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NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENT* CONDENSED FOR BUSY | PEOPLE. •Vpfltern Newspaper Union N«wn Barvlca. •VESTERN A slight earthquake in San Fran* •Inch is reported. No damage. The House of the Montana Legis ature has gone on record as favoring lie return of the railroads to private ownership. Fake oil companies will lie forced to rail in their salesmen in Oklahoma. The Senate passed the' blue sky law which provides for the examination of nil shares of stock offered for sale in i iklulioma. James Withycombe, governor of Ore gon, died at his home in Salem. He had Iften ill for many months, hut had continued to transact official business until a short time ago. He was 65 years old. After ten years of experiments the state of Idaho gave up the direct pri mary system of nominations and re turned to tlie convention plan, Gov ernor Davis signed the amended new election law, which repeals the direct primary. Industrial Workers of the World head quarters at Portland, was raided by representatives of the federal, state and city governments and twenty-two men found there were arrested. Va grancy charges were filed pending ac tion calculated to obtain the deporta tion of the aliens among them. H. L. Woods, a recluse, killed him self at his cabin at Folsom, Calif., ac cording to deputies of the sheriff's of fice who sought his arrest on u charge of insanity. The death of Woods end ed a battle which lasted for several hours, ns he was armed with a high power rifle and resisted all attempts to take him prisoner. An amendment was proposed to the State Senate bill providing for the con fiscation of liquor brought into the state of Nebraska. It authorizes the seizure and search of airplanes sus pected of being engaged in the illegal transportation of liquor. The bill as it now stnnds authorizes state agents to seize and search automobiles, boats, airplanes and other vehicles. Ninety shiploads of flour and wheat are awaiting transportation in the Northwest, according to the Portland Chamber of Commerce, which is ap pealing to the government to alleviate the present congestion and avert what Is regarded as an impending milling catastrophe. In the warehouses and on the docks of the Northwest 25,000,- 000 bushels of wheat and flour are piled, and the milling situation is said to he growing more serious. Handbills addressed “To the Work ing People of America" anti signed by "A Group of Workingmen," made their nppearanee on the streets at Sacra mento. The handbill proclaimed: “The workers of Uussiu, Germany, Austria and other countries have risen and overthrown their rulers. Not by •allots, hut by arming themselves, as is your only means. You alone do not budge. Are you afraid to follow their example? Are you afraid to take by force what actually belongs to you?” WASHINGTON The Victory Liberty Loan hill wus passed by the House with Just three dissenting votes. Contracts for the construction of 550 vessels of 2,700,000 deadweight tons, at an estimated cost value of $400,000,- 000, have been canceled since the sign ing of the armistice and In the period Just previous to the signing. Chairman Edward N. Hurley of the shipping board said In a letter to the chairman •of the House appropriations commit tee. Of the total of 3,918 distinguished service crosses uwarded for gallantry In action to American soldiers. Gen oral March announced today, 664, or | more than double the number given to any other division, went to the Second regulars. The First division of regu lars came next with 300 crosses uwurd od to its members. The Third regulars with 233 was third. The first woman to win the Ameri can army’s distinguished service med al Is Miss Beatrice MacDonald of the reserve nurse corps, who was seriously wounded while remaining at her post with wounded men at u British easuul ty station during a German night raid. Secretary Baker Invited her to the War Department to receive the decor ation with formal ceremony. While rising above the Capitol Just before President Wilson marched up Pcnnsylvuulu avenue at (lie head of a parade of homecoming soldiers an army captive sausage balloon broke from Its moorings, swept over the city and landed nine miles away wither, its pilot. The House passed without a record vote and sent to the Seuate tlu* resold tlon providing for the repeal of the luxury tax clause of the war revenue hIU. It Imposed u 10 (N»r cent tax nfi er May 1 on higher-priced wearing ap parel and many other articles. FOREIGN Premier Clemenceau has resumed his official tasks. The ports of Lihau and YVindau in Courtand on the Baltic sea, which were taken by the Bolshevik! January 31st, have been recaptured. The German legation at IJhuu re ports that Bolshevik! have occupied the island of Oesel and assassinated the secretary of the German legation, Ids wife and a courier. An American airman, Second Lieut. Lee Tossing, was killed instantly near London. The machine In which he was flying nose-dived, crashing to the earth on tin* Haddingtonshire coast. The radical party of Chile lias