Gilpin observer., 1919-04-24
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

The state placement committee has
secured the personal record of all Cal
ifOrnia soldiers who will return there
in the next few weeks and Is now ar
ranging with their former employers
to have them return to work.
Miss Nora Miller, daughter of a
rancher near Stockton, Calf, has been
sleeping for two months following n
severe attack of influenza. She is re-
been growing stronger and has been
made to sit up and walk, although fall
ing asleep in that position.
Lars Petersen, well-to-do retired
farmer, was found murdered in his
home at Sioux City. Petersen, who
lived alone, is believed to have been
killed by robbers who thought he had
a large sum of money in his home.
Petersen apparently was bound hand
and foot and then strangled to death.
Trailed for nineteen months through
the Businesses of northern California
counties by officers who sought him
for alleged draft evasion, Louis Jack
son, 23, of Bayside, Calf, was cap
tured at lumber mill in Crescent
City. Jackson's father is accused by
the sheriff's office of having secretly
supplied his son with food while he
was lodging the officers.
A citrus grove and apple orchard
merger to be known as the American
Fruit Growers, Inc, said by its spon-
sors to involve property worth $780,,
100000 in the United States and S2O,.
100000 in California alone, has been
announced at Los Angeles by ]. S.
Crutchfeld Of Pittsburg, Pa. Mr..
Crutchfield is president Of the Canta-
loupe Shippers Association, active in
the Northwest Fruit Exchange, and
said to be the largest individual grow
er of apples in the United States.
WASHINGTON
Army orders published in Washing
ton announce the honorable discharge
of Brig. Gen. John H. Sherburne, eff
fective at once. General Sherburne
commanded the Fifty-first field artil-
lery brigade, Twenty-sixth division.
Passage of the national woman suf-
frage amendment Immediately ON the
convening of the extra session of Con-
gress is assured beyond the shadow of
doubt" according to Senator Curtis
of Kansas, in an interview with Miss
Alice Paul, made public by the WOm-
ans party.
In announcing that the ninth BIZ
weekly offering of the treasury GER
tificates of indebtedness In anticipa-
tlon of the Victory Liberty loan had
been Oversubscribed by nearly 30 per
cent, Secretary Glass disclosed that Il
subscription of $5O,OOO,OOO by the jap
anese government had been reported
by the New York federal reserve dis
trict.
Travel allowances of cents q mile
to discharged soldiers authorized by
a recently enacted law can be paid
only to cover expenses from the point
where the soldier was discharged to
the place where he was originally mus
tered into the service. Comptroller of
the Treasury w. w. Warwick trans
mitted ruling to this effect to the
War Department.
Carl W. A. Linder of the Hurja A. C.
of Quincy won the Boston Athletic AS
sociation twenty-five-mile marathon
run in 2 hours, 20 minutes and 13 2-5
seconds.
New evidence of Americas purpose
I'm ralnan N fItIl ha. laI a.,
entering the war has been asked of the
nation by President Wilson, who urged
full subscription of the $4,000, 600, 900
Victory Liberty note Issue. Sixty
thousand men who gave their lives in
France have redeemed the covenant of
blood made two years ago, the Presi-
dent said, but the pledge OF treasure
remains yet to be fulfilled.
Food packages containing more than
one-half ounce avolrdupois hereafter
must be labeled to show the exact net
weight Of food they contain under an
amended regulation, issued under the
federal food and drugs act by the sec
retaries of the treasury, agriculture
and commerce. The Department of
Agriculture explained that the regula-
titn was changed SO the consumers
might be informed of the quantities OF
foods sold in small packages and be
protected from the receptive practice
OF slack filling.
In complaint filed by several coal
dealers with the Utah public utilities
commission at Salt Lake the Denver 4
Rio Grande railroad is charged with q
violation OF the long and short hau
clause OF the state public utilities act
and feparation is demanded on freigh,
charges levied for hauling coal from
Helper, Utah, to that city In excess ol
published rate of $1.25 4 ton. The
amount asked is said to be approx
mateIy 100000. alleged to have heer