The Ely miner., 1924-07-11

on $4,000 bail pending an appeal to
the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
Elmer W. Jarnecke, his secretary, con-
yicted of the same offense, has not pro
vided bail.
Sports
New York-Jimmy Johnston, at
one time, matchmaker for the famous
Cromwell A. c. announced that he had
matched Georges Carpenter and Gene
Tunney for a fifteen round bout in
the Polo Grounds on Tuesday, July
%. They are to battle for the Ameri-
can light heavyweight title. which
Tunney now holds.
New York-Everett Scott, shortstop
OF the New York Yankees, reached
his 1,200th consecutive game when he
played in the Yank-Red Sox game at
Boston. That's a lot OF ball games
and is a record that undoubtedly will
stand for years. Every day Scott
sets the record a little higher, and
makes 1t little more difficult for any
one else to reach.
Paris = The American Olympic
track and field team, already crippled
by series of minor mishaps since
it's departure from the United States,
faced its most serious loss so far
when Leroy T. Brown, New York A.
c., and H. M. Osborn, Illinois A. c.,
the high jumping aces counted on for
cleanup in this event, were taken
to the Neuilly hospital for treatment.
Brown is suffering from an injury
to a tendon in the leg and Osborn
from strained muscles in the back.
Foreign
Jaen, Spain-Locusts have destroy.
ed the entire harvests in this prov
ince, the loss being especially heavy
in the vicinity of Linares.
Berlin-Representa of all Ger
man parties and emissaries from all
countries separated from Germany by
the Versailles treaty gathered at the
reichstag to commemorate the fifth an
niversary of the signing of the Yer
sailles treaty.
Peking-Rev. George Douglas Byers,
missionary of the American Presby-
terian church on the Island of Hainan,
was murdered June "a, presumably by
bandits, according to word sent to the
American consulate at Canton by the
British Consul on the island.
London-Rumors that the Prince of
Wales informed the royal family that
having passed his both birthday, he
would begin looking about for bride,
have caused hurried arrangement of
an unusual number of social affairs
London-The international power
conference, representing 80 countries
and with large American delegation,
was inaugurated here with reception
by the Prince of Wales in great hall
at the Wembley exhibition where the
conference will sit during the coming
fortnight.
Toronto-"Community chests" in the
United States and Canada viii dis
tribute in the coming year more than
$50,000000 for charitable purposes, it
was announced at the meeting of the
American Association for Community
Organization at Knox college.
Rome-The seismopraphic observa-
tories recorded an earthquake shock
so violent that it put all the instru-
ments out of action temporarily The
Bandandi observatory estimated that
the center of the shock was about g.
500 kilometers distant, probably in
Turkestan or India. The oscillation
lasted one hour.
nAI Il
Of Del Rio, held by Mexican autheri-
ties at Villa Acuna on instructions
from Mexico City, has been released.
Secretary of State c. E. Hughes had
made strong representations to the
Mexican government to either release
DR.. Rose or file specific charges
against him.
Geneva, Switzerland = Representa-.
tives of the Italian government have
been asked to reserve apartments in
September for Premier Muss olini. 1t
is announced that the premier will
attend the meeting of the League of
Nations assembly with Prime Minis
ter Ramsay Macdonald of Great Bri-
tain and Premier Herriot of France.
Paris-The American battle monu-
ments commission with which Gen.
eral ]. J. Pershing arrived here, will
begin thorough study of the whole
area of activities of the American ex-
peditionary forces in France next
week. Before the real work begins.
the commission will visit the Marne
battlefield for a preliminary look-over
the ground.
Munich-Dr. Adolph Barkan, profess
sor emeritus of ophthalmology of Le-
land Stanford, Jr., University, cali
fornia, has been elected as honorary
citizen of Ludwig -Maximilian Univer-
sity here in recognition of his services
in alleviating distress among students.
Dr. Barkan, Hungarian by birth, is
member of numerous scientific So
cieties in Europe and America.
Rio de Janeiro-President Bernardes
has signed emergency bills to anchor
ate the high cost of living, canceling
for period of so days the duties and
clearance charges at all Brazilian Gus.
toms houses on all staple foods, rice.
sugar, potatoes, jerked beef, beans and
corn. 1t was also announced that the
government plans to purchase food
abroad if prices are found lower than
in the local market.
Pretoria, Union of South Africa
General James Barry Hertzog has TAX
en- the portfolio of native affairs with
the premiership of the new nationalist
cabinet, which is in process of forma-