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THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OP PAMINO EVENTS IN THIS AND PON. EION COUNTRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES DOiNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE. WESTERN The club house of the Montana Country Club burned a few days ago. The loss will be at least SIO,OOO. The cause of the fire is unknown. The building, which is on the golf links, ten miles from Helena, was built only two years ago. W. G. McAdoo of Los Angeles, for mer secretary of the treasury, was ar rested In Tulare county, Calif., and cited to appear before Judge J. 8. Clack of Fresno to answer to a charge of speeding at the rate of fifty-one miles an hour. Burned to death in a straw pile was the fate which overtook Grover Bed ells, 2-year-old son of John Bedells of Hysham, near Billings, Mont The lit tle fellow was with two brothers, aged D and 7, playing house In a fifteen-foot tunnel they had made into the straw pile. Theodore Schlierman of Nowata. Okla., former mayor of Liberty, Kan., filed suit for $30,000 damages In Fed eral Court at Fort Scott against the city of Liberty and the Coffeyville Ku Klux Klan organization. The suit is the result of the flogging of SchUer man by a masked band recently. Construction of freight and passen ger cars to cost $12,000,000 has been authorized by the Southern Pacific Company. It has been announced by its president, William Sproule. The equip ment, Including freight cars and 141 passenger cars. Is for use an the company's Pacific system lines. Signing of the Colorado River treaty allocating the waters of the Colorado River among the seven states of Wyo ming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California, was denounced by Director Mark Bose of the Imperial Valley Irrigation district as the “worst thing that could happen to the Imperial Valley." Members o. the Colorado River Com mission, through Commissioner Delph E. Carpenter of Colorado and Col. J. C. Scrugham, Nevada commissioner, paid a high tribute at the final meet ing of the commission at Bishop Lodge in Santa F 4, t-< the work of Chairman Herbert Hoover and Executive Secre tary Clarence C. Stetson in bringing about the final signing of the seven state river compact. WASHINGTON Representative James R. Mann of Illinois died at his home in Chicago a few days ago of pneumonia. Former Representative Bartholdt of Missouri called on President Harding to urge that Congress make available a credit of $50,000,000 for Germany to he used in the purchase by that coun try of goods in tlie United States. There was no Indication of how the President received the proposal. Another move ugainst the Ku Klux Klan was made In the House when Representative Hawes, Democrat, Mis souri, introduced a bill to prevent the klan from sending unsigned communi cations through the muil. Huwes led the fight against the Ku Klux Klan 'a Missouri during the last campaign. A Senate debate on the recent utter ances of former Premier Clemenceau of France took a sensational turn when a negro wearing the uniform e£ the United States army interrupted from the gallery a speech by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Demo crat of ths .’o reign relations commit tee, regarding alleged atrocities by black French troops in Germany. New York and New Jersey cities are being flooded with liquor from the Ba hamas, Scotland and England, accord ing to Frank J. Hale, an investigator for the prohibition department In New York City. Ho declared that a steam ship had cleared from Scotland recent ly with 24,000 cases of whisky bound for the “whisky armada camping ground," tear miles off the American coast. Senator La Follette, Republican, Wisconsin, -declared in a statement In Washington that reports emanating from Phoenix, Ariz., concerning a tel ephone conversation with Governor Hunt, were “absolutely without foun dation In fact" and “misleading In ev ery detail." He had made no mention of “a third political party" in his con versation with the governor, Mr. La Follette said. Preventative methods, fresh air, wholesome food and rest—long advo cated by health authorities as the best means to combat tuberculosis —are get ting results. Mortality statistics for 1921, Just completed by the census bu reau, show the trend of the tubercu losis death rate is downward. In the United States deaths from this disease in 1921 were 15,000 fewer than In 1920. and there has been a steady decline in tuberculosis for several years. The death rate among white persons is much lower than among the colored population. FOREIGN Tb« Boom of Commons without fl vision possod «h« second reading eC the Irish ecroetfeetWai Mil, «*t*r s de bote In o single Hitting without strik ing Incidents, Six former cabinet officers and armj officials convicted of high treason in connection with the Greek military dis aster In Asia Minor were executed at Athena. The execution of the con demned men wae by shooting. The rate of exchange on shipments of freight between Canada and the United States from