SWEEPING WAVE
OFSPECULATION
HITS RUMANIA
BUCHAREST, July 10 (by Associat
ed Press).—Rumania is being swept
with a vast wave of speculation, the
object of which is to overcome the
^ligh cost of living, which harasses
the richest and poorest alike. The
primary cause of the advanced price
* of necesssities is found in the fact
that all manufactured products have
to be imported whereas there is suffi
cient amount of food grown in the
country to support the population and
this food has not risen in proportion
of dress goods.
The cost of living in Rumania has
been the occasion of many strikes but
as in every other country in Europe,
people seem to find unexplained ways
of buying fine clothes and keeping
^hemselves dressed.
The wealthy women of this country
make bi-annual trips to Paris and re
turn \yith their trunks filled with
shoes and silk stockings and dresses
of the latest fashion, which they
bring into the country despite the
prohibition against the importation of
such articles and also a twenty-five
percent customs duty which is paid
when special permission is obtained
to bring in goods. When such per
mission is not obtained the goods are
smuggled in automobiles over the
frontiers.
Princess Elizabeth went to Pans
last winter and bought herself three
huge trunks full of new clothes, but
arrived home heart-broken. While
passing through Jugo-Slavia during
the customs examination, the trunks
were stolen.
The American Red Cross has con
tributed to the clothing of a good
many thousands of people in Rumania.
Some of this clothing found its way
to the shops. It is not uncommon to
find women who have converted
American army shirts into skirts, first
dyeing them another color. Blankets
have also been used for the making
of cloaks and overcoats.
The American shoe is practically
the only article to be found in the
strops. These shoes sell at a price
of $4 to $8, cheaper than in the
United States. Prices of clothing
have been increased about tenfold, as
compared with before the war. Wom
en’s dresses which formerly cost $200.
The actors and actresses are still
underpaid. Rumania’s greatest com
edy actress, Mme. Marie Giurgct, re
ceives 3,000 lei per month, or haif
the price of an expensive dress. Music
hall artists receive 20 to 50 lei a day.
It is difficult for them to live in side
lines, such as in the moving pictures’
industry, which has not yet developed
in Rumania.
Cabinet members are practically
the only ones who have not had their
salaries raised. They still receive the
equivalent of about $200 a year. The
former minister of the interior, Nich
olas Uupu, was nearly bankrupted on
ore occasion when he was compelled
to buy a silk hat to appear at a royal
ceremony.
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VENDORS REAP
HARVEST FROM
ILLICIT DRUGS
BUTTE, Mont., July 10 (by Ass
ciated Press).—That Butte is one of
the stations on a regular route main
tained by vendors who bring illicit
drugs from Cannadian points, was the
statement made recently by A. M. J.
Pritchard, a special agent of the in
ternal revenue department, \^ho has
been investigating the traffic in nar
cotics in Butte. Mr. Pritchard said
the traffic in Butte amounts to thou
sands of dollars each month and that
the addicts in this city run into the
hundreds.
During his stay in Butte, the spe
cial agent obtained evidence which
resulted in the arrest of Dr. G. D.
Bryant, a physician of Butte, and
Wan Sing and Quong Chung, the lat
ter two Chinese, on federal charges.
The homes of the Chinese were raid
ed and a quantity of opium, with full
layouts for smoking, were seized.
“Tracing shipments of drugs which
are sold in Butte, we have discovered
that narcotics are being laid down
here at a cost of $14.48 an aunce,”
said Special Agent Pritchard. “The
drugs then are put out to intermed
iaries at $80 an ounce, and these men
in turn sell the stuff at prices which
vary up to $450 an ounce. The lat
ter figure is reached when the ven
dor sells magnesia and milk, with a
small quantity of drug mixed in.
“The drugs which are being peddled
in Butte come here through Sweet
Grass, Great Falls and Helena over
a regular route. From Butte, the
route leads to Boise, Idaho, and then
to Salt Lake City, where a route from
the south connects. The drugs which
are brought in from the south cross
the Mexican line at Tia Juana and
follow a regular route to Salt Lake.
The ring of vendors travels over these
lines on regular schedules, similar to
those of traveling men. and carry con
siderable quantities for distribution
in the larger cities of the west.”
IRRIGATION PROJECTS
SUBJECT OF REPORT
BUTTE, Mont., July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A complete report of
tbe irrigation projects of Montana is
to be made under the direction of
Allen E. Drake, chief special agent for
the state of Montana of the census
bureau of the department of com
merce, in charge of the census being
taken in the state of factories, mines,
quarries and other industries.
Some of the work done by the reg
ular census enumerators, but much of
the data they could not obtain and
some of the reports were submitted
in incomplete form. The irrigation
census will cover all ditch projects
of any kind, private, state or co-op
erative. The information obtained,
it is announced, will be held confi
dential and will not be submitted to
any assessor as a basis of taxation.
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Silk underwear and skirts at Mrs.
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Kodak finishing. Scarborough.
Professional kodak finishing. Scar
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store.
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SUMMONS
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Louise
Dorothy Hegg, Plaintiff, vs. Roy Ed
ward Hegg, Defendant. No. 1047.
Summons.
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting—To the Above
Named Defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within thirty
days after the completion of the pub
lication of this summons, to-wit, within
thirty days after the 12th day of
August, 1920, and answer the com
plaint of the above named plaintiff in
the above entitled action, wherein said
plaintiff prays that she be granted a
decree of absolute divorce from you,
the said defendant, forever dissolving
the bonds of matrimony now existing
between you and said plaintiff.
And unless you so appear and
answer the said plaintiff will take
judgment against you for want thereof
and will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in her complaint as
hereinabove set out
The date of the order for service by
publication herein is June 30, 1920, and
such order was duly made and entered
and filed herein on said date.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is July 1st, 1920, and the
date of its last publication is August
12th, 1920.
Witness: The HONORABLE FRED
M. BROWN, Judge of said Court and
the seal of said Court on this 1st day
of July, 1920.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By Thos. S. Scott, Deputy.
Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for
Plaintiff.
First publication, July 1, 1920.
Last publication, August 12, 1920.
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