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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 MENTB, SUFFERINGS, HOPES AND FEARS OF MANKIND. Hesters Nsvrpsper Ucloo Newt fNVtas. WESTERN Four persons were blown up and In stantly killed when z charge of pow der exploded on a dredger scow In Wil lapn harbor, near South Bend, Wash. Resisting capture at the hands of a large posse, Frank Wagner, notorious ly known as Dutch Frank, safecracker, was killed ut Columbia Bead), near Astoria, Ore. Nine officers and men flying from San Pedro to San Diego in F-5-L sea plane No. 11 were rescued from their disabled plane by a destroyer off Del Mar, 25 miles north of Sun Diego. Six nurses were seriously Injured and thirty-nine others narrowly es caped death when firo of unknown origin completely destroyed the nurses’ home nt the University of Nebraska hospital nt Omaha. Sixty thousand applications for tick ets for the Oalifomla-Ohlo State foot bull game nt I'asadenu Jan. 1 have been received by the Tournament of Roses Association. This is approxi mately 24,000 more applications than seats, and the association is experienc ing difficulties in making equitable al lotments of tickets. By a vote of 100 to 105, the House has decided to give encouragement to California grape growers by develop ing, through experiments by the agri cultural department, new uses for wine grapes. Purchase of a plot of land near Fresno and Oakville, where the experimental work now is being done, was authorised. The Southern Pacific Land Com pany, ns vendor, filed a deed nt Fres no, Calif., transferring to the Pacific Oil Company, as vendee, all its oil land holdings in Kings, Tulare and Fresno counties. The consideration was stated to be npproximuteiy $3,810,000. Tin transaction is part of the recently an nounced plan of the Southern Pacific Company to divest Itself of its oil land and oil holdings by transfer to a new corporation organized In Delaware. WASHINGTON A tax of % of 1 per cent on all bank deposits Is proposed in a bill intro duced In the House by Representative Treadway of Massachusetts. Cnpt William A. Moffett, formerly commandant of the Oreut Lakes train ing station and later commander of the battleship Mississippi of the Pa cific fleet, has been appointed director of naval aviation, It lias been an nounced by Secretary Daniels. Cap tain Moffett succeeds CapL Thomas Craven, who will be sent to sea, prob ably In command of a battleship. Authority was granted by the Inter state Commerce Commission for per manent consolidation of the transpor tation business and properties of the Adams, American, Wells Fargo & Co. and Southern Express companies into the American Railway Express Com pany. The commission said that it was their belief that the public would best be served by one consolidated company serving all lines with equal rates. Recommendations that the states assume part of the care of disabled World War veterans and for consoli dation of all federal agencies dealing with ex-service men were made by Director Cholmley-Jones of the bureau of war risk insurance. In his annual report. An example of the exploration and research work which the United States Department of Agriculture Is doing in its search for new' plants available tor cultivation In this country is fur nished by the recent 9,000-mlie explor ing trip taken by Dr. H. L. Shantz, agricultural explorer, botanist of the office of foreign seed ami plant Intro duction, with the Smithsonian African Exploration. The Anti-Saloon League will ask Attorney General Palmer to reconsider his ruling that the use of cider in the borne by its manufacturer, even after It has become intoxicating by fermen tation, Is lawful, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the League, has announced. Neither the letter nor the Implied purpose of the prohibition act Justified such a ruling, Mr. Wheeler asserted. Senate and House leaders have prac tically agreed at a conference on a program for the enactment of an emergency tariff meusure to serve as an embargo on the importation of wheat, cotton, wool, beans, potatoes and livestock and meats. Joseph Tumulty, secretary to Pres ident Wilson, lias announced that he had declined the appointment as u chief Justice of the Court of Custom Appeals, which had been offered him by the President, and that he would begin the practice of law in Washing ton after March 4. FOREIGN Rumania has asked the league of nations to send an international army to the relief of Armenia. Austria has been elected a member of the Ix*ugue of Nations by the assembly of the league at Geneva. First reports from the general elec tions held In Spain indicate a govern ment victory. Unofficial estimates are that the majority for the Monarch ist parties will be a large one. Two Russian refugee ships, bound for Bulgaria, have been held up In the Black sen by Turkish nationalist forces. The steamers were overtaken by a storm and sought shelter at the port of Zongudnk. Three thousand well-armed revolu tionaries, alleged by tlie Mexican gov ernment to he Bolsheviks, have invad ‘**l the state of Campeche from Yuca tan and are attempting to drive out the federal authorities. Japan's population, as revealed by the census recently completed. Is more than n million under the estimate. The , totr.