Dec. 1 to Dec. 14, inclusive, will be 1-32 of 1 per cent. It has been announced officially. No sur charge will be collected on Interna tional traffic. Lord Curzon, the British foreign sec retary, recently authorized an official statement tJ the press that England supports the American “open door* policy In Turkey and regards the San Kemo agreement for division of the Mosul oil district as null and void. At least four persons were killed and a dozen injured when the police used machine guns against a bond of demonstrators who attempted to In vade the city hall In Mexico City In protest agulnst the alleged negligence of the aldermen In connection with the water famine In the city. Mias Mary MacSwlney, who has been hunger striking In Mount Joy prison, has been released. Her release came on the twenty-third day of her strike- She had refused to take food since her arrest, when she was seized during e raid on a house In Aylesbury road by nationalist troops who were seeking Kamonn de Valera. At the opening of the disarmament conference in Moscow, Maxim Litvin off, Russian assistant commissioner of foreign affairs, definitely proposed a reduction of the Ited army to 200,000 men. He made this conditional, how ever, on “a corresponding reduction In the standing armies of the btales on Russia’s western boundaries.** William T. Cosgrove, president of the Dali Elreann, said that the execu tion of Erekine Childers was Inevita ble, and added: “I fear there wdl bo many more. We do not want these executions, and would give anything to avoid *hp»n, but there is no ©the.* course of opinion. The only people who can stop them are the Irregulars ' themselves." The American doughboys In the Rhineland are making up a puree of many million of marks with which to give to German youngsters a real Christmas. The Rhineland post of vet -1 erans of foreign wars started the purse ! with 300,000 marks and every soldier in the American forces is giving at least the equivalent of sl, which Is more than 8,000 marks. Top sergeants are entrusted with the task of seeing that none of the soldiers forget to con tribute. Relief work ulready has be gun among the German poor. GENERAL More than 1,000 reserve, National guard and regular army officers gath ered recently at Baltimore and effected the organization of the third zone of the army of the United States and pledged themselves to the principle of ‘‘one army.” More than 200 miners employed by the George’s Creek Coal Mining Com pany at Lonaconing, Mich., went on strike in sympathy with fifteen labor ers who quit work ufter a disagree ment with employers following u wage dispute. The miners struck despite the advice of Francis J. Drum, president of District No. 10, United Mine Work ers of America. A plan for direct action by France as a solution of the reparations ques tion bus been submitted to u full cab inet meeting in the Elysee pulace, with President Millerand presiding. The plan provides for seizure of the state coal mines and collection of the ex port tuxes In the Ruhr district, togeth er with absolute control of thut sec tion of the Rhine. President Obregon Is expected to is sue a decree at once lifting the import duty on beans, com, wheat and other cereals into Mexico, according to a telegram received at El Paso from Chi huahua City. Mitm Anna Lentz, who lives on a farm near Chilton, Wls., confessed she had mailed the poisoned can dy which caused the death of Mrs. Frank Schneider, a mother of eight children. She has been arraigned on a of murder. The oonfession was made «nd signed before Federal Postal Inspector Niles of Fond Du Lac. Byron Ernest Thady, 20 years old, switchboard man, wus awarded the Theodore N. Vail gold medal for note worthy public service and SSOO in cash for unusual service during the flood at Pueblo, Colo., June 3, 1921. Mrs. Jo sephine D. Pryor, chief operator at Pueblo, wus awarded a silver medal and $250 for unusual service during the 1921 flood. Thady maintained commu nication while the rising river waters poured iflto the telephone building. When the lights failed, he improvised lumps so that the operators could re main at work. He also saved records essential to re-estublislilng service. Seven of the fifteen convicts who escaped from the stute prison at Mar quette, Mich., have been captured, ac cording to prison officials directing the search. Three of the convicts were found hiding In an abandoned brewery four miles from the prison, and four were trapped In the bold of a tug beached at Portage lake. Four months on the chain gang "Is the minimum sentence militant mem- | here of the I. W. W. may expect if they are caught in Calexico, Culif., un der any pretext whatever," according to Police Judge Murly. mrnYEHWB WILLS RECORD CRISP COLORADO NEWS Trinidad. —Tlie city council of Trin ldud has authorized a bond issue of $338,000 for the improvement and ex tension of the city’s water works. Keenesburg.