Elbert County tribune., November 25, 1921, Image 2

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THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGREBS
OF THE AGE
( W«Utb N*»«p«t*r Idloo ttervlc* I
WESTERN
Sixteen children were Injured
when an Oregon Short Line freight
train, carrying beets, hacked Into u
motor bus conveying the children to
school at a crossing at Tremonton,
Utah.
Steve Mnsllch. Austrian, must die for
the slaying of Marco Luus, a fellow
countryman, near Suit I-ake City, Aug
ft, Ihll), the State Supreme Court held.
The decision of the lower court wus af
firmed
Mary Williams, negro woman, said to
he the oldest negress In Texas, died at
San Antonio, aged 112 years. She had
lived in Texas forty years, coming
from i/ouisiana, where for many years
she was a slnve.
An attempt to roh the mall car on
train No. 170 of the Atcheson, Topeka
A Santa Fe railway while the train ;
was standing at the station at Phoe
nix, was frustrated when Herman In
derlied of Phoenix, mail clerk In
charge of the car, overpowered the
would-be robber.
Mexico will be represented by u com
mission at the meeting of the league
of the Southwest at Klverslde, Calif.,
in December, it was announced by Ar
nold Kruckmnn, secretary of the
league. He said he had received u let
ter from <ien. Alvaro Obregon, prcsl
dent of Mexico, to this effect.
Adolph Louie, a groceryman in Sioux
City, lowa, was murdered In cold blood
In his store by a negro bandit, who
fired three shots and escaped with a
hag containing SSOO, the receipts of tin*
day’s business. Mrs. Ltinlc, who had j
Come to the store to get the money,
was threatened by a second negro, hut
was not Injured. She was the only wit
ness of the crime.
WASHINGTON
Expenditure of SS3O,(MX) to provide a
channel forty feet deep and 2.000 feet
wide through the lmr outside of Sun
Francisco harbor was recommended t• >
Congress by Major General Beach,
chief of army engineer!!. Additional
appropriations of SIOO,OOO annually for
maintenance nmo was urged.
Armament delegates have cut the red
tape of diplomacy In one regard at
least. They will dispense with the “for
mal and officinl call,’' long a sacred In
stitution. Somebody figured out that
If all the diplomats and attaches and
advisors were all to call on one anoth
er In formal fashion it would use up
more thnn 40,000 calling cards.
The new battleship Colorado,
launched last spring with Mrs. Max
Melville of Denver, daughter of Sena
tor Nicholson, as Its sponsor, Is doomed
to destruction If the American propos
al as outlined by Secretary Hughes In
his address at the opening of the dis
armament conference should he agreed
to by the other powers.
Removal of a war savings stamp
from the certificate upon Which It was
issued constitutes a crime under the
counterfeiting laws, according to the
supreme court. The question arose In
the federal District Court at New York
where the government fulled in its ef
fort to convict l’aul Sacks of purchas
ing certificates and removing the
stamps.
Machinist's Mate Colton was killed
and Lieuts. Steadlm Aker and O. D.
Spaulding were severely injured when
seaplane No. 2,100, from the naval air
station. Pensacola, Fla., went Into :t
tail spin at an altitude of 1,000 feel
and crashed off Barrancas Beach.
Construction of highways to the to
tal value of $70,400,000, covering 0,
201 miles and employing more than
150,000 workers, Is about to he under
taken by thirty states as the direct
result of the recent passage of the
federal highway act.
The proposals of the United States
for a ten-year naval holiday will have
no effect on the present status of the
American naval building program.
Secretary of the Navy Dcnby said.
The present building program will con
tlnue until some definite agreement
has been reached and there will not
he even an effort to slow down or
curtail the building operations pending
the final agreement on the matter, tin*
secretary said.
The Australian government Is reduc
ing Its expenditures for defense by ap
proximately $1,250,000, the- acting min
ister of defense announced in the
house of representatives at Melbourne.