*. number of persons In the empire j is 77,003,000, of which 55,900,000 are j in Japan and 17,284,000 In Korea. Charges of murder have been filed In court at Manila by the city i prosecutor against seventy-seven Phil ippine constabulary soldiers ns n result of the rioting in which four Americans and seven Filipinos were killed. Correspondence which has been go I ing on between Premier Lloyd George and Father Michael O'Flanagan, "vice , president of the Irish republic," In an effort to bring about a truce between i England and the Sinn Fein orguniza- j tions, apparently has been ended. Andre I/efevre, French war minister. : has resigned. His resignation resulted j from his opposition to the new mili tary service bill before the chamber of deputies, which provides for eight een months’ obligatory military sere ice. M. Lefevre had insisted upon two years' service with the colors. Tin? members of the reichstug at Berlin went on rations of black bread without butter, and coffee without su gnr or milk when the managers and employes of the reichstng restaurant refused to serve the forbidden foods, "In view of the government's apparent intention to continue raiding hotels to compel them to obey the rationing reg ulations.’' The hotel proprietors have closed the restaurants in virtually all the principal hostelries ns u protest against the government insisting on obedience to these regulations. GENERAL Robbers stole from SO,(XX) to $15,000 in “overflow" deposits from the Indi ana National bank at Indianapolis. The deposits had been placed in the hook vault, which was rifled. The robbers entered through a skylight. Twenty-five individual plumbers and twenty-sqven plumbing firms, members of the Master Plumbers* Association, were charged In a blanket indictment reported to Justice McAvoy In New j York with violation of the anti-trust law. Federal grand Jury indictments against sixteen officials of the Dan- J iel Huyes Company of Idaho, charging conspiracy to use the malls to defraud, were announced at Chicago. The In dictments were returned Oct. 24, but were kept secret until they had been served. According to federal officials, officials of the company sold from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 worth of Call fornla land which they are alleged to have misrepresented. Criminal carelessness upon the part of Capt. George IL Ilart, master of the United States steam launch Mar garet, that sank in the Ohio river, was responsible for the tragedy,, ac cording to the verdict returned by the coroner’s Jury, following the recovery of the body of one of the eleven vic tims. Captain Ilart, his daughter and the latter’s husband were drowned, having been trapped with three others In the upper cabin. Stockyards’ workers in Chicago will abide by the recent wage decision of Judge Samuel Alschuler, federal medi ator, It has been announced by George Youstru, secretary of the stockyards labor council. A muss meeting called to protest against the award, which denied most of the wage increases asked by the employes, was attended by less than 100 workers. The National League, at Its animal meeting, extended for three years the term of President John A. Heydler and granted to him a substantial In crease In salary. President Heydler's present salary Is SIO,OOO a year and the Increuse, while It wus not of ficially stated. Is said to have been 50 per cent. The additional years will make his terra expire Dec. 31, 1924. Tw’enty-nine cut stone contractors Indicted for violation of the Donnelly stute anti-trust act pleaded guilty be fore Justice John B. McAvoy hi the eriminul brunch of the Supreme Court in New York. Twenty-seven of the contractors having corporations were fined $2,500 us individuals, with a $2,- 500 fine for each corporation. Two contractors not having corporations were fined $5,000 each. Reversal to war methods in fighting high food prices was adopted in Chi cago when Russell J. Poole, secretary of the fair price committee of the city council, announced that "fair price” quotations for meats will be Issued dally by the council committee. Population of the United States on Jan. 1 this year, as enumerated in the fourteenth census was 105,708,771, as announced by the census bureau for certification to Congress as the basis for reapportionment of the members of the House of Representatives from