—Fire recently destroyed the store building of the Superior Al falfa Milling Company at Keenesburg, near Sterling. The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO. Denver. —Eugene Uockldll, 21 years old, committed suicide recently be cause Malvina F. Fletcher, 20 years old, would not marry him in spite of purental objections. Castle Rock.—Mrs. R. H. Lindsey, motlier-in-luw of Senator Walter F. O’Brien of Leadville, died on a Rio Grande Western train shortly before the train reached Castle Rock a few Greeley.—William Nelson Fashhaugh, vice president of the Western Union Telegraph system, died at the Greeley hospital of peritonitis. Mr. Fashhaugh had undergone un operation for the disease. Denver. —K. Fageymun, CO years old, a farmer living at Fort Lupton, report ed to Patrolman Walter Padgett that while he was standing near Twentieth and Larimer streets an unidentified mun robbed Idm of his purse that con tained more than sl7. Nucla.—When ids brother-in-law, Will Delpldne, fired at a coyote at Coal cation the bullet went wild, strik ing Richard Williams of Nucla in the head, killing him almost instantly. Del phine is prostruted by the accident. Williams, who was 31 years old, is sur vived by ids widow, ids father, E. C. Williams of Grand Junction, a brother and a sister. Denver. —Effective over the Burling ton, the Northern Pacific und the Great Northern lines, special summer rates to tourists bound for Colorado, the Rocky Mountain parks, Glacier Na tional park, Yellowstone park and to Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, will be offered uguln next summer, F. W. Johnson, city passenger agent of the Burlington, announced here recently. Denver. —A charge of high explosive, believed to be dynumlte, wrecked the front purt of the home of C. Balistreri, 4002 Navajo street, in what police be lieve to be a bombing plot. In addi tion to tearing off the front porch of Ballstreri's home and blowing out all the windows, the explosion blew out windows and transoms in houses near by and rocked the entire Italian dis trict of North Denver. Denver. —A drop of $30,000 a gram in the wholesale price of radium was made known with the closing, on ac count of the decrease of Its carnotite properties in Paradox valley in west ern Montrose county by the Stundard Chemical Company. Officials of the company, which is said to be the larg est of its kind In the world, said that 300 men had been thrown out of work by the decline in price. Charles Martello, a driver for the Motor Trading und Trunsit Company of Denver, was instanily killed at Larkspur when the motor truck which he was driving from Denver to Colo rado Springs was struck by a north bound Colorado & Southern train. The truck was demolished and Martello’s body budly mutilated. The accident huppened on the grade crossing on the main street of the town. Trinidad.—Ernest Hobbs, a coal miner of Walsenburg, one of four per sons seriously injured when two auto mobiles crushed on the North and South liighway near Trinidad, died at the hospital. Hobbs sustained a frac ture of the skull and other injuries. John Gonzales, one of the Injured, is in u critical condition with a fractured skull, ulso Ernest Hill. The fourth person in the crush was Miss Iva Sein lar, less seriously injured. Greeley.—Dr. J. G. Crabbe, president of the State Teachers’ College, Ims been elected a member of the national board of directors of the Camp Fire Girls. Canon City.—The southern Colorado older boys’ conference, attended by nearly 200 boys from various cities and towns in southern Colorado closed at Cufion City a few days ago. Among the placed represented by groups of delegates ure Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Las Animas, Rocky Ford, Manzanola, Ordwuy, Trinidad, Salida, Walsenburg, Primero, Berwind, Flor ence, Rockvule und Penrose. Colorado Springs und Pueblo each have thirty delegates, und Walsenburg twenty. Boulder. —Growers of corn übout Longmont are expected to have one of the largest displays at the annual seed show hi Boulder to open Dec. 8 under the auspices of the Boulder county furm bureau at its unnual conference. The Longmonters have made a special ty of Minnesota No. 13, one of the va rieties that is considered a leader in the corn crops of the country. So well have the Colorado men developed this variety tliut seed from Longmont is sent to all parts of the United States. Fort Lupton. —The Adwald Country Club of Fort Lupton plans to build a club house on its grounds near Fort Lupton. The members of the commit tee in charge of the plans ure: 11. B. Allsebrook, It. A. Whiteside and C. G. Philip of Fort Lupton; William Hop kins und Ben Counter of Brighton. Pueblo. —Justice of the Peace C. It. Nipps, 29 years old, just appointed and un overseas mun, sentenced a “buddy” to twenty days in juil the day before Thanksgiving and then took a nice tur key dinner to his cell when the holl 'llV ai«-iv*»d COLORADO NEWS NOTES. Pueblo.