The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-26
FOREIGN

Great Britain must In the next finnn-
cial year make provision TO pay the
interest on the American debt, Austen
Chamberlain, chancellor of the eX-
chequer, announced 10 trade depu-
tation In London.
A national day of mourning for Ger
many's war dead has been fixed for
March g. All work will cease, and re-
ligious and memorial services will be
general. A fixed day of mourning for
each year is to be named later.
Seventy per cent. of the sugar mis-
owners of Cuba have slgnified the,f ad-
hesion to the plans of the sugar finan-
cial commission charged with market
ing the islands sugar crop, according
to the Department of Agriculture.
For hundreds of miles throughout
south and southwest County Cork all
the principal roads have been rendered
unfit for use, trenches have been dug,
barricades erected and bridges de-
stroye.', according to a report issued
at Dublin Castle.
Negotiations with the Egyptian gov
ernment for the conclusion of n treaty
according self-government to Egypt
are strongly advised in a long awaited
report by Lord Milner, former colonial
secretary, on the Egyptian question,
presented to Parliament.
Plans for conference between Brit
ish, American and Canadian profess
sors of history at London the week of
July II are being made by authorities
of the University of London. The con
ference will be held in connection with
the opening of the school of historical
research, now under construction.
POpocatepetl, MeXico's smoking
mounatin," is in danger of violent
eruption, according to the report of n
commission from the National GeOlogi'
cal Institute. after an investigation.
Columns of gases, sometimes over 2,1OO
feet high, are arising from the crater,
which no longer is covered with snow.
Charges made in the Chamber of
Deputies in Paris by Deputy Brousse
to the effect that there had been
wholesale arrests of officers and men
of the American army for the theft of
army stocks sold to France, brought
forth denial from Maj. J. A. Warden,
liquidation officer of the United States
army, now in Paris.
Work will be started at once on
81 100000 highway to be constructed
through the interior of the Republic
of Panama. When the bids were
opened it was found that the lowest
tender had been made by Hebard and
Company, New York City. A Pana-
man firm was second. The Panama
government decided to split the work,
giving half to each firm.
GENERAL
Aided by hundred or more women,
1000 men and boys trapped timber
wolf in the second wolf drive in week
near Champaign, Ill.
A sentence under the old revolution
ary days act 'of being common
scold' was imposed upon Mrs. Bridget
Ripple in Pttsburg after II jury had
convicted her on the charge.
Requests totaling $2,550,00O to nine
local charitable institutions are pro-
vided for in the will of Miss Helen +.
daughter of the late William
Massey, Il Philadelphia brewer.
The New York Employing Printers
announced ii had request
ed printing trades unions to send rep
to a conference called to
consider substantial reduction in
wages"
The anti-alien land ownership bill,
restricting aliens ineligible to citizen
ship from buying, leasing or control
ling land in Texas, was passed finally
in the Senate without dissenting
vote. The bill is directly aimed against
the acquiring of land in Texas by jap
anese.
Twenty-Five immigrants, part of $50
released from Ellis Island, We're taken
to hospital for re-examination by the
New York health authorities, disclosed
they were infected with typhus-carry'
ing vermin.
A regretful note accompanied S25,-
600 Liberty bond returned through the
mail to the Clement ID. Gates Com
pany, stock brokers at Jacksonville,
Fla, from which 1t had been stoler..
ITS too big TO handle safely" the rob
Der said, but he kept two smaller stol-
en- bonds.
j. E. Gilman, past commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub'
lie, is dead at Boston. He was born
in 1914. He participated in many i'm
portant Civil War battles, losing his
right arm at Gettysburg. He was
elected commander-in-chief of the G.
A. r. in 1910.
When his air mail plane developed
engine trouble three miles south of
Mendoza, Mimi, Pilot c. c. Eversole
leaped to safety in n parachute from