drawn up a petition to tne govern ment asking it to follow the example of the United States and prohibit the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Chile. The Prince of Whies is expected shortly to become a Freeman of the city of London. He became entitled to this on Ills coming of age. but tlie ceremony had to be postponed owing to the prince's military duties at the front. The French government hastens to give its consent to tlie appointment of Hugh C. Wallace as American am bassador to succeed William G. Sharp, according to the announcement of Stephen IMclion, minister of forelgi. affairs. Captain Boucliardon, of the Paris military court, heard tlie evidence of persons who were eye witnesses of the attempted assassination of Premier Clemenceau. He has asked Dr. Rou banowitcli, a widely known alienist, to examine Emile Cottln* M. Cleinen ceau’s assailant, to determine his de gree of mental responsibility. "Not guilty" was the verdict spoken by three Judges In the assizes court of the department Seine-et-Mnrne, France, and Marie Lcscont, a dress maker, 22, knelt down and prayed. She had severed a vein in tlie child’s foot and lot the babe bleed to death, lie cause, taken prisoner at Mauheuge, slie laid unwillingly become the mother of a German child. SPORT Johnny Dundee of New York defeat ed Johnny Meuley of Philadelphia in a six-round fight at Philadelphia. Champion Corwin Huston of Detroit defeated Percy P. Trump of Pittsburg, 300 to 232. High runs: Houston, 35; Trump, 22. Willie Ritchie, former lightweight champion, and Miss Ethel Pierce of San Francisco were married in that city last week. The Navy matmen defeated the wrestlers of Yale college by a score of 24 to 4 at Annapolis, in practically the best meet of the season. Unconditional release of Richard Hohlitzcll, first baseman of the Boston American league team, lias been an nounced. Ilohlitzell, now an army lieu tenant, does not plan to return to pro fessional baseball, it Is understood. Alaska and Yukon territory howlers ore engaging in an international howl ing tournament at Juneau. Teams are entered from the Alaska towns of Juneau, Treadwell, Skagway and the Yukon towns of Dawson and White Horse. The wrestling team of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania won from the Columbia team by a score of 12 to 1. The meet was close from start to fin ish, and it was not until the lust bout that the ultimate winner could he de termined. GENERAL Three men attached to tlie naval av iation station at Rockaway beach were killed by the explosion of a depth bomb they were carrying. “Jerry Doc" Koehler, 08, suld to have been the originator of the first flea circus In the United States, Is deud at Evansville, Ind. Koehler for many years traveled over the country with his flea circus, exhibiting the fleus, which had been taught to do tricks, under magnifying glass. Short line railroads will lie reim bursed for competitive traffic diverted to government-controlled railroads be tween April 1 and Nov. 1, 1918, and hereafter will lie given tlie same pro portion of competitive traffic that they averaged during the years 1915, 1910 and 1917, Railways Director Hines an nounced this week. It has virtually been decided that there is no possibility of tlie Panama canal or of any Nortli American wat erway, coining before tlie peace con fe •ce as the subject of proposed in ! termitioiial regulations. It is asserted i i’..at tin* Panama and Suez canal are not regarded arf International water ways, each being within one country. Indiana lias stamped out' tlie teach ing of tlie •German language and tin l trustees and officers of any elemen tary acliool, schools of correctional and benevolent Institutions, private and pa rochial schools are subject to fine and imprisonment if German is taught. Governor Goodrich signed the McCray anti-German 1)111 shortly after Its pas sage by the House of Representatives, which sets out that the German lan guage shall not In* taught in any of tin* elementary schools of Indiana. The submarine R-0, latest of tlie ocean-going suhtnerslhles of the* United States navy, and said to Include ail Im provements in under-sea boats known in tills country, was launched at Quin j cy, Mass. She Is about 200 feet long and lias a cruising radius of 8,000 miles. No trace has been found by the po lice of the murderer of George A. Ro bee, eccentric bachelor and art con noisseur, whose body was found in hit richly furnished bedroom In an cxclu slve lodging house which he conducted In Mudison avenue, New York Cit” THS GILPIN OBSXRVXR. SECURE FARM NOW Western Canada Offers Oppor tunity to the Ambitious. Fertlla Land at Moderate Cost, With Social and Other Advantage* That Mean So Much, Will Soon Be Taken Up. The desire to have a piece of land 'of one’s own is a natural Instinct In the heart of every properly developed man and woman. In earlier years, on account of the great areas of land available in tlie United States, no great difficulty was experienced by uny am bitious settler who wished to become his own landholder, but the rapid Increase in population, combined