The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-10-24
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND AsoUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD or IMPORTANT gvENTs
CONDEMNED ron DuoN
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Western Newspaper Union News Z
WESTERN


American soldiers won the war.
was the declaration made by King AL
bert of the Belgians, in accepting til,
honorary office of state commander OF
the Missouri branch of the American
Legion at st. Louis.
Governmental expenditures for the
227 American cities of more than 10000
population for the fiscal year of 1918
exceeded revenues by $4S,6OO, 800, or
$1.42 per capita, according TO report
of the financial statistics of cities of
over $4,000 by the bureau of the cen
| Sus..
While attempting to regain his seat
in his airplane after performing a
series of daring feats in midair, Capt
Charles Theodorel of Dallas, became
exhausted lost his grip on the rope TO
which he was clinging below the land
| ing gear of his machine and fell 500
| feet to his death at Dallas, Texas
Thousands of people witnessed his ex-
| hibitiOn and his fall.
All the buildings and recreational
equipment of the Knights Of Columbus
at Fort Davis, Nome, Alaska. have
been turned over to 1000 Indian chill
dren, whose parents were victims of
the influenza epidemic last year.
large quantity of supplies intended for
the soldiers, who have been Withdrawn
for the winter months, has also been
turned over to the children.
Walker d. Hines, director of rail
roads, has held series of confer
| In, dc Af
and officials Of the United States
Grain Corporation at which plans were
discussed for the movement of the
large wheat crop from the southwest
to the market of the. east Mr.. Hines
announced that wheat would have 20
be handled as emergency freight and
given preference over other traffic un-
til normal conditions are restored.
Sale has been announced in San
Francisco of the historic Richmond
and Eureka silver and lead mines Of
Eureka, New, which were opened in
1869 and were said to have yielded
more than S:,2.OO0.0O0 prior TO 1916.
John W. Mackay of Comstock f;tme
was one Of tlr, investors in the mines
at II time when they paid dividends
of So share monthly The sale price
was given as S95O0.0OO. The Rich
mond- Eureka Mining Company of
Maine was the seller and the E. A.
Hotter and H. p. Henderson syndicate
of New York city the purchaser.
WASHINGTON
Advised that the Navy Department
has in reserve 100000 pounds of su-
gar Secretary Daniels intimated that
he would release one third of the stock
or 3,OOO,000 pounds for public use to
| relieve the situation resulting from a
nationwide shortage of the commodity.
An investigation just completed by
| Surgeon Edward Francis of the Unit
| ed States public health service adds
another to the list of disease germs af-
| fceting mankind. The germ. which
bears the name of Baeterium TuIar
ense, was first isolated by Drs. Mccoy
and Chaplin of the United States pub
lie health service as the causative
agent in a pague-like disease of ro-
dents. 1t was not then known that
the same germ infects man
Count " Macchi di Cellere Italian
ambassador to the United States since
1913. died in the emergency hospital
at Washington just as he was about 10
undergo an operation.
Cash aggregating about 800 100000
was contributed by the American Red
Cross for relief work in France alone
and about S73,000,000 was contributed
for similar work in twenty other coiln-
friac 1nriuu 40 pio ,f
months ending last Feb. 2S. according
to a report of the war activities of the
organization made public in Washing
ton.
Ambassador Bonillas, who has lust
returned from Mexico. where he con
ferred with President Carranza re-
garding the relations between the
United States and Mexico, said that
the Mexican President is most opti-
mistic as TO the future and expressed
the confident hope That the United
States would not intervene in Mexico
because of the troubles that country
IS now having as Il result of ten years
of revolution. President Carranza was
said by the ambassador TO be conf
dent also that by the time the rest of
the world has regained its composure
Mexico also will be peaceful
Authority of Ohio state officials TO
confiscate and sell food held in cold
storage longer than authorized under
state law, was in effect sustained
by the Supreme Court. which refused
TO review appeals in proceedings
growing our of the seizure of 125.ooO
pounds of pork of the Columbus Pack
ing Company.
Pressure from administration sources
for enactment of permanent railroad
legislation may block the tentative
plans of congressional leaders for adj
iournment of The extraordinary ee<-
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