The Colorado statesman., 1920-02-28
GENERAL

Bat Nelson, former lightweight cham
pion. was named chief beneficiary of
the S25O,OOO estate of his father, whose
will has been filed for probate in Chi
cago.
The Chicago Tribune says reliable
indications are the census will show
Chicago's population to be 2,SO0,OO0-
30 per cent increase over the fig
ures of 1910.
Memorial certificates from the
French government have been present
ed at Philadelphia to the next of kin
of more than 1000 soldiers who gave
their lives in the world war.
a mass meeting arranged by the
Polish National committee as the first
of a series to be held throughout the
country to combat radicalism was one
of the events of the Washington Day
program at Chicago.
The Prince of Wales will leave Lon
don on his trip to the Antpodes on
March >, OH which date his ship, the
| dreadnought RenOwn. will depart from
Portsmouth, according to the official
itinerary given out at London.
CEhtii -hlliOui mas iiNNS''h ''h
additional S6,OOO,O0O in the future of
American youth. He has set aside this
sum for the expansion of Armour In
stitute, which has already far out
grown its original surroundings and
has no room in which TO spread at the
present location.
Proflteering wholesalers of mems
clothing are destined to suffer a shock
| through the importation of millions of
surplus English-made garments, ac-
cording to statement made by Ma
than Lemlein, director and former
president of the Retail ClothierS' AS
| sociation.
Kneeling before the altar of Trinity
| church in New York, woman who
gave her name as Maude Randolph,
30 years old, of Los Angeles, Calf,
attempted suicide by drinking poison.
| Persons in the church who saw her
fall summoned police ambulance and
she was taken to a hospital, where she
regained consciousness.
Electric operation of passenger
trains over a coast section of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway be-
tween OthellO, Wash, and Tacoma,
will begin about March /, according to
| an announcement by y. \. Farling,
vice president and general manager.
Declaration that the time had come
when the medical profession of the
United States was forced to unioniZe
to protect its own interests and those
of the public" was made Mt Los An
geles by DR. Charles l.. Reed of Gin
| cinnati, formerly president of the
American Medical Association and of
the Pan-American Medical Congress,
in an address before the Los Angeles
County Medical Association.
New York will be shown by the 1920
census to be indisputably the biggest
city in the world. Results of the cen
sus, which will be available in Wash
ington about March 10, Will, according
to census officials, give to the metro
politan district of New York popu-
lation of S,50000O, as compared to an
| estimated population of 100000 for
the metropolitan district of London
an excess of 1,00O,0 900 in favor of New
York.
The heads of two families, neighbors,
were killed in n pistol duel at Philadel-
phia, which came rs the elimination of
three years of ill feeling. The two men
Elmer Twining, 90, and Charles Self,
35-met in front of their homes on
their return from work and hot words
were passed. The shooting followed.
Both were shot through the breast.
The Observation-Disclosures of the Oar
daneIles, which had been forecast, has
been decided upon definitely by the al
lied supreme council. The details of
the control of the waterway, however,
have not been worked out.