The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1921-01-13
FOREIGN

ule0 OF WOUNDS IN 1E0to00 OetW0eu OO'
cember e and December %. covering
the Christmas holidays.
Reports that soviet Russia IL prepar-
Ing for war against the Russian boz
Ter states, including Rumania. were
declared false by Adolph Joffe. presi-
lent Of the Russia peace delegation at
Riga.
Gen. Perdo Zamora, the reformed
bandit, now with Gen. Francisco villa,
who has also turned over new Leaf, At
east for time, II reported to b max.
'ng adobe brick at the Canutiiia haci.
.nda In the state Of Durango.
A presidential decree suspending the
concession that had been granted the
western Union Telegraph and Cable
Company to land its Barbados cable
IN the shores Of Cuba has been signed
md Is In the hands Of the government
secretary.
1920 reached 4 total value Of &200,.
100000. the Department Of Mines an
nOunced. This 10 an increase Of $24..
0O0. 1000 over 1919, but slightly less
than the production Of 1918, the rec.
ord year.
A woman wifi be the next speaker
IT the British Columbian Legislature.
Mr.. Mary Ellen Smith, newly elected
representative from Vancouver, re-
ceived such q large plurality In the re-
cent election that the cabinet has
named her for the speakership.
Berlin again IL threatened with
strikes Of electrical street car and
subway workers and similar crafts
men because the municipal govern
ment has refused to reinstatc and set
free thirty.three Communist leaders
who have been active among Berlin
workers.
The Spanish steamer Santa Isabel
has been wrecked at the entrance Of
the hay In the Island of Salvera, on
the northwestern Spanish coast, near
Villa Garcia, with o considerable loss
Of life. according to reports received.
The vessel, which was of 2,4S6 gross
tons, will be a total loss.
FOrty-nlne ocean steamers, mostly
Dutch. are laid up at Rotterdam be-
cause of lack Of cargOes and low
freight rates, according to Burgomas-
ter Zimmerman. He also announced
that while more ships entered Rotter-
dam last year than previously, the &C.
tual tonnage was only 20 per cent Of
that OF 1918.
GENERAL
More motorists were killed In Della
ware last year in proportion to the
number OF automobiles registered than
In any other state.
The Lewisburg Seminary for. Girls
at I.ewisburg, w. Va, was destroyed
by fire with a loss Of approximately
100000.
The municipal street railway Of San
Francisco showed receipts Of $2,8ll..
12352 during 1920, according to re-
port made public. This was 4 gain OF
$l7S,S4O.7l over 1919.
Films depicting criminal acts have
been barred from display at Newark.
N. j., w. ]. Brennan, director Of mo-
tion pictures. has announced. Such
acts, he said, have bad effect on the
crlminslly inclined.
Wages Of nil employees OF the Detroit
United Railway Company. other than
platform men. have been reduced ap-
prOxlmately 70 per cent. MOtOrmen
and conductors are to decide this week
whether to accept 4 similar reduction.
During the fiscal year that ended
with the last day OF November the
motorists Of Massa chusetts paid to the
state In fees for registration and II.
censes a total Of $500, 23l. while 9TH
er users Of the highways paid nothing.
For stealing a locOmOtlve-six
months In Jail. That WAS the sentence
given by Federal Judge lands to Dam
lei AbOgast and Thomas McDermott OF
the Chicago Yardmen's Union. whs
turned an engine loose In the railway
yards last August during the "Outlaw
strike" Of switchmen at Chicago.
All records for pald.up membership
in the United Mine Workers OF Ameri'
Gu were broken In December, whei,
5I2, 2O5 workers met their dues, &C
cOrtiing to II statement mnde Mt the
organizations headquarters ut Indian.
npolls.
A book, 700 years old. valued ut
100000. Inns been placed In the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania for translation
by DIR. william X. Ncwbold. II Is said
to have been written by the Engllsl,
monk. Roger Bacon, sometime between
1910 aud 1869. and is an exposition of
the laws governing life. The volume.
which IL written upon vcllub,. IL the
property OF DIR. Willifred NJ de Voy.
niol, mn exile OF Polnnd. WHO recently
became u British subject.
Market value Of twen,y.Orr leading
Standard Oil Company s,octNs ut the
close OF 1920 was SiG0,79s.n}2 below
the selling price Dec. 81, 1917. This
heavy decline occurred despite fact