BAN REMOVED
ON ANTHRACITE
COA1MARKET
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The coal market for
all but stove and nut sizes is now
wide open, and anthracite may be
shipped all over the country.
Coal-conservation campaigns, the
armistice and the continued mild
weather have greatly ameliorated the
fuel situation. As a result, the an
thracite committee of the United
States fuel administration now per
mits hard coal users all over the coun
try to obtain without restriction all
sizes except stove and nut, even in
the states barred since last May to
hard coal.
Officials say the buying of broken
egg, pea and buckwheat by the house
holder will do much toward bringing
back the coal demand for these sizes
to pre-war conditions. Consumers, ac
cording to the officials, can now be
supplied with all the domestic hard
coal sizes they need with the excep
tion of nut and stove, on which the
anthracite committee’s embargo still
holds. The ruling just made avoids
the danger of a recurrence in any sec
tion of the country of the conditions
which prevailed last winter.
Fuel administrators generally have
expressed themselves as being satis
fied with the situation as it now ex
ists in the various states.
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MINERAL OUTPUT OF
COLORADO LAST YEAR
DURANGO, Colo., Feb. 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Four hundred and two
thousand, five hundred and six dry
tons of Colorado ore were treated in
the plants of the American Smelting
and Refining Company during the last
year, according to a statement from
Manager R. P. Reynolds of the local
plant. This brought 126,927 ounces
of gold, 5,239,318 ounces of silver, 54,
131,053 pounds of lead and 5,350,094
pounds of copper. This brought a to
tal of $13,055,581 to Colorado mining
men.
In spite of the possibility of de
creased prices for ores, the outlook
for mining in the future to considered
bright by mining men. Manufactur
ers of mining tools are returning to
this business from war work, and the
release of many mine experts from
army service is expected to bring new
mining activities.
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ENGLAND’S ROAD BUILDING
PLANS INVOLVE BIG SUM
LONDON, Dec. 18 (by mail).—An
nouncement is made here that the gov
ernment has set aside $50,000,000 to
be usfed in road-building and in recon
struction of bridges allowed to fall
into decay during the war. It is esti
mated that 2,500 miles of roads will
be constructed, and that the work
will give employment to fully 100,000
men, many of whom will be dis
charged soldiers.
MUSK OXEN TO
BE HERDED
INJLASKA
SEATTLE, Feb. 1 (by Associated
Press).—“Cattle punchers” from the
American plains are to be sent to the
tundra country of the white Alaska
Arctic to herd musk oxen toward
western Alaska, where they will be
domesticated and butchered to in
crease the meat supply, according to
a special Washington dispatch to the
Seattle Times.
Some of the oxen will come from
the snow-covered islands fringing the
continent’s northern rim, the dispatch
says. Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., of
Alaska has been quoted as saying that
there are 200,000 musk oxen on Mel
ville island alone.
' The federal department of the in
terior and the department of agricul
ture, the dispatch said, are arranging
to send the cowmen north. Congress
will be asked to make an appropria
tion to outfit the expedition.
Governor Riggs and Jafet Linde
berg, the Nome, Alaska, mining man,
who also owns reindeer herds, are
supporting the plan, it was said. Vilh
jalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, on
his recent return from the North, said
the musk oxen numbered thousands,
and contended that they could be
herded, domesticated and butchered.
He said the meat from the musk ox
was better than most beef sold in
the States.
„ If the oxen are herded to western
Alaska they will not be going into a
new country, for, according to records
left by early explorers, many herds
in oxen roarnea sewara peninsula and
the country between the Yukon and
Kuskokwim rivers more than half a
century ago. When whalers went
North and gave rifles to the Eskimos
the great herds were wiped out, it is
said. Only the far northern herds re
mained.
Reindeer were imported into west
ern Alaska from Siberia by the fed
eral government. Eskimos were
placed in charge of the herds. Today
the reindeer have thrived and the
care of them forms one of the prin
cipal Eskimo industries.
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FORMER FEDERAL LEADER
FlAS BEEN CAPTURED
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The war department
has announced the capture of' Ignacio
Morelos Zaragoza, former federal
general, who has been operating
against the government in the state
of Nuevo Leon. The prisoner, who
was captured at a ranch in Nuevo
Leon, has been taken to Monterey for
trial. Zaragoza defended Tampico un
der the Huerta regime against the
constitutionalists under General Pablo
Gonzales. He- surrendered, sought
amnesty, then fled to the United
States, later returning to Mexico and
operating in conjunction with Juan
Almazan. He is of advanced age. His
capture caused some excitement in
Monterey, where he is well known
and has many relatives.
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WHO CONFESS
DIE SUDDENLY
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 10 (Corre
spondence of the Associated Press).—
The record of ciimes attributed to
the supposed organization popularly
known as the “gray automobile rob
ber band” has been augmented by the
killing in the federal penitentiary of
Francisco Oviedo. Oviedo had been
a prisoner for a year and a half, and
was accused of being one of the sub
chiefs of the robber band which has
operated here for two years or more.
He was slain with a dagger by a ne
gro prisoner who was charged with
nine other murders.
The killing of Oviedo places another
obstacle in the path of the authorities
who for two years have been trying
to discover the supposed man or men
“higher up” who direct the operations
of the robber band which uses a gray
automobile in making their raids.
Six men, including Oviedo, were
held in the penitentiary, accused of
being members of the band.*, Several
weeks ago one of them, Rafael Mer
cadante, is said to have offered to
confess. Shortly afterward he died
from an unknown cause in his cell.
Two weeks later Oveido offered to
tell what he knew, and two days aft
erward he was killed. Four others
who remained in prison have not of
fered any statements to the authori
ties.
The gray automobile, late in 1916
and early in 1917, figured in numerous
daring and productive raids. Posing
as agents of the district government
ind bearing forged credentials, the
occupants would stop in front of a
house, enter it on the pretext of
searching for arms or robbers, or
with no pretext at all, take what they
fancied and drive . away. At the
height of their career tha bandits,
puisucu uy a. puuco uiuiui nu, nafeou
i running fight with their pursuers
through the Pasgo de la Refprma, one
of the principal highways olj the city.
Several deaths resulted froi a the in
terchange of rifle shots.
Later a society woman timplained
to the authorities that she mad seen
a valuable necklace; stolen pom her
by the auto bandits, on til neck of
an actress, rillpl. mm 4 explain,
the1 dancer aMienSf tfiSt-'Se *)tpfreis
were a present from an admirer. The
alleged giver was a general in the
Mexican army. The necklace was re
turned, but apparently this clue did
not lead to the leaders of the robbers.
The operatives, however, finally
were surrounded while engaged in
robbing a house in the foreign colony.
But each time that it appeared that
the truth was near disclosure the
principal witness counted on by the
state to establish its case died. Thus
passed Mercadante and Oviedo.
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BIG AUTO MEET AT
SANTA MONICA IN MARCH
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1 (by Asso
rted Press).—Revival of the Santa
Monica road race as an annual auto
mobile event is regarded here as a
probability since the recent announce
ment that application had been made
to the American Automobile Associa- w.
tion for sanction for a race to be held jj
early in March. ji
The proposed course, which lies en- ji
tirely within the city limits of Santa :j
Monica, Oal., differs slightly from that ji
over which the Vanderbilt Cup, the \
Grand Prize and other noted races :|
J
were run, being six instead of eight <
miles long. :j
The last Important. road racing \
events held in Southern California jj
were the Vanderbilt and Grand Prize ji
races, held at Santa Monica in the g
fall of 1916.
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