The Colorado statesman., 1920-12-04
FOREIGN

Hundreds of prisoners have been
taken In Dublin in great roundup OF
Sim Feln leaders. In addition to Ar
thur Griffith, head of the Sim Fein,
and John Mcneil, commander OF the
Irish volunteers, police and military
took many lesser officials to jail.
General Baron Wrangel has notified
| the French government he Is ready to
come to Paris to discuss using his army
once more against the forces of soviet
Russia. This army, which has been re-
organized since its disastrous defeat by
the Bolshevists on the Crimean penin-
sula, is said to number about 10000
men.
The naval court of inquiry lnvesti-
eating the actions of American marines
concluded Its hearings in Haiti with
the examination of Lieutenant Colonel
Hooker of the gendarmerie, who testi-
| fled to the belief that 1000 peaceful
Haitlens had been killed by bandits In
the last few years. He declared that
| from March, 1919, to October, 1913,
large farming and settlement areas
were completely wiped out by bandits.
The avalanche which descended from
the summit of Mont Blanc into the
Italian valley of Courmayeur has
caused greater havoc than was first re-
ported. Several square kilometers of
land are covered with blocks of ice,
tree trunks and boulders, and near the
village of Portud pine forest, cele-
brated for its antiquity and the size of
the trees was absolutely uprooted. The
avalanche fell through the air dis
lance of about 10000 feet, landing on
the Brenva glacier and carrying away
portion. The defamation was so pow
erful as to shake houses fifty miles
away.
Discovery of S105, 900 in bonds in the
attic of John DOughtys home at Tor
onto, Can, was announced by the po-
lice shortly after the arrival of Dough-
ty in custody of detectives who brought
him to Toronto from Oregon City, Ore.
Doughty was secretary of Ambrose
Small, Toronto millionaire, who disap-
peared a year ago. Doughty and sew
eral hundred thousand dollars in bonds
vanished at the same time. Police said
Doughty revealed the hiding place of
the bonds. They were found wrapped
in an old newspaper. Doughty reiter-
ated he did not know what had become
of Small
GENERAL
One person dead, another missing
and property loss of approximately
100000 is the result of tornado of
two minutes duration which struck at
Port Arthur Texas, port near the
coast and on Sabine lake. A portion of
the Port Arthur canal and dock COM
panies' sheds were demolished by the
| storm.
Mrs. Charles Garland of New Bed
ford, Mass, agrees with her husband in
| his determination to refuse his inner
itance of $1,000,000 She said so, smil-
ing cheerfully, this afternoon, and add
ed: Il am quite willing to be a poor
mans wife, and If my family in Ded-
ham leave me any money-they have
plenty of i'll will turn it down." Nor
do the couple have any fear that they
are doing an injustice to their baby,
Margaret, just month and half old.
Keith Collins, aviator, bogus army Of
ficer and alleged master mind" in the
worlds greatest mail train robbery, in
custody of postal inspectors at Kansas
City, following his sensational capture
in Westville, Okla. Collins was heav-
lily shackled when taken off a train
and hurried to the postoffice building
to undergo cross examination by Joe p.
Johnston, chief postal inspector. Col
Inns, who is charged by postal authori-
ties with having planned the SO, 900
mail train robbery between Council
Bluffs and Omaha, Neb., Nov. 13, is
said to have confessed his share in the
plot.
A golden casket, presented by the
city of Baltimore to Charles NJ.
Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, has been stolen from his
New York mansion on Riverside drive,
Schwab declared. Schwab discovered
the golden casket was missing when he
read an article in a New York news
paper stating that such box had been
sold in Germany by sailor.
Allan A. Ryan, New York financier,
who several months ago aroused the fl
nancial world through his alleged
manipulation of corner in Stutz Mo
tor stock, announced that he had con-
ferred with Samuel Untermeyer with
view to retaining the attorney to take
charge of the reimbursement of his fl
nancal affairs, which are reported to
involve several millions of dollars.
Renewed violence has been reported
from several points in the Mingo coun-
ty coal strike zone and nearby. to mil
itary authorities and to the offices of
the Coal Operators Association at VIII
liamston, w. Va. The most serious oc-