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CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGREBB OP
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
“Designer,” a yearling Poland China
boar, was purchased recently for $30,-
000 at Omaha. This, it is declared, is
a record-breaking price for a hog.
The Chicago National League base
ball club will leave Chicago for Pasa
dena, Calif., to begin its spring train
ing season Feb. 28. This is the earliest
date the team has left on its spring
training in four years.
Fire destroyed fifty government
trucks, loaned to the Nebraska high
way commission, when a building in
which they were stored at the state
fair grounds at Lincoln burned. The
total loss is estimated at $200,000.
Federal Judge Landis sentenced
Samuel C. Pandolfo, organizer and
head of the Pan-Motor Company, St.
Cloud, Minn., convicted of using the
mails to defraud, to serve ten years in
a federal penitentiary and fined him
$4,000.
Gold dust worth approximately
$400,000, brought by dog trains over
the winter trail from the Kuskokwin
and Iditarod regions of Alaska, are at
Seward awaiting shipment to Seattle.
The gold was the product of “clean
ups” in the districts since winter set
in.
Fanned by a heavy gale and with the
temperature close to zero, fire that
started in the basement of a four-story
building occupied by the National Tail
ors in Cleveland, defied the efforts of
the fire department for hours to con
trol it. Damage was estimated at $250,-
000.
The county agent announced in Chi
cago that 4,236 Christmas baskets of
food for the poor this year cost only 23
cents a basket more than in 1918. The
principal increases noted were raisins,
which more than doubled, and pota
toes, which advanced $1.45 a hundred
pounds.
A ship building drydock 950 feet
long, said to be the largest of its kind
in the world, was dedicated at the
Puget Sound navy yard, Bremerton,
Wash., when Mrs. Luther E. Gregory,
in the presence of army and navy of
ficials and representatives from Puget
Sound cities, opened a valve that let
the water into the dock for the first
time.
WASHINGTON
Temporary war-time allowances for
naval officers, which were automati
cally discontinued on Oct. Ist, would
be continued until the peace treaty is
signed under a joint resolution passed
by the House. The measure already
had passed the Senate.
Forest green has been made the of
ficial color of the American Red Cross
field uniforms in an order issued by
Secretary Baker. The change was de
cided on a year ago but to utilize the
large amount of light gray cloth on
hand the order was withheld.
The Indian appropriation bill, re
ported to the House was reduced by
the House committee from $17,471,000
asked by government officials to $13,-
130,000, which is approximately $2,000,-
000 less than the amount for the cur
rent fiscal year.
The urgency deficiency bill provid
ing $33,000,000 for miscellaneous sub
jects, including $30,000,000 for in
creased war risk insurance allowances
have been passed in the United States
Senate.
Total cotton production in the
United States for the 1919-20 season
will amount to 5,275,096,000 pounds, ex
clusive of linters, which is equivalent
to 11,030,000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight, the department of agriculture
announced in its final estimate of this
year’s crop.
Three and a half million pounds of
sugar belonging to the Utah-Idaho Su
gar Company, seized Dec. 6 under libel
proceedings brought by the govern
ment, will be distributed in cities of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and west
ern Montana at once at a wholesale
price of 10% cents seaboard basis.
Enactment by Congress of legisla
tion to continue government control
over sugar during 1920 is assured, Sen
ator McNary, Republican of Oregon, in
charge of the control bill in the Sen
ate, announced after a compromise had
been reached with opponents of the
measure limiting extension of the li
censing powers to June-30, 1920,
FOREIGN
Sir John Jackson, famous as a con
tractor for public works in various
parts of the world, is dead in London.
He was born in 1851.
A partial street car strike is on at
Madrid. A number of cars are still
operating under the protection of the
civil guards. The building strike con
tinues.
The note which the allies are draft
ing demanding the extradition of the
ex-kaiser from Holland, is not to be
presented until after the final ratifica
tion of the peace treaty.
John Alcock, the noted British avi
ator who was the first pilot to com
plete a nonstop flight across the At
lantic, died of injuries sustained when
he fell near Rouen, France.
Sadi Lecointe, the French aviator, in
an officially timed test, averaged 305
kilometers, 225 meters (about 189
miles, 247% yards), in an hour. At one
time he attained a speed of 364 kilo
meters an hour.
