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WESTERN
Approximately $8,000,000 is now
available for highway construction in
Nevada up to the end of 1921 through
such sources as state revenue, state
and county bond issues, federal aid,
etc.
Second Lieutenant Herbert Tucli
borne of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and Pri
vate Allister Lima of San Luis Obispo,
Calif., were killed at March field, the
-army aviation field near Riverside,
when their airplane fell 2,000 feet.
Constitutionality of a state law de
signed to curtail use of foreign lan
guages in Nebraska schools as an
Americanization measure was upheld
by the State Supreme Court of Ne
braska.
A train loaded with 185,000 gallons
of gin, valued at $7,000,000, was
shipped from Peoria, 111., to New York.
The gin must be beyond the three-mile
limit at sea by midnight, Jan. 14, 1920,
when the bonds expire. The gin will
go to Havana, Cuba. In the train there
was twenty-seven cars. Each car will
contain fifty-nine barrels of fifty-five
gallons each.
The ashes of the late W. C. Bosch
en of New York, famous as a swordfish
angler- wpre thrown on the waves
twelve miles from Avalon, Calif., one
day recently by Capt. George C. Farns
worth, his former boatman, to whom
he devised a legacy of $25,000. This
was in accordance with wishes ex
pressed by Boschen.
The second Pan-American Congress,
scheduled to open in Washington, D.
C., January 12th, has been deferred
one week, according to a telegram re
ceived from Carter Glass, secretary of
the treasury. The postponement was
necessitated by the delay of several
foreign delegations in obtaining steam
ship accomodations.
Twelve warships have arrived at
San Diego, bringing the number of
war craft in the harbor up to seventy
eight, said to be the greatest number
of war vessels ever together in the
Pacific under the American flag.
Several of the more recent arrivals
put on extra speed so as to arrive in
time to spend the holidays there.
Announcement that the national gov
ernment is planning an elk ranch for
the Yellowstone Park herd to be es
tablished in Park county, fifteen miles
north of the park, is contained in a
letter to the Livingston Enterprise
from Stephen Mather, director of na
tional parks. The elk each winter have
crossed the park boundaries and were
killed by hunters or starved to death.
WASHINGTON
The Shipping Board has under con
sideration the sale of all former Ger
man passenger ships with the stipula
tion that the vessels be run under the
American flag, it has been announced
In Washington.
France’s national credit loan was
over-subscribed on the first day, ac
cording to cable advices received in
Washington from Paris by the French
commission. The advices added that
the over-subscription had exceeded the
most optimistic expectations of the
government.
Successful tests of a motor fuel de
clared to be not only more economical
than gasoline, but also easier on motors,
have been announced by Otto Praeger,
second assistant postmaster general in
charge of the air mail service. The
fuel consists of thirty-eight parts alco
hol, thirty gasoline, nineteen benzol,
seven and one-half ether and four tol
uol. Ingredients making up the re
maining one and one-half parts were
not given.
Large increases in the export of
toreadstuffs were noted in the Novem
ber report of the Department of Com
merce, but exports of meat and dairy
products decreased $10,000,000 as com
pared with the same month a year ago.
Breadstuffs exported in November val
ued at as compared with
$66,271,644 for November, 1918. For the
eleven months ended with November
the total was $865,552,948 against
$708,127,113 for the corresponding pe
riod of 1918. Meat and dairy products
exported in November were valued at
$61,948,690, and those sent out of the
country for the eleven months period
were worth $1,097,724,912 against $853,-
796,000 for the corresponding period
the year before.
FOREIGN
The engineer of a freight train which
ran into a passenger train, causing
fifteen deaths, blew out his brains
with a revolver after assisting injured
passengers at Lille, France.
Lady Ramsay, formerly Princess Pa
tricia of Connaught, gave birth to a
son in London. Princess Patricia was
married to Commander Alexander Rob
ert Maule Ramsey of the royal navj
in February.
