Gilpin observer., 1920-09-09
FOREIGN

sassinate Mustapha Kemal Pasha,
leader Of the Turkish Nationalists,
near Tokat, town fifty-eight miles
northwest of Sivas, according to an
unconfirmed report.
port the massacre of 400 Armenians by
Kurds in Anatolia. The Kurds shot
the men, but the women and children
were locked in church and burned to
death the dispatches, say.
1t is reported in diplomatic circles in
Berlin that negotiations regarding the
new ambassador to Italy from Ger
Won Buelow, who is a friend of Giolit-
tt, could have the position, should he
care to re-enter public life.
Five hundred and eighty-one follow
ers of Francisco Villa have been de-
mobilized, completing the operation,
the men receiving six months pay.
Villa is now on his way to Canutillo,
placed at his disposal.
All oil companies operating in
Mexico have paid their back taxes for
the months from March to June, in
elusive, the total amount paid to the
treasury being 100000 pesos. The
last concerns making payment put in
an appearance at the treasury depart
ment in the past few days
The Austrian Supreme Court has re-
jected Hungary's demand for the extra
dition of communists wanted in con-
nectiOn with the Hungarian dictator
ship of Bella Kun. The court ruled that
the acts which the communists are al
legged to have committed were a part
of the legitimate discharge of their
governmental functions.
An order rendered at Toronto, Ont,
by Justice Middleton approves the ac-
ton of r. Homer Smith, receiver for
the Mexican Northwestern Railway,
Limited, in filing claim for $4,000, 900
gold against the Mexican government
for alleged damages suffered by the
road during revolutionary disturb
ances. The claim was filed by the COM
mission appointed by decree Of the
Mexican government in 1917. Smith
was appointed receiver for the road in
1914, in an action by certain bondhold-
ers to enforce a mortgage.
GENERAL
Six persons were killed, an equal
number probably fatally injured and
many others more or less seriously hurt
in a street car accident near Fairmont,
w. Va.
are being made by Gen. Lopez Quit
terez, president of the republic, ac-
cording to an announcement received
by DR.. Eusebio Toledo, Honduran con-
sui general at New Orleans.
The fast mail plane bound from
New York to Cleveland and Chicago,
caught fire over Morristown, N. j.,
plunged to the ground and there ex-
ploded, instantly killing Max Miller,
pilot, and Gustav Rierson, mecha-
nician.
Forty thousand dollars-including a
$4,000 bill and more than $4,000 in
jewelry-was stolen in ten-minute
daylight robbery by two gunner, who
beat Philip s. Smith, wealthy mer-
chant, into insensibility in his office in
New York.
Miss Marion G. Parsons, an Amer
lean Red Cross nurse of Berkeley,
Calf, has been appointed by the
CZecho-Slovak Red Cross to be direc-
tor of the state school of nursing, ac-
cording to advices. 1t was stated she
will remain in Prague for two years.
Seven persons We're injured, none Sc
riously, at Niagara Falls, in collision
of two trains of trolley cars in the Nj
agara gorge. Scores of other passen-
gers on the rear trailers of one train
saved themselves by jumping when
they saw the other train bearing down
upon them. A break in the trolley line
caused the first train to stall.
No more good Samaritan stuff for
Richard Oracle of Lorain, Ohio. He
stopped his machine to give tired"
man ride and was promptly tied to
n tree and robbed of 5000.
Johan Aason of Numedahl, Norway,
who is eight feet and nine inches tall
and weight 503 pounds, walked into
police station in Chicago and confided
that he was lost. The police captain
directed him to his hotel.
Samuel Lehman, well-known musi-
cal conductor and author of Every
body Works but Father" was killed
in New York by an automobile. Leh-
man was 3S years old and brother of
Assistant District Attorney Alexander
Lehman. The driver of the car was
held on manslaughter charge.
Columbus, Neb.-Work of copying
the longest mortgage ever recorded in
Nebraska made to enable the issuance
of bonds which will mature May 1,
2037, was just completed at the court
house at Columbus. The mortgage is
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