Of $ 108,21 ft, 105.35 collected in regis
tration fees from 9,245,11)5 pnssengcr
cars and commercial vehicles, 28,114
trailers and 177.234 motorcycles, as
well as chauffeurs’ licenses In the for
ty-elght states and the District of Co
lumbia, Jan. 1 io July 1, 1921, accord
ing to the United States bureau of pub
lic roads, the sum of $ It) 1,798,41(1. or 94
per cent, Is avuilabje for good roads.
Total revenue for the year 1920 in reg
Ist ration fees was $102.540,212.25. The
revenue for the first half of this year,
therefore, exceeded the entire revenue
for 1920 by $.-.006,958.08.
FOREIGN
Vital d'Arzar, n Toulour. newspaper
man, covering the Landru trial at Ver
sailles. left the court room, telling his
comrades that the case was driving
him crazy. He went to Ids hotel and
killed himself with a revolver.
A bomb plot directed against Sophia
of Greece, who Is en route to Salonikl.
was frustrated, according to a news
dispatch from Vienna. An inspector
uttuched to the queen's party was
killed when the plot was discovered.
Dr. Amahle Jones, governor of the
province of San Juan, was assassinat
ed by men armed with rifles ut Buenos
Aires as he was alighting from an au
tomobile. A friend who was with him
also was killed. The assassination is
attributed to politics.
Hungary has decided to send a fi
nancial mission to tin* United States
to raise a loan, says the Innsbruck
Nachlichten. Count Lazzln Sxechenyl,
whose wife was formerly Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt of New York, the paper
ndds, will he head of the mission.
Canadinn customs officials ure In
vestigating reports that more than
17,000 automobiles stolen In the United
States have been smuggled Into Can
ada and sold In cities from Winnipeg
to the Pacific ('oast. Farmers are said
to have bought hundreds of the stolen
cars.
A member of the Russian social rev
olutionary party fired two shots at
Foreign Minister Tchltcherln, who was
in Ids reception room at the Kremlin
in Moscow, according to authentic dis
patches. Both shots missed. The ■as
sailant anti 8.000 members of the Men
shevik party were arrested.
While a religious ceremony was In
progress at the Guadalupe cathedral,
Mexico City, a bomb was, exploded on
the altar below the linage of the Guad
alupe virgin. There were no casualties
though the church was crowded, and
no serious damage was done. The au
thor of the outrage was arrested, tho
police saving him from being lynched
Japan's governmental budget for
.next year, as unofficially reported,
carries an expenditure estimate of 1,
!03,000.001 1 yen, being a decrease of
120,000.000 from last year's budget.
The naval estimate, said to have been
decided by the budget council, carries
a reduction of about <30.000,000 yen.
The army <»stlinutes showed a reduc
tion of about 10,0041.000.
Berlin—The allied reparations coin
j mission, which arrived here from
Paris seeking first hand information,
notified the German government thut
the allies Insist that January and Feb
ruary payments on Indemnity he paid
as ordered. The payments amount to
500.000,000 gold marks, which Ger
many insists she bus been unable to
find.
GENERAL
The new electrically driven const
guard cutter Tuntpu, replacing a vessel
of the same name, torpedoed and sunk
during the war, was dedicated to the
service of snving life and property at
sea.
Although wounded, Jerry Fugle,
night watchman, shot and killed an un
identified bandit who was a member
of a gang attempting to rob the post
offlee at Montpelier, Ind. Two other
men fled In an automobile following
the shooting.
Armed men invaded Freeman Spur,
near West Frankfort, 111., shot and
killed C'hnyles Amatl, the postmaster,
held up a saloon and then were put to
flight, leaving behind one of their
companions, who was shot to death in
a fusillade that followed the saloon
holdup.
Chicago.—Scores of families in the
Garfield park district were frightened
by the explosion of a bomb in a saloon
run by Gus McCarten and John Gil
feather, former policemen. Consider
able damage was done to the building
and McCarten was cut by flying debris.
