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AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROQRESB OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINQS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
W..tern Newspaper Union Newe Her v lce.
WESTERN
Two armed men robbed the Ameri
can State Hank at Harrisburg, Texas,
of all available money and Liberty
bonds, something less than $5,000, and
made their escape.
Three men were killed and seven se
riously injured in St. Louis when a
scaffolding on which they were work
ing at the plant of the General Motors
Company collapsed.
Three Eskimo hunters came Into
Nome over the sea ice and reported
they had been drifting for fifteen days
on an ice cake In the Bering sea, out
of .sight of land. They said they had
suffered from sold and hunger.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Blanchard of Ne
vadn, Mo., were convicted at Miami,
Okla., on a charge of murder in con
nection with the killing of Police Chief
Charles Strieker of Commerce, Okla.,
Oct. 22, 1915), and wore sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Alimony, like wages, is subject to
revision of the high cost of living, the
Kansas Supreme Court holds. It af
firmed a decision of t lie Shawnee coun
ty District Court in which Mrs. Grace
Nixon brought suit for an increase in
alimony from her former husband, Ira
Nixon.
Hoy Dickerson, alias George Lynch,
former vaudeville “handcuff” king,
charged with robbing the Phoenix Gir
ard bank of Phoenix, Ariz., escaped
from the city Jail at Los Angeles after
picking the “burglar-proof lock” on his
cell door and climbing to the roof of
the building through tlie ventilator
shaft.
The high cost of flying lias gone up
a notch at San Francisco. Companies
engaged in commercial aviation pub
lished a tariff increasing the price of
ten-minute “sightseeing” flights 25 per
cent to $12.50 and fixing the price of
the same period of “stunt” flying at
S2O. Increased cost of aeroplane
parts, operation and upkeep was given
as the reason.
As a measure looking toward stabil
ization of the lumber market, price re
ductions, which, it was declared, would
amount to 10 to 30 per cent under pres
ent prices, were recently announced by
the Weyerliauser Sales Company at
Spokane, Wash., distributing agency
for eleven lumber mills controlled by
the Weyerliauser Interests. The re
duced prices, it was declared, would
remain effective at least until June 1.
WASHINGTON
Enactment of legislation authorizing
the secretary of war to turn over sur
plus motor vehicles to the agriculture,
postoffice and other government de
partments has beeu completed with the
udoption by the Senate of the confer
ence report.
Five million barrels of federal grain
corporation soft wheat flour will he
sold on credit in Europe soon unless
Congress authorizes $50,000,000 loans
to finance tlie sales, Julius Barnes,
head of the corporation, told the House
rules committee. He said he now had
authority to make the sales on credit,
but hoped the loans would he author
ized.
New Mexico has been authorized by
the War Department at Washington to
organize a battalion of infantry, a bat
talion of field artillery, a squadron of
cavalry and a machine gun troop us Its
National Guard quota.
Douglas Fairbanks, well known
screen actor, broke the forefinger of
his right hand and sustained painful
cuts while roping a horse for a film
play In the pnlnted desert, twenty-five
miles north of Holbrook, Arlz.
Senator Heed, Democrat of Missouri,
has introduced u resolution (‘ailing up
on the Semite manufactures committee
to investigate the alleged "dealings”
operations and “speculation” of the
United Stutes Grain Corporation and
the ulleged wheat pool.
Unless provision is made to muintain
the efficiency of the present naval re
serve force by systematic training, the
navy within u few years will be faced
with the same lack of potontlal man
power as when the country entered the
war. Secretary Daniels told the House
uavAl affairs eonnultteo. In another
war, the secretary said, there probably
would not he the “same opportunity
for preparation.”
Former service men soon will get
“reul letters" instead of mimeograph
copies from the war risk bureau. Di
rector Oholineley Johns said that the
Insurance division of tlie hureuu was
“virtually at the end of Its period of
congestion” and thut In a few weeks
It would he üble to answer every let
ter four days after its receipt.
