Gilpin observer., 1919-05-15
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK o.
WIRES ROUND AsouI
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT GvENTs
condemned FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western N.w.D.p.r Union new. service.

| line IlrSt carload OF Wneat from lm-
perial Valley of the 1919 crop was
shipped by f. T. Anderson from Braw-
ley, Calf. Four hundred carloads Will
follow within few days.
Carl Weiningel, German alien, just
released from the penitentiary at Sa-
lem, after serving five-year sentence,
was taken to the county Jail to await
deportation proceedings as an undesir-
able alien. Weiningel went to prison
for safe-blowing
Making one of the largest hauls of
cOntraband drugs known to this state,
two customs officials raided the place
of Go Sam, securing fifteen cans of
opium and other drugs, valued at
about $1,000, at Stockton, Calf. Sew
eral arrests were made in connection
with the raid, it was announced.
Naturally aerial taxi rates will be
nigh. That was shown definitely to-
day by announcement of 81 per mile
as transportation charges on the
planes of the Mercury Aviation Com
pany, which has started service from
Los Angeles to Fresno. The company
runs planes in trains of four, making a
round trip daily.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo has purchased the
thirty-acre tract on Mission Ridge,
Santa Barbara, owned by George NJ.
Williams, for $60,O0O according to re-
liable information. 1t is reported with
out confirmation, however, that Nc
AdOo bought the property as summer
home for President Wilson.
No trace has been found of four
youthful automobile bandits who ter
rorized the vicinity between Seattle
and Everett, when they held up and
robbed eight people at the point of an
automatic pistol. Police and deputy
sheriffs of Seattle and Everett are on
the trail of the bandits and have been
securing the vicinity for the holdups.
Many thousands of dollars worth of
personal belongings and irreplaceable
keepsakes of officers now stationed at
Douglas, AriZ., and not few who are
with the army in France, We're burned
when the clothing storehouse at the
quartermaster department, United
States army, burned, with an estimated
loss of 100000 Army property valued
at $50O,O00 was endangered.
WASHINGTON
Commissioner Hywel Davies has
been assigned by the Department of
Labor to attempt settlement of strike
of 1000 miners at Park City, Utah,
who have quit work, demanding six
hour day with wages of $3.50.
Gen. John j. Pershing, commander
in-chief of the American expeditionary
forces, Is going to England on May %,
as the guest of the nation. He will Of
ficially thank Britain for what she did
to make comfortable more than a mil
lion troops passing through England
on the way to France.
Col. Arthur Woods has warned en-
ployers to hire as many extra men
now as possible to protect themselves
against coming tremendous labor
shortage. American labor, he declared,
will be short 6,0O0,O00 men and women
this year, due largely to the fact that
immigration has been vastly reduced.
A nonstop flight from Macon, Ga,
to Washington, $50 miles, was made in
six hours and fifteen minutes by
Martin bombing plane, carrying bale
of cotton.
Locomotive cranes, cars and other
equipment to the value of S1S,OOO,OO0
have been turned over by the War De-
partment to the railroad administra-
ton for sale to the railroads at mar
ket prices.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, who Is
expected to head the Senate Interstate
commerce committee I'm the next Con-
gress, announced on his return to
Washington that he planned to have
early consideration given to the rail
road problem.
Shipbulding this year has continued
the fast pace set during the war. The
Shipping Board announced that from
January LIST to May 7th American
yards turned out 204 steamships of
7S1 1,9S0 gross tons, all except thirty
nine. which were of steel construction.
April was the banner month, the total
deliveries being ninety-three ships of
32O.2SO gross tons, an increase OF 3D.
600 tons over the record set last Oc-
tober.
President Wilson, in proclamation
made public, recommended that the
period beginning June to Flag Day,
June IA, be observed over the country
as boy Scout Week." for the pur-
pose OF strengthening the work Of the
Boy Scouts of America.
The 1nterallied Maritime Council
will not be dissolved when peace is
signed. nor while necessity exists for
retaining the present control over
passenger vessels. Officials Of the