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IN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
BAYINGS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERINGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Nmw* I'alM ImlN.)
WESTERN
Frank Lemen, 74 years old, believed
one of the oldest circus wen In the
rountry and who was credited with
laving taken the first circus to Aus
sralla, Is dead at Kansas City.
The body of a young man with n
lullet wound in the head, which was
found in a vacant lot In San Francisco.
s*as identified as that of the bandit
who held up the ferry postofflce, shot
ind killed Frank R. Adams, an armed
guard, and escaped with valuable mail
aiatter.
Twenty-two men were arrested
:liree stills destroyed and more thnn
1,000 gallons of liquor seized in raids
lust completed at Gallup. N. M., by
prohibition offlt-ers. The roundup, the
itate director says, was the largest ev
rr conducted in the state, nearly the
entire force taking part.
Two bachelor brothers of Lincoln
idvanced one of the most novel boot
legging excuses ever heard in Nebras
ka. They said they operated the still
for the benefit of n paralyzed woman,
whose drinking water hud to be dis
tilled. They admit she died more than
i year ago from the treatment.
District Attorney Mathew Brady has
under consideration a request that lie
recommend a .parole for Allen McDon
ald, convicted in connection with the
80-called “Howard street gang cases"
a year ago, in Son Francisco. McDon
ald soon will be eligible to apply for
parole. Recently McDonald's mother
made her way to Frisco from Denver
—walking part of the way und accept
ing free rides at times—and asked
Brady to parole her son.
WASHINGTON
Persons paying federal taxes under
protest cannot bring proceedings to re
cover such taxes against a successor
of the collector to whom the taxes
were paid, the Supreme Court held in
deciding a case brought by the Indi
ana Steel Company.
Suit to test constitutionality of the
Capper-Tincher bill passed by Con
gress to regulate grain exchanges and
put them under direction of the secre
tary of agriculture was filed in federal
District Court by John Hill, Jr., a
member of the Chicago board of trude.
Approval of a loan of $1,000,000 to
n financial institution for credit ex
tensions on live stock in Montana and
Wyoming, was announced by the War
Finance Corporation. The corporation
did not make public the name of the
institution nor the terms of the loan.
The government's annual report on
mortality statistics for 1920, soon to be
issued, shows 1,142,f>78 deaths within
the death registration area, represent
ing a rate of 12.1 per thousand, ns
compared with 12.9 in 1919. Fatalities
from automobile accidents und injuries
Increased from 9.4 to 10.4 i>er hundred
thousand.
Fire in the national forests over the
country cost the government more than
$20,000,000 annually, and more than
$0,000,000 is spent annually by the
service in proper forest administration
and protection, according to informa
tion given out In Washington by I>r.
Herbert A. Smith, assistant forester
from Washington, D. C.
The appointment of Cnpt. Jesse F.
Cottrell, representative in Washing
ton of several Tennessee newspapers
for many years, as U. S. minister to
Bolivia is being hailed with satisfac
tion by the newspaper fraternity.
Cnptain Cottrell, who left bis profes
sion to serve the country during the
war, has won an enviable reputation.
Among the important acts of the re
cent sovereign grand lodge of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows at
Toronto, Canadn, was the decision to
build a memorial building in Balti
more at a cost of $1,">00,000. It was
in Baltimore that the order was born
102 years ago. Each member is to be
assessed at 10 cents a year for five
years to obtain the building fund.
Decision of many West Virginia
mine operators to refuse next spring
to re-enter into wage contracts with
their employes’ unions was announced
to the Senate committee investigating
conditions in the West Virginia fields.
The statement was made by E. M.
Merrell, a Charleston operator, who
said that “a concerted move” was un
der way to fight the closed union shop
when the time for renewal of wage
contracts arrived April 1.
Members of the clergy, the great
majority of them with war experience
and graduates of army chaplain schools
at home or in France, are well repre
sented in the officers’ corps of the
army. About 600 commissions as re
serve army chaplains have been issued.
