The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-26


clerk on an eastbound Northern Pa
cific passenger train between Seattie
and Kanasket Wash.
Seth Bullock, lifelong personal friend
of the late Theodore Roosevelt, is dead
at his home in Deadwood, S. D., after
an illness of several weeks. He was
a pioneer of the Black Hills and was
g. years old.
Twelve horses were killed outright
and fifteen others mutlated at Milfay,
Okla when the third section of the
Ringing Bros and Barnum-Baiey cir
Gus train was piled up when it ran
through an open switch.
Robert L. Massey of Omaha. for
thirty-five years in the service of the
Union Pacific, and one of the best
known passenger conductors on the
line, was found murdered on the
streets of North Platte.
Mrs. Fannie Antonio, 26. was ar
rested in st. Louis on warrant is
sued in Kansas City charging implica-
ton in the theft of 81 100000 worth of
Liberty bonds, according to secret ser
vice men making the arrest.
year in the county Jail in the United
States District Court at San Francisco
following his plea of guilty to charg,
of defrauding through the mails in con-
nection with the collection of funds for
the National Defense League of Cali
fornia.
D. A. Gwartney and Edwin Birnie,
both of Long Beach, We're killed when
the aeroplane in which they We're fly
ing fell into tail spin at II height of
500 feet and from 200 feet crashed to
earth in direct dive. The necks OF
both We're broken and their skulls
were crushed.
In peculiar accident. Mrs. Haskett.
wife of l.. +. Haskett of Tecumseh,
was seriously injured. She cranked
her automobile and the brake refused
to hold the ear. 1t ran forword,
knocked her down. doubled her up un-
der the vehicle and ran over her. frac-
turing her back.
Twelve thousand Idaho farmers in
thirty-two counties. actively eo-operat-
ed in campaign for the destruction OF
ground squirrels. which resulted in Il
year ending Aug. 1. according to the
report of w. E. Crouch, in charge ol
rodent control work of the extension
division of the University of Idaho.
Increased street car fare to 6 cent.
to meet demands of employees for {
higher wage was defeated at the poll.
at Des Moines, Iowa by Il majority o
over 1000. Voting was light. The
cent fare election came as n compro
mise between striking street car EN-
ployes and citizens committee sew
eral weeks ago to maintain street ca
service during the Iowa state fair
WASHINGTON
Three of the foremost leaders of or
ganized labor, before the Senate Inter
state Commerce committee. denounce,
in unqualified terms sections of th
Cummins railroad reorganization bill
which would prevent railroad worker
from striking.
francisco Villa is about to launch
campaign south of chihuahua to avo
risking intervention by United State
troops, according to information re
ceived in Washington.
That the army of 100000 provide
in the War Departments reorganza
tion bill may be entirely too large wa
admitted by Secretary of War Bake
before the House committee on mil
. iary affairs.
Consumption of sugar in the Unite
States for the first seven months o
this year was 362, 900 tons more thai
during the corresponding period las
year. according TO statistics complies
by the United States Sugar Equalza
tion Board and made public by til
American Sugar Refining Company
More wheat should be sown this IA
than was the average in pre-war year.
~ut not so much should be sown ITS wa
sown last year. This is the outstandn
fall farming recommendation of tn
United States Department of Agricu
ture which is watching the changes o
The world supply and demand Will
European countries are getting back I
normal in food production and thus al
fccting the market for American pre-
ducts.
Notice of a new counterfeit 500 not
on the federal reserve bank of NeN
York. has been given by the treasury
The border of the note and the back
ground of Cleveland's portrait ar
solid black, instead of having fin
cross lines. and the treasury number
are black instead of blue.
Condition of the late commercial pc
tato crop September LIST. indicated
Weld of l23,51S carloads, a decreas
az more than - 900 carloads from tn
estimate on the same date last yeai
according to a report by the Depart
ment of Agriculture