The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-11-28
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WESTERN

"A paFuOn signed Dy freslucHl WIZ
son for Jesse Kohler, federal con-
vict, was received at Los Angeles
When officials went to present it to
Kohler at the county hospital they
learned he had died eighteen days pre-
viouS.
Charles M. Belshaw of San Francis
co, former state senator, Mrs Belshaw
and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Sherwood OF
Spokane, Wash, were killed when an
automobile in which they were riding
rolled over a high cliff at Half Moon
bay, thirty miles south of San Fran
CISCO
The Superior Court at viscala, Calf,
denied the application Of J. Kawahara,
= Japanese for the guardianship of his
4-year-old son In order that he might
buy land in his sons name. The court
held the use of land by an alien who
holds 1t in the name Of an infant Is IL
legal
One billion feet of timber killed by
LAS fires is the estimate given for
81 for the season just closed Half of
the fires were started by human
agency and were preventable. The
fires burned over $4,000 acres Of land
and were suppressed at a cost Of ST.
100000, according to figures compiled
by the forestry office at Missoula.
Harry Royse, who was Methodist
clergyman in the Middle West for ten
years, and whose father was a we'll
known Nebraska minister, Is under
sentence to serve one to fourteen
years in San Quentin for burglary.
He pleaded guilty to stealing type
writer's worth $647 from Los An
geles typewriter company and also ad-
mitted he had taught his 16-yearold
nephew, Kenneth Moffitt, to assist in
robblng hotel rooms.
WASHINGTON
Settlement of the controversy over
disposition of the German liner Imper-
ator was indicated by shipping board
officials, who intimated the ship would
be rendered Immediately to Great
Britain.
That it is the speed of heavy loads,
rather than the weight of the load It.
self. that ruins pavements IL the con-
clusion reached by government author
tiles who are investigating various
phases of the automobile transporta-
tion problem.
]. Hardacker, British cousul at Pue-
bla, Mexica, was saved from kidnap-
ing by Federico Cordova, the bandit
who kidnapped William o. Jenkins, the
American consular agent at Puebla, it
was learned at Washington In advIces
from Mexico City.
Dangerous radicals are being snug
gled into the United States at the rate
of 100 day, according to data collect
ed by the House committee on immigra-
tion investigating alleged failure of the
government to deport alien radicals
made public at Washington.
Postmaster General Burleson has ap-
proved pending bills to reduce the rate
of local first-class letter postage to :
penny an ounce. A letter for delivery
within the postal limits of the office
In which it is mailed would take one
cent stamp, instead of two-cent
stamp.
A final study of the selective draft
records made public fixes the military
strength of the United States at 49,
100000 in potential military manpower
Registrations for the draft, between
the ages of IS and As, totalled 23,9OS,-
576, almost 80 per cent of whom were
service"
Earnings of the federal farm loan
banks during the six months ending
Nov. were SS5s,O33, according to fig
ures made public by the farm loan
board. This was a gain Of more than
s25O,OOO over the previous half year
earnings and an increase of approx
mately $650,OOO over profits of the
banks for the corresponding six months
a year ago.
American exports in October, 1919,
were valued at $632, 100000, an in
crease of S35,O00,0OO over those in
September and of $1300OO,0O0 over
those in October, a year ago, accord
ing to a statement today by the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce. Exports for the ten months
ended with October were valued at
S6,501, 100000, an increase of $1,44O,-
100000 compared with the correspond
ing period last year.
How the assistant morgue master of
the District of Columbia receives a sal
ary of only S72o year after fourteen
years service and lives with his wife
and child over the morgue, was dis
closed before the Joint congressional
commission on Redistribution of sal
aries.
Legislation authorizing creation of
an equipment trust to reimburse the
government for S4oO.O000o0 spent for
locomotives and cars during federal
control of the railroads has been
passed by the House and sent TO the
President for approval