the various states. ELBERT COUNTY TRIBUNE: ELBERT COUNTY BANNER Pithy News Notes From All Parts of Colorado Western Nnrspsper Union New* Benin-. The Western States Sugar Company plans to build a factory in Durango. A new $90,000 consolidated high school building bus been dedicated at Del Norte. The Western Concrete Products Company pluns to erect a four-unit system plant in Sterling. The citizens of Boulder will vote on a $50,000 bond issue for the construc tion of a bridge over Boulder creek on Feb. 4. Montrose merchants rejoiced when It was announced that dally express service t»etween Denver and Montrose was assured. Final arrangements for putting the recently adopted “two-platoon” system for firemen into effect in Denver on Jan. 1, 1921, have been reached. John Colbert and Allen Fossen were killed when an automobile, in which the two were riding, was struck by a Rock Island train at the Byers dep.»t railroad crossing. Permission to substitute tri-weekly for dally passenger sere-ice from Jan. 3 to April 1 has been grunted the Mof fat road by the Colorado Public Utili ties Commission. At n meeting of the board of educa tion of the Colorado Agricultural Col lege plans were made public for two new buildings to be built In the near future on the campus. Up to the present time Olathe has shipped 850 big carloads of potatoes this year. There are still 150 cars of spuds to be shipped. This will make the total crop for 1920 1,006 cars. Henry F. Southard, formerly over seas war veteran, Is In Jail in Durango on a charge of obtaining $11,700 under false pretenses from the Durango Trust Company about a year ago. The 1922 convention of the Western Surgical Association will be held In Colorado Springs, Dr. L. H. McKinnie reported on his return to Colorado Springs from the convention held at lajs Angeles. The Blende plant of the United States Zinc Company at Pueblo Is be ing converted from a smelter plant to a zinc oxide plant and already one unit bus been completed at an Initial cost of about SIO,OOO. It bns been decided by the American Legion Post of Fort Morgan to pre pare at once for a huge Fourth of July celebration to last the entire week of the Fourth, and to bring many national celebrities to Fort Mor gan for the festivities. Blood was transfused from the body of Isaac Pettinglll of Norwood, who volunteered to do this so as to pro long the life of W. F. Hallett of Mont rose, an ex-service man who con tracted pernicious anaemia during his service In French trenches. Almost 2,500 gallons of sacramental wines have been used by various Churches over the state for commun ion services during the past nine months, according to datu compiled by- Frank J. Medina, federal prohibition director for Colorado. A rehabilitation training school Tor disabled soldiers will be established in Pueblo by the United States govern ment ns soon as suitable quarters can be found, according to a statement Issued by W. H. Logan, supervisor of vocational education at Pueblo. It has been announced nt the state house that no New Year reception will be given by Gov. and Mrs. Shoup. However, plans now are under way for a reception or banquet to the members of the General Assembly, which will be held the second week in Jnnuary. Motorists have been warned not to try to make it over Tennessee pass any more this year, as the recent Snow' has piled up more than tw*o feet of snow on a level. Jesse J. Hlttle, well-known rancher of the Plateau valley, thirty miles east of Grand Junction in Mesa county, has been bound over to the District Court by Justice of the Peace It. C. Phipps on the charge of killing a calf which did not belong to him. He has been released on bond. Although the aggregate production of nil crops in Colorado in 1920 was by far the largest In the history of the state, their value will be consider ably less than that of last year’s crops, as a result of the heavy decline In prices of farm products that has occurred In the past four months. A denial of the motion of Attorney la. W. Jordan, attorney for Antonio Cozcorrazo and Tont Repolado for the return of contraband liquor and mash seized In a raid of officers on the Spanish pool hall several weeks ago, was announced In County Court at Grand Junction by Judge N. C. Miller. Beet growers of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Montana in January will present to the sugar manufacturers n contract calling for a fifty-fifty divi sion. the growers to be paid half of whatever sugar may bring on the mar ket. This Is the decision of the an nual convention of the Mountain States Beet Growers’ Association which was held in Denver. S. E. Ijind, superintendent of the state fish hatcheries, arrived at Steam boat Springs a few days ago with 640,000 eastern brook trout eggs for the new fish hatchery there. CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS. The Colorado State Editorial Asso ciation will on Jan. 22, 1921, Join hands with the Denver Press Club in staging [at the Denver Auditorium, during i Stock Show week, a “Cowboy Stam- I pede." Extensive preparaUon is being ! made for one of the biggest times ever ' pulled off in the West. Excellent vau i deville acts for an hour and a half will : entertain the crowd, after which the ; great Auditorium floor will be given over to dancing. The Editorial Asso ciation holds Its annual gathering in j Denver, Jun. 21 and 22, and this splen did feature is booked to close the ses* sion. Held ns It will be during the week of Denver’s big Mock Show, the attendance will be large. It Is expect ed that every publisher In Colorado ! will attend. Charged with picking up his two year-old daughter and throwing her ucross the floor nt his wife after the , couple had quarreled over his alleged ' previous inhumane treatment of the child, Arthur Christiansen, formerly a Denver photographer, was taken into custody by Undersheriff Robert Mc -1 Naranra of Littleton. He was later transferred to the Denver city Jail by State Humane Officer Harry Richter and is being held pending the outcome j of the Injuries alleged to have been in i fllcted upon his daughter. Grant McFersou, state bank conimis- I sb»r.er, s<?nt examiners to Tlmnath and Kirk to take charge of the Fanners’ | Bank of Tlmnath and the State Bunk at Kirk, which have closed their doors. The hank commissioner’s records show that the Farmers’ Bank of Tlmnath had a capitalization of $30,000, surplus of $30,000, undivided profits of <510,- 000. and deposits of $205,000. The Kirk State Bank had a capital of SIO,OOO, surplrs of $3,000, undivided profits of $5,000, nnd deposits of $60,000. Benjamin O. Cook, former Salida rooming house proprietor, convicted of the murder of Charles Cope, a business rival, has been pardoned by Acting Governor George Stephan. Cook was sentenced to serve from twenty to twenty-four years for the crime. He would have served his maximum sen tence by Jan. 9, 1922. Finding of new facts tending to show that Cook had acted in self-defense was given by Gov ernor Stephan as his reason for grant ing the prisoner his freedom. Nearly a score of deputy sheriffs, heavily nrmed with machine guns, have been placed on the Colorado-Utah line to be In readiness for an emer gency that may arise in the sheep war that Is menacing the western slope. Cattlemen all over the White river district are suld to be up in arms be cause of the strict quarantine that has been placed, holding nearly 40,000 head of sheep near the line pending investigations by the authorities. Another Industry has been added to the long list of new factories which have been started In Delta during 1920. This will he a concrete products factory, being a combination of the Uncompaligre Valley Cement State Silo Company nnd other interests. The company expects to spend SOO,OOO In the erection of a suitable plant In similar to the one they recently erected at Rocky Ford. The demoralized condition of the su gar market has caused construction of three sugar factories In the mountain states district to he discontinued. The Great Western Sugar Company an nounced that work on their new plants at Johnstown, Colo., and ut Mi nature. Neb., bus been stopped. The Industrial Sugar Company Is holding up building at their new factory in I*n Salle. The central offices of the Mountain Stntes Beet Growers’ Association are to be located In Greeley Instead of at Longmont. Directors of the organiza tion have elected George M. Houston secretary and treasurer of the organ ization in place of James H. Golden of Longmont. Inquiries received by the State Board of Immigration during the past twelve months showed some decrease in the interest of people from other states In Colorado lands and business opportunities, as compared with the preceding two years, though the Inter est is still considerable and indications point to a reasonably good movement to the state In 1021. While guards from the state hospi tal for the insane were searching the countryside for her, Mrs. Andrla Da vick, 47 years old, died of exposure in a vacant shack on the Beulah road, seven miles west of Pueblo. City Manager E. P. McDaniel re ported to the city council of Montrose that It would take approximately $39,637 to pay the expenses of the city government of Montrose during 1921. Fifteen hundred farmers and stock growers of the Uncompnhgre vallev are expected to attend the farme.V conference to be held nt Montrose on Feb. 4. Jesse Duree, charged with robbing the bank at Parker, Colo., last March, wus acquitted by a Jury at Castle Rock. The Colorado Sheriffs' Association will hold their annual convention Jan. 21 and 22, according to notices that have been sent out over the state re cently by Undersheriff Merle E. Gil bert, secretary and treasurer of the or ganization. The place of the conven tion is designated as the Albany hotel, Denver. | Representatives from eighteen West ern slates, who are to have charge of the campaign for funds In the Europ ean relief council drive, headed by Herbert Hoover, held an organization j conference nt Colorado Snrln;^ COMMONS PASS HOME RULE LAW MEASURE TO BE EFFECTIVE AT DISCRETION OF BRIT ISH GOVERNMENT. MODIFIED BILL ADOPTED CRITICS ASSERT IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY SOUTH IRELAND. Western New*paper Unioo News Herrlcr. London, Dec. 21.