The President bus received the resig
nation of Daniel C. ltoper, commission
er of internal revenue. Mr. ltoper
naked to be relieved April 1, or as soon
thereafter as a successor could be
named.
FOREIGN
It Is officially announced that two
Japanese warships have arrived at
Saglialln island, off the coast of East
Siberia, to protect Japanese residents.
The allies have granted the German
government an extension of three
months in which to reduce the German
army to the size ordered by the peace
terms.
Bolshevik! at Odessa captured the
Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimoff,
four topedo boat destroyers, one scout
vessel, one steamer, three trawlers,
two cutters, two submarines, says a
Moscow wireless message.
A wireless dispatch from Moscow
says tlie red army has “victoriously
broken through to the shores of tin*
Arctic ocean.” It adds that the Mur
mansk railway is free of the white
forces ns far as Murmansk.
J. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor ot
the exchequer, lias announced that
England and France had agreed not to
renew the Anglo-French loan issued
In tlie United States In 1915 and were
tuking steps for Its repayment.
The strike situation In Portugal is
becoming more acute and all the pub
lic services are paralyzed, according
to a dispatch from Lisbon. The new
cabinet formed by Antonio Silva lias
resigned on account of the strike, the
dispatch adds.
Children attending the Berlin schools
are to lie weighed and measured at the
beginning of each semi-annual term.
A special school is also to he estab
lished for pupils who are unable to
follow regular instruction because of
deficient eyesight.
The first plenary meeting of the
newly elected Moscow soviet has just
taken place. In the elections 570,000
votes were cast, or 97 per cent of the
voters. There were 588,000 who had
no right to vote, of whom 408,000 were
children. The others were criminals
and those whose Incomes were not de
rived from labor.
Acquisition of wheat from Argentina
to supply Spain until the next harvest
has been decided by a council of min
isters at Mudrid. The cabinet parlia
mentary commission is determined not
to permit too large an increase of the
budget of which the deficit, it is be
lieved, will reach one billion pesntns.
It is thought the cabinet will he
obliged to float a loan, the revenues
being insufficient for expenses.
GENERAL
President Gray of the Union Pacific
announced at Omaha the system had
bought $(»,000,(HM) Worth of locomotives
and $4,000,000 of refrigerator cars.
More than seventy alleged anar
chlsts and radicals have been arrested
at Akron, Oldo, in extensive raids con
ducted by Department of Justice of
flclals.
Announcement has been made that
officials believed the fire which lias
raged in the underground workings at
the Girard Mammoth colliery at Huven
Hun, Pa., for fifteen years, is now un
der control. In a short time the burn
ing area will be opened up and hun
dreds of thousands of tons of anthra
cite will be reclaimed.
The biggest collection of mammals
ever taken out of Mongolia—l,3ot
specimens, weighing more than eight
tons —lias been brought from that
country by the second Asiatic expedi
tion of the Americuu Museum of Nat
ural History, it was announced in New
York by Hoy Chapman Andrews, usso
elate curator of mammalogy of the mu
seum and chief of the expedition.
Twenty fellowships, each with a
stipend of at least SI,OOO and in some
cases $1,200, will he awarded to Amer
ican students, men and women, for
technical and humanistic study In the
University of Sweden, Denmark and
Norway, the American-Scandinavian
foundation announced in New York, in
addition to the ten fellowships for
Sweden, established last year, five stu
dents will he sent to Norway and five
to Denmark.
John F. Jelke, convicted Chicago
oleomargarine manufacturer, who has
been pardoned by President Wilson,
paid the government for his freedom
from a prison term $278,000 in fines
and hack taxes.
Fifteen gallons of wine a year is the
maximum quantity a family of Jewish
faith may receive for religious cere
monies, according to a ruling received
in Hartford, Conn., from Washington
to Civil Revenue Collector J. W.
Walsh. Tlie ruling says Jewish fami
lies, after gaining approval of their
rabbi, who in turn will secure permits
from officers of tlie prohibition en
forcement director, may secure a max
imum of fifteen gallons a year.