—One of the two bandits who held up and rubbed the cashier and as sistant cashier of the CosU'.a County Bank at Sun Acncio, locking t employes in the vault, und cariled away more than 53,000, wus capture . jusf across the New Mexlco-Cotorado stute line, according to advices to the Pueblo Chieftain. The bandit, w-hose name was given as Charles Jordan, said his companion, whom he named, and he lmd agreed to divide t'« « ,„d separate, as the posse was so ctose upon them, that escape together «« Impossible. In dividing the niont}. Jordan took what he believed "as ha but when he was captured It was found be had 370 one-dollar bills only a sn a I portion of the loot. The share the oth er mnn has, according to officers, ex ceeds $3,000. Denver.—Three executive appoint ments. to fill vacancies In fate of fices, have been made by Wt™" slmup. Henry Phibbs of Craig was appointed commissioner of Mollu county to fill the vacancy occasioned bv the resignation of Walter 11. Duff. Allison Stocker of Denver, former state treasurer, was appointed to mi a vacancy on the Colorado State Board of Immigration, occasioned by the res ignation «»f Thomas B. Stearns His term will expire April 1, 1020. Miss El len Perdue, 1530 Milwaukee street, was appointed a member of the Colorado State Board of Nurse Examiners, to fill a vacancy on the board through the death of Miss Bertha Erdman. This term will expire May 1, 1024. Cafion City—Following the receipt of an unonymous letter threatening his life for attempting to thwart the rob bery of a jewelry store at Cafion City. Carl M. Menzel, IS years old, was slugged und seriously beaten by uni dentified assailants. Menzel Is in the Cafion City hospital. The entire town is wrought up over the affair, which is the culmination to a series of robber ies und thefts committed in the city during the last three weeks. Several indignation meetings were held among the citizens und officials in an effort to bring to a close the reign of crimi nality. A reward of SI,OOO was raised for the upprehension of the youth s us suilants. Fort Collins.—Farmers’ week at the Agricultural College in Fort Collins, Dec. 11 to 15, will mark the thirteenth unnual session of the Colorado Farm ers’ Congress, the annual convention of the Colorado Iturul Life Association und the annual session of the Colorado Stute Farm Bureau. The Stute Cream ery Men’s Association aiso Is booked to meet during the week, which will witness the gathering of farmers und their families from all parts of the state for the purpose of gaining infor mation on the technical side of farm ing, hearing addresses and participat ing in discussions of rural problems, economic, political and social. Golden. —Four dynamite blasts in rapid succession at daylight rocked the town of Golden and told students of the Colorado School of Mines that an attempt had been made to wreck the huge *’M” high on the side of Mount Zion. The blast was heard for miles and a few minutes afterward the Mines’ campus was one of warlike ap pearance. Automobiles were dis patched to every road in the belief that students of a rival school could be headed off. The perpetrators ol the dynamiting have not been found. Denver.—“ Avoid Accidents! Life and Limb Cannot Be Replaced!” is the slogan adopted by the express forces of Denver, which have enlisted in a national campaign to contribute to public safety in the operation of ex press vehicles, It was stated by J. C. North, general agent for the American Railway Express Company. Puonia. —Messrs. J. C. Stehley und Guy C. Sperry plan to establish a summer resort at Somerset, near Pa onla. They recently purchased 04C acres of land and will erect a residence and hotel on the property. Brighton. Threats of violence against John Jones und Fred Murchi son, negroes who have confessed to the brutal murder of George E. Miller, white, at u lonely spot on the outskirts of Denver, were made by citizens of Brighton following an inquest held in Retreat Park over Miller’s body. As a result of the threats it wus decided to keep the two negroes In the Denver Jail pending their trial, rather than move them to Brighton, where less protection could be afforded. Moffat.—The parting of a drill stem of the rotary by which the Vulley uil Company is putting down its well three miles from Hooper in the Sun i.uis valley, has left thousands of ex cited men and women in a state of sus pense. Oil is oozing up through the mud with which the well is filled, and gas is issuing forth, and there is a fish ing Job to be waited on before anyone cun tell the extent of the discovery. Denver.—To take charge of the smallpox situation in Denver und take every possible means to stamp out the disease in this city, Past Assistant Sur geon General Perrin of the United States bureau of public health bus been sent here from Washington. Fort Collins.—Santa Claus when he visits Fort Collins this Christmas will find a new city ordinance which ef fects his business. The city council at its last meeting passed an ordinance providing that no tree can be sold in the city for a Christmas tree without a tag attached bearing evidence that it was cut with proper permission or au thority. Aspen.