The Dolores star., 1921-04-01
FOREIGN


least twenty of whom are not expect
ed to live.
The council of ministers of Bel
gium have decided to send BurSomas'
ter Max of Brussels 10 the United
States to tender congratulations of the
Belgian government 10 President Hard
ing on his election.
There are 100000 war orphans In
Germany. according to official fig.
ures. They are being given state and
local care. bur it is said they form
Il large percentage of more than l.
oO0. 900 children in Germany being aid.
ed by foreign relief workers.
The German government has been
notified by the allied reparations COM
mission that the total amount of 20
900. 100000 gold marks due under ar
| ticle 23J of the peace treaty must be
paid by May l or additional penalties
will he inflicted on Germany.
Estimates that 25.OOO United States
| andseekerS will visit western Canada
during 1921 have been mnde by Walter
Johnson of Winnipeg, secretary of the
Farm Lands Settlement Association of
Manitoba. A very large number of in.
quires about lands have been received
from the states.
Emil Locke, real estate man. left
San Antonio, Texas, for Las Nacas,
Coahuila, Mexico, where he met repre-
sentativcs of Gen. Ignacio Nillnreal.
Mexican secretary of agriculture, to
discuss the plan for the colonization of
by COMMUNICATIONS.
The million-dollar plant of the Howe
Sound Mining and Smelling Company
at Brittania Beach, B. c., twenty miles
north of Vancouver. is reported to have
been destroyed by fire. Communica.
no details are available as to the ey.
tent of the damage done. The plant
| is owned in New York
| Sam Lowe of Holland Landing. near
| Toronto. Can. was the hero of his
| townsfolk all because he had the pres
encc of mind to pull off boot and
sock and flag an onrushing passenger
train before it reached waShOut on
| the Grand Trunk railway. The sock
was red. and the train stopped Pas
| SengerS made up purse.
Customs officials have found what they
believe TO be Il part of the Russian i'm.
peral treasures, including n fragment
of the late Cars crown, in the baggage
of the Russian commercial delegation
to Italy, held in the railway station at
Rome, pending examination. Briliants
as large rs nuts were discovered. A
collection of 1290 ancient coins, is de.
clared to be worth several millions.
GENERAL
The lnterborough Rapid Transit
Company. operating the elevated and
subway lines in Manhattan. had net
deficit of 2,GS2, ,76O for the six months
ended Dec. 81, its annual report
showed, which has just tbeen issued.
Indictment of scores of Chicago
returns is threatened by Harry w.
Mayer, collector of internal revenue.
Information furnished by tenants
whose rents have been increased, will
be used as the basis of the investiga-
ton Mayer is now making.
Larry Mclean, former catcher for
the Cincinnati Reds and the New York
Giants, was shot and killed in Boston
during a brawl in a soft drink estab-
lishment Jack Mccarthy. Il friend,
was severely wounded. The police took
into custody James J. Connor, the bar
tender, pending investigation.
Although court decisions have gen
orally been to the effect that whisky
is not property and cannot be stolen,
Judge p. X. Humphries, in the crim-
nal division of the Superior Court at
Atlanta, Ga, ruled that taking the con.
tainer, which in this instance was
suitcase, constituted a theft and sen
fenced three Negroes to serve four to
six years in the chain gang.
Maj Gen. Leonard Wood will leave
Seattle April 9 on the steamer Wenat-
chee for Manila where he will conduct
an investigation relative to Philippine
claims for independence, he notified
the chamber of commerce at Seattle. 1t
previously had been announced that he
would sail from San Francisco April ..
The wearing of scant attire in pub
lie has been prohibited in Leavenworth,
Ind, by an ordinance adopted by the
town board. Any person more than IA
years old who apears on the street in
garment which exposes the arms,
shoulders or legs is to be fined under
the terms of the ordinance from 50 10
SO.
A marked increase since 1910 in the
number of insane in institutions in
all parts of the United States is fea.
ture of census of patients in insane
hospitals, just completed by Horation
NJ. Pollock, statistician of the New
York Hospital Commission, Edith NJ.
Kurdish, statistcian of the National
Committee for Mental Hygiene. The
rate of insane persons in institutions
increased from 1910 to 1920 by 10 to