They include five majors, sixty cap
tains and the remainder first lieu
tenants. By denominations the distri
bution la as follows: Roman Catholic,
166; Methodist, 115; Baptist, 91; Pres
byterian, 71; Episcopal, 64; Disciples
of Christ, 81; Congregational, 28, and
•ther sects, 12.
FOREIGN
Four me* were killed and two In*
Jured when a Canadian Pacific rail*
way freight train was caught by falling
rock In a tunnel one mile east of Pal*
User, B. 0., according to advices re
ceived.
Because the war cost France so
much blood and maimed so many of
her sons, dueling must be severely re
pressed, declares M. Bonnevay, French
minister of justice, In a circular ad
dressed to public prosecutors all over
France.
Three vessels, including an unidenti
fied masted schooner, were ashore on
the Nova Scotian coast as the result
of a terrific gale at Sydney, N. S. The
gale, which is said to have been the
worst that (’ape Bret ton has expe
rienced since 1875, did considerable
damage.
The Novy Put, Bolshevist organ at
Riga, reports that un American bank,
with a capital of 910,000,000, is being
opened in Harbin, Manchuria, with
branches at Chita, Blngovestcaensk
and Khabarovsk. The newspaper as
serts that the bank Intends to assist
American trade In Siberia.
Local authorities have placed the
port of Petrograd under military con
trol In an effort to prevent pilfering,
smuggling of liquors and Intoxication.
Offenders will be punished by a court
martiul. This step was made neces
sary by workmen concealing quantities
of grain, flour and other products in
their clothing when they left work.
A dispatch to La Nacion from
Asuncion says that President Gondra
of Paraguay has handed bis resigna
tion to Dr. Felix Palvu, the vice presi
dent, owing to a revoluntionary move
ment by the followers of cx-Prosident
Schaerer. The revolutionaries are re
ported to have the support of all the
troops and police in the capital and
country districts.
GENERAL
A negro was killed in a battle with
Baltimore police at Humphrey station,
a suburb of Baltimore, following a
threatened race riot. The riot was
precipitated by an assault upon a
white girl by a negro.
Miss Cecil Leitch. woman golf cham
pion of Great Britain, France and Can
ada, defeated Miss Alexa Stirling, for
mer United States champion, by 11 up
before a large gallery at tin* Pelham
Country Club, New York.
A live South Curolinn opposnm and
u bushel of sweet potatoes were given
President Harding when the presiden
tial special stopped nt Greenville, S. (’.,
en route to Washington. Secretary
Christian accepted the gifts for the
President, who had retired.
Sam Gordon, 35, a negro, was
hanged by a mob near Wlnnsnoro, La.,
following the shooting of Joe Kim
ball, a white farmer. The shooting
followed a quarrel over a bag of pe
cans, it was said. It was reported the
negro's father was taken into u woods
and whipped.
Seven persons, Including Miss Mary
Green of Denver, were slightly injured
and scores were shaken up when* the
Duluth-Chicago express of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad was derailed
near Arlington Heights, 111. A broken
rail is believed by railroad officials to
have been responsible.
Although blind since he was 10 years
old, Albert Burnhnrd has been award
ed the degree of eagle scout by Bloom
ington Normal Council Boy Scouts of
America, satisfactorily passing the
twenty-one severe tests necessary to
qualify. Albert Is said to be the first
blind boy to attain the eagle scout's
degree.
Federal prohibition agents raided an
attic above a Greenwich village res
taurant in New York. Their haul in
cluded fifty casks, 2,(XX) bottles and
100 jugs of wine valued at $15,000.
The smell of a nearby barrel of mash
mingled with odors from stored cheese,
the officers said, but the attic was
used as sleeping quarters for three
persons.
Mrs. A. O. Cngle, wife of a farmer,
and her 0-year-old son were burned to
death at their home near Jonesboro,
Ark., when the child’s tricycle, to
which he had rigged a can of fire in
imitation of his futher's tractor, over
turned, the fire igniting ids clothing
and that of his mother when she went
to his aid.
Police linve discovered u 'well” of
whisky in a residential section of
Knoxville, Tenn. A small copper pipe
from a copper tank sunk ten feet un
der the ground enabled the owner to
keep a supply of moonshine whisky on
tap nt all hours. The whisky was
forced through a faucet by a hand
pump. The outfit was confiscated and
the owner arraigned in Police Court.