During the fiscal year which ended
June 30, 1919, Brazil imported SB,OOO,
000 worth of automobile and motoi
parts from the United States, which is
an increase of 35 per cent over the
value of the 1918 imports.
Premier Nitti of Italy, expressed the
opinion that from 12,000,000,000 to 15,-
000,000,000 lire would be subscribed to
the victory loan, the sale of which be
gins Jan. sth. On his return from the
visit he is to make to Paris and Lon
don early in January Premier Nitti
will undertake a speaking tour on be
half of the loan.
The Bolsheviki captured fifteen
guns, 1,000 horses and 300 men after
defeating the forces of General Mam
ontoff and General Chelnokoff in the
region of Staroniensk, according to n
wireless dispatch received from Mos
cow. The dispatch adds: “More than
a thousand Cossacks were killed, in
cluding General Chelnokoff.”
The rebels in Eastern Siberia, says
a Moscow dispatch, have completely
several all communication on the
Amur line and Blagovieshtchensk has
been cut off. The dispatch adds that
Galician troops, intended for the de
fense of Kiev, have revolted against
General Denikine, the anti-Bolshevik
leader in the South and attacked the
volunteer ai*my in the rear.
Taiga has been captured by local
Bolsheviki. Many trains on the trans
siberian railroad west of Taiga have
been cut off and Polish troops in that
region will be forced to fight their
way out. Fears for the safety of T.
R. Hansen, United States vice consul
at Omsk, and Joseph H. Ray, consul
at Irkutsk, who are west of Taiga, are
felt here. Nothing has been heard
from them for more than a week.
Herr Huszar, the Hungarian pre
mier, stated in Budapest to a deputa
tion representing those crippled during
the war, that Communism had cost Hun
gary eighteen billion kronen (nominal
ly about $3,600,000,000), according to
a report received in Berlin. The pre
mier said that Rumanian invasion had
taken thirty-six billion kronen more.
The national assembly now had to re
store Hungary’s finance from a des
perate condition.
GENERAL
Statistics obtained show that 1,725
British girls married American dough
boys. Os these only seventeen remain
•to be sent to join their husbands in the
United States.
Judge A. W. Sanborn ordered 31,000
pounds of sugar, seized last week from
M. Leach, Beloit, confiscated and
turned over to the Wisconsin fair price
committee Leach was fined SIOO and
costs.
Victor L. Berger, who was re-elected
to Congress from the fifth congression
al district, December 19th, following
his expulsion from that body, said that
he will go to Washington January sth
to claim his seat.
Uruguay has been linked to the
United States through the All-Ameri
can cables by the opening of a new
line from Buenos Aires to Montevideo,
putting New York and Montevideo in
direct telegraphic communication with
each other for the first time.
Maj. A. E. McKeever, M. C., D. S. 0.,
one of the best-known Canadian aces
in the great war and credited with the
destruction of forty-five German ma
chines, died in a hospital as the result
of an operation at Toronto..ln an auto
mobile accident near Stratford, Ont.,
some time ago, he suffered a broken
leg and internal injuries.
Purchase of 250,000 acres of Montana
grazing land with 25,000 head of cattle
has been effected by the Hill Land
Corporation, organized by Walter J.
Hill, son of the late James J. Hill, Jus
tice Oscar Hallam of the Minnesota
Supreme Court, 11. P. McClennan, wide
ly known Montana stockman, and F. S.
Dalrymple of New York.
John D. Rockefeller gave to man
kind a Christmas present of $100,000,-
000 —half to the General Education
Board to raise the salaries of college
professors and half to the Rockefeller
foundation to aid in its work of com
bating disease through improvement ot
medical education, public health ad
ministration and scientific research. 1
is estimated that Mr. Rockefeller’s
public gifts now approximate $450,-
000,000.
New York boasts of a new school
boy tennis wonder in the person of
Charles M. Wood, Jr., 14 years old, of
the Dewitt Clinton High school. Play
ing in the semi-finals of the junior in
door national championships the youth
easily won his match and displayed
such powerful service and speed at
volleying that experts among the spec
tators were fairly dazzled.
