The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-21
FOREIGN

clash with federal troops near Mier,
state OF Tamaulipas, according 10 war
office reports, and IL now recuperatlna
on the American side near Las Vegas.
Organization of an airplane force to
fight forest fires in the province OF
British Columbia is to be begun soon,
following the announcement OF the
British Columbian government that II
had appropriated $4,000 for the pur'
pose.
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of
Spain escaped injury when their auto
mobile overturned while they were go
ing TO the Hippodrome TO attend the
races, says a dispatch from Madrid
The accident was due to the bursting
of a tire.
Canadian police searched the Wei
land canal for 1,400 pounds of dyna-
mite, stolen from the government
stores near Allanburg. Several years
aso an attempt TO wreck the canal by
explosives was made at Thorold,
few miles from Alisnburs.
The peasants of Russia have thus
far failed 10 respond to the appeal OF
the Bolshevist government to sow
grain 10 enrich this years harvest, 40
cording to reports. The soviet au-
thorities are beginning TO take a
gloomy view Of the prospects for next
winter.
Gems. Lucio Blanco, Eduardo Her
nandez, Ireneo villarenl and Pablo
Gonzales, former Carranza chieftains,
who have been reported TO be starting
a revolution against the Mexican gov
eminent from the United States side,
have made an appeal to President OBJ
regon for leniency if they surrender,
according to official advices.
The Argentine government, under
an agreement reached with representa-
tives OF the labor organizations, will
not permit nonunion labor in the port
area. Work in the major section of the
port which has been at a standstill for
some time as a result of the boycott
declared by the port workers is ex-
pected to begin shortly.
The British Columbia liquor moder-
alton act, providing for the govern
ment control and sale of liquor within
the province, will become effective
sometime after July l, instead of on
June l, as had been originally planned.
Inability of the provincial liquor board
to prepare for the opening of the gov
ernment stores June l was given as
the reason for the delay.
Francisco Villa, former Mexican
bandit leader, expects to harvest a
crop of $4,000 bushels of wheat this
year, according TO a report from Con
sui ]. b. Stewart at Chihuahua, Mex
leo. Villa was said to have equipped
extensively with modern American
farming implements, including tractors
and motor trucks, the large tract he is
cultivating with the assistance of the
Mexican government.
GENERAL
Six men, comprising the crew of the
barge Miztec, are believed TO have
been lost in the blizzard which tore the
Miztec and the barge Peshtigo loose
from the steamer Zilah off Whitefish
Point, in Lake Superior.
Every public school teacher in Hat
tiesburg, Miss, including Superintend-
ent i. Il. Woodley, has resigned as Il
result of an announcement by the
board of school trustees that next year
salaries would be reduced 10 per cent.
1t was because of cyclonic storms on
the sun and the resultant disturbance
in the earth's magnetic fields that
telegraph and telephone services
throughout the country were disrupt
ed recently, according to DIR. X. Burns
of the Allegheny observatory at Pitts
burg.
A commission OF six mining experts
will sail from Seattle, Wash, early in
June for China to make geological
and engineering examination of iron
ore and coal deposits in Il section OF
Manchuria for the South Manchurla
Railway company, it has been an
nounced in Duluth, Minn.
Branches of the knights of the Ku
Klux Klan are being organized in Nils
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Mime
sofa and North and South Dakota.
The superdreadnaught Tennessee,
electrically driven and equipped with
main battery of twelve fourteen-inch
guns mounted on triple turrets, passed
mosts of the tests set down for her in
her Standardization trial off the port
of Rocliland, Me.
An unidentified negro was lynched
at McGenee, Ark, for alleged partici-
patton in an attempted attack on ]. P.
Sims, railroad blacksmith and a
young white woman while they were
riding in an automobile along "A coun-
try road. Sims reported three negroes
stopped his car and demanded he leave
the young woman.
Testimony that he paid $500 to a