Gilpin observer., 1919-02-20
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THE WORLD.
DURING TIE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTs
CONDENSED FOR Busy
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN


WESTERN
Salt Lake county's first bond cleo
ion, authorizing an issue of Sl,5OO,-
700 worth of bonds to finance road I'M
provements, carried by more than four
20 one.
Colorado supplied 34,393 men, wy
,niing 1893, Arizona 10, 492 and New
Mexico, 12,439 to the United States
Army during the recent war in all
branches of service.
Resolutions authorizing legisla-
tive appropriation Of 100000 to probe
the charges of election frauds in Sill
yer Bow county at the last general
| election, has been introduced in the
Montana Legislature.
Boats are patrOlHng the shores of
Juneau, Alaska, to prevent the escape
| Of Peter Jackson, native, who shot
and killed Deputy United States Mar
shal Clyde d. Calhoun of Craig, who
had arrested jackson.
Lava in the greatest quantity OBJ
served in forty years is flowing from
Kilauea, the largest active volcano in
the world. The lava is pouring over
all sides of the central fire pit walls
onto the old crater floor.
Wireless service from the naval rn-
dio station at South San Francisco
will be crippled for several months,
it was announced, following a fire on
the 600-foot tower. The fire was
caused by a short circuit
The copper mines of the Jerome dis
trict have closed down for a period,
the managers said. of from six to
eight months, following troubles which
started when the owners announced
a wage cut Of 75 cents per day. Six
thousand miners and other workers.
with tributary population estimated
at $4,000 more are affected.
| Radical changes in Washington
laws governing divorces are provided
in bill introduced by four state sem
atOrs In the upper House of the Leg
islature. Absolute and limited forms
of divorce would be granted. If the
bill becomes law. The limited decree
would not permit either party to re-
marry during the lifetime of the other.
Suit for divorce could not be brought
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state and six months in the county.
WASHINGTON
Senate Democrats again failed to
press their program for holding late
night sessions to expedite appropria-
tion bills.
| The federal woman suffrage amend
ment. twice defeated at the present
session, has been re-introduced in the
| Senate by Senator Jones of Washing
ton.
In an effort to clear the congested
legislative calendar and thus remove
the necessity for the early convening
of the new Congress In extra session,
Democratic senators decided at n con-
ference to hold night sessions of the
Senate until Congress adjourns sine
die March 4.
I Passage by the Philippine Legisla-
ture of an act appropriating 20OOO,-
600 pesos for the extension of univer-
sal free education in the island is re-
garded by acting Governor General
Yeater as the most striking develop
ment of the legislative session in Ma
| Mia just closed.
| The war risk insurance provision
for the American military forces was
the most generous and the most for
ward looking in its policies of any ex-
pertinent ever tried by the govern
ment. Secretary Baker said In an ad-
dress at a conference OF bureau Off
cials at Washington.
Senate and House conferees reached
an agreement on the $4OO OOO, 900 post
office appropriation by eliminating the
Senate amendment providing for pneu-
matte tube mail service In New York
city and Brooklyn and retaining
the Senate amendment apprOpriating
$500. 100000 for road construction dur
ing the next three years.
Between $4,000 and 100000 aliens of
| neutral countries who had started the
machinery TO make them citizens of
the United States before this country
| entered the world war and who
avoided being drafted into the army
by making affidavits stating that they
had changed their intentions to re-
nounce their native country, will be
forever barred from becoming Ameri-
can citizens as the result of country
wide action taken last week by Rich
ard Campbell, commissioner Of ma
turalization ut Washington.
Resolutions urging the establish
ment of republic In Armenia and
calling upon the Senate to indorse ex-
tension of the kingdom of Greece to
include EpIrus, southern Albania.
Thrnce, the islands of the Aegean sen
and those parts of Anatolia having n
preponderant Greek population, were
introduced in the Sennte by Senator
King of Utah. and referred to the for