An Investigation of reports that a dis
agreement between bootleggers was re
sponsible for the bombing is being
made by police.
Although wholesale prices have
dropped 45 per cent since 1920, the re
tail cost of living has decreased only
18 per cent, said Prof. Win, Ogburn
of Columbia university before the soe
ond conference on “Christian Princi
ples In Industry," at New York.
Governor Thomas E. Campbell is
sued a proclamation of emergency, au
thorizing the boijrd of directors of
state Institutions to expend $8,750 in
repairing damage done to the cnpitol
building and grounds by the Cave
creek flood. Parties Interested in the
control of Cave creek met in the gov
ernor’s office and agreed to steps to
be taken to prevent future floods sim
lllur to that of last August.
At Watertown, Mass., Is being built
a sixteen-inch howitzer which will re
volve In a complete circle, fires at u
depression of 7 degrees to a 65-degree
elevation, and is fired by compressed
air. The rifle weighs seventy-eight
tons, shoots twenty-eight miles, using
shells weighing 2,ft40 pounds. The gun
is thirty-five feet long and the total
weight of gun carriage and all Is 252.-
348 pounds. This is the first gun of
Its kind In the country, and Is built for
coast defense.
Charles WllMson, 18 years old, a high
school student, was found hanging in
the hath room at his home by his
mother. Willison, she told police, had
gone to the bathroom two hours before
to bathe. The hoy is the third Chica
go school student who has committed
suicide by hanging In recent weeks.
Women may he ordained as deacons,
under n decision of the Presbyterian
General Assembly announced at Pres
byterian headquarters at Philadelphia.
The decision follows a vote by Presby
teries, a majority favoring the admis
sion of women to the ministry.
THE ELBERT COUNTY TRIBUNE
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
IWmtern V*wipaper I'aioo .Hoi Senlc*. )
The body of the man taken out of
Copeland lake by two farmers was
identified at Brighton us that of John
Thill, laboring man, who had been
stopping in Denver. Coroner Jones has
decided that the man probably commit
ted suicide, being “broke" and discour
aged.
Denver will have a direct highway
to the East by the opening of the 1922
tourist season, If the plans of the Kan
sas Clty-Denver Airline Association
materialize. The proposed road will
cut the distance from Kansas City to
Denver from 071 miles to approximate
ly 575 in lies.
News of the death of Herbert A.
Herrick, former managing editor of
the Denver Times was received In
Denver from Ky. Apoplexy
was the cause. Mr. Herrick was 54
years old and at the time of his death
was asslsfant city editor of the Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Senator W. S. Kenyon of lowa is
coming to Colorado. He will address
the Colorado Fanners' Congress at the
Agricultural College Dec. 7 regarding
some of the more important legisla
tion which he and his comrades of the
"Agrarian Bloc" are pushing In Con
gross for the benefit of the farmers
ami stockmen.
Automobile registration fees collect
ed by the state motor vehicle depart
ment for the last ten months exceeded
those of the entire twelve months of
1920 by more than $92,000, according
Jo data compiled by Carl S. Milllken,
secretary of state. The total amount
of money collected to date is placed
at $802,755.48.
Forty thousand license number
plates for use In Denver next year on
automobiles of the passenger type
have Just been received by Secretary
of State Milllken for distribution to
owners Dec. 20. An additional 20,000
plates which were received have been
shipped to the county clerks of El
Paso, Pueblo and Weld counties.
Denver probably will he officially
represented at the meeting to he held
Dec. 8, at Riverside, Calif., by the
League of the Southwest, when mat
ters relating to the Colorado river wa
ter rights will come up for discussion.
As the Colorado river obtains 50 per
cent of its water In Colorado, the state
•and city of Denver are vitally inter
ested.
The Arkansas valley has this year
experienced one of the most remarka
ble falls known. The temperature has
been above normal almost all of the
time, and only one day since the mid
dle of August has had any precipita
tion of moment. Seedinen state that
the weather has favored their work so
that the crop has been harvested In
the best of conditions. The sugar beet
men report the same favorable autumn.
