The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-07-04


Nebr., when an automobile carrying |
party of seven was struck by fast |
Burlington passenger train at grade |
crossing.
The Union Pacific is figuring on |
moving one-fourth of the Kansas
wheat CROP which means 57,O0o.oOo
bushels, calling for 10000 cars, ac-
cording to w. NJ. Jeffers of Omaha,
general manager of the Union Pacific.
Twelve miners are known to be |
dead and three more are expected to
die as result of an explosion in a
mine of the Rock Island Coal Com |
pany at Anderson, Okla, five miles
east of McAlester, Okla.
Governor McKevie tentatively de-
cided to call the Nebraska Legislature
in special, session Monday, July 2l, for
the purpose of ratifying the woman
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
ton of the United States.
As means of reducing delays in
cidental to making change in war tax
payments, the San Francisco mint is
working twenty-four hours daily max
ing 1OO,OOOOOO pennies monthly. to
go as far east as Chlcago.
Altho the supply of men for work
in the harvest fields of Kansas is nor
NAL. it must increase Immediately, and
5000 workers can be placed at once,
according to AN announcement by A.
L. Barkman, director of the United
States employment service at Kansas
City.
Entire villages of natives on the
Seward peninsula, Alaska, were wiped
out by influenza last winter, accord
ing to accounts brought to Seattle by
Capt. J. F. Guptil of the steamer Sen
ator, which has just completed their
first round trip of the season to Nome,
Alaska.
Crops on 700 acres of Yakima valley
land, most OF it belonging to the Union
Orchards Company and planted to ap-
pies, were endangered when the con
crete standpipe by the Wenas dam was
blown up by dynamite. The perpetrat
or is not known There has been higi
feeling in regard to the water rights ol
the Wenas valley for several years.
Approval of a S4O,OOO,OOO state
highway bond issue by an overwhelm-
ing majority was indicated by partial
returns received from every section OF
California. The vote was running ap
proximately six to one in favor of the
issue The bond issue contemplates
the addition of 1,510 miles improved
roads to the state highway system ant
the completion of $50 miles of worl
begun under previous bond issues.
rit ieb al NCil
across the Pacific on October 10Th
from San Diego, bound for Australia
according to statement made b,
Capt. William Mcdonald of Mel
bourne, formerly in the Canadian fly
ing service, who is on his way t.
southern California, via Seattle. IL
stated that while full details of tn
trip have not been decided on, tn
date of the start has been set AM
that the trip would be made wit
stops at Honolulu, small Britis
island near Guam and Nagasaki
WASHINGTON
Secretary Wilson is asked in
resolution adopted by the house t
report the activities of officials an
employees of the labor department i
connection with the case of Thoma
J. Mooney, convicted in California, il
connection with the Preparedness da
bomb explosions
Air mail service between New Yor
and Chicago has been inaugurate
with siX-hour service The frs
plane left New York at 5:15 a. n
flew to Belfont, Pa, at the rate o
123 miles an hour and there transfer
!, ,ir
reached Cleveland at $ 80 a. m. il
time to transfer the mail to the regu
lar Cleveland-to-Chieag machine.
With the peace treaty signed an
the German blockade about to be lift
ed. wide differences of opinion hav
arisen among administration official
and international authorities as t
lust when the United States can re
sumo commercial relations with Gel
many The point is of the utmos
interest to business and shipping intel
.ests, which are eager that America
commerce may have the same advani
age as British, French and Italia
commerce in the German markets.
The United States employment sci
vice will not be forced to go out 0
existence enhlItlN- An app Vpi iatiV
of 100000, enough to maintain an OF
,ganization in Washington, but not sui
ficient for a field service, was de
cided upon by conference on the sun
dry civil bill.
President Wilson furnished Amer
ca with another precedent when h
received from the steamer Grea
Northern, as it passed the Georg
Washington in mid-oeean the railroad
deficiency and Indian appropriation
bills