Twenty sticks of dynamite wrapped
in brown paper on which had neen
drawn a diagram of the Atlanta, Bir
mingham & Atlantic and Southern
railway lines were found by school
children in an abandoned sewer at At
lanta, according to reports to the po
lice. Since the inception of the gen
eral strike on the Atlanta, Birming
ham & Atlantic railroad last March,
several wrecks have occurred, appar
ently the result of dynamite explo
sions.
George H. Miller, 16 years old, was '
convicted on a charge of violating the
Mann act and was fined S3OO and costs
by Judge Jacob Trieber In United
States District Court nt Little Rock,
Ark. It was alleged that Miller, whose
home is in Dallas, Texas, took u wom
an 30 years old from Dallas to Hot
Springs last summer.
Emma Richardson Burkett, Hills
dale, Ind., was sentenced to from six
months to three years in the peniten
tiary by Judge Alfred J. Talley for
forging the name of the late Col. Theo* J
dor* Roosevelt to a fake note. I
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
(Wwitra Vi««»ir UntM Xiti Mnia.)
Mr. McCullough and sons plan to re
build the grain elevator at Olney
Springs, which wan recently destroyed
by fire. The building will cost ap
proximately SIO,OOO.
The cabbage season lias closed in
Adams county. During the summer
$202,000 worth of cabbage was han
dled by tile Brighton exchange, uml
more than 3,000 carloads shipped out.
Ten cars of crushed marble are to be
shipped daily from the works near
Villa*Grove, Colo., for un Indefinite
period. The Colorado Marble Corpor
ation, owning the property, reports
one order for 100 carloads of crushed
stone. Many cars of block marble al
so will be shipped each week. The
crushed marble is to be used in mak
ing terra so work, or the new idea in
hard surfaced flooring. "
Bobbers entered the First National
Rnuk of Wellington but failed in an
attempt to enter the vault, according
to a report to the sheriff at Fort Col
lins. They had gained entrance to the
bank by means of n crowbar, and had
attempted to break their way Into the
vault, but evidently bad given it up
when they encountered reinforced con
crete which they were unable to pen
etrate easily.
A coroner's inquest over the body of
young Housman, who was killed at
the factory of the American Beet
Sugar Company at Rocky Ford, was
held ami a number of witnesses ex
amined by Deputy District Attorney
Wallis, but the verdict was an exoner
ation of the company so far as any
responsibility for the accident was
concerned and the cause will probably
always remain a mystery.
MaJ. Victor W. llungcrford, retiring
stute commander of the American Le
gion, will represent the Colorado Le
gion in Washington on Armistice day,
Nov. 11, at the funeral services for the
unknown American soldier at Arling
ton cemetery. Major Hungerford, in
company with representatives of the
other state legions, will be part of a
guard of honor which will escort the
soldier's body to the grave.
The congregation of the United
Presbyterian church of Loveland voted
at a congregational meeting at Love
land, 115 to 08, to ask the Colorado
Presbytery for permission to adopt the
rotary plan of electing ruling elders,
in place of the present plan of life
membership. The Rev. Bex Lawhead
of Greeley presided at the meeting,
and it was agreed that the new terms
should be not less than four years for
the elders.
Councilman IT. W. Risley of Den
ver has received assurance from the
Denver water commissioners and the
state game and fish commissioner that
waters from the Whale mine, near
Webster, in Hall valley, which were
said to have been polluting the Platte
river will be shut off soon. Risley
complained that the mine tullings not
only were making the water unfit for
human consumption but were killing
fish in the stream.
Adoption of United States pntuto
grades in Colorado has increased the
amount of the crop marketed on this
basis by more than 12,000,000 bushels,
according to a recent estimate of the
Bureau of Markets and Crop Esti
mates, United States Department of
Agricultude, and raises to eleven the
number of states that have made the
United States grades official, says the
Department of Agriculture bulletin.