A crop of 10,872,000 bushels is the
Nov. 1 forecast for Colorado corn, ac
cording to the report Just Issued by the
State-Federal Crop Reporting Service,
compared with the tentative estimate
of 18.940.000 bushels last year and 10,-
100,000 bushels of corn harvested In
1910 as reported by the federal census
bureau. The average yield this year Is
estimated at 12 bushels per acre, as
compared with 20.7 bushels last year.
Criminal cases in Denver increased
81 per cent during 1921 over the aver
age total number of prosecutions for
each of the four preceding years. The
annual average of the years 1917 to
1920 was 1,825 cases fifed by the dis
trict attorney’s office. In the first
nine months of 1921, 1,790 cases have
been filed. If tin* same proportion con
tinues the total for the year will he 2.-
89(5, an Increase of 1,071 over the pre
vious average.
The Denver Country Club horse
show and wild west exhibit at the
stockyards stadium has been post
poned from Nov. 20 to Dec. 17, it was
announced by Frank Harris, who is in
charge of the show.
The American State Bank nt Gran
nda, Colo., was robbed by yeggmen
who dynamited the voult and smashed
the safety deposit boxes therein. The
robbers got SSOO In money belonging
to the hank and an equal amount from
the safety deposit boxes which be
longed to customers. One hundred and
thirty-five dollars of the money the
bunk lost was In pennies. The rob
hers overlooked several thousand dol
lars In cash and bonds nt the rear of
the vault.
Weld county, Colorado, unclassified
half a century ago so far ns Its agri
cultural values were concerned, ranks
ns the twenty-sixth county of the en
tire United States In value of crops
and live stock, according to n federal
census report made public In Denver.
In a list of the fifty leading counties
of the nation. Weld holds tills position
with u total crop and live stock value
In 1919 of $28,208,475. Its crop value
alone was $21,198,860, giving It rank
ns the twenty-third county.
Three employers’ organizations have
filed notices with the State Industrial
Commission of proposed reductions In
wages. The Hidden Treasure mine at
Ouray announced a proposed reduction
in wages. Electrical contractors of
Pueblo propose to reduce wages from
$8 to $7 for an eight-hour shift, begin
ning Dec. 11. Andrew Daniel, secre
tary of the Denver Employing Photo-
Engravers, which represents six firms,
gave notice of a proposed change of
the existing contract nnd working
agreement with the local union on
Jan 2
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS
Reports of the several county asses
sors to the Statn Tax Commission
show an increase of more than 1,400,-
sX) acres In patented land In Colorado
this year as compared with 1920. This
increase Is due chiefly to the patent
ing of government homestead land and
of state Innd on which payments have
been completed. The reports for 1921.
as compiled by the State Immigration
Department, show 30,877,235 acres of
patented land. Including town nnd city
lots and railroad rights of way com
pared with 29,402,459 acres last year.
Patented land now represents 46.54
per cent of the total area of the state,
compared with 44.41 Inst year. At the
present rate of Increase of patented
land, one-half of the stnte’s area
should he on the tax rolls by the end
of 1928. Non-patented Innd in Colo
rado Is made up principally of nation
al forests, homestead land and state
land. There Is about 11,000.000 acres
of land that in not classified as to
ownership, consisting chiefly of home
stead Innd that has been filed upon
hut not yet proved up and state land
that has been sold hut not yet fully
paid for. Such laud is not Included In
either state or homestead land nnd
neither Is It Included In patented land.
It Is such Innd that Is being patented
each year, accounting for the very
large annual Inereases In the area of
land on the tax rolls.
Prosperity prevails over the western
slope today as the result of the abund
ant fruit harvest and the excellent
prices which have been received
throughout the entire marketing sea
son. Millions of dollars will come In
to western Colorado from this year’s
harvest, and while the country at large
Is experiencing dull times, this section
Is blessed with exceptional business
conditions. Up to this time, there has
been shipped a total of 7,516 carloads
of fruits and vegetables, and with the
apple shipments still heavy, It is esti
mated that the 10.000 mark will be
reached before the harvest is com
pleted.
