The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-05-21
FOREIGN

| Ten. francisco MurSuid, FeDtl iedO-
er, was severely injured in recent
clash with federal troops near Mier,
state of Tamaulipas, according TO war
office reports, and is now recuperating
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 it
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 uippodrome to attend the
races, says II dispatch from Madrid
The accident was due to the bursting
of tire.
Canadian police searched the Wei
land canal for 1,40O pounds of dyna-
mite, stolen from the government
stores near Allanburg. Several years
ago an attempt to wreck the canal by
explosives was made at Thorold. IA
few miles from Allanburg.
The peasants of Russia have thus
far failed to respond to the appeal Of
the Bolshevist government to SOW
grain to enrich this years harvest, ac-
cordng 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 yillareal and Pablo
Gonzales, former Carranza chieftains,
who have been reported to be starting
Il revolution against the Mexican gov
ernment from the United States side,
have made an appeal to President OBJ
regon for leniency If they surrender,
according to official adviccs.
The Argentine government, under
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 standstill for
some time as result of the boycott
declared by the port workers is ex-
pected to begin shortly
The British Columbia liquor moder-
ttioh .tNt. PioNtitail- int SONeIu-
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
y-;Ir, f.,,,S,...
bandit leader, expects to harvest
crop of 10000 bushels of wheat this
year, according to report from Con
sui J. Il. 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 Aiiztec. are believed to have
been lost in the blizzard which tore the
Miztec and the barge Peshtigo loose
from the steamer Zillah off Whitefish
Point, in Lake Superior
Every public school teacher in Hat
tiesburg, Miss, including Superintend-
ent F. B. Woodley, has resigned as a
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 We're disrupt-
ed recently, according to Dr. X. Burns
of the Allegheny observatory Mt Pitts
burg.
commission of six mining experts
will sail from Seattle, Wash. early in
June for China TO make geological
land engineering examination of iron
!. ore and coal deposits in section of
: Manchuria for the South Manchuria
: Railway company, it has been an
nounced in Duluth, MINI.
Branches of the Knights of the Ku
! kluN klan are being organized in Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Mime
: sofa and North and South Dakota.
The superdreadnaught Tennessee,
: electrically driven and equipped with
a 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 Rockland, 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 coun-
try road. Sims reported three negroes
stopped his car and demanded he leave
the young woman.
Testimony that he paid $500 TO a
business agent of a plumbers union
To settle q strike called by the wreck