Gilpin observer., 1919-06-12
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THEPAsT week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT RvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE
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WESTERN
At least one life was lost and $780,
and growing crops by cloudburst at
Tulsa, Okla. More than five inches of
water fell in two hours.
Announcement was made at Venice,
Calf, by Thomas III. Ince, motion pic
ture producer, that he offered $5O,OOO
as prize money for aviatOrs who will
attempt flight from there to Aus
tralia.
California cotton growers will re-
ceive approximately $20,OOO,0OO for
this seasons crop, according to state
ments made by cOttOn-seed oil brOk-
ers, who have completed surveys Of
the Imperial valley and Palo Verde
districts.
Naval ships carrying surgeons and
large quantities of medical supplies
have been dispatched to the Bristol
Bay region in Alaska to combat an cpl
demic of influenza which threatens
about 5000 persons, most of them en-
plOyed in the salmon canning industry.
Max Asch, bellbOy at Il Santa Bar
bara hotel, has been sentenced to six
months in the county Jail for the theft
of a $500 bracelet from Mrs. E. W..
Fayben of Manchester, AIass., a guest
ut the hotel. The bracelet was recov
cred after having been buried on the
beach.
DIR. NJ. B. Shipp, head of a firm q
advertising physicians at Salt Lake
City, was shot and probably fatally
wounded by Mike Granapolus, a dissat-
isfied patient. Granapolus, according
to the police, called on the doctor for
refund of fees and when refused shot
the physician in the breast, near the
heart.
August Taube was sentenced at Sac
ramento, in the Superior Court, to an
indeterminate term of one to five
years in San Quentin penitentiary for
failing to assist w. f. Bright, whom
he ran down with his automobile last
November. Bright died Taube was
employed as mule buyer for the feder-
al government during the war.
WASHINGTON
AS reported out of the House Mill
tary Committee, the 1920 army bill
carries only $S10,0O0,O00, a decrease
of $40O,0OO,00O from the estimates
made by the War Department.
further reduction of LAC names
in the list of missing in action has
been announced by the War Depart
ha tnl
the 1,149 men, 3S7 were reported as
dead
There will be no training camps for
civilians and reserve officers during
the summer, the War Department ad-
vised Charles b. Pike, chairman of the
Military Training Camps Association,
giving lack of funds as the reason.
A wheat production of 1,236, ,OOO, 900
bushels this year combining winter and
spring wheat crop was forecast by the
Department OF Agriculture for the con-
dition Of the crop June 1. Winter
wheat production is forecast at $685.
100000 bushels, compared with $780,
$4,000 bushels forecast last month,
making it the largest ever grown. Con-
dition of winter wheat was $40 per
cent normal, compared with 1905 last
month and S3.S last year
A bill authorizing the appointment
Of u commission to acquire and main
tain great national cemetery in
France where soldiers who lost their
lives in the great war would be buried
and another proposing an equitable
distribution of captured war trophies
among states and territories were or.
dered favorably reported by the Senate
military committee.
With n view to quieting the unrest
In Europe by hastening return to
normal economic conditions, financial
interests in New York, with the assls-
tance OF the Federal Reserve Board,
are considering formation of group ex-
port corporations for wool, copper,
steel, tobacco and other American pro.
ducts, similar to that organized to
handle foreign sales of cotton.
The nations public debt reached @
new high mark OF S25921, 151 ,270 al
the end of May. an increase Of 81, ,O98,
649,7oO during the month, resultin,
from new Issues Of certificates of In
debtedness and payments on Victor,
Loan subscriptions. Ordinary disburse
ments In May amounted to $9O7 ,492,
800, only slightly less than the $1,O8S,
2o3,020 in the same month last year.
Secretary Daniels ordered reduction
of the naval personnel to 100000 mel
or less by July 1. Commandants of al
shore stations and districts were di
rected to discharge Immediately ever.
man who could possibly be spare,
without impairing the efficiency of tn,
navy.
Straight loans to soldiers and sail
ors nj not to exceed 81 OOO for th.