The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-25
NEWS To DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

was the declaration made by King AL
bert of the Belgians, in accepting the
honorary office of state commander of
Legion at st. Louis.
Governmental expenditures for the
DOT American cities of more than 10000
population for the fiscal year of 1918
exceeded revenues by S4S,6OO,930, or
40 per capita, according to report
of the financial statistics of cities of
over 10000 by the bureau Of the cen
sus
While attempting to regain his seat
in his airplane after performing
series of daring feats in midair, Capt.
Charles Theodore of Dallas, became
exhausted, lost his grip on the rope to
which he was clinging below the land
ing gear of his machine and fell 800
feet to his death at Dallas, Texas.
Thousands of people witnessed his ex-
hibition and his fall.
All the buildings and recreational
equipment of the knights of Columbus
at Fort Davis, Nome, Alaska, have
been turned over to 1000 Indian chill
nItI, WHOse DuItulS were NltilihH VI
the Influenza epidemic last year.
large quantity of supplies intended for
the soldiers, who have been withdrawn
for the winter months, has also been
turned over to the children.
Walker ID. Hines, director of rail
roads, has held n series of confer
ences with the heads of western roads
and officials of the United States
Grain Corporation at which plans were
discussed for the movement of the
large wheat crop from the southwest
10 the market of the east Mr.. Hines
announced that wheat would have to
be handled as emergency freight ana
given preference over other traffic I'M
til normal conditions are restored.
Sale has been announced in San
Francisco of the historic Richmond
and Eureka silver and lead mines of
Eureka, New, which were opened in
1869 and were said TO have yielded
more than S32OOO,OOO prior to 1910.
John w. Mackay of Comstock fame
was one of the investors in the mines
at n time when they paid dividends
of So a share monthly. The sale price
was given as $9,500,000. The Rich
mond-Eureka Mining Company of
Maine was the seller and the Il. A.
Hotter and II. p. Henderson syndicate
of New York city the purchaser.
WASHINGTON
Advised that the Navy Department
has in reserve 100000 pounds of SUI
gar, Secretary Daniels intimated that
he would release one-third of the stock
or 100000 pounds for public use to
relieve the situation resulting from
nationwide shortage of the commodity.
An investigation just completed by
Surgeon Edward Francis of the Unit
ed States public health service adds
another to the list of disease germs af-
fceting mankind. The germ, which
bears the name of Bacterium Tular-
ense, was first isolated by Drs. Mccoy
and Chaplin of the United States pub
lie health service as the causative
agent in plague-like disease of ro-
dents. 1t was not then known that
the same germ infects man.
Count v. Macchi di Cellere, Italian
ambassador to the United States since
1918, died in the emergency hospital
at Washington just as he was about to
undergo an operation.
Cash aggregating about $05,OO0,00O
was contributed by the American Red
Cross for relief work in France alone
and about ST5.000,0 900 was contributed
for similar work in twenty other coun-
tries during the war period of twenty
months ending last Feb. %, according
to n report of the war activities of the
organization made public in Washing
ton
Ambassador Bonillas, who has just
returned from Mexico, where he CON
ferred with President CarranZa re-
garding the relations between the
United States and Mexico, said that
the Mexican President is most opti-
mistic as to the future and expressed
the confident hope that the United
States would not intervene I'm Mexico
because of the troubles that country
is now having as a result of ten years
of revolution. President CarranZa was
said by the ambassador to be conf
dent also that by the time the rest of
the world has regained fits composure
Mexico also will be peaceful
Authority of Ohio state officials to
confiscate and sell food held in cold
storage longer than authorized under
state law, was in effect sustained
by the Supreme Court, which refused
10 review appeals in proceedings
growing out of the seizure of 125,000
pounds of pork of the Columbus Pack
ing Company.
Pressure from administration sources
for enactment of permanent railroad
legislation may block the tentative
plans of congressional leaders for ad-
journment of the extraordinary SEES
sion about Nov 10.