The Colorado statesman., 1920-03-20
FOREIGN


ported to have been found at Mogok,
India, by Burmese. Its value Is es-
timated at between $175,O0O and $3.50
900.
japanese children no longer have to
learn 5000 alphnbetic characters be-
fore they are able to read and write.
School kids are joyful. The number
has been reduced to 2,600 by govern
ment decree.
The movement recently launched in
Toxic by university students for uni
versal suffrage In japan has spread to
all parts of the country and TO Korea
and Manchurla as well, according to
advices received.
Harry Pilcer, former dancing part
ner for Gaby Delys, has announced
that he intends to devote the legacy
bequeathed TO him by his lost friend
to the construction of mammoth
dance palace as memorial to her in
Paris.
Troops marching through the north
ern suburbs of Berlin and carrying an
old flag mt the head of their column,
for the purpose of exciting enthusiasm
and winning followers for the new gov
ernment, were savagely attacked by
great crowd of workmen.
A revolt has broken out among sew
eral units of the Japanese troops in
Siberia, according to IL wireless dis.
patch sent out by the soviet govern.
ment at Moscow. The soldiers ripped
off their shoulder straps and substi'
tuted red straps, the dispatch says.
There has been much feasting and
other celebrating within the quarters
of the former crown prince at Wierin'
gen, Holland, since the news of the
new developments i'm Germany began
to reach Wierlngen. William is report
ed to regard the situation joyfully but
is said to have assured the burgomas
ter that he will not attempt to leave
Holland.
President Deschanel of France is ad.
vertising for a first-class chef. 1t has
been revealed that the former famous
cook at the Elysee palace was dis.
charged by EXPIRES. Poincare because
he was too expensive and was replaced
by second rate "maitre d'cuisine,
who was able to prepare simple meals
at minimum cost NJ. Deschanel
who, like his wife, is wealthy in his
own right, purposes to spare no ex.
pense to make the palace menus the
most exquisite in the land.
GENERAL
The estate of Harris c. Fahnestock
banker, who died in June, 1914, is val.
ued at $17,775,G 5,G67, according to an ac.
counting filed in New York with Sur.
rogate James A. Foley, by executors OF
the estate.
Gold coin, valued at approximately
So 100000, was taken from the sub
treasury at New York for shipment to
South America, chiefly for the Argen-
tine This makes Il total outflow OF
about $57,OOO,OOO to that country this
year.
Two inmates of Clinton prison AT
Dannemora have died, five have gone
totally blind and twenty-five are vic.
tins of partial loss of vision as the re-
suit of the outbreak of some mysteri-
GUS malady which is battling state of
ficials and medical men.
Trade winds, sweeping from west to
east at 100 to 300 miles an hour, were
discovered ut 10000 feet by Major Ru'
dolph w. Schroeder, army test pilot
at Dayton, Ohio, before he fell approx
imately five miles and landed without
crashing after establishing an altitude
record of 36,020 feet in a recent flight
Salaries of the teaching staff mt Har-
ward will be advanced from 40 to 80
per cent Sept. 1. President Lowell an
nounced to the faculty that the results
of the Harvard endowment fund cam
paign had enabled the governing board
of the university to draw up new
scale of salaries.
The Kentucky Senate passed the
bill granting presidential suffrage to
women in Kentucky, thereby opening
the way for equal suffrage in the
South. The House already has passed
the measure.
The American Red Cross announced
at Washington an appropriation of
$4,000 from the national childrens
fund for Junior Red Cross activities
among the children of the Virgin ISL
ands. The fund will be used chiefly in
furnishing educational equipment
Mrs. Charlotte Stock, 90, is dead as
the result of fall on an icy sidewalk
at Three Rivers, Mich. Had she lived
until April % she would have been 100
years old, The death of her husband
in the Battle of the Wilderness left her
with family of eleven small children,
all of whom are still living.
Roy L. DAILY, who is in charge of
prohibition enforcement in the Phila-
delphia district, has written to Wash