The Colorado statesman., 1921-06-04
FOREIGN

| enOurE, owing 10 the lloOu OF the mine
| by the Erlenbach river.
! Caribou and native reindeer nre re-
ported ranging the hills like droves of
sheep in full view OF Dawson, Y. II.
As IL is calvlng time, the herds are not
allowed to he molested. and instead OF
shooting with gun the citizehs of
Dawson are shooting" with n camera.
Electrically operated trains on the
mountain lines M Gotthard and
Loetschberg are making part OF the
current they consume. on down grades
where gravlty is the motive force, cleo
triclty is generated so successfully that
there is an estimated saving OF 20 TO
30 per cent in current.
Two hundred and four tenements,
stores and other buildings In Honolulu,
declared unsafe and insanltary, have
been torn down since the beginning of
the building cleanup campaign in
augurated last year by city officials,
according TO a recent official report on
the progress of the drive.
A link with the old days of the
Hawaiian monarchy was broken re-
Gently when the death occurred of
Mrs. Emily C. Judd, widow Of Charles
Hastings Judd, chamberlain TO King
Kalabaua, the last king of Hawaii
Mrs Judd wns born In Portsmouth
N. H., March 10, 1910, and went tt
Hawaii in 1858.
Pursuit of the mirage of religious
freedom has been taken up again by
&c, 900 Mennonites. For four centuries
the sect has followed the phantom. Ar
rangements were completed for the
transportation of the colony now resid-
ing in Canada to land in Mexico, pur-
chased from the Obregon government
for S5,000o00.
A conference of the foreign minis
ters of Lithuania, Letvia and Esthonia
will be held in Riga in June, according
to advices. 1t is understood that the
conference originally was suggested by
Finland with the view to organization
of q league of Baltic states. Although
Finland and Poland are not expected
to participate 1t is believed that the
league, if II comes into being, will have
the support Of both countries.
GENERAL
Letters and documents signed by
royal personages of former centuries
brought only 81 to $l4 each in un auc-
ton sale ut Philadelphia, while Benja-
min Franklin's essay ON "Hygrome-
ters" went for $270.
There is q great increase in the
number of bankruptcies which have
been gazetted by the Board of Trade
during the last three months, 1853 hav-
Ing been listed against 80 for the cor
responding period in 1920.
State police headquarters at Will
Hanson, w. Va, received reports that
Il West Virginia state trooper and II
Kentucky national guardsman were
killed at Nolan, when fighting in the
Tug river battle zone was resumed.
Governor Stephens of California
signed II bill which provides that ull
male alien residents of California over
2l years of age shall be registered and
shall pay an annual poll tax of $40 into
the school fund of the county in which
they reside.
A. S. Embree, self-acknowledged l.
w. w. leader, was sentenced from one
to ten years In the stare penltentiary
after having been found guilty of Grim
inal syndicalism by jury at Wallace,
Idaho. On the witness stand Embre
declared he filled the place of William
d. Haywood as supreme officer of the
| /. w. w. for two months in 1913.
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Sidney J. Cats, former governor of
Florida, was indicted for peonage ut
Pensa cola, Fla, by federal grand
Jury. The Indictment charges that
Cats, after obtaining pardons for two
negro convicts, forced them to work on
one of his farms in west Florida. The
former governor recently was indicted
by the Bradford county grand jury for
accepting 500 for pardon for prls-
oner serving life term for murder.
1t was announced at the Union Ma
tional bank in Newcastle, Pa, that the
five bandits who held up the bank had
secured 60,30O 1t was also stated
that the bandits failed to take $4lS,-
600 in securities which was within
their reach.
The Board of Regents of the Unlver-
sity of Oklahoma adopted resolution
prohibiting students from maintaining
automobiles while attending the insti-
tuition. Possession of motor cars was
declared TO be detrimental TO the best
interests of the students.
The universe is one thousand times
greater than ever claimed by scientists
according to DIR. Harlow Shapley, Har-
ward astronomer. DIR. Shapley an
nounces discoveries which 90 TO prove
that the earth is at least 360,0oo,000,-
600, ,0OO, 100000 miles from the center
of the center of the universe.