The meeting of farmers at Fort Col
lins Dec. 6 to 9 will Include represen
tatives from all the loeal and state
agricultural, horticultural, live stock
and housewives' organizations, as well
as nine delegates at large from the
state and one from each county. Spe
cial fnre-and-a half rates have been
grunted by all railroads in the state to
those who attend the congress. The
three days' discussions will be confined
to the problems of finance, transpor
tation nnd marketing.
The preliminary estimate of the ap
ple crop of the state Is 2.990,000 bush
els or about 428,000 bushels less than
the crop of 1919, which was reported
by the census bureau ns 3,418,000 bush
els. The national crop declined slight
ly front Oct. 1 and Nov. 1 was figured
at 102,0(X),000 bushels, compared with
244,022,000 bushels In 1920. The com
mercial apple crop of the United
States dropped from 19,766,000 barrels
In October to 18,000,000 barrels Nov. 1.
A glare of automobile lights caused
the death of William Hopkins, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James Hopkins of I'ueh
lo, when the automobile in which he
und Marvin C. Woodward were driv
ing to Pueblo from Colorado Springs
ran Into a small buggy driven by a
prospector who was on his way to
Breckenrldge, at a place three miles
north of Pueblo. Woodward was driv
ing, hut not Injured.
Imemdinte enlargement of Fitzsim
ons General Hospital to a capacity of
2,500 beds, at an additional cost of
$1,500,000, is being considered hv gov
ernment authorities. Lieut. Col. U. C.
Hutton of the surgeon general’s of
fice at Washington, and f’npt. Frank
(’. Starr of the quartermaster gener
al’s department, recently made a sur
vey for the proposed improvements.
Frank Daywnlt, 50 years old, pioneer
mining man of Aspen, and In the early
days well known In railroad circles,
was killed, and Allen Van Horn, a fel
low workman, was badly Injured, by
a cave-in in the Cowenhoven tunnel.
John Phillips, 70 years old, shot him
self to death In his store at Cafion
City following an alleged fit of insan
ity during which he heat his wife se
verely. Mrs. Phillips returned from
church, a quarrel arose and Phillips
started beating her. She appealed to
neighbors for help. They succeeded in
quieting Phillips, but later In the night
he left the house and went to his store
where he shot himself in the right tem
ple with a .38-caliber revolver.
The Colorado Supreme Court issued
a stay of execution In the case of M.
Stoltz, Denver renl estate man, con
victed by a jury in the West Side
Court a month ago on a charge of em
bezzlement. Stolz's attorney an
nounced lie would furnish bond for his
client, who has been confined in the
county jail since his conviction. Stolz
was found guilty of embezzling $804)
from Mrs. .T. Kennedy, who lives on
the Golden road, near Denver.
Mrs. Peter Johnson of Denver, Colo.,
was shot and killed nnd her husband
seriously wounded while riding in an
automobile forty miles east of Yuma.
Arlz. William S. Estaver, 30 years old,
who was riding with them when they
wer shot, was taken to jail and held
In connection with the affair.
Samuel Leek, an aged recluse, wan
found ilead in his cabin at Cripple
Creek as a result of a shot from his
own gun, fixed as a trap over the door
and evidently intended for intruders,
according to authorities. The gun was
placed over the door with a string
from the trigger to the door knob. The
weapon discharged when the door was
opened. Leek was called a man of
mystery. He lias resided there twen
ty years without visible means of sup
port. Suicide Is not suspected, as au
thorities believe he accidentally walked
Into the tran.
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Choice of Evils.
For a long time a beggar occupied
a position in the street with a “blind"
placard on his breast. One day the
benevolent Mrs. Holmstlerna finds him
with tlie word “dumb" on ids money
box. She looks at him in surprise
and says:
“How Is tills? Have you recovered
from, your blindness?"