with the corresponding rise In the price of land, has completely changed this con dition. Land which a generation ago might be had for homesteading, now commands prices ranging to SIOO an acre and over. At such prices it Is quite hopeless for the city man with limited cnpital, to nttempt to buy a farm of his own. To pay for It be comes a lifelong task, and the prob ability 1* that he will never do more thnn meet the Interest charges. If he Is serious in his desires to secure a farm home he must look to coun tries where there is still abundant fertile land nvnllable nt moderate cost, and where these lands are to be pur chased on terms which make It pos sible for the settler with small capi tal to become a farm owner as the result of a few years’ labor. He will also want land In a country where the practices of the people are simi lar to those to which he has been ac eostomed; a country with the same language, same religion, same general habits of living, with laws, currency, weights and measures, etc., based on the same principles as those with which he Is familiar. He wants a country where he can buy land from S2O to S4O an acre, which will produce as big or bigger crops ss those he has been accustomed to from lands at SIOO an acre. He wants this land where social conditions will be attractive to himself and family, and where he can look forward with confidence to being In a few years Independent, and well started on the road to financial suc cess. All these conditions he will find In western Canada. The provinces of Al berta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba provide the one and only answer to the land-hnngry. The land Is there; It la the kind of land he wants; tho conditions are as nearly Ideal as la possible, and the prices and terms are such that the man of moderate capi tal has an opportunity not avallabl* to him elsewhere. Land values are going to Increase, bnt It will largely depend on how well the soil can be nsed. and the modern farmer Is using It each year to better advantage. But those who are on the gronnd and come closest to the heart of the fanning sections are convinced that no material decrease In value Is In sight Indeed, they are almost unanimous In believing that we shall see a strong real estate market for fertile land, with prices maintained; and ns de velopment and further equipments are added the prices on the open market may be expected to show a farther in crease as the years go on—up to the limit of Income plus what men ar* willing to pay to possess an attractive home. Someone once said: “Never tell short on the United States. You will lose every time." And this applies to those who are Inclined to believe that the future of farm values is In doubt. The American farmer Is going for ward. not backward, and the same may he snld of the Canadian farmer. —Advertisement. Experts. "Well, Snm. Are you glad to get out of the army?" “I sho’ Is, boss." "It wasn't a linrd life, I hope?" "Naw, sah 1 De life Itself wasn’t so hard, but I ain’t had a nickel to spend since de Lawd knows when. Dem nig gers In ray re-lment didn't know nothin' about drillin’ an’ salutin' de cap'n when dey got to camp, but dej sho* hnd n lot o' experience in slioodn' craps."—Birmingham Age-Herald. GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER Has been used for all ailments that are caused by a disordered stomach and Inactive liver, such as sick head ache, constipation, sour stomach nervous Indigestion, fermentation ol food, palpitation of tho heart caused bj gases In tho stomach. August Flowel Is a gentle laxative, regulates dlgestlor both In stomach and Intestines, cleam and sweetens the stomach and oilmen tary canal, stimulates the liver to se Crete the bile and Impurities from tin blood. Sold in all civilized countries Olve it a trial.—Adv. Occasional Lapses. Mrs. Longwood—Can you nlways be llevo what your husband tells you? Mrs. Justwed —Not always, but some times. When he says he Isn't worth] of me. Suited to His Trade. “What a strapping fellow that mat yonder Is!” “Ho ought to be. He's i harness maker.” When Your fives Need Cart Try Murine five Remedy annum sis COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Servtco. Albert J. Burdick, who shot and killed Willard Cope last summer, was convicted of second degree murder at Akron. Two machines, driven by M. E. Laf ferty of Leadville and M. J. Hedke of Denver hold the honor of being the first to make the trip from Denver to Leadville this year. H. M. Watkins and Carl Sherry of Merino were arrested at Willard, northwest of Sterling, when they alighted from a Cheyenne train with a suitcase. It contained thirty-seven pints. Five thousand dollars damage was done and ten nuns wore forced to flee hurriedly in their night clothing when fire caused by an overheated furnace partly destroyed the school conducted at Sterling by the Sisters ef St. Fran cis. A 15-year-old negro boy surrendered to the police the other night at Pueblo and asked that he be sent to the State Reformatory because he feared that his mania for stealing anything he could get