ARIZONA STATE MINER
Southwest News
From All Over
New Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Over SIOO,OOO is spent, being spent,
or about to be spent in improvement
and extension of the Socorro county,
New Mexico rural school system.
The executive committee of the
Southern Baptist convention of New
Mexico, decided on Las Vegas as the
location for the Baptist college, which
is to be erected in this state.
“A square deal for the farm boy and
the farm girl,” is one of the slogans
of the Boys and Girls’ club depart
ment of the Agricultural Extension
Service of the University of Arizona. >
Officials of the Mesa post of the
American Legion have launched a
movement to secure for the post two
sections of land northeast of Mesa,
Arizona. The land is now held by the
War Department. It was homesteaded
ten years ago by officers of the Mesa
Company of the Arizona National
Guard and held as a military reserve.
Giovani Estrada, a bright Mexican
boy, 9 years old, is in the St. Mary’s
hospital at Gallup, N. Mex., in a seri
ous condition as the result of being
burned by an electric wire. The boy
climbed a pole to get a ball which had
lodged in the wires and in some way
came in contact with a live wire with
the result that his left arm was burned
off at the elbow, his right arm partial
ly disabled and his body burned in
several places.
Four hundred and four forest fires
have occurred during the past season
in the national forests of Arizona and
New Mexico, according to a report just
compiled by the forest service. Fully
50 per cent of these fires were caused
by human agency, and approximately
50 per cent by lightning. Among those
caused by human agency, the largest
number were set by logging operations,
and the next largest by campers. These
fires burned more than six thousand
acres of forest land, caused damage of
about $3,300, and cost over $6,000 to
extinguish. One and one-fourth mil
lion board feet of timber were des
troyed.
The Federal Monthly Crop Report
just released for publication through
the office of Field Agent It. F. Hare
of the Bureau of Crop Estimates,
shows that New Mexico has planted
this fall 211,000 acres of wheat com
pared to 182,000 acres planted last
year. Last year’s crop passed the win
ter and spring with an abandonment of
only 3 per cent of the planted acreage.
The condition of the present crop is
reported better on December Ist, than
was last year’s crop at that time. In
the United States only 38,770,000 acres
of wheat has been planted this year,
compared to 50,489,000 planted last
year. The condition of this crop is
only 85.2 per cent of normal, compared
to a condition of 98.6 per cent for last
year’s crop at this time. This report
shows that New Mexico has produced
681,700 bushels of apples this year, and
75 per cent of these have been shipped
from the county in which they were
grown. Chaves county reports having
shipped 845 cars, San Juan county 200,
Otero 60, and De Baca 12 cars. The
Bureau’s investigation relative to
wages of farm labor this year, com
pared to 1918, 1917, and 1910, show
that the wages of the farm laborer
have kept pace in this state with high
cost of living. The report shows that
the average wage by the month with
out board, was as follows: for 1910,
$34.25 ; for 1917, $48.00 ; for 1918, $59.00
and for 1919, $60.00. This year, day
laborers commanded $2.90 per day;
last year they were paid $2.38; in 1917,
$1.97 and in 1910 they were only paid
$1.58.
Arizona’s mines enriched the world
by $174,559,388.86 during the year just
closing, according to the annual report
of the state tax commission. The min
erals produced totaled 19,188,716.20
dry tons, and the average value per
ton from the gross yield was $9.10.
Copper production amounted to about
16 times the value of all the other min
erals produced, gold and silver follow
ing next. Copper produced amounted
to 729,001,687.06 pounds, of which 682,-
323,226.61 pounds were marketed at an
average price of $0.23291, or a total of
$163,218,516.35. Gold production
amounted to 249,259.08 ounces the av
erage price being $20.43, and the total
value being $5,092,706.43. In silver
production the state had 5,126,054.9
ounces, the average price being
$0.9727, and the total value, $4,986,-
140.67. In lead the state produced 6,-
622,052.03 pounds at an average value
of .0667, or a total of $441,563.26.