“Not exactly, hut I got too many
trouser buttons.’’ —Kansas City Star.
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DADDY WOEFUL BACK NUMBER
How Is It Possible for Young America
to Look Up to a Father
Like This?
Dad was forty-five, well dressed,
evidently all business. Son was fif
teen or sixteen. Both were standing
up on an East Tentli street car.
"Son. this fellow Ruths —Babe
Ruths you call him—ls he the mascot
for the team?"
"No, dad,” replied the lad with an
embarrassed grim, “he’s heavy hitter
for the Yankees. What made you
think he was a mascot?
“Why, Babe, you know. Babe, I
thought he was a little fellow. And
what is it you say, ‘Yank’?"
“No, dad, Yanks, Yanks." Then, af
ter a moment, disgusted: “Say, dad,
didn’t you ever hear of John Mc-
McGraw?”
“McGraws, McGraws. No, I can’t
remember that name."
The lad was visibly perturbed, and,
getting closer to dad, he whispered:
“Say, dad, when we get home I’ll
slip It to you wiio some of these birds
are so you will know next time.”—ln
dianapolis News.
Gloomhounds.
Tell me not In mournful numbers
Anything you have to say.
If you deal in blues nnd umbers,
Get! Avaunt! Be on your way I
Life Is drear. Ah, well I knew It.
And don’t wish to know It more.
Told by some dod-gasted poet.
Dull and turgid pest and bore.
—Tennyson J. Daft. In Kansas City
Star.
The Tlock Signals
Are Working—
tin some respects, liuman experience
is like railroading.
Every moment of tlie business and
social day the block signals are giving
right of way to keenness and alertness
—while the slow and the heavy must
wait on the sidetrack for their chance
to move forward.
The ability to “go through” and to
“get there” depends much on the poise of
body, brain and nerves that comes with
correct diet and proper nourishment.
i That’s why so many choose Grape*
| Nuts for breakfast and lunch. Served
with cream or milk it is completely
nourishing, partly p re-digested, and it
supplies the vital mineral salts so
necessary to full nutrition.
1 Grape-Nuts has a rich, delightful
flavor, is ready to serve on the instant
—and is distinctly the food for mental
' and physical alertness and speed. At
' • all grocers.
«
i "There’s a Reason”
for Grape-Nuts
Fed at Last.
He was the most dowu-and-out look
ing specimen of a tramp who had ap
plied at the hack door of this par- *
ticular farmhouse for many a year.
The housewife viewed him with dis
gust. •
“My goodness!” she exclaimed. "I
don’t believe you’ve washed yourself
for n year." *
“Just about that,’’ agreed the hobo.
“You see, I only washes before I eats.” t
SMALL GIRL GOT HER WISH
Little One Took a Good Deal for *
Granted, but as It Turned Out,
She Was Justified.
i
My new young mnn took me to call
on his sister, who was married. I
wanted to make a good impression, so
dressed in my best dress and was on
my best behavior. ,
Two brothers dropped In, and I over
heard them say they “wanted to give
Fred’s girl the once over." %
A four-year-old niece administered
the finishing touch when she asked, In
a voice that could be heard In the «
kitchen, “When you and Uncle Fred
get married, may I be your flower
girl?” >
The brother grinned, brother-in-law
In the kitchen howled, while I turned
a most unbecoming red. <
The youngster thought she’d waited
long enough for an answer, so she
said, "May I?’’ 9
I managed to say yes, and two years
later we were, and she was.—Chicago
Tribune. r
Promise Kept.
Wife—She told me the whole story
just ns I have repeated It to you, and
mude me solemnly promise not to wills- y
per a word of It to anybody.
Hub—Then why did you tell me?
Wife—Well, I didn’t whisper.—Bos- v
ton Transcript.
Hear Him Coming.
Flubb —"Dixon believes In blowing
his own horn." Dubb —"That’s why
people always dodge him !”