his hands upon would finally land him in the penitentiary. Recruiting for the army Is to begin at once in Colorado and Wyoming. Lieutenant Barney received Instruc tions from the War Department to re sume the task of finding men In the Denver district to fill the standing army. In the death of Fay Gorham of Ri fle,. who died following an operation, another of the pioneer stage drivers and settlers of this state, who drifted in during the early days from the Black Hills country, have answered the last call. Dr. Livingston Farrand of Colorado, recently appointed chairman of the central committee and ex-officio head of the national executive committee of the Red Cross, has assumed active leadership of that body. Dr. Farrand succeeds Henry P. Davidson. Building is on the increase in Den ver, judging by the number of building permits issued for the month of Febru ary. During the last month permits to taling 141 and valued at $219,500 were issued. For the same month a year ago, 132 permits valued at $173,630 were taken out. “Banish the billboards and other un sightly advertising signs from Den ver's mountain parks," is the slogan of the Colorado Mountain Club, which has undertaken a campaign to co-op erate with city officials of Denver in an effort to maintain the parks with out these commercial atrocities. The Great Western Sugar Company will build a Steffens plant in oonnec lion with its Fort Morgan factory which will cost about $200,000. The work of construction will start in April and material has already arrived for the building, which will be com pleted for the fall campaign. A. D. Kenyon and associates of Den ver have bought In Red Mountain In cline railway at Manitou from Richard Clough of Colorado Springs. The con sideration was not made public, but it is understood to be approximately $25,- 900. The sale includes the right of way up Red mountain, the terminals nnd all the cars and trackage of the company. It has become known at Leadville that between 400 nnd 500 unnatural ized aliens, most of them Austrians, intend to return to their native land as soon ns the government lifts the bars on emigration. “The minute the government raises the bars, between 400 and 500 unnaturalized men In Leadville district will start bark to Austria and Italy,” stated Michael D. Phillips, local clerk of that city. Hundreds of residents of Fort Col lins turned out to see Lieut. Otto E. Benell, one of their home heroes, deco rated with the distinguished service cross by order of the Secretary of War. Sensational developments are ex pected to follow a threatening letter received by Thomas Purcell, a young attorney of Colorado Springs. Purcell Is defending Sydney A. Wilson, on trial In tlie District Court for a statu tory offense. Tlie complaining wit ness is a 15-year-old niece of Wilsou. Tlie letter, which has been turned over to the postal authorities for investiga tion, declares that Wilson must “go to ths pen or die." C. Loomis Allen, president of the Syracuse and Suburban Railroad Com pany, who Is In Colorado Springs ne gotiating for the Colorado Springs and fnterurban Railway Company and the Colorado Springs Light, Heat nnd Power Company, is reported to have secured an option on both utilities. Tlie proposed deal Involves a consider ation of approximately $8,000,000 and should the sab* bo made Allen declares tie will consolidate the concerns and give the public greatly Improved serv ice. Lieut. Edward Smith, Tiger quarter back In 1916, has returned to Colorado Springs from France, where he brought down two German airplanes while serving on the French front In the American aviation forces. Smith will rc-Qnter colleges and will try out for tlie football team next fall. Announcement is made that Colo rado Spring! is going to extend its white way us far as the Santa F 6 sta tion. A new system of ornamental street lights will he installed on East Pike’s Peak avenue to the railroad station within the next few weeks COLORADO NEWS NOTES. The Colorado State Agricultural college, together with Yale, Harvard and Columbia, have been designated by the War Department ns a field ar tillery training school and $250,000 in equipment will be sent to Fort Col lins. The school will open with the fall term In September and the work will be compulsory a certain number of hours a week with all men except sen iors. This action of the War Depart ment follows conferences between President Lory and A. A. Edwards, president of the hoard, with Brigadier General Dan forth and Col. Thomas Sloan, and a recent visit of inspection to the school by Colonel Sloan. The battery equipment for the school will consist of five guns, including a how itzer and a French 75, two tractors, two and ninety-six horses, with a number of noncommissioned officers and instructors. Five employes of the Denver & Rio Grandd, Walter E. Robertson, Ira Da vis, Harold Foster, Ray H. Bartlett and Alva Brown, are prisoners in the county jail at Grand Junction on u charge of robbing a merchandise car of a large amount of whisky December 18th. Robertson, it is said, confessed his part in the