Gunnison news-champion., 1922-01-13
FOREIGN

! The official census OF japan has
been completed and place the total
population at 55.-3-oS3
/ Marquis okuma. former premier Of
Japan, Is dead For several days he
I had been lying between life and death
and during part OF that time his CONS
was 50 intense that his death Was an
nounoed several days ago.
A young woman in Paris jumped to-
her death from the top of the Arc de
/ Triomphe. Her body fell among .
/ crowd of rnourners who were carrying
! flowers 10 decorate the grave OF the
( unknown soldier" The woman had
I removed from her clothing all idenfifi-
/ cation marks.
/ Ellsso Pho Rodriguez, when he was
I rounded up In 4 police raid on the beg
sing pests Of Madrid. proved 10 be s
I capitalist with SSoO1O to his name In
/ a ts7oyiueiaI bank. while he also pos
S.-ss.s farm with thirty cows. This
fortune Is the result Of many years Of
/ inendicancy.
Official Prussi-n crime statistics for
i 1921 made public IN Berlin show that
81 per cent Of the population were
I charged with infrHciions Of the penal
/ code. or those 81 charged - per cent
were convicted In the previous year
per cent of the population were
charged with infractions.
| A young woman recer.tiy jumped to-
I her death from the top of the Arc de-
I Trioimph.. Paris Her body fell among
a, crowd of n.'urHers who were carry
ing flowers tn decorate the grave Of
the unknown soldier" The woman
had removed from her clothing all
Identification marks.
Fifty bodies have been recovered
from the Greek torpedo boat DESTROYER
Leon. anchored in the harbor of Pr
aeus, which was wrecked by an eNpio-
sion Of torpedo. The explosion dam
aged nearby warships and caused
houses ashore 20 collapse, killing .
number OF the inhabitants.
A dispatch from Innsbruck says that
the Tyrol Diet at Geneva, after ses-
( sion of thirty-three hours, broke down
I the Socialist obstruction and voted the
I 1872 budget, amounting to l.9:O,Oo0.OoU
! kronen. When the vote was taken a
number of the Socialist members fell
asleep. Other Socialists had gone
home.
| Ainericn is given full credit for her
part in the World War In book de-
voted TO the struggle written by Adolf
for Asroio of Alontovideo. one Of the
prominent French commanders quoted
In the book is General Snrrail "Tiie
I
rs declaring. Had the United States
not interviewed In 1917, we would have
been lost"
GENERAL
The name of Smith leads all other
names In the enrolment of the Colun>
bia University, II Is shown by the 1871
catnlog OF the university. The Smith
family has III tons and daughters at
tending Columbia this winter and the
next highest number Of any tribe IL
Miller, represented by seventy four
members
Thomas Cosgrove and Charles Bor~
shel, Jr., both OF Iowa Falls. Iowa.
were found asphyxiated In a private
garage When found their car was
still running. The supposition is that
they drove into the garage, closed the
door and tarried II few minutes to visit
and were overcome by the fumes from
the exhaust.
Foreign ships are carrying the bulk
of the cargo between this country md
the east COAST OF South America and
are increasing their proportion, al
fbnnph I'M 81,
better showing on the routes 10 and
from the west coast of that continent,
according TO a survey issued by the
Commerce Department.
Crime judged by the number Of pris~
oners sent to state institutions has In
creased during the last year In New
York, according 10 report made pub
lie at Osslning, n. T., by John kenne-
dy. chairman Of the State Prison Com
mission. More prisoners We're put t0
death and there was a great Increase
In drug addicts admitted.
Three bandits, armed with sawed-of(
shotguns, held up three collectors for
the Owl Drug Company in its store I'm
Los Angeles and escaped in an auto
mobile with . sum estimated by tis.
company at about $1,000 The rob-
berry occurred on the busiest street in
downtown Los Angeles.
Charles Garland. who more than .
year ago announced his refusal TO ac-
cept a legacy Of s1,OOO.OOO wIlled to
him by his father, the late James A.
Garlnnd OF Boston, has reconsidered
his decision and will accept the money,
according TO the Boston Post. His bro
ther Hamilton, who likewise declined
legacy of equal proportions, has ae-
cepted his share Of the family fortune,
the Post declares.
Two Chicago banks with resources
Of more than ss5.OO0,OOO were sold an
er the Chicago clearing house commit