The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-05-07
FOREIGN

operated In Mexico, has closed IL
doors in compliance with orders from
Governor Enriquez Of Chihuahua. The
place has been in operation since the
first Of the present year and during
that time paid S5O6,OOO gold in license
fees to the state government.
Physicians of Dublin, regardless of
politics, have ignored the order Of the
government military authorities to re-
port at once the arrival in hospitals OF
persons suffering from gunshot
wounds. Thus far no proceedings have
been taken against them. The order
was intended to aid the military in
Identifying their attackers, many OF
whom escape though wounded.
Reports from Paris from an authOri-
tative source say the Council Of the
League of Nations has decided to
award the Aland islands to Finland.
Sweden insisted on ownership of the
islands, but the decision states that
"Finland's right is incontestable." The
soviets refuse to recognize the allOca-
ton of the islands to anyone except
Russia, as they control the entrance
to Petrograd.
Rene viviani, special French envoy,
EN- route home, in a wireless message
of congratulations to the American Le-
gion, its national commander, Col. F.
w. Galbraith, Jr., and General Perish
ing, invited the legion men to visit
France and declared he never would
forget the courageous soldiers" Of
America. Among the great people who
love them, they will find anew the i'm
age Of the great country which they
honor" the message concluded.
Dr Koudish, Russian Soviet repre-
sentative at Constantinople who was
given a British passport wise to go to
London to confer with Leonid Krassin
Soviet minister of trade and commerce.
was assaulted and beaten by Russian
colonel while dining with his wife in
restaurant. The colonel exclaimed ::
How dare you drink champagne
among the victims Of Soviet Russia ~
British police who were called in told
Koudish You are free to strike
back" He demanded British official
protection.
Ricardo Zanella, leader Of the FL
ume peoples party and head of the
communistic faction in the Italian elec-
tions. by coup d'etat, occupied the
city hall at Fiume Count Caccia-
Domini0ne, the italian minister, left
Fiume aboard torpedo boat destroyer
owing to the rioting The frontier has
been closed by brigade of infantry.
When the Autonomists claimed they
hay won the election by more than
thousand votes. Zanella and his forces
stormed the city hall and elected the
old administration.
GENERAL
Filling stations in the Middle West
have dropped gasoline from % to %
cents gallon, it was announced blythe
Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
Gasoline at tank wagons is now 20 in
stead of % cents.
Plans for recruiting harvest hands in
Kansas this season were discussed at a
conference of heads of employment
agencies in the various cities and the
labor department of the Industrial
court. 1t was estimated 10000 to 5O,-
600 men would be required to gather
the 1921 crop.
Reports from districts swept by a
violent windstorm shows that the
counties of Hamilton, Webster and
Adams We're visited and the property
damage is considerable. Fifty farms
within a radius of twenty five miles of
Hastings, Neb., were swept. On a
number Of farms the barns and out
buildings were completely destroyed
and the houses damaged. On several
farms horses and sheep were either
killed or injured. In the vicinity of
Guide Rock the wind took the form of
tornado, unroofing several houses
and in one or two instances completely
destroying them.
| Cutt off from the fortune of George
NJ. Oyster, the widow, Mrs. Cecil Ready
Oyster of Syracuse. N Y, will wage a
bitter legal battle for a large part OF
the estate, it was predicted here when
word came from Atlantic City thai
Oyster shortly before his death hat
executed codicil to his will by which
the society girl he married January II
was disinherited.
With the definite selection OF
"Boyle's thirty acres" adjoining Mont
gomery park in Jersey City, as the site
of the arena for the Dempsey Carpen
tier heavyweight championship bou
July 2, training plans of the contest
ants were laid accordingly 1t is gen
orally understood that the champion
will select Atlantic City, while tn,
Frenchman will train on Long Island
Miss Lucia Russell Briggs. daughter
of Lebaron Russell Briggs, president o.
Radcliffe College, and dean of thu
faculty Of arts and sciences at Har
ward, has been chosen president of Mil
waukee Downer College at Milwaukee
Wis. She succeeds Miss Ellin G. Sobin
Miss Briggs is a graduate of Radcliffe