The Colorado statesman., 1919-04-05
The LATEST IMPORTANT DIG
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPH.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EvEIrs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper Union news Service.

WESTERN
J. E. Gebhart, farmer, who lives in
Plainville, Kan, boasts goat mat
gives her weight in milk every eleven
days.
The Carrie Nation home, on the
Kansas side, established by the fam
Gus saloon smasher, used for years as
a tenement, has been reopened as
mercy institution by the w. G. L. U.
of Kansas
Quarantine because of influenza
against Skagway and all ports south of
Skagway or elsewhere on the Alaskan
coast has been established by Gov
ernor Mackenzie of Yukon territory.
No one will be allowed to leave Skag-
way southbound until after five days
detention in quarantine at their own
expense.
To learn II it is necessary for
Nebraska to make special provision
for caring for discharged soldiers who
have become mentally deranged while
IN the service, Governor Samuel X.
McKelvie' of that state, sent COM
munication to Secretary of War Baker
asking for immediate information on
the subject.
The fire in the Argonaut gold mine
of Jackson, Calf, one of the deepest
mines in the country, is expected TO
burn probably ten days longer, accord
ing to officials, who announced that
efforts had been made to smother the
flames by means of bulkheads. The
origin of the fire has not been deter
mined and it has been impossible TO
determine the extent of the damage.
The fire is burning on the 4,GOO-foot
level In a working where one of the
two pumping plants to clear the mine
of water is located.
WASHINGTON
Eugene V. Debs' application for n
rehearing of his appeal from convic-
ton and sentence TO ten years i'm
prisonment for violating the espionage
act was denied by the Supreme Court.
Sales to foreign governments of
more than 100000 worth of sur
plus war supplies has been announced
by the War Department. Most of this
went to France, whose purchases in
cluded smokeless powder, acids, cop
per, cannon and steel plates, for which
s155, 100000 was paid.
Three weeks before the Victory Loan
compaign is to open the first subscrip-
ton has been received. To the navy
goes the honor of firing the first
shot" Secretary Daniels, just before
he sailed for Europe, sent a check for
5000 to Rear Admiral T. ]. Cowie, IN
charge of the Nays subscriptions, and
at the same time called on the men
who made the sea safe during the war
10 continue the splendid record of pre-
vious loans.
The meat packing industry, which
his been under federal license since
October, 1917, has been released from
food administration control by pro-
clamation signed by President In Paris.
Under the proclamation "all persons,
firms, corporations or associations en-
gagged in importing, manufacturing, in
Guiding packing, storing or distribut-
ing fresh, canned or cured beef, pork,
mutton or lard" are released from
license by the food administration.
An oak tree dedicated to the soldier
dead of the Department Of Agriculture
was planted on the department grounds
by Secretary Houston, assisted by Col.
Henry S. Graves of the forest service,
who himself saw service in France.
Representative of the army and navy
participated in the ceremony.
Commercial stocks of wheat were
three times as large on March l as a
year ago, the department q, agricul-
ture estimated on a basis OF reports
returned from nearly twelve thousand
elevators, warehouses, grain mills and
wholesale firms. The total report
amounted to 1877, PIT 900 bushels which
is 3oS per cent that of the 1918 stock.
Wheat on farms and with other COM
mercial dealers is not included
Five hundred dangerous enemy
aliens, including convicted criminals,
spies and agents, will be turned free
upon the conclusion of peace unless
the next Congress Immediately passes
legislation providing the necessary ma
chinery for their deportation. This fact
was revealed in a statement by Attor-
ney General Palmer, in which he dis
closed the number of persons now in
termed in detention camps as 1000.
The geophone, invented during the
war to determine the exact location
of sounds above and beneath the sur
face of the earth, soon will be used OK
tensively in mining operations in this
country, the bureau of mines an
nounced in Washington.
Official admission by Mexico of ex-
tensive land concessions to japanese.
corporations in Lower California may
raise the question of Japan's inten-
tons in this hemisphere even more