—Nelson Robison, l-| years old, was killed by dis charge of a small rifle •which his com panion, Floyd Herman, 14, wus hand ing to him. POSTAL DEFICIT IS CUT, SAYS WORK t-EAR'S BUSINESS GROWB MORE THAN $21,000,000 WHILE OUT LAY IS REDUCED. U. S. PLANS OWNERSHIP POSTMASTER GENERAL ADVO. CATES POLICY FOR GOVERN MENT TO OWN BUILDINGS. Washington. Fostnmsler General Hubert Work bus Just given an ac counting to the people for his first year as the heart of the government's biggest and most important single bus iness institution— postofflee depart uient. A survey for the year shows that the postal service has been maintained on u high standard of usefulness to the people, that it has been conducted ef ficiently and economically. Postal service, due to fixed charges not con trolled by the department, is conduct ed at u loss, the cost of operation ex ceeding receipts, but for the lust year, us shown by the unnuul report Just completed, a reduction of $20,571,898 in the annual deficit lias been ob tained. While the increase in the weight and volume of mails carried and handled is represented by an increase of $21,- 362,200 in postal receipts, the expen ditures were only $780,835 In excess of those for the preceding year, and this was accomplished in a business cost ing $545,044,208 for the year. The postmaster general points out that, notwithstanding these accom plishments, the deficit is still large and without revenues increasing in greater ratio to expense it is difficult to pre dict a material reduction. The in crease in postal receipts for the year is attributed to the greatly Improved business conditions, compared with a year ago. Postmaster General Work is advo cating a policy under which the gov ernment shall build and own its own postoffice buildings where they are absolutely necessary and thus save the large amounts paid to lessors cov ering interest charges on borrowed money, high rates on investment charges, indirect payment of taxes and the profits realized by the lessors. The postal sendee is growing steadily and its requirements, according to Mr. Work, are difficult to meet with out constant recourse to enlarged quarters, which are secured on u ren tal basis at an expense much greater than that which would result from government ownership and construc tion. The postmaster general is ugainst erecting postoffices at cross road towns, but he favors building in cities where such buildings will ob tain for economy and efficiency. The postoffice Is the point of con tact between the public and the serv ice. The postmaster is the represen tative of the department on the one hand and the people on the other. At the close of the fiscal year there were 799 postoffices of the first class, 2,778 of the second class, 10,860 of the third class and 37,509 of the fourth class. The number of fourth class offices de creased by 212, due to the extension of rural delivery service which supplies a superior service to its patrons. There were 7,492 presidential post master appointments conferred during the fiscal year ending lust June. Of this number 033 were ex-service men and 1,106 were women, being a large per cent of the ex-service men and women who qualified in the civil service examinations. After Fashionable Bootleggers. Detroit.—A request that twenty ad ditional federal prohibition agents be sent to Detroit to curb the operations of “fashionable bootleggers,” catering to the Christmas trade, was forwarded to Washington by Jumes R. Davis, fed eral prohibition director for Michigan. Information has reached his depart ment, Mr. Davis said. Indicating boot leggers were planning to dispose of a large stock of liquor here during the holiday season. Introduces Dry Modification Measure. Washington. Another prohibition modification measure was Introduced by Representative O’Brien, New Jer sey, who proposed to legalize the sale of beer of less than 7 per cent alcohol by volume and other beverages of less than 15 per cent. Saloons would be burred under the bill. Co-operatistas Win Offices in Mexico. Mexico City.—The most tranquil city election in many years was held in the capital and its suburbs recently. With an extremely light vote cast the Co operatistas apparently won all the of fices, thus continuing In power . Turkey Hurls Threat. Lausnnne.—ln general the Turks do not consider the situation at the con ference hopeless and believe that fur ther negotiations are possible, but some of them went so far us to say that If a break came, Turkey was ready to continue the war, suggesting that she could make the straits un comfortable for the allies, seize the Mosul oil fields, retake Mesopotamia and perhaps get some effective help from the Moslems In India and Bgypt through a general Islam uprising. OQOTOR1H womanobe| Took Lydia E.Pinklw l B| stable Compound u Now WeB | Chicago, Illinois.—"You women one good medirin»»ij?jWI (cine and I am now a have had three children Lydia E. Pink ham babies. ommended your medicine friend3 and they sneak are certainly doing good world. "—Mrs. Adrith Wabash Ave., Chicago, There is nothing very strain the doctor directing Mrs. take Lydia E. Pinkham’a Compound. There are who do recommend it and ate its value. 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