Tlie state of New York will receive
$8,891 as on inheritance tax from tlie
estate of tlie late Col. Theodore Roose
velt, according to the report of James
N. Gehrig, state Inheritance appraiser,
filed at Mlneola, N. Y. The official
transfer tux appraisal shows that the
former president left an estate wortli
$727,718 after all expenses and debts
had been deducted. The totul value
of the estate wee placed at $781,082,
divided between $030,107 personal and
$150,975 real property.
Gurrlsons of from fifty to 100 sol
diers are to be established In nil oil
camps near Tampico, Mexico, accord
ing to orders received there by Gen.
Nciucslo Lopez. Hitherto tlie activity
of fcderul soldiers lias been limited to
pursuit of rebel bauds who have com
mitted depredations.
Mrs. Marie ltyan, cashier of the
Miles theater, located in the liourt of
tlie downtown business section of De
troit, was struck down by two ban
dits In the office of tin l theater and
robbed of $5,100 in cash. The rob
bers escaped.
LATE
MARKET
QUOTATIONS
Western Newspaper Union News Borvlce.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cuttle.
Beef steers, ch. to prime.. $11.50® 12.00
Beef steers, Rood to choice 10.50® 11.00
Beef steers, fair to good... 9.50@10.00
Heifers, prime 9.75@10.25
Cows, fat. good to choice.. 9.50®10.00
Cows, fair to good 7.75® 9.00-
Cutters and feeder cows... 4.50® 6.00
Canners 3.00® 4.00
Bulls 6.50® 7.50
Veal calves 15.00® 16.00
Feeders, good to choice... 10.00® 10.50
Feeders, good to choice... 9.00® 9.50
Stockers, wood to choice... 8.50® 9.25
Stockers, fair to good..... 7.50® 8.00
Stockers, plain 5.00® 6.50
i loirs.
Good hogs $14.65 @15.00
Sheep.
Lambs, fat. good to ch .... $17.75 @ 18.00
Da mbs, fat, fair to good... 17.25@17.50
Lambs, feeders 17.00® 17.50
Yearlings 16.00@17.10
Ewes, fat, good to choice.. 11.75® 12.50
Dressed Poultry-*
The following prices on dressed poul
try are net. F. O. B. Denver:
Turkeys, No. Is 38 @42
Turkeys, old toms 34
Hens, lb 30
Ducks, young 20 @22
Geese 25 @27
Boosters 23 @25
l.lve Poultry.
Turkeys. 10 lbs. or over 39
Hens, lb 30
Ducklings 18 @20
Goslings 20 @22
Broilers 40
Cocks 12
Bprings 26 @30
Eggs.
Eggs, strictly fresh, case
count 12.00
Butter.
Creameries, 1st grude, lb.... 67
Creameries. 2d grude 60
Process butter 48
Packing stock 28 @30
Butter Put.
Direct 65
Station 60
Fruit.
Apples, Colo., box $1.50® 3.00
Pears, Colo., crate 2.00® 2.75
Vegetables.
Beans, navy, cwt 8.50® 9.00
Beans, pinto, cwt 6.00®) 6.76
Beans, lima, lb 22® .25
Beans, green, lb 32® .35
Beans, wax, lb 32® .35
Beets, new, cwt 3.00® 4.00
Carrots, new, cwt 3.50®) 4.25
Cauliflower, lb 18® .20
Celery, Colo 1.00® 2.00
Cucumbers. Ii. h.. doz.... 3.25® 4.50
Deaf lettuce, h. h.. doz... .90® 1.10
Dettuce, head, doz 75® 1.00
Onions. Colo., cwt 6.00® 7.25
Potatoes, new, Colo 4.50® 6.30
Radishes, round, li. h 35® .40
ltudislies, long. h. h 60® .65
Turnips, new, cwt. 6.00® 5.25
IIAV AND GRAIN.
Grain.