Another overseas tour is being
planned for the Prince of Wales. In
a speech he announced that the king
was sending him to Australia and New
Zealand and probably would sail next
March and be away six or seven
months.
Reports of a fresh wave of pogroms
in the districts of the Ukraine occu
pied by General Denikine’s forces are
printed by the Lemberg newspaper Ga
zetta Wisc-rowka, according to Lem
berg advices. The newspaper claims
that about 5,000 Jews were killed in
Ekaterinoslav alone.
August Mueller, former under secre
tary in the German food administra
tion, is arranging to visit the United
States, a Berlin dispatch to the London
Times reported. Mueller will attempt
to arrange for import and export of raw
materials and to ascertain the amount
of food available for Germany, the dis
patch said.
The bubonic plague is reported to
have attained grave proportions at Las
Rosas, Santa F 6 province, where the
business houses have been ordered
closed for forty-eight hours owing to
bad hygienic conditions. Several
deaths have occurred. The national
department of hygiene has begun a
war on the rats infesting grain ware
houses.
Alexandre Millerand, former minis
ter of war and at present governor of
Alsace, according to reports, will suc
ceed Georges Clemenceau as premier
of France, says the Echo de Paris. It
is asserted that Millerand, in addition
to being premier, will hold the port
folio of minister of foreign affairs.
Stephen Pinchot, at present foreign
minister, is considering retiring from
the cabinet because of his health.
GENERAL
Prof. Horatio W. Parker, famous mu
sician and composer and dean of music
at Yale University, died of pneumonia
at his daughter’s home in Cedarliurst,
L. I.
As a result of eating pancakes in
which insect powder had been acci
dentally mixed, four aged inmates of
the Kalamazoo county poor farm in
Michigan are dead and thirty-five are
seriously ill from the same cause.
The new Ohio Products Company
brought in the largest well in Wyom
ing in the last five years with the ex
ception of one Salt Creek well of 10,000
last year. The new well is making
250 barrels an hour by actual measure
ment, making it a 6,000 barrel pro
ducer and is located in the Lance Creek
field.
Loss to the United States on account
of the recent coal strike amounted to
approximately $126,000,000, while that
to Ohio was about $27,000,000, accord
ing to N. D. McKinney secretary of
the Southern Ohio Coal Exchange. Ad
ditional loss to railroads from curtailed
service and to industries forced to
shut down on account of the fuel situa
tion could not be estimated and no al
lowance therefore is made in the esti
mate,” Mr. McKinney stated.
Liquor interests estimate their losses
as a result of the enforcement of the
war-time prohibition law at $400,000,-
000, according to a statement at Chi
cago by Levy Mayer, chief counsel for
the distillers in the middle West.
Somewhere in Montana, Julius E.
Johnson, formerly of St. Joseph, Mo.,
is working on a railroad. In New York
an SBO,OOO legacy awaits him. When
an application was made to settle the
$420,000 estate of Alex Johnson, de
ceased, importer and exporter, in sur
rogate court it was disclosed that Jul
ius Johnson, a grandson, could not be
found. When last heard of he was
working as a railroad watchman in
Anaconda, Mont.
Segregation or disposal of commer
cial lines not directly allied with the
meat and provision business of the five
great packing companies as agreed up
on between them and the United States
attorney general announced by the lat
ter, will involve reorganization of a
huge industry with assets of more than
$1,000,000,000. The agreement was re
garded by the packers as marking an
epoch in industry in that for the first
time big business bows to public opin
ion.
ARIZONA STATE MINER
Southwest News
From All Over
New Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Arizona section of the American
Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers will meet at Ajo on the sth
and 6tli of January, 1920. At that meet
ing the Warren district will be well
represented.
The State Insurance Department of
Arizona is now prepared to co-operate
with the bureau of war risk insurance
in aiding former service men in retain
ing, reinstating or converting their war
time insurance.
Resolutions passed by the state ex
ecutive committee of the American Le
gion at Phoenix, pledged the statewide
organization of a vigorous campaign
against the I. W. W. and all other un-
American organizations.
That Arizona dates are the best in
the world is the opinion of Ozora S.
Davis, president of the Chicago Theo
logical Seminary of Chicago, prominent
middle western churchman and a man
who has traveled extensively.
New Mexico had a balance of sl,-
895,197.30 in its coffers at the end of
the fiscal year on Nov. 30, 1919, it has
been announced by State Treasurer C.
