The Colorado statesman., 1919-03-15
NEWS To DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

Wabash Railroad Company, died of
pneumonia in St Louis.
An investigation was ordered of
fire in the nurses headquarters, ad-
Joining q barracks building at FIT. Sill,
Okla, during which the lives of sew
eral wounded soldiers recently re
turned from overseas duty were en-
dangered.
Woman suffrage lost in the Iowa
Senate when that body voted to post
pone indefinitely the House bill
granting women primary suffrage and
then passed the resolution proposing
full woman suffrage through cOnsti-
tutional amendment.
Five hundred and thirteen persons,
accused of violating the federal law
prohibiting the transportation of in
toxicating liquor from the wet terri
tory of Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky,
into dry Indiana are arraigned in
United States District Court at In
dianapolis
Mine owners of the Occur d'Alene
mining district have announced cut
in wages of miners amounting to 81
a day. The present scale is $3.50
day, with a war bonus of $1.75 daily.
Under the new scale the bonus is cut
to rs cents day. The cut has been
expected for some time.
The medical fraternity of Kansas
City is baffled by one of the most I'M
usual cases in the history of medical
science in the middle West. A 16-
year-old fri is unconscious-ha been
so for over fifty-five days-and there
is apparently no signs of when she
will regain consciousness.
Flying at Love field ceased and
with the exception of sixty-five men
the 1000 enlisted men and cadets will
leave within the next two weeks for
other flying fields. When announce
ment was made that flying would end
there was a general rush of flyers for
their favorte ships" and the air soon
was thick with planes.
Figuring out his income tax was ap-
parently a hopeless task for NJ. s.
Gibbons, an elderly resident of Coal
inga, Cal. Neighbors found his body
in his house with every indication of
having ended his life with a shotgun.
The floor was Uttered with scraps of
paper on which Gibbons had been
working to determine his income tax.
An attempt to have the recent &C.
ton of the Missouri Legislature in rat
flying the national prohibition amend
ment repudiated by referendum
vote, was begun by the st. Louis Re
tail Liquor Mems Association, repre-
senting 1000 saloon proprietors A
referendum committee was appointed
and the liquor dealers will cooperate
with the twenty civic organizations
that are working to have the action of
the Legislature abrogated.
WASHINGTON
Poison gas developed in war cannot
be used to clear American farms of
insect and rodent pests, Secretary
Lane has decided after investigation.
Experiments showed that while pests
were killed there was danger of the
gas spreading and destroying live
stock and persons living near by, in
case the wind should carry the fumes.
Double censorship of cablegrams is
abolished under the terms of an
agreement between the United States
and Great Britain.
The Supreme Court sustained the
conviction of Eugene V. Debs, Social
list leader, found guilty of violating the
espionage act through statements made
in n speech at Canton, Ohio, last June,
and sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment.
The cotton futures rider to the
guarantee wheat price bill, which was
Gin nv prnciHant Wilson
come effective. Under it, only thirteen
grades of cotton-from low middling
up-can be delivered on future con-
tracts and all cotton so delivered must
be classified by government graders.
That Herbert Hoover, the American
food administrator, and lately appoint
ed director general of the interallied
relief organization, is to cease his re
lief work in the summer was indicated
in statement issued by Mr. Hoover
concerning the wheat situation. He
intimated that n majority of his CO.
workers also would return to private
life.
Abandonment of the Neville island
ordnance plant, planned as the largest
munitions factory in the world, was
announced by the War Department.
Not only will construction be stopped
at once, but the buildings already COM
pleted will be dismantled and the tools
and machinery manufactured or near
ing completion will be transferred to
other government arsenals or sold.
Republican organization for the ma
jority control of the next House was
completed with Representative Frank