, 1921-05-12

S2O,OOO,OOO to S3J,0OO.O00 to complete.
the line from Kansas City to the Gulf
of California.
France held a two-day observance
of the centenary of the death of Ma
pOleon. A salvo of artillery at the In
valides marked the passing of Il cen
fury since the death of the great war
rior Mt st. Helena and closed the
exercises. The celebration appeared to
have little appeal for the general pub
lie.
GENERAL
Frank Miller is held at Muskegon,
Mich, IN Il charge of mayhem. 1t is
alleged he twisted off his wife's ears
because of her relations with Jaseph
Romenoff.
Five hundred city laborers Of Lima,
Ohio, petitioned the council to be al
lowed to work ten hours II day, instead
of eight, as heretofore. No increase in
wages was asked.
a strike of approximately $50 bak-
ers employed in twelve Jewish whole
sale baking companies was the prin-
cipal development in the May LIST labor
situation Mt Cleveland.
High school fraternlties and socie-
ties were declared evil, in that they
tended to create s~nobbishness and in
subordination," in an opinion given in
Circuit Court at st. Louis.
Motion pictures censorship by a
board of review established under the
Industrial commission failed to re-
ceive the approval of the Wisconsin
Senate, which killed the bill, ~ to 4.
Fire destroyed the Usage cotton seed
oil mill and small buildings in the
same business block with a total dam
age of approximately 100000 at
Shawnee, Okla. Flames reached more
than 100 feet in the air.
An orderly parade n meeting
called by the Socialist party of Amer
lea as a demonstration in favor of So
Wet Russia were the only o~bservances
of May day at Chicago. Police had for
hidden the display of the red flag and
not a none was to be seen.
Mrs. Clarence Mullenix, SO years old,
is confined in a hospital for the insane
at st. Joseph, Mo. 1t was disclosed
she drowned her two children, a 6-year-
old boy and an ~S-year-old girl, In a
pond near their home, several miles
from Unionville, Mo. The bodies were
recovered.
The Portuguese steamer Mormugao
wen to New London under her w
power after having been floated by
from the west side of Block ISL
and, where she grounded in a heavy
fog. All Of her AS passengers were
transferred to naval vessels and were
taken to New Bedford.
While cleaning out a box of sup
posed rubbish Il waiter at the Hotel
Ambassador ut Los Angeles. discovered
n necklate with 100 small diamonds. 1t
found to have been the property of
Mrs. Arthur T. Gage of Los Angeles
and is supposed to have been accident
ally lost. 1t was returned TO the owner.
The value is $4,000.
The Extension Service of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College has a good
selection of bulletins available for dis
tribution to the people of Colorado.
The theft Of jewelry N money To-
falling Sl0,555 while she dozed in II
moving picture theater in Chicago, was
reported to the police by Mrs. Bessie
Morrison, wife OF an oil operator Of
Salt Lake City.
The automobile drivers license OF
Peter +. Thropp, 1%6-year-old son of
Peter ID. Thropp. "A manufacturing mat
chinist. was revoked at Trenton. n. j.
Thropp admitted placing tacks In the
highway near Bordentown. lie said he
did 1t to disable a car Of his chum and
rival in love, who had taken a girl they
both admired for n drive.
Colorado is becoming more distinc-
lively and American state. There was
a decrease of ! $40 per cent In the for
eign-born population of Colorado In the
decade from 1910 to 1920. According
to an announcement of the census bu-
reau the actual f~orelgn-born decrease
was from 126,S51 In 1910 TO 1884 In
1920. The population OF the state n
increased from 700,024 in 1910 to $780,
600 in 1920.
Creation OF n new state OF northern
Illinois was Advocated by Senator Den
vir of Chicago, ILL.,, who introduced a
resolution In the Illinois Senate calling
on Congress to divorce Cook county
and seven nolghborlng counties from
the other nlnety-four counties In the
state.
Burglars who blew and plundered
the safe deposit vaults OF the Bank OF
Campbell at Campbell. y. Y. escaped
with Liberty bonds and other securities
valued Mt $4,000. No details or pre-
else statement OF the valuabies taken
have been made up yet.