U. Strong. The balance at the end of
the last fiscal year was $1,377,866.28.
The Duncan Mining and Milling Com
pany, which is developing a large gold
and silver property in Grant county, is
soon to be in the producing class. H. E.
Spence, president of the company, re
cently returned from Nova Scotia, and
has gone to the camp where he will re
main until the mill is started the first
of the year.
Two years ago County Agent C. R.
Fillerup encouraged farmers in Nava
jo and Apache counties, Ariz., to plant
Marquis wheat for the main spring
crop. Two seasons have now demon
strated that it is superior as a dry
farm crop at the higher elevations —
6,500-7,500 feet. The yield this year
was 21 to 35 bushels per acre.
The state’s hunter in New Mexico
killed or trapped 155 predatory animals
in November, including 127 coyotes, 13
bobcats, 4 lions and one wolf, accord
ing to the reports of hunters received
by the State Council of Defense. Poi
soning probably accounted for a great
many more coyotes, as only those actu
ally shot or trapped were listed.
J. E. Cass, state superintendent of
public instruction of Arizona, has is
sued a teachers’ directory containing
the names of all teachers employed in
the state, their salaries, length of serv
ice and other facts pertaining to their
records. The directory contains num
erous tables showing comparisons as to
pupils, teachers and salaries in various
years.
The Mezarko Mining Company oper
ating the Langston mines at Pinos Al
tos, New Mexico, is now running fuli
time and expects to greatly increase
the force of men in the near future.
Regular shipments of gold-silver ore
are being made to the smelter at El
Paso and a large tonnage is on the
dump ready to be treated by the Calu
met and New Mexico mill.
The New Mexico State Club Encamp
ment will be held at the State Agricul
tural College from Jan. 12 to 17. The
winners of first prizes in the various
club projects, namely: Maurine Wright,
Aphelia Hutchins, Bee Bonhanna of
Ranchvale, Henry and Marie McDan
iels, all of Texico, Slater of Frio Draw,
Irene DeLozier and Eugene Gallagher
of Pleasant Hill, will meet the first
prize winners from all the other coun
ties and compete for state prizes.
One of the largest individual land
sales ever made in New Mexico was
made recently when Sylvester Miribal
of Valencia county purchased 170,000
acres of land from the McKinley Land
and Lumber Company, the purchase
price being about half a million dol
lars. Mr. Miribal is one of the largest
cattle and sheep growers in the state
and is now probably the largest indi
vidual land owner, as his present hold
ings will total over 200,000 acres.
According to a report by County
Agent M. R. Gonzales, over half a mil
lion pounds of beans, 95 per cent of
them pintos, have been raised in San
Miguel county, New Mexico, this year.
The beans are being sold for $5.75 per
hundred, leaving the farmers a net
profit of $5 per 100 pounds. Land which
is worth only $lO per acre has produced
as much as 500 pounds per acre and
some of the land has made as high as
1,200 pounds per acre. The county is
shipping out corn for the first time
this year in its history and the big in
crease in the corn and bean crop is
said.to be due to the increase in the
number of farmers.
249 REDS SAIL
ON TRANSPORT
RADICALS ARE NOW ON HIGH
SEAS BOUND FOR
RUSSIA.
BID A DEFIANT ADIEU
STARS AND STRIPES FLY FROM
MASTHEAD AS BOAT
SAILS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York, Dec. 22. —The United
States army transport Buford —ark of
the soviet —has sailed with her cargo
of anarchists, communists and radi
cals banned from America for con
spiring against its government. The
ship’s destination was hidden in
sealed orders, but the 249 passengers
it carried expect to be landed at some
far northern port giving access to so
viet Russia.
“Long live the revolution in Amer
ica,” was chanted defiantly by the
motley crowd on the decks of the steel
gray troopship as she churned her
way past the statue of Liberty. Now
and then they cursed in chorus at the
United States and the men who had
cut short their propaganda here.
Not until the Buford steamed out of
the Narrows between Forts Hamilton
and Wadsworth did the din cease.
Over their heads, whipping in the
wind, the Stars and Stripes floated
from the masthead.
The autocrats of all the Russians on
the transport were Alexander Berk
man and Emma Goldman, his boon
companion for thirty years. With
them were 245 men and two women —
Ethel Bernstein and Dora Lipkin.
