The Colorado statesman., 1922-12-23


and b. +. Hollway, general manager OF
the Mexican Railway and Vera Cruz
terminal. The workers get % per
| cent increase for three months.
Seven Republican irregular prison
ers were executed at Mount Joy pris
on recently by the Irish Free State
government. The men executed were
former railway workers. They were
arrested near Kildare for tearing up
rails and threatening to wreck trains
Twelve persons were reported miss.
ing from the French hospital ship
Vinh-Long, which caught fire in the
Sea of Marmora. Earlier in the day
the United States destroyer Bainbridge
which had gone to the rescue of the
French ship, had reported all on board
saved.
GENERAL
A slight earthquake shock was felt
in Missoula, Mont, recently. Residents
were awakened, pictures shaken from
walls and dishes ratified. No damage
was reported.
-Four persons were instantly killed
and another was slight injured at
Port Arthur, Texas, when n street car
struck the truck in which they were
riding. All of the party We're en- route
to their work.
Between 600 and 700 persons, com
prising the spectators in two moving
picture theaters, were forced to run for
safety when fire destroyed the Repub-
lie and damaged the Garden theaters
in Annapolis, Md.
Twenty-Five civilian employees of the
Brooklyn naval base were arrested by
Department of Justice agents from
New York city in connection with
grand jury indictments charging more
than $1,0000OO worth of goods have
been stolen from the base since the
war. Goods stolen from the naval
base included clothing, oil and other
materials, according TO the federal
agents.
The Transportation Brotherhoods
National Bank, the sixth of its kind in
America, opened for business in Min
neapolis recently with initial deposits
of more than $4,000 during the first
hour of business. The bd.k is capi-
talized at 100000, and will be oper-
ated on plan similar to the Engineers
Cooperative Bank of Cleveland. The
stock is held by members of the four
transportation brotherhoods of the
Northwest.
According to the annual report of
the U. S. forest service, large part
~ 10 IN a y
from man-caused fires is due to the
seasonal influx of tourists, campers,
hunters, and fishermen, and other Wis
itors from the cities and from distant
parts of the country. \ national cam
paign of public education on the sub
iect of forest fires is demanded If the
task of protection of the vast area of
the national forests, from Maine and
Florida to California and Washington,
is to be successfully performed.
Twenty-three of the twenty-seven
persons who have been missing since
the tug Reliance struck on the rocks
off Lizard island, near Sault Ste Ma
rie, Ont, have been saved, according
to reports from the tug Grey, which
reached the wreck. Earlier reports
said that all hope for the lives of
twenty-seven vanished with the find
ing of two overturned lifeboats known
to have carried the party.
Soldiers bonus and highway i'm
provement account for approximately
So per cent of the $3T6,6S5, ,115.l2 au-
S5 per cent of the $376,6S5.12 au-
thorlzed indebtedness of thirteen Mid
die West and Northwest states, ac-
cording to reports of state treasurers
from the various states. OF this
amount $1S1, ,735, 115 is represented in
bonds or certificates of indebtedness
already issued. Voters of Illinois,
Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio have
authorized the payment of 500, 100000
to veterans Of the world war, por-
tion of which already has been dis
tributed. Illinois, Michigan and Mis-
souri, have provided for a system Of
good highways representing an ex-
penditure of $115,000,000.
May Walker Ollie Homestead, Hol-
stein cow owned by the Minnesota
Holstein Company at Austin, Mimi,
has broken the world record for a
years production of butter, her figure
for 1856 days being 1,217.27 pounds of
butter fat, the equivalent of 1925
pounds of butter, according TO A. l..
Eberhart, president of the company
and manager of a packing plant in
Omaha.
Ismet Pasha has announced that
the American colleges and institutions
in Smyrna will be permitted to reopen