The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-08

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terurban cars on the Peninsula rail
way collided head-on, nine miles from
San Jose, Calf.
Noticing that his automobile was
leaking badly, w. o. Turner of Musco-
tah, Kan, took lantern and crawled
underneath the car to find the leak.
He iound it. 1t was the gasoline tank
insteai of the radiator. He will re-
cover, his physician says.
Lawrence L. Shpley, an American
of Yerington, New, who was captured
by bandits at Fresnillo, Mex, July 10,
has been released, according to MeX1-
co newspaper dispatches forwarded to
the State Department by the American
embassy at Mexico City.
Oscar Lawler, former assistant Unit
ed States attorney general for the In
terror Department was seriously
burned, and Mrs. Lawler was badly
burned when their home virtually was
destroyed at Los Angeles by what the
police believe to have been q gasoline
bomb.
Texas schools will open next month
with a shortage of teachers estimated
at 1000. The situation Is the most Sc
rlous in the history of the states
school system, according to a state
ment by the State Teachers Associa-
ton, made public. Low wages is given
as cause for lack of applicants for
schools.
Loss from forest fires in Montana
and northern Idaho this season, up to
July 81, amounted to s755,000, it was
estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant
district forester. Heavy rains have re
moved the fire menace in Montana,
though fires in Idaho still are threat
ening A total of SS15,000 has been
spent in fighting forest fires in Mon
tana and northern Idaho this season.
A protest against the policy of the
Navy Department which, it was
charged, compelled California oil in
terests to sell to the navy at tidewater
at so cents a barrel, plus a vague
promise of final adjustment crude
oil, for which producers received 81 %
at the well, was embodied in state
ment sponsored by the executives of
several of the leading oil companies of
the state. Under contract which ex-
pired July l the companies had been
supplying the navy with crude oil at
SLIT barrel, at an aggregate loss, the
statement said, to the oil interests of
the state of $5O0,000.
WASHINGTON
Complete government ownership of
radio systems in the United States is
strongly recommended by Secretary OF
the Navy Daniels in letter sent to
Congress.
Surplus food held by the War De
partment July 10 was valued at 1882,
100. Bacon totalled S35,81S, 1872
Other subsistence items were cornet
beef, $26, ,63S; roast beef, S20,S60,
45S; fresh frozen beef, $16,543,636
corned beef hash, S10,175, ,930;. toma
toes, S5,5o9,967; baked beans, $2,S35,
646; canned sweet corn, S2,10T ,0S4
fresh pork, $2,O72,942; granulated su
gar, $1,47S,947 canned peas, S1,2S2,
495; fresh frozen poultry, 81, 136,964
miscellaneous, S5,S27 ,501.
Army surplus clothing and equip
ment, including $17O0O,000 worth o
underclothes and $9,50O,000 worth o
blankets, may be marketed in the SAM
way surplus food is being sold if pres
ent plans are successful. Total valu
of all Items classed as clothing ant
equipment, including cloth and leather
is $S4,356,341.
The hundred steamships built on th'
great lakes during the war have beeI
sold by the Shipping Board to th
Anderson Overseas Corporation o
New York for approximately $4,000,
600. This n probably the largest shil
sale on record, the board said in an
nouncing the deal and the vessels viii
eventually pass into French and Ital
ian ownership.
President Wilson has saved mum
ber of the United States army from ;
death sentence. His Communication o
the sentence to be hanged, imposed ol
Second Lieutenant Halber E. Perry
S1st Infantry, for the murder of Capt
Abram Posner, also of the 81st Infan
try, on the highway between San Dt
ego and Escondito, California, last De
cember, to Imprisonment at nara laDol
for life.
The State Department has been ad
vised of efforts on the part of Japan
ese oil companies to acquire propertie'
in the Tampico oil fields of Mexico ant
that American companies have beer
approached with a view to selling t.
the Japanese.
One new article of war and changes
iii thirty others have been recommend
ed by the special board of officers ap
pointed early in the war to investigate
the army court-martial system. In max
ing this announcement, Secretary Ba
ker said he soon would transmit the
boards report to Congress.