The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-21
FOREIGN

lIB Hn lHCItatst VI OOOiOOOtDOO maj hS
during the last ten days of the month.
1t is reported from Buer that that
town has been fined 50,000,000 marks
and that all street traffic at night Is
forbidden on account of the blowing
up of the militarized railway between
Buer and Reckllnghausen.
Members of the British admiralty
board told International News Service
they believed the spirit of the WASH
ington conference treaties limiting nav
al armaments prevented elevation of
gun turrets on warships to Increase
firing range.
The capture near Dublin of Austin
Stack, chief colleague of Eamon de
Valera, while important in itself, is
| overshadowed by the discovery on his
person of document indicating that
| the complete surrender of the irregu-
lars Is at hand.
Somewhere In the mountains of
| Scotland, Major and Mrs. Max Oser,
| the latter formerly Miss Mathilde Nc
| Cormick, 18 years old, granddaughter
of John d. Rockefeller, are enjoying
brief honeymoon before returning to
| Switzerland, where they will live.
Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the
exchequer of England, making his bud
| get statement before q crowded cham
ber In the House of Commons, said
the past years surplus of f101, 100000
had gone to reduction of the debt. The
financial year just closed had become
steadily better as 1t proceeded, trade
at home and abroad had improved and
unemployment had diminished consid-
erably.
A Constantinople dispatch to the
London Daily Mail says that Elgin Il.
Groseclose, an American relief work
er, has arrived in that city from Tiflis
where, he said, he spent eighteen days
In solitary confinement in n soviet
prison on a charge of spying. The
charge was based on the discovery
among his papers of an insurance pol
icy, which the soviet police mistook
for an discriminating document
| Howard Carter, the American who
assisted Lord Carnarvon in finding the
tomb of King Tutankhamen and who
was said to be Ill, was reported i'm
proved in dispatches received in Lon
| don from Cairo. Lord Carnarvon's re-
mains will be inferred Oh the top Of
hig hill on his estate and not in the
family vault, according to one of his
last expressed wishes, says an an
| nouncement in London.
The correspondent of the Sunday
| Express at Weirengen, Germany,
states that there are increasing indi-
cations that the former crown prince
| of Germany is becoming insane. The
correspondent declares that two OF
Berlin's most famous alienists recent
| ly visited Weirengen and found the
former crown prince suffering from
| progressive dementia. The correspond
ent adds: "The former crown prince
| has turned religious minded and forces
the servants to listen for hours to re-
vivals conducted by him on wheezy
organ"
GENERAL
j. NJ Davila, chief of immigration in
Juarez, has received an order from
Mexico City instructing him to bar all
Americans from entering Juarez after
8 o'clock every night unless every form
of gambling was stopped.
| Automobile accidents killed $4,000
persons in the United States in 1922,
an increase of 1000, or II per cent,
over 1921, according to figures issued
by the National Bureau of Casualty
| and Surety Underwriters at New York
City.
Ceremonies impressive by their SIM
plicity were conducted at the funeral
of the Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, pre-
siding bishop of the Episcopal church
| in America, who died ut his residence
ut st. Louis, Mo. In accordance with
the wish of the deceased prelate, no
provision was made for sermon.
Fire at Herry f. Sinclairs' Ranco-
cas- stable at Jobstown, N. j., de-
stroyed property and horses valued at
more than $1,0000oo. The fire was
| in the breeding stables and the horses
| destroyed were brood mares and the
stallion Inchcape, for which Sinclair
paid the record price of $15o0oo as
2-year-old.
Sheriff ]. r. Jones of Tallahassee
made personal profit of approximate
ly $23 on each prisoner leased by Leon
county to Putnam Lumber Company,
he testified before the legislative COM
mittee Investigating prison conditions
| in Florida as the outgrowth of the
death of Martin Tabert of North Da-
1 kota.
Kenesaw NJ. Lands, baseball COM
missioner, apparently has no favorites
In the 1923 major league race, but he
looks for great year for the fans"
For 1923 there is-every indication of
a most excellent season." Commission
er Lands said in Chicago. "Appar-
emily in most leagues, there Will be