is being farmed by
renters and 72 per cent by owners and
homesteaders, while about 5 per cent
is operated by owners who rent some
land in addition to their own farms.
William S. Roe, for seven years
principal of the Greeley High School,
will be the new principal of the Colo
rado Springs High School, according
to an announcement made at Colo
rado Springs. Mr. Roe is a well
known educator of the state and was*
given consideration as principal of the
East Denver High School. He takes
charge of his duties at once, relieving
Stillwell Moore, who has bean acting
principal since the promotion of Mr.
Bair from principal to superintendent.
Pueblo will be Invaded Nov. 4 for
a three-day visit by educators from
all over Colorado, who will gather to
attend the sessions of the State Edu
cational Association. At last year's
session more than 1,200 people at
tended the meeting and more are ex
pected this year. Notable among the
speakers will be Ida M. Tarbell, Mrs.
Mary C. C. Bradford, state superin
tendent of public instruction, and Dr.
Frank W. Gunsaulus, president of Ar
mour Institute, Chicago.
Delta friends of Ross Barker, who
is now serving his sixth year in the
, navy, have received a letter which
states that he has been recognized as
the prize shark catcher in the navy.
With an apparatus consisting of a fish
hook thirty Inches long which weighs
two pounds, he has made record
catches in the West Indies, India, Sa
moa and at Manila. At the last place
he caught his largest one, which meas
ured more than eighteen feet in length.
The expansion of the soldiers’ train
ing school and the establishment of
shops and a laboratory to be used in
conjunction with classroom work is
now under consideration by repre
sentatives of the federal board for vo
cational education.
For offering for sale meat that had
not been inspected by the Pueblo
health department, John Groslch,
grocer, received a $lO fine. Jim
Liapes, butcher, also received a sim
ilar fine last week.
The purchase of the Cushman ditch
, #nd stock was completed at the Octo
ber meeting of the Uncompahgre Val
ley Water-Users’ association at Mont
rose. The price paid by the govern
ment for this irrigation ditch was $5,-
150. One thousand one hundred and
fifty of this will be subscribed by the
farmers who will use the water from
the ditch and the government will pay
the remaining $4,000.
Mrs. Carl White, wife of a farmer
who lives thirty miles east of Hugo,
was instantly killed and their 2-year
old son seriously Injured when a shot
gun was accidentally discharged while
going to town with a truck load of
wheat
What is believed to be a record
buck killed during the open season
was brought down by T. C. Seals of
Montrose. This was killed the first
day of the season and tipped the scales
at 400 pounds.
| Chris Christenson, one of the early
residents of Evergreen, Is dead, after
a short illness, as a result of a stroke
of paralysis. He wa 73 years old and
had lived in Jefferson county for forty
j seven years.
The State Board of Land Commis
sioners sold 4,920 acres of land for a
consideration of $99,320. The average
sale price per acre was $20.18. The
land was sold from Baca, Eagle, El
bert, Huerfano, Larimer, Lincoln,
Logan, Otero, Prowers, Rio Grande
and Saguache counties. Ten per cent
of the purchase price of the land Is
paid when the sale Is made, according
to niles of the commission. As usual,
the state reserves the right to control
oil and ore holdings on any of the
land. The next sale will be held about
I Nov. 15.
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POINTED OUT BRIGHT SIDE
Optimist** Brave Effort to Convince
Afflicted Man That the Cloud Had
Sllvor Lining.
Mr. Juerglns had been suddenly af
flicted with a stiff neck. Not only
was It a painful stiffness, hot It
caused him to twist his head around
until he seemed to be trying to look
behind him over his left shoulder, and
his head was rigid In that pose.
“Of all the confounded trials a man
was ever subjected to,” be said, “this
Is the limit They say to look on
the bright side of our afflictions, but
I’d like to know how I could make use
of this stiff neck.”
“My dear friend.” said the optimist
“think what a golden opportunity this
Is to sit for your picture without hav
ing to allow the photographer to twist
four head around that way and Jab
those Ice-cold tongs Into the back of
four neck I”
The** Days.
Knlcker—Was bis death from nat
•ral causes?
Bocker—Yes, an automobile ran
>ver him.
A wise man proceeds to close the
tool's mouth by shutting his own.
Ceremony was Invented by a wise
nan to keep fools at a distance.
If you like the taste
of coffee, youll like
Instant
Postum
and you'll like it better than cof
fee because it is a table drink of
satisfying flavor, with no after
regrets, and it costs less.
Coffee disagrees with some, but
Instant Postum agrees with
everybody.
" There's.a Reason" |nn|W
for Postum |IHR
Sold by grocers ; I jpSMT
everywhere! j
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Battle Crcckjttch. UU •§
GIVING NATURE FAIR CHANCE.
Sluggard SatlafM Ha Had an Admin
able Excuaa far Rafualng to Ba
Up and About. I
“Arise!" we said In atone admirably
adapted for declamatory purposes, ad
dressing the sluggard, who was still
slugging at an unconscionably late
hour. "The lark Is up to meet the ana.
The bee la on the wing. Bern ember
the manner In which the experienced
school boy read aloud the admonition
to Lucy. Ha bad been taught that
when he encountered two letters of
the. same kind 'he should pronounce
them 'double-o' or whatever they
might be. Instead of ‘o,’ ‘o.’ So he
sternly recited, but Double up. Lucy I
The sun Is In the sky,' and so forth.
Why do you not double up, and to
your tasks away?”
"That Is a very good story," replied
the sluggard, "but it does not move
me. We are told that nature does
moat of her repair work on us while
we are In bed. It is my Intention to
lie here until she fixes me up so that I
feel like going to work.”—Kansas City
Star.
Mo, Luke, women don't mean It when
they kiss each other; they just do It
tor practice.
A taste for minding one’s own bust*
ness Is often bard to acquire.