(Buying price, bulk, carloads, F. O. B.
Denver.)
Corn. No. 3 yellow $2.75
Corn, No. 3 mixed 2.72
Oats, per cwt 2.95
Barley, per cwt 2.85
liny.
Timothy, No. 1, ton $26*UQ
Timothy, No. 2. ton 24.5u
South Park, No. 1. ton 25.00
Soutli Park, No. 2, ton 23.50
Alfalfa, ton 22.50
Second Bottom No. 1, ton 21.00
Second Bottom No. 2, ton 20.00
Straw 8.00
HIDES AND PELTS.
(Quotations furnished by Charles
Friend & Co., Inc.)
DENVER PRICE BIST.
Dry Flint lllilea.
Butcher, 16 lbs. and up S5c
Butcher, under 16 lbs 85c
Fallen, all weights 3Sc
Bulls and stugs -. 18c
Culls 16c
Dry salt hides, 6c per lb. less.
Dry Flint Pelts.
Wool pelts 35o
Short wool pelts 30c
Butcher shearings 20c
No. 2 murrain shearings 10c
Bucks, suddles. pieces of pelts.. 16c
Green Suited Hides. Etc.
Cured hides. 25 lbs. up. No. 1. . 15c
Cured hides. 25 lbs. up. No. 2.. 14c
Bulls. No. 1 13c
Bulls. No. 2 11c
Glues, hides and skins 9c
Kip, No. 1 26c
Kip. No. 2 23c
Calf. No. 1 87c
Calf, No. 2. 35c
Branded kip and calf. No. 1 . . . . 15c
Branded kip and calf. No. 2.... 14c
Part cured hides, 2c per 11). less than
cured.
Green hides. 4c per lb. less than
cured.
Green Nnlted Horsehldes.
No. 1 ' $8.oo@ 1.00
No. 2 7.00® $.00
Headless. 50c less.
Ponies and glue 2.50@5.00
METAL MARKETS.
Colorado settlement prices
Bar silver, $1.28H.
Copper, pound. 19@20c.
Dead, $8.75.
Spelter, $8.72.
Tungsten, per unit, $6.50®12.00.
EASTERN LIVESTOCK MARKETS.
At Chlenao,
Chicago.—Hogs—Bulk. $14.65® 15.50;
top, $16.65; heavy, <14.25® 15.16; me
dium. <14.90® 15.60; light. < 16.10® 15.65;
light, light, $14.50@15.40; heavy pack
ing sow s, smooth, Pi 3.25 @ 13.76 ; pack
ing sows, rough. $12.50® 13.00; pigs,
<13.50® 14.75.
Cuttle—Beef steers, medium and
heavy, choice and prime, $14.60@ 16.00;
medium und good. $11.85® 14.60. com
mon. $9.76® 11.85; lightweight, good
und choice. $ 12.76 @ 16.40; common and
medium. $9.60® 12.75; butcher cattle,
heifers, $7.36® 13.76; cowi, $7.10@12.75;
canners und cutters, $4.90@7.00; veal
calves, $ 15.25 @ 16.76; fseder steers
$8.76 @ 18.00; Stocker steers, $7.26®
10.76.
Sheep—Dumbs. $17.25 @ 20.00; culls
and common, $14.00® 17.00; owes, ms
dlum, good und choice, $11.00® 14.15;
culls and common. $6.00® 10.75.
Chicago Produce.
Chicago. — Butter — Creamery. 60®
66 Vic.
„ ordinary
rlr.U, at mark. ca>„ Included.
38044c.
Poultry—Allvs—Bprings, 86c; fowls.
87c.
Cash Grain In Chicago.
Chicago.—Wheat—No. 8 mixed. $2.48.
Corn—No. 8 mixed, $1.68; No. 8 yel
low. $1.69 @ 1.61.
Oats—No. 2 white, 91 @91 He; No. 8
white. 90®91 He.
Rye—No. 2. 81.70H.
Barley—$1.48® 1.5o.
