The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-12-26
FOREIGN

lantic, died Of injuries sustained when
he fell near Rouen, France.
During the fiscal year which ended
June 30, 1910, Brazil imported $SOO0,-
600 worth of automobile and motor
parts from the United States, which is
an increase of IS per cent over the
value of the 1918 imports.
Seven hundred soldiers of the army
commanded by Admiral Kolchak, head
of the all-Russian government in ST
IBERIA, have frozen to death in hos
pital near Omsk, according to wire
less dispatch from Moscow.
1t is learned at Toxic on good au-
thority that the Dutch government has
engaged $50 German prisoners Of war,
who are among those held in Japan, to
serve in the police force at Java and
former officers who fought at Using
tau.
Reports of fresh wave of pogroms
in the districts of the Ukraine occu
pied by General Denikine's forces are
printed by the Lemberg newspaper Ga
berg advices. The newspaper claims
that about 5000 Jews were killed in
Ekaterinoslav alone.
Lieut.. Henri Roget made a new air.
plane record for altitude with two pas
sengers at Paris. Flying through
thick mist. he reached an altitude of
5000 meters 19,6s5 feet). The pre-
feeD. Roget's feat was accomplished
under official supervision.
dispatch from Basle states the
former German emperor has finally
agreed to accept trial by the allies
but adds that he wishes to choose the
place and time of the trial and desires
to be defended by German experts and
lawyers. The Basle advices say the
former crown prince declares he never
will appear if he is called before
court of Justice.
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
r. Hansen, United States vice consul
at Omsk. and Joseph H. Ray, consul
at 1rkutsk, who are west of Taiga, are
felt here. Nothing has been heard
from them for more than week
Alexandra Millerand, former minis
ter of war and at present governor of
Alsace. according to reports, will sue
of France, says the Echo de Paris 1t
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
Victor L. Berger, who was reelected
to Congress from the fifth congression-
al district, December 10Th, following
his expulsion from that body, said that
he Will go to Washington January 9TH
to claim his seat.
The number of motor vehicles in
Mexico City and suburbs that com
prise the federal district, according to
statistics acquired at different munici-
pal registration offices, follows: Pleas
ure cars (private), 2,337; pleasure cars
(for public use), 1915; jitneys, 1,1O4 (;
motor trucks, 1876; total number Of cars
in Mexico City, 5.493; the total (esti-
mated) number of cars In the Mexican
republic is $4,000.
The new road bill in Ohio has gone
into effect and as a result the Ohio
highway commission and motorists
generally are very much elated The
new law provides for a levy of 3 mill
instead of 3 mill This will mean
about $4,000. 900 for road improvements
next year. The law provides that the
various counties must put up so per
cent and In many cases more; thus
about $12,OOO,OOO comes from that
source.
Liquor interests estimate their losses
as result of the enforcement of the
wartime prohibition law at 100000,
cago by Levy Mayer, chief counsel for
the distillers in the middle West.
Theft of nine barrels of sacramental
wine was reported to the police by a
wholesale liquor dealer in New York.
He said that the theft was accom-
plished by siphoning the wine from his
basement, where it was stored, to an
adjoining cellar, by means of seventy
five-foot pipe. The owner had special
permit from the government to keep
the wine in bond with the understand
ing that it was to be sold for religious
purposes only.
Somewhere in Montana, julius Il.
johnson, formerly of st. Joseph, NO.,
Is working on railroad. In New York
an $4,000 legacy awaits him. When
an application was made to settle the
$4,000 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