robbery, implicating the others. Tlie men are charged with bur glarizing a car of whisky en route to According to the confes sion of Robertson the car was entered through an end door, tlie head was knocked out of a barrel of whisky and the men carried the whisky away in milk cans, later bottling it. The Bigelow House hill regulating the practice of dentistry in Colorudo was the subject of a lively debate when efforts were made to amend cer tain of its provisions. Senator W. F. O’Brien, who introduced an identical bill in the Senate, took the lead in sup port of the measure. He is a dentist. The bill amends in a number of re spects the present law regulating den tistry, bringing under its provisions dental hygienists as well as regularly licensed dentists, and providing legal machinery for procedure In cases where licenses are revoked by the State Board of Dental Examiners. Dr. George A. Norlin, for the past two years acting president of the Uni versity of Colorado in the absence of President Farrand, was elected presi dent by the hoard of regents of the university, filling the vacancy caused by Dr. Farrand’s resignation. The resignation of Dr. Farrand came as a result of his appointment by President Wilson as national director of the American Red Cross, necessitating ills presence in Washington. Clifford Sproules, aged 24 ( a negro, must hang for slaying W. W. Green, turnkey at the Pueblo county jail, Oc tober 15th, when Sproules endeavored to make his escape from the jail. Green died after being shot twice by the negro in the corridor of the Jail. A Jury brought in a verdict of first de gree murder, with death penalty rec ommended. Unconvinced that the plea of “prlv- R?ged occasion" should exempt unscru pulous newspapers from accountability for malicious attacks upon the charac ter of individuals, the Colorado Sen ate gave its final approval, on third reading, to t)ie Andrew libel bill. The measure was adopted by a vote of 22 to 13 and went to the House without the emergency clause. The Allen bill to submit a constitu tional amendment exempting the prop erty of civil war veterans of the Union army or navy from taxation to the extent of $2,000, has passed the House as was also the Colgate bill to estab* lish a department of social diseases in the state board of health. The La Junta Industrial Association staged a record get-together meeting recently. More than 100 were present. Plans were discussed for the better ment of the city. Among these is one for a new high school building, which wonld include an auditorium suitable for public gatherings. Blue-sky legislation to be considered by the Senate is confined to one meas ure. It is Senate bill No. 3 and was reported out of the Judiciary commit tee by Senator Henry O. Andrew, chairman. The hill hears the names of Senators Knauss, Peterson, Dun klee, Tobin and Andrew. The measure is a composite bill representing what the committee believes be the best features contained In several submit ted by Republicans and Democrats. It Is not designed to interfere with spec ulative securities that, have merit, but does contain provisions tiurt will drive the "wildcatter" from the state and provide penitentiary terms for those who misrepresent facts. The establishment In Colorado of an immense hospital for discharged sol diers by the United States public health service is an assured fact. Word has heen received from Washington by the officers of the Colorado Develop ment federation that both Senate and House have agreed upon a hill which assures the hospital to Colorado and that $1,500,000 will be available for the institution. The hospital will be conducted separately from the recuper ation camp at Aurora. Elner Jensen won the amateur ski jumping contest at the close of the big winter sports carnival at Steamboat Springs with a 241-polnt and a long Jump of 128 feet which he rode. Jen sen is the ski crack from the Great Lakes training station. Murphy Combs of Steamboat Springs was second, with 181 points. In the class for hoys under 16, Hollis Merrell of Stenmhoat, 13 years old, was first, with 170 points, nnd Lewis Dalpez of Stenmhoat sec ond. A third class Jump for youngei hoys was won by Willard Smith of HtesmhonL with 141 polgts HOW MRS. BOYD AVOIDED AN OPERATION Canton, Ohio.—'"l (offered from a female trouble which caused me much suffering, and two doctora daeided that I wonld have to go through an operation before I could getwelL “My mother, who had been helped by Lydia E. Pinkham r t Vegetable Com pound, advised me to try it before sub mitting to an opera tion. It relieved me from my trouble! so I can do my house work without any difficulty. I advise any woman who is afflicted with female troubles to give Lydia E. Pinkham’s .Vegetable Com pound a trial and it will do as much for them.’'—Mrs. Marie Boyd, 1421 6th St, N. E., Canton, Ohio. Sometimes there are serious condi tions where a hospital operation is the only alternative, but on the other hand so many women have been cured by this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. 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