Timothy Seed—$18.00Q14.00
Clover Sesd —$45.00 @19.00
Pork—Nominal.
klb^lt/MSlM*
THE OIUNV OBSERVER.
ALLIES LOOK TO
U.S. FOR AID
!67.000 ALLIED TROOPS NOW IN
TURKEY, ACCORDING TO
OFFICIAL REPORTB.
TURKEY IS BLUFFING
WANT AMERICA TO INCREASE
WAR SHIPS IN TURKISH
WATERS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, March 10.—The deci
sion reached by the Supreme Council
relative to Turkey which have been
sent to Ambassador Jusserancl by the
French government will be cominuni
nited to President Wilson through
Acting Secretary of State Polk.
It is understood that the measures
decided upon by the council ure purely
coercive, us the American position lias
been one of benevolent interest in the
fate of peoples oppressed by the
Turks, it is scarcely expected that any
opposition will be offered to the ex
ecution of the council's program.
According to information here, rep
resentations to be made to the govern
ment by tlie entente include recom
mendations that American naval
strength in tlie Turkish wuters be
largely augmented.
Military forces now in Turkey, ac
cording to official intelligence, include
33,000 British, 10,000 Italian and 100,-
000 Greeks. Tlie Turkish regular army
of 43,000 men is disposed with 9,000
men in Europe and 34,000 in Asia.
About 00 per cent of the Asiatic forces
are said to he pro-nationalist.
Tlie Turkish threat of war in case
of expulsion from Constantinople is
chiefly “bluff,” in tlie opinion of mili
tary experts who have returned recent
ly from thut region. Officials dis
counted the likelihood of a general
Moslem uprising in protest against
driving tlie Turk from his “holy cities.”
London.—With the Turkish situation
still In tangled shape it was considered
useless for the peace conference to at
tempt to proceed to the completion of
the peace treaty. It is expected that
the conference will mark time on Tur
key, at least until the allied high com
missioners in Constantinople report on
the memorandum forwarded by their
governments.
The memorandum to tlie commis
sioners at Constantinople instructs the
commissioners to take a most firm at
titude with the new Turkish govern
ment, and at the same time requests
information as to tlie best method of
procedure should a show of force, or
actual force, become necessary.
The report that tlie allies intend to
raise .70,000 troops in England for the
Near East has caused comment in all
quarters. This comment is generally
adverse.
So far as ascertained, the only well
defined point is that there should be
no show of weakness. If it becomes
necessary to employ force, the occupa
tion of Constantinople would be only
a purt of the scheme."" Tlie conference
lias fully considered the necessity of
protecting thousands in Asiu Minor
should the Turk be roused over the
action taken by the allies.
Cashier Killed by Robbers.
Kansas. City, Mo. —Five men are be
ing held by tlie police in connection
with an attempted robbery of the
South Side Hunk here, in which Glen
M. Shockey, cashier of the bnnk was
killed, and Maurice J. McNeills, treas
urer, and James Smith, negro Janitor
ut the hank, were injured. One of the
bandits is believed to have been
wounded.
Hundreds Killed in Quake.
Tlflis, via Constantinople.—Several
hundred persons ure dead and thous
ands of others ure homeless as a re
sult of an earthquake which destroyed
Makliet, G .kali and other vllluges
within u radius of sixty miles west of
Tlflis. The city of Tlflis was shaken
and many buildings were severely
damuged. Thousands of refugees are
pouring Into Tlflis. The constituent
assembly of the republic of Georgia im
mediately voted 20,000,000 rubles for
first aid to the sufferers.
Find Money on Montana Ranch.
Helena, Mont. —Detectives reported
huvlng found $15,000 of $40,000 stolen
from the Union Bank and Trust Com
pany here in November. Tlie money,
they said, was found on a ranch near
Toston, east of Helena, and the owner
of the ranch was arrested.
Arrest Celebrating Students.
Toklo. —One hundred Korean stu
dents assembled here to celebrate the
anniversary of the movement for Kor
ean Independence. The police arrested
fifty-three of the students, among them
five girls.
