The Colorado statesman., 1921-03-26
FOREIGN

can railways, which began the middle
Of February, has been settled.
The council of ministers Of Bel
Gum have decided to send Burgomas-
ter Max OF Brussels TO the United
States to tender congratulations of the
Belgian government to President Hard
Ing on his election.
Estimates that 25,0O0 United States
landseekers will visit western Canada
during 1921 have been made by Walter
johnson of Winnipeg, secretary of the
Farm Lands Settlement Association of
Manitoba. A very large number of in.
quiries about lands have been received
from the states.
The million-dollar plant of the Howe
Sound Mining and Smelling Company
at Brittania Beach, B. G., twenty miles
north of Vancouver, is reported to have
been destroyed by fire. Communica'
ton by telegraph has been broken and
no details are available as To the eN-
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
ence of mind TO pull off a boot and
sock and flag an onrushing passenger
train before it reached n washout on
the Grand Trunk railway. The sock
was red and the train stopped. Pas
sengers made up a purse.
Customs officials have found what they
believe to be part of the Russian inn
perial 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. Brilliants
as large as nuts were discovered. a
collection of 1,290 ancient coins, is de-
clared to be worth several millions.
The allied reparations commission
in its note to Germany demanding full
fillment of Article 235 of the peace
treaty, has notified the German gov
ernment it must pay one billion gold
marks before March %. The money
must be deposited in the Bank of
France, Bank of England, or the Fed
eral Reserve Bank in the United
States, Germany was told.
BY the new treaty between Russia
and Turkey, which defined the boun-
daries of Turkey, both parties under
take to recognize no international act
relating to one party which is not rec
ognized by the other, says Moscow
wireless. The old treaties between
Russia and Turkey, Turkeys debts to
Russia and the system of capitulations
are abolished. Batum is ceded to
Georgia.
GENERAL
Indictment of scores of Chicago
landlords for making false income tax
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 Mager is now making.
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
a garment which exposes the arms,
shoulders or legs is to be fined under
the terms of the ordinance from 50 10
$50.
The railroad labor board, in de-
cision at Chicago, held that the pres
ent rates of pay and working condi-
tions of Pullman sleeping car conduc-
tors are just and reasonable and re-
fused a request for an increase in pay
and change in working conditions. The
conductors are paid from $155 to $50
n month.
The Ford Motor Company, 1t Is now
believed in New York, has escaped the
crisis which was expected to force the
concern to undertake financing in the
open market Unless the affairs or
this company undergo another rapid
and startling change, bankers are
doubtful if there will be any public of
fering of Ford securities, at least for
long time to come.
Clara Smith Hamon has signed a
contract with motion picture COM
pany to produce pictures for the next
two years. A reception was held for
her at the First Christian church,
where she was baptized.
The Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, operating the elevated and
subway lines in Manhattan, had net
deficit of $2,6S2, ,760 for the six months
ended Dec. 81, its annual report
showed, which has just tbeen issued.
At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the United States Chamber of
Commerce at Chicago, it was an
nounced that the national chamber
consists of /, ,429 commercial and indus
trial organizations with combined
membership of more than 100000 per-
sons.