The government has approved plans
and specifications for the Douglas-Ro
deo highway link in Arizona, according
to word received from .Washington by
State Engineer Maddock. This means,
that the road will receive $167,000 fed
eral aid for its construction.
POISON WHISKEY
KILLS MANY
146 DEATHS REPORTED .FROM
DIFFERENT EASTERN
CITIES.
DETECTIVES ON TRAIL
GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARREST
MANY IN HUNT FOR POISON
SOURCE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York, Dec. 29. —With the known
death toll thus far fixed at 146, and
with scores of others dying or blinded
by wood alcohol poisoning, caused by
drinking a liquor believed to have been
made in New York and peddled under
the guise of whisky, federal officials
have announced that the entire machin
ery of the government will be called
into action to trace down those guilty
in the present wave of death and all
other bootleggers and distillers of
moonshine whisky, wherever they may
operate.
New York. —Working on the theory
that the wood alcohol poison booze,
which has caused scores of deaths
throughout New England and New
York, originated in this city, Col. D. L.
Parker, supervising revenue agent for
New York, and H. B. Dobbs, special
federal agent, announced many arrests
made in various parts of this city.
Three of the prisoners arrested are
Adolph Panarelli, a wine and liquor
dealer; John Romanelli, an undertak
er, and Samuel K. Saleeby, a druggist.
Panarelli said: “I am glad you got me.
I will tell all I know.”
Federal agents have arrested five
other men whom they asserted to be
the heads of an organized band which
has been responsible for the recent
widespread sale of wood alcohol con
coctions through five states. One of
the men arrested was described by the
government agents as “the kingpin of
the ring.”
New Haven, Conn. —Six men have
been arrested in connection with the
sale of wood alcohol “whisky,” which
they are alleged to have shipped from
this city to Chicopee, Mass. The ar
rests were made at the request of the
district attorney at Westfield, Mass.,
who telegraphed that the men were
wanted for homicide in Massachusetts.
Chicopee, Mass. —United States Mar
shal Edward J. Lyden arrested four
men on feedral warrants, two charg
ing violation of the war-time prohibi
tion act and two illegal transportation
of liquor from state to state. The ar
rests resulted from his investigation
into the deaths of more than fifty per
sons in the Connecticut valley since
Christmas from drinking wood alcohol
contained in a mixture sold as whisky.
Five more deaths had resulted from
alcoholic poisoning, four in Holyoke
and one in Chicopee, bringing the total
for the Connecticut valley, not includ
ing Hartford, to fifty-three.
Parade Against H. C. L. in Havana.
Havana.—One man was killed and
one woman and five men, including
two policemen, were injured during a
clash between the police and a crowd
engaged in a demonstration against
the high cost of living and excessive
house rents. The wounded policemen
claim that the crowd attacked them
when they demanded to see the permit
for the parade. Witnesses say, how
ever, that the police fired on the peo
ple without warning.
Living Cost Increase 82 Per Cent.
Boston, Mass. —An increase of 82.2
per cent in the cost of living for Amer
ican wage earners between July, 1914,
and November, 1919, is shown in a
statement issued by the National In
dustrial Conference Board. This rep
resents an advance of 10.4 per cent
since November, 1918; 13.5 per cent
since March, 1919, when prices
dropped temporarily, and 5.8 per cent
since last July. The increase in the
cost of the five major items in the
family budget since July, 1914, was:
Food, 92 per cent; shelter, 38 per
cent; clothing, 135 per cent; fuel,
heat and light, 48 per cent, and sun
dries, 75 per cent.
Predicts New Government.
Ogden, Utah. —Inevitably there will
be a conflict of the Russian peasants
with the Lenine-Trotzky radicalism
and a new government will develop in
Siberia and European Russia, accord
ing to Dr. E. P. Mills, American Red
Cross surgeon in charge of the Irkutsk
military hospital, who spoke in Ogden.
MARKET
QUOTATIONS
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DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.