Smuggling Plot Discovered.
New York. Customs Inspectors
have announced discovery of evidence
of a smuggling plot aboard the steam
or Canopic which nrrived from Genoa
and Naples via Boston. Besides 100
bottles of cognac, vermouth and anise
aqua, n box of 200 cameos with a bill
of sale to a New York denier were dis
covered In the coni hunkers. By means
of the bill, the Inspectors said, they
expect to uncover a systematic smug
gllng attempt.
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Fatal Opinion.
"Young Glglets thinks he Is the big
gun uround this place."
“That Is just the reason he Is going
to be fired.”
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UNABLE TO IDENTIFY MUMMY
London Officials In Something of a
Quandary as to Disposition of
“Old Jimmy.”
One of London's problems at t.e
present hour Is what to do with a
mummy that lies at the back of the
Mnnslon house In one of the oldest
churches of that ancient city. No one
knows where It came from, and the
Jocular element around the Mansion
house describe It ns “Old Jimmy—a
former lord mayor of London.” The
rector Is In a quandary over Its dis
posal. The figure is perfectly pre
served ; eyes, hair, nose, teeth, nails
and ribs.
Inside the door of the mummy’s box
Is n glass lid, which was removed a
few days ago for the first time for
many years. The mummy was covered
with cobwebs, but was still In good
condition. “It feels like leather,” said
an onlooker as he touched “Old Jim
my's" clastic ribs. The rector Invites
suggestions from the public as to what
to do with the mummy. The mystery
os to Its Identity arises from the fact
that during the great London fire In
1060 It was hurriedly removed from
another church and placed where It
now lies, so ns to escupc the rnvuges
of the conflagration.
There Is not a moment without
some duty.—Cicero.
“Pink tea," Eva, Is another name
for a scandal function.
If You Hear
Anybody Talking
about coffee prices or coffee troubles,
tell them to quit coffee and try
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is no loss of pleasure.
A wonderful table drink, pure, health
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Wealthy.
Hewitt—Did you ever dream that
you had untold wealth?
Jewett —Last night I drenmed that I
was rich enough to sandbag a man
with sugar.
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.
To half pint of water add 1 oz. Bay Rum,
a small box of Barbo Compound, and 14
oz.-of glycerine. Apply to the hair twice a
week until it becomes th. desired shade.
Any druggist can put this up or you can
mix it at home at very little cost. It will
gradually darken streaked, faded gray hair,
and will make harsh hair soft and glossy
It will not co'or the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, and docs not rub off.—Adv.
He Went to L.
The lute I*. T. Bnrmiiu delighted to
tell of Ills thousand and one mousing
experiences, especially some that hap
pened during his first tour of England
with “the greatest show on earth."
One of the best Is u Joke on the “cham
pion liunihugger” himself. Barnum, on
a leisure eveulug, bought a ticket to an
English music hull. Imnglne his keen
delight ns he henrd the usher, as he
took the tickets of the people ahead
say: “Letter llay, first roy; letter
Hee, fifth row; letter Hcff, sixth row;
letter High, ninth row,” and then, In
response to Bnruum'B Inquiry, “Where
do I go?" he said: "You go to Bell,
sir.”
Precise Private.
Id one ot our caiups, Just before our
entruuee In the war, an officer was
muklng a round ot Inspection when ha
came upon a big, round-eyed private
with red hair and a gun that he held
In anything but the upproved fashion.
“Don’t you know better,” demanded
the officer, “than to point an empty
gun at me?”
“But it ain't empty, sir," protested
the private. “It's loaded I"—Philadel
phia Ledger. •
Move Large Building.
A three-story reinforced concrete
and brick building measuring 60 by 93
feet nnd weighing 8.000 tons, at De
troit, was moved 430 feet at the rate
of 60 feet u dny, being occupied mean
while for Its regular uses and with
out Interruption of telephone, light
or power service.