Only a few high officials of the War
and Labor Departments know the
ship’s destination.
The voyage will last eighteen days
unless it is prolonged by unfavorable
weather. The presumption is that the
Buford will land at Harve, Helsing
fors, or Abo in Finland, which are
connected by rail with Bielo-Caporoff
on the Russian frontier. It was in
timated in official quarters that ar
rangements have been made with the
Finnish government to permit the
passage of the Russians through that
country.
The transfer from Ellis island to
the Buford of the agitators who have
preached death and destruction was
an event unique in the annals of this
nation. Seized in raids in all parts of
the country, they were mobilized here
for deportation. An elaborate screen
of secrecy was thrown about the prep
arations for sending them away.
It was in the darkest hours of night
that an army tug drew up at the dock
at the immigration station to take
aboard the undesirables for the seven
mile journey down the bay to the
Buford.
Two dozen armed with
rifles, and as many immigration in
spectors carrying night sticks pa
trolled the shores of Ellis island until
the tug arrived at 5:15 a. m. The
Reds were marched single file be
tween two lines of guards from the
immigration barracks to the boat
landing, each carrying his or her bag
gage. A score of agents of the De
partment of Justice circulated among
the Russians.
Want Pay for Booze.
Louisville, Ky.—Kentucky distillers
will file a suit in an effort to force
the government to reimburse them for
35,000,000 gallons of liquor, according
to William E. Bullitt, attorney for local
whisky interests. Mr. Bullitt said the
suit may take place late in January.
ASSASSIN K’LLS SIX.
Greeley, Colo. —Adam Shank, a well
known farmer in Weld county; his
wife, Elizabeth, and four children are
dead, the outcome of a wholesale as
sassination at their home on the Fred
Brecken ranch, fourteen miles south
east of here, near Twin Bridges. The
dead are: Adam Shank, 87 years old.
shot through the right breast; Eliza
beth Shank, his wife, 35 years old, shot
through the left breast and the head;
Marguerite Shank, 7 years old, shot
through the forehead; Florence Shank,
6 years old, shot through the fore
head; George Wesley Shank, 1 year
old, shot through the forehead; Juan
ita Shank, 3 years old, shot through
the head.
Held for Murdering Children.
Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho. —Mrs. Lucy
M. Mullenax, aged 34, wife of a farmer,
has been arrested on the charge of
murdering her three infant children
and of having murderously attacked
Der mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary M. Mul
lenax, at Mica Bay, eleven miles west
of Coeur d’Alene.
LATE
MARKET
QUOTATIONS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.
Beef steers, ch. to prime.. $ll.OO @ 12.00
Beef steers, good to choice 9.50® 10.50
Beef steers, fair to g00d... 9.00® 9.50
Heifers, prime 9.00® 10.00
Cows, fat, good to choice.. 8.75® 9.50
Cows, fair to good 7.00® 8.50
Cutters and feeder cows... 5.50® 7.25
Cannerg 4.50® 5.75
Bulls 5.00® 6.00
Veal calves 8.50® 13.00
Feeders, good to choice... 10.00@ 10.50
Feeders, fair to good B.oo® 9.50
Stockers, good to choice... 8.25® 9.00
stockers, fair to good 7.50® 8.00
tockers, plain 5.00® 6.50
Hogs.
Good hogs $18.00@13.50
Sheep.
Lambs, fat, good to ch. .. .$15.00016.00
Lambs, fat, fair to g00d... 14.00@15.00
Lambs, feeders 13.00@14.50
Yearlings 9.00 @IO.OO
Ewes, fat, good to choice.. B.oo® 9.00
Feeder ewes 6.00® 7.50
Dressed Poultry.
The following prices on dressed poul
try are net F. O. B. Denver:
Turkeys, No. Is 38 @4O
Turkeys, old toms 34
Hens, lb 20 @22
Ducks, young 25 ®27
Geese 25 ®27
Roosters 12 ®l4
Live Poultry.
Turkeys, 10 lbs. or over 32 @35
Hens, lb 18 @2O
Ducklings 21 @23
Goslings 22 @24
Broilers 32
Cocks 10
Springs 19 @23
Eggs.
Eggs, strictly fresh, case
count $21.00@23.00
Hotter.
