The Colorado statesman., 1920-10-16
FOREIGN


other passenger train running from Ar
genteuil for Paris.
The Chinese government formally
has approved the sending Of japanese
troops into the Hunchan district of
Manchuria, to protect japanese nation
ais there, says n Toxic cablegram.
Demands for immediate increase in
wages has been telegraphed the Ger
man minister of labor by the confer
ence held at Bochume of four miners
unions composing the Miners Fedora
tion, says the Vorwaerts.
The French aviator, Fronval, estab-
lished world record for landing at
a given spot when he ascended to a
height of 1000 meters and came down
within nine feet of the spot Indicated.
The measurement was 260 meters.
The Prince of Wales made a triumph
ant entry into London on his return
from his six months tour of the en-
sons turned out to give him one of the
greatest welcomes of the kind In the
history of the country.
The yellow fever epidemic in the
Tuxpam oil fields is spreading and lao
died there from the disease during the
last week, said a dispatch from Tux
pam. The people are becoming panic
stricken and are appealing to the gov
ernment for assistance.
More than SO,00O,O0O,000 marks in
German paper money was circulated
at the end of September, according to
the Chreich's bank statement covering
that period, made public in Berlin.
This announcement closely follows an
official admission that the current
budget shows a deficit of 67,00o00o,O0
marks.
Man o. War proved his claim as the
''horse of the century" at Windsor, On
tario, when he defeated Sir Barton over
mile and a quarter at Kenilworth
Park. Clarence Hummer piloted the
great colt owned by Samuel Riddle to
victory while crowd of $4,000 cheered
wildly. The race was for a purse OF
$4,000 and a $1,000 cup, all going to
the winner.
GENERAL
Rube Marquard, star southpaw pitch
er of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was found
guilty of ticket scalping when ar
raigned in Municipal Court at Cleve
land, and was fined 81 and costs.
Clinton L. Conkling, who notified
Abraham Lincoln of his nomination fol
president by the Republican national
convention at Chicago, died at his
home in Springfield, ILL.,, this week.
Capt. R. w. Schroeder of McCooh
field, holder of the world altitude
record, will retire from the air serv
| ice as soon as he returns from
France, where he flew in the Gordon
Bennett race.
A gift of $4,000 by the Rockefeller
Foundation to the American Hospita
Association, on condition that $1,000 4.
obtained from other sources, was an
nounced ut the closing session of the
associations convention at Montreal
Gold valued at approximately So,
100000, consigned to the federal re
serve bank, arrived at New York or
the steamship Aquitania. This is the
fourth recent shipment of gold from
the Bank of England, making $3S,
100000.
Several hundred Louisiana planters
and business men at New Orleans, in
dorsed plan of Barry ID. Wilson, stats
commissioner of agriculture and imIni
grafton, providing for importation o,
Mexican laborers for cane, rice, sugal
and cotton fields.
An assertion that the interstate com
merce commission made an apparent
error of S192, ,S53, ,696 in the calculation
upon which it fixed the freight rate
increase on western roads to give the
roads n per cent return, is made IL
an opinion granting modified 30 pei
cent increase in Kansas intrastatt
rates by the Kansas court of industrial
relations, handed down at Topeka
Kan.
Two Brooklyn Boy Scouts have ar
rived in New York from San Francis
co, completing a round trip made part
ly on foot and by picking up rides in
automobiles and wagons. The boys
j. f. Budd and A. G. Greiner, began
their journey July 81, arrived at Sar
Francisco Aug. % and started bach
three days later.
| The states of New York and New
Jersey joined hands and broke ground
on the New York side for vehiculai
tunnel beneath the Hudson river which
will be the biggest substructure in the
world. State officials and other Glgni
taries from both sides of the nations
front door launched the $2s,oO0,Oot
project, while thousands of citizens OF
both New York and New Jersey
cheered.
The 1920 corn crop promises to bs