Although the use of the federal stand
ards has been optional since the days
of the United States food administra
tion. they are now used officially for
grading 30 per cent of the total crop
and unofficially for 30 to 45 per cent
more.
Three business bouses of Brighton
were entered by burglars and ran
sacked, but only n few dollars stolen.
The.places were the E. P. Jones cloth
ing store, the Harry Dodge photo
graph gallery and the Gem pharmacy.
In each case the men entered the
buildings through the skylights and
opened the cash registers.
After a chase over.the greater part
of the state, Robert Foster, alias Rob
ert Lewis, was arrested in Walsenburg
by Rangers and arraigned on a charge
of safe cracking at Missoula, Mont., to
which he pleaded guilty. He also con
fessed to having participated in a num
ber of similar crimes in the East and
to being one of a gang of ten outlaws,
some of whom are still at large.
• Major Williamson is suffering with
two fractured ribs and a badly
sprained wrist, the result of an auto
mobile accident on the paved highway
south of Loveland when his car col
lided with that of an unidentified Den
ver driver, while both were going at a
rapid rate. The Denver car was prac
tically undamaged and continued on
its way under its own power, while
the Williamson car was put out of
(•ommlssion. Williamson was thrown
through the windshield.
At a meeting of the board of trus- ‘
tees of the Denver* Federation for
Charity and Philanthropy, in Denver,
the annual report of the budget com
mittee, calling for a budget for 1022
of $229,705, an Increase of $30,888 over
last year, was officially approved. This
action of the board means that In the
annual compaign, which is to he held
in the latter part of November this
year, Denver will be called upon to
raise the recommended amount to
guarantee that the work of the feder
ated societies may continue through
the ensuing year
OHWjlllfg WKLLB MOOBP
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.
The state potato rrop on Oct. 1 ***
retl.noted st 11,360,000 hnshe'., com
niiretl with a final estimate of lIMW
JOO for last year. The eumlitlon of 11
crop on Oet. 1 was 81 pel ten '
pared with 84 per edit on Oit.
1, last year was ill l»f
lie ten-year average. I,le ue
•line of 740.000 linsliels in tlte slate
•rop during Sep.-anher teas due large
ly to the effect of the hot tventher dins
lint the latter part of August and the
injury to the vines hy frost early In
Septetnlier. In eonirnst with the de
cline In the state crop, nailonnl
crop Improved during Septeinher a tout
Ki. 8511.000 hushels, making a total es
timated production for me 1 tilled
Slates of !145,844,000 linsliels. l'.vell
with the Improvement during Septem-
Iter, the crop Is still 82.M4.000 hushels
short of the 428.000.000 hlisliel crop of
1020 and over 25,000,000 hushels below
the 1915-10. five-year average, of Oil.-
900,000 bushels.
The effect of the drouth on corn
since about .7une 1 In the nnrtli-enst*
i»m port of the state continued to he
apparent in the condition figures for.
corn, which was 70 per cent on Oet.
1. or 22 points below the figure for
the some time lust year, ami fl points
below the ten-year average for this
date The Indicated production is 15,-
77.1.000 bushels, compared with a ten
tative estimate of 18.tMO.OtK) bushels
last year. These product ion figure**
are based on the assumption that ap
proximately .80 per cent of the acreage
planted to corn will he harvested for
grain.
Colorado is the greatest sugar pro
ducing state In the country, and sugar
forms by far the most valuable manu
factured product in the state. The
manufacture of sugar has ramifica
tions that takes expert and common la
bor, the farmer, the live stock indus
try and the housewife. There Is
scarcely a corner of a citizen s life that
it does not enter. Beet sugar manufac
ture had its beginning in Colorado
over in Croud Junction in HHM). and in
twenty-one years has reached its pres
ent enormous dimensions.
Astute average of nineteen hushels
per acre is the preliminary estimated
yield of spring wheat in Colorado this
year, which indicates u crop of 5,770.-
000 hushels. This, added to the esti
mated winter wheat crop, makes n to
tal wheat crop for the state of SO.
270.000 hushels, compared with a ten
tative estimate of 25,407,000 bushels
for last year. The Census Bureau re
ported 18,201,000 hushels for 1910.