Creameries, ex. Ist grade, lb. 70
Creameries, 2d grade 62
Process butter 59
Packing stock 42 @44
Dutter Fat.
Direct 73
Station 69
Fruit.
Apples, Colo., box $2.0003.00
Pears, Colo., crate 1.50® 3.00
Vegetables.
Beans, navy, cwt 8.50 0 9.00
Beans, pinto, cwt 6.00® 6.50
Beans, lima, lb .25
Beans, green, lb 15 @ .17
Beans, wax, lb 16® .20
Beets, new, cwt 3.00 @ 4.00
Cabbage, new, Colo., cwt. 6.00 @ 5.50
Carrots, new, cwt 3.50® 4.00
Cauliflower, lb 15® .17
Celery, Colo I.oo® 2.00
Cucumbers, h. h., d0z.... 2.75® 3.50
Leaf lettuce, h. h., doz.. .75® 1.25
Lettuce, head, doz I.oo® 2.00
Onions, Colo., cwt 5.00® 6.50
Potatoes, new, Colo 3.10® 3.75
Radishes, round, h. h 40® .50
Radishes, long, h. h 35® .40
Turnips, new, cwt 3.00® 3.50
HAY AND GRAIN.
Grain.
(Buying price (bulk) carloads, f. o. b.
Denver.)
Corn, No. 3 yellow $2.85
Corn, No. 3 mixed 2.80
Oats, per cwt 2.65
Barley, per cwt 2.70
Hay.
Timothy. No. 1, ton $28.00
Timothy, No. 2, ton 27.00
South Park, ton 27.50
Alfalfa, ton 24.50
Second Bottom No. 1, ton 26.00
HIDES AND PELTS.
Denver Price List.
Dry Flint Hides.
Butcher, 16 lbs. and up $ .35
Butcher, under 16 lbs .35
Fallen, all weights .33
Bulls and stags .18
Culls -15
Dry salt hides 5c per lb. less.
Dry Flint Pelts.
Wool pelts $ .80
Short wool pelts .25
Butcher shearings .15
Bucks, saddles and pieces of
pelts *l3
No. 2 and murrain shearings .10
Green Salted Hides, Etc.
Cured hides, 25 lbs. and up,
No. 1 3 .*0
Cured hides, 25 lbs. and up,
No. 2 .19
Bulls, No. 1 *ls
Bulls, No. 2 .14
Glues, hides and skins... ••• .12
Kip, No. 1 -30
Kip. No. 2 -28
Calf, No. 1 -45
Calf, No. 2 ........ .43
Branded kip and calf. No. 1.. .20
Branded kip and calf, No. 2.. -18
i 8.00@9.00
No 2 ! 7.00@8.00
Headless, 50c less. , nnAl ..
Ponies and glues 3.00 @4.00
Green Salted Horsehides.
Green hides 2c per lb. less than
cured.
Part cured hides lc per lb. less than
cured.
METAL MARKETS.
Colorado settlement prices:
Bar silver, 31.34.
Copper, pound, 18 @ 19c.
Lead, $6.75.
Spelter, $8.27.
Tungsten, per unit, $7.60@12.00.
Chicago Produce.
Chicago.—Butter —Creamery, 57@ 67c.
Eggs Firsts, 74 @ 75c; ordinary
68 Foult’ry Alive Springs, 28 %c.
Fowls, 18©25c; turkeys, 32c.
Cash Grain In Chicago.
Chicago.—Corn—No. 2 mixed, not
quoted; No. 8 mixed, $1.51@1.52; No. 2
yellow, not quoted; No. 3 yellow,
$1.61 @1.54.
Oats—No. 2 white, No. 3
white, 84@87c.
Rye—No, 2, $1.74 @1.75.
Barley—sl.62 @1.67.
Timothy Seed —$8.50 @11.50.
Clover Seed —$30.00 @48.00.
Pork —Nominal.
Lard—[e-mail].
Ribs—slß.2s.
EASTERN LIVE STOCK.
At Chicago.
Chicago.—Hogs —Bulk, $18.50 @ 13.75;
top, $14.00; heavy, $13.45013.80; me
dium, $13.50013.85; light, $13.60@ 13.80;
light light, $13.00@13.50; heavy pack
ing - sows, smooth, $12,75 013.26; pack
ing sows, rough, $12.26@ 12.75; pigs,