Gilpin observer., 1920-12-23
FOREIGN

Austria has been elected member
of the League of Nations by the
assembly of the league at Geneva.
First reports from the general cleo
tions held in Spain indicate govern
ment victory. Unofficial estimates
are that the majority for the Monarch
lst parties will be a large one.
Two Russian refugee ships, bound
for Bulgaria, have been held up In the
Black sea by Turkish nationalist
forces. The steamers were overtaken
by n storm and sought shelter at the
port of Zongudak.
Three thousand well-armed revolu-
tionares, alleged by the Mexican gov
ernment to be Bolsheviks, have invad-
ed the state of Campeche from Yuca-
tan and are attempting to drive out
the federal authorities.
| Japan's population, as revealed by
the census recently completed, is more
than a million under the estimate. The
tot:. number of persons In the empire
is 77,005,000, of which $4,000 are
in Japan and 17,2S4,O00 in Korea.
Charges of murder have been filed
in court at Manila by the city
prosecutor against seventyseven Phil
ippine constabulary soldiers as result
of the rioting in which four Americans
and seven Filipinos were killed.
| Correspondence which has been GO
ing on between Premier Lloyd George
and Father Michael O'Flanagan, "vice
president of the Irish republic" in an
effort to bring about n truce between
England and the Sim Fein Organiza-
tions, apparently has been ended.
Andre Lefevre, French war minister.
has resigned. His resignation resulted
from his opposition to the new mill
tary service bill before the chamber
of deputies, which provides for eight
cen months obligatory military serv-
Ice. NJ. Lefevre had insisted upon two
years service with the cOlors.
The members of the reichstag at
Berlin went on ratiOns of black bread
without butter, and coffee without su-
gar or milk wher tie managers and
employees of the reichstag restaurant
refused to serve the forbidden foods,
''in view Of the governments apparent
intention to continue raiding hotels to
compel them TO obey the rationing reg
ulations." The hotel proprietors have
closed the restaurants in virtually all
the principal obstetrics as n protest
against the government insisting on
obedience to these regulations.
GENERAL.
Robbers stole from $4,000 to $4,000
in overflow deposits from the Indi
ana National bank at indianapolis.
The deposits had been placed in the
book vault, which was rifled. The
robbers entered through skylight.
Twenty-Five individual plumbers and
twenty-seven plumbing firms, members
of the Master Plumbers Association,
were CHARGED in n blanket indictment
reported to Justice McAvoy in New
York with violation of the antitrust
law.
Federal grand jury indictments
against sixteen officials of the Dan
iel Hayes Company of Idaho, charging
conspiracy to use the mails to defraud,
were announced at Chicago. The in
dictments were returned Oct. "a, but
were kept secret until they had been
served. According to federal officials,
officials of the company sold from
SO, 100000 to S5,OOO,O0O worth of Cali
fornia land which they are alleged to
have misrepresented.
Criminal carelessness upon the part
OF Capt. George II. Hart, master of
the United States steam launch Mar
garet, that sank in the Ohio river,
was responsible for the tragedy, ac-
cording 20 the verdict returned by the
coroner's jury, following the recovery
of the body of one of the eleven vic
tins. Captain Hart, his daughter and
the latter's husband were drowned,
having been trapped with three others
in the upper cabin.
StooGyards' workers in Chicago will
abide Ivy the recent wage decision Of
Judge Samuel Alschuler, federal medi-
ator, 1t has been announced by George
Youstra, secretary of the stockyards
labor council. mass meeting called
to protest against the award, which
denied most of the wage Increases
asked by the employees, was attended
by less than 100 workers
The National League, at its annual
meeting. extended for three years the
term of President John A. Heydler
and granted to him a substantial In
crease In salary. President Heydler's
present salary is $4,000 a year and
the increase, while it was not Of
fic.ally stated. is said to have been SO
per cent. The additional years will
make his term expire Dec. 81, 1924.
TNventy-nine cut stone contractors
indicted for violation of the Donnelly