— The Irish home ; rule bill, as slightly modified by the | House of Lords, lias been adopted by the House of Commons. The meusure now needs only the royal signature to become a law. The measure will be effective at the discretion of the government at any time within three and one-half years. The government reserves the privilege of applying the law when the oppor tune moment arrives. The home rule bill as It finally emerged from parliament ready for the royal assent Is not fundamentally different from the measure the gov ernment first presented. Months of dis cussion and efforts to amend in both bouse resulted in certain safeguards being added, which its adherents be lieve will make it more acceptable to the Irish people. The bill’s critics argue that the events of the past few months have not served to change the Sinn Fein attitude that they will not set up the government suggested by the Imperial parliament. The bill as presented did not pro vide an alternative If either Ulster or the south, or both, declined to accept It, but it has been amended to the effect that If either does not accept it within three and a half years, the measure automatically dies, so far as the section refusing to accept it Is concerned. In the meantime either section de clining to accept can be ruled as a crown colony. The limit of three and a half years was adopted because by that time there must be an election and a new of Commons. The bill now provides that there shall be set up by popular elections two parliaments, one for Ulster and one for the South. Each parliament shnll decide upou the method of select ing senates. The connecting link be tween them will be the Irish council of forty, tweuty for each section. Each senate will select seven of Its council members and each parliament thir teen. The original bill provided that the president of the council should be the lord chancellor of Ireland, but as amended he will be appointed by the lord lieutenant on the advice of the crown, which means that the govern ment in power can put anyone at the head of the Irish legislative body It pleases. The idea expressed by minis ters explaining the bill is that the council will form a bridge upon which In time the two parliaments can get together and form one body for the en tire country. The measure provides that when that is done the powers of police, fi nance and other branches of the gov ernment will be turned over. The im perial government will keep a pretty firm hand on the fundamentals of the Irish government during the life of the two parliaments, but holds out many attractions for a united parlia ment that Its sponsors hope will coun teract the prejudices that always have existed betweeu the North and South. The changes made in the powers of the parliaments as set forth In the bill when It was introduced are Incon sequential. Its critics, however, still maintain that it will not be accepted by South Ireland, and In this connection It Is re called that Arthur Griffith, Sinn Fein leader, said some weeks after the bill was Introduced that there probably were not ten influential men In Ireland who had even taken the trouM.- to read it. Must Provide for Workers. Topeka, Kan. —Flour mills In Kansas which have curtailed production must take care of faithful and skilled men during the period of Industrial depres sion so that these employes may pro vide a living for their families, the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations has ruled. The court held the mills had the right to curtail production be cause of market conditions over which they have no control. Fighting Rages in Tipperary. Dublin. —Troop reinforcements were rushed to the mountains of Tipperary where eighteen persons were killed and many were wounded In a pitched battle between soldiers and Sinn Feln ers. A detachment of British troops was ambushed near Mulllnahone. Sharpshooters Scour New York. New York. —Armed with repeating rifles, twenty picked sharpshooters of the New York police force scoured the city in automobiles In a hunt for ban dits. Each sharpshooter was accom panied by three detectives and a pa trolman. 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