Present estimates indicate this to he
tlie record crop of the state.
There are 272,000 dairy cattle in
Colorado and the dairy products ag
gregate $27,750,007 in value annually.
These products are butter, ice cream,
cheese, condensed milk, milk, cream,
malted milk and other manufactured
products. If you make it a point to
buy Colorado dairy products you arc
doing your hit in the upbuilding of one
of the state’s most promising indus
tries. •
A $2.10,000 bond issue Inis been au
thorized by the stockholders of tlie
Beaver Laud and Water Company fot
(lie construction of a new dam south
west of Colorado Springs to replace
the Slmeffer dam washed out hy 1 lie
flood last June. The new dam will
make possible the irrigation of 2.00<
additional acres in tlie Beaver Park
country.
Adams county tax collections for th<
month of September this year were
more than 50 per cent in excess of tin
collections for Septeinher, 1920. ac
cording to the county treasurer. The
1921 figure was 884,000, as against
$22,000 for 1920. This indicates an im
provement in general conditions.
There are 59,934 farms with 24,402,
014 acres in Colorado, and the vnlut
of farm property is $1,070,794,749, am
the average size of the farms is 40>
acres. Now the question: Are you do
ing your share in buying tin* products
of these farms to make them prosper
ous? That’s real home industry.
Mrs. .7. L. Leroy, 5.1 years old, wn.‘
killed instantly at Florence when rur
over by a freight train. The engineet
of the train says that he saw hei
standing by the side of the track ueai
some huslie* as his engine npproachec
the place. When it was almost at tin
point she either fell or threw herseli
before the engine. There was no (mil
cation of any purpose on her parr. Ik
said, previous to the act, hut the tralr
was so close to her Hint no action win
possible on ills part.
Sight of a man's hand sticking on
of the ground led to u frantic, thong)
unsuccessful, attempt to save the lift
of .7. C. Crain. (K), a teamster, who was
buried beneath a snml slide In n grav
el pit near Colorado Springs. Polie<
officers and street department em
ploy4s dug Crain’s body out of the pit
hut his pulse, which lmd been flutter
ing feebly in his hand when he wot
discovered, lmd stopped.
Colorudo is one of the leading pro
during states in alfalfa meal, then
being several large mills scattered ir
the agricultural districts of the state
Those familiar with tills product de
clpre that Colorudo alfalfa makes tin
finest meal of any alfalfa grown ir
the country.
Colorado lins contributed more gold
to the world than any other state It
the Union, and there are many gold
producing countries Hint have not con
trlbuted ns much, tip to Jan. 1 J 921
the total value of the gold output nl
Colorado was *851,330,806. It was gold
that created the West, and this gold
came from Colorado.
Mrs. Adrinnnn Hungerford of Den
ver was elected president of the Colo
rado W. C. T. U. at the annual con
ventlon at Colorado Springs. This it
the eighteenth successive time she hei
been chosen.
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powder. The process is said to be an
adaptation of the well-known spray
method of reducing milk to powdered
form.
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A bath with Cuticura Soap and hot
water to thoroughly cleanse the pores,
followed by a dusting with Cuticura
Talcum powder usually means a clear,
sweet, healthy skin.—Advertisement.
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one.
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An Opportunity.
*'l never saw the equal of tli
Jagsbys next door,” said Mr. B
bles. ‘‘They are always wanting
borrow something. I honestly I
lieve we’ve lent them everythin!
the house except the piano and«
twin beds.”
“I’m sorry you are so wrought
said Mrs. Kibbles. “Mr. Jngsbyil
just sent over to know if—"
‘‘Don’t say it! Don’t say It!"
‘‘lf you have a few empty hotfl
you could spare, pint or quart si*
“Out of the way, woman! NIB
them over myself.”— Birmingham if
Herald.
A Puzzling Case.
n r u*.*. i > l ' a '
North—“ How is Dohhs getting**®
with his wife?” West—“l cant dw
whether he needs sympathy or
vice.”
When the contracting parties ol
In their efforts to make marriage
success it is seldom a failure.