Beef steers, ch. to prime.. sll.oo® 12.00
Beef steers, good to choice [email protected]
Beef steers, fair to g00d... 9.00® 9.50
Heifers, prime [email protected]
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
Canners 4.50 @ 5.75
Bulls 5.00@ 6.00
Veal calves [email protected]
Feeders, good to choice... [email protected]
Feeders, fair to good B.oo@ 9.50
Stockers, good to choice... 8.25@ 9.00
Stockers, fair to good 7.50@ 8.00
Stockers, plain 5.00 @ 6.50
Hogs.
Good hogs $13.001413.60
Sheep.
Lambs, fat, good to ch.... $15.00 @ 16.00
Lambs, fat, fair to g00d... [email protected]
Lambs, feeders [email protected]
Yearlings [email protected]
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 [email protected]
Rutter.
Creameries, ex. Ist grade, lb. 70
Creameries, 2d grade 62
Process butter 59
Packing stock 42 @44
Rutter Fat.
Direct 73
Station 69
Fruit.
Apples, Colo., box [email protected]
Pears, Colo., crate [email protected]
Vegetables.
Beans, navy, cwt 8.50@ 9.00
Beans, pinto, cwt 6.00@ 6.50
Beans, lima, lb .25
Beans, green, lb 16 @ .17
Beans, wax, lb 16 @ .20
Beets, new, cwt 3.00 @ 4.00
Cabbage, new, Colo., cwt. 5.00 @ 5.50
Carrots, new, cwt 3.50 @ 4.00
Cauliflower, lb 15 @ .17
Celery, Colo 1.00 @ 2.00
Cucumbers, h. h., d0z.... 2.75@ 3.50
Leaf lettuce, h. h., doz.. .75@ 1.26
Lettuce, head, doz 1.00 @ 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 $ .30
Short wool pelts .25
Butcher shearings .15
Bucks, saddles and pieces of
pelts ........ .13
No. 2 and murrain shearings .10
Green Salted Hides, Etc.
Cured hides, 25 lbs. and up,
No. 1 $ -20
Cured hides, 25 lbs. and up,
No. 2 .19
Bulls, No. 1 .15
Bulls, No. 2 .14
Glues, hides and skins .12
Kip, No. 1 *3O
Kip, No. 2 .28
Calf, No. 1 -^5
Calf, No. 2 -43
Branded kip and calf, No. 1.. .20
Branded kip and calf. No. 2..
No 1 [email protected]
No! 2 7.00 @B.OO
Headless, 50c less. „
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, $1.34.
Copper, pound, 18@19c.
Lead, $6.75.
Spelter, $8.27.
Tungsten, per unit, [email protected].
EASTERN LIVE STOCK.
At Chicago.
Chicago.—Hogs —Bulk, $13.50 @13.76;
top $14.00; heavy, [email protected]; me
dium, $13.50@ 13.85; light, [email protected];
light light, [email protected]; heavy pack
ing sows, smooth, [email protected]; pack*
ing sows, rough, $12.25 @ 12.75; pigs
$12.25 @13.25.
Cattle —Beef steers, medium and
heavy: Choice and prime, SIB.OO @
20.50; medium and good, [email protected];
common. [email protected]. Light weight;
Good and choice, [email protected]; common
and medium, [email protected]. Butcher cat
tle: Heifers, [email protected]; cows. $6.00@
13.50; canners and cutters, [email protected]
Veal calves, [email protected]. Feedei
steers, [email protected]; stocker steers, $6.09
@10.50.
Sheep—Lambs, $15.25 @ 17.35; cull*
and common, [email protected]; ewes, me
dium, good and choice, SB.OO @10.25;
culls’and common, [email protected].
CHICAGO PRODUCE.
Chicago. Butter Creamery, 56@
6 ° Eggs Firsts, 65@66%c; ordinary
firsts, 64c; at mark, cases included,
64 V, 66c.
Poultry—Alive, springs, 26c; fowls
1 x fii) 27c turkevs. 40c.