Arizona state miner., 1920-01-03
FOREIGN

with a revolver after assisting injured
passengers at Lille, France.
Lady Ramsay, formerly Princess Pa
tricia of COnnaught, gave birth to a
son in London. Princess Patricia was
married to Commander Alexander Rob.
ert Maule Ramsey Of the royal navy
in February.
During the fiscal year which ended
June 80, 1919, Brazil imported $4,000,
900 worth of automobile and motor
parts from the United States, which is
an increase of 35 per cent over the
value of the 1918 imports.
Premier Nitti of Italy, expressed the
opinion that from 10000, 100000 to 15,
the victory loan, the sale of which be-
gins Jan. 5th On his return from the
visit he is to make to Paris and Lon
don early in January Premier Nitti
will undertake a speaking tour on be-
half of the loan.
The Bolsheviki captured fifteen
guns, 1000 horses and 800 men after
defeating the forces of General Nam
ontOff and General Chelnokoff in the
region Of Staroniensk, according to a
wireless dispatch received from Mos
cow The dispatch adds: "More than
a thousand Cossacks were killed, in
Guiding General Chelnokoff"
The rebels in Eastern Siberia, says
q Moscow 6icnof0h hauo aOnonlQto1U
| several all communication on the
Amur line and Blagovieshtchensk has
been cut off The dispatch adds that
| Galician troops, intended for the de-
| fense of Kiev, have revolted against
General Denikine the anti-Bolshevik
leader in the South and attacked the
volunteer army in the rear
Taiga has been captured by local
| Bolsheviki. Many trains on the trans
| siberian railroad west of Taiga have
| been cut off and Polish troops in that
region will be forced to fight their
way out Fears for the safety of T.
r. Hansen, United States vice consul
| at Omsk, and Joseph III. Ray, consul
at 1rkutsk, who are west of Taiga, are
| felt here. Nothing has been heard
from them for more than a week.
Herr HusZar, the Hungarian pre-
mier, stated in Budapest to a deputa-
! tfon representing those crippled during
| the war; that Communism had cost Hun
gary eighteen billion kronen (nominal-
| ly about $3,600,0O0,0 0,000), according to
a report received in Berlin The pre-
mier said that Rumanian invasion had
| taken thirty-siX billion kronen more
The national assembly now had to re-
store Hungary's finance frGm a des-
perate condition.
GENERAL
Statistics obtained show that 1,725
British girls married American dough
boys. Of these only seventeen remain
Ito be sent to join their husbands in the
| United States.
Judge A. w. SanbOrn ordered 81, 900
pounds of sugar, seized last week from
NJ. Leach, Beloit, confiscated and
turned over to the Wisconsin fair price
committee Leach was fined $1OO and
costs.
Victor L. Berger, who was reelected
to Congress from the fifth cOngressiOn-
al district, December 10Th, following
his expulsion from that body, said that
he will go to Washington January 9th
to claim his seat
Uruguay has been linked to the
1 1S1iE S&nf
can cables by the opening of a new
line from Buenos Aires to Montevideo,
putting New York and Montevideo in
direct telegraphic communication with
each other for the first time
Maj. A. E. McKeever, M. c., D. S. O.,
one of the best-known Canadian aces
in the great war and credited with the
destruction of fortyfive German ma
chimes, died in a hospital as the result
| of an operation at Toronto. In an auto
mobile accident near Stratford, Ont,
some time ago, he suffered a broken
| leg and internal injuries.
Purchase of 250000 acres of Montana
grazing land with $4,000 head of cattle
has been effected by the Hill Land
Corporation, organized by Walter J.
Hill, son of the late James J. Hill, JUS
| tice Oscar Hallam of the Minnesota
Supreme Court, r. P. McClennan, wide
| ly known Montana stockman, and F. S.
Dalrymple of New York.
John D. Rockefeller gave to man
kind a Christmas present of $1OOOOO,-
| 000-haIf tO tho Gonoro1 Edroo +io,,
Board to raise the salaries of college
professors and half to the Rockefeller
! foundation to aid in its work of com