Gilpin observer., 1919-12-11


Fire of undetermined origin COM.
plctely destroyed the Catholic church
in Charles City, Iowa. The loss of the
cdifice, which includes costly interior
decorations, is estimated at $4,000.
Coal production in Mckinley and
Colfax counties, the principal coal pro-
ducing localities in New Mexico, is
within 10 per cent of normal, depart
,nent of justice officials have an
nounced.
An airplane mail service between
San Diego and the port of Los Angeles
for men of the Pacific fleet stationed
ut those points has been inauguratei.
The flights will be made by navy arr
planes.
Eleven hundred American soldiers
arrived from Siberia on the transport
Sheridan. A sign on the ships side
read: Bolshevists, beware! We are
coming home to join the American
Legion.
The interior of a cottage in the Los
Angeles harbor district, occupied by
George Kastivik, said to be an eX-Ger-
man army officer, was wrecked by
party of several hundred men accord
ing to police reports.
Gen. J. f. Wolters, commanding the
Texas cavalry, with headquarters at
Houston, Texas, has received advices
of n raid by Mexican bandits on a
store near the border, eleven miles
south of Zapata, county seat of Zapata
county.
The steel shipyard of the Todd Dry
dock and Construction Corporation,
employing $500 men, has resumed op-
erations at Tacoma, after having been
closed since Oct. l by strike, accord.
fng to an announcement by Il. +.
Marsh, federal labor commissioner.
Twenty dollars a day is being earn
ed by Miss Margaret Myers champion
peach pitter of California, and that
means the world She is working
piece work in local cannery. Her
lowest days wages has been S14, while
her average is $40.
The Hansen suspension bridge, span
ming n canon 6SS feet and 34o feet
deep, through which the Snake river
runs, was opened near Twin Falls,
Idaho recently. 1t is said to be the
highest bridge In the United States
and perhaps in the world.
Ten thousand tons of coke, said to
belong to the Spokane Falls Gas Light
Company and alleged to be held for
unlawful profits, We're served at Spo-
kane under libel proceedings instituted
in the court of United States District
I,l Inv ITptf Stnt
trict Attorney +. A. Garrecht.
A plea of guilty to nine of the
twenty-one counts charging him with
making false entries, was entered in
the United States District Court at
San Francisco by Harold X. Loughery
accused with Frank A. Bush and VIII
liam II. Grant of defaulting TO the ex-
tent of $72S,2 from the Santa Rosa
National Bank.
WASHINGTON
The American embassy at Mexico
City has notified the state department
at Washington that American Consu-
lar Agent William o. jenkins at Pu-
ebla, Mexico, has been released from
custody.
The government will not attempt to
control the disposition and sale OF
sugar after the sugar equalization
board is dissolved Dec. 81.
Unofficial reports at Washington
show 100000 persons wholly or par
TALLY idle as result of strike and coal
shortage; daily loss of wages more
than S2,000,000.
High tribute to the courage and zeal
Of Indian service employees during the
influenza epidemic among the tribes is
paid by the board of Indian commits
sioners In Its annual report just made
public. In some cases, the report said,
the action of these employees amount
ed to' heroism,. and the devoted work
of the corps undoubtedly kept down
the death toll among the governments
wards.
A surplus of S2,342,S51 In postoffice
operations for the fiscal year 1919 was
announced in the annual report OF
Postmaster General Burleson. The
figures are subject to some adjustment
which would increase the surplus, Mr..
Burleson said, adding that this was
the sixth time in the seven years OF
the present postoffice administration
that revenues had exceeded expendi.
lures.
A peace-time regular army of 300.
600 men and $4,000 officers has been
decided on by the House Military Sub
committee, headed by Representative
Anthony. Republican, Kansas, framing
the army reorganization bill. The
number Of combat troops was fixed al
100000.
julius II. Barnes, Federal Wheat D
rector has announced the purchase OF
the Washington Herald by Herber
Hoover, Charles II. Crane Of Chicago