The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12

bank at Erie, Mich, near Toledo, and
escaped in an automobile with $4,000 in
cash and securities yet to be esu-
mated
The Minnesota House of Represen-
tatives shortly after the special session
opened ratified the federal woman sur
frage amendment. The vote was 100 to
g. The Senate ratified the amendment,
90 to 5.
One of Nebraska's largest potash re-
duction plants was destroyed by fire
at Lakeside, Neb., a few days ago
with a loss of more than S5OO,OOO.
Spontaneous combustion of coal caused
the fire.
Joie Ray of Chicago bettered the
Canadian one-mile record in winning
handicap race at the Canadian nation
al exhibition games. Rays time was
A IA 2-5, 1-5 seconds faster than A. Il.
Kiviat of New York in race at Mon
treal seven years ago.
In San Francisco Secretary of the
Nevy Josephus Daniels expressed him
self as opposed to the word "goh
with reference to the men of the navy
and he says if official edict can stop
the use of the word, it will soon be
relegated to the scrap heap.
Harry J. Hilles, one of the most ex-
tensive stock raisers in western Ne
braska, has purchased two airplanes,
one for his personal use in riding over
his ranches and another larger one for
the use of his family Hiles owns one
ranch of 1000 acres and a number of
smaller ones.
Mexican soldiers at the garrison at
San Luis, state of Sonora, Mexico. mu-
tinted and killed all the officers, ac-
cording to information received by f.
N. Cronholm, superintendent of the
Imperial irrigation district, whose
headquarters are at Andrade, near the
California; Mexican boundary.
WASHINGTON
1t is understood that the appoint
ment of Kijuro Shidehara as japanese
ambassador to the United States to
succeed Viscount Kikujiro Ishi will be
eazetted early this month.
The government has so much "coin
of the realm that it actually bulges
out the walls of the vaults containing
it. The treasury has asked Congress
to appropriate s1,50O,00O to make the
vaults secure and provide additional
ones. The treasury's gold and silver
accumulated during the war.
Ninety-seven per cent of the over
seas forces and 70 per cent of those in
the United States on the day the armis
tice was signed have been demobiliZed,
the weekly War Department reports
show Only 65,913 men remained in
Europe Aug. 26, while in the United
States there were 324,OOO and in 81
IBERIA $500.
For completion of the Alaska rail-
road the House passed and sent to the
Senate a bill authorizing an increase
of the limit of cost from $50 100000 to
S52000,000. Republican Leader Mon
dell charged miserable mismanage-
ment" had marked the conduct of the
work but admitted the increase was
primarily due to the higher labor and
material costs.
President Wilson has signed the bill
making permanent the rank of general
for John ]. Pershing, commander Of
the American expeditionary forces.
The Senate without a record vote,
passed the Edge bill authorizing the
creation of corporations to finance
foreign trade. The bill was materially
amended by the Senate so that it
would provide for American control Of
the corporations and would also make
these corporations subject to the bank
ing laws of the United States rather
than the banking laws of the countries
wherein the corporations will operate.
Bronze medals for all discharged
known as "Victory Medals are pro-
posed in a resolution introduced by
Representative Pell, Republican, New
York. The Senate already has
passed bill recommended by Secre-
tary Baker for the issue of merit
badges for efficient service. Payments
to discharged service men of all money
deducted from their pay for allotments
and bonuses amounted to $50 a month
for all time served exceeding sixty
days would be provided in a resolution
by Representative Mckenzie, Republi-
can, Illinois.
The State Department received
dispatch from the embassy at Mexico
City announcing that the Mexicans
who held up and robbed American sail
ors from the monitor Cheyenne in the
Tampico district some weeks ago, had
been caught and are being held at
Tampfco. Some of the personal be-
longings of the sailors We're recovered
Presentation to the United States of
the entire train in which General Per-
shing maintained his headquarters in
1918 is being considered by the French
government it has been learned in
Washington.