Gilpin observer., 1919-01-30
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
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western Newspaper Union rev. service.
EASTERN

from neaVy SelllnS ana apparent lack
Of buying power occurred In Chicago
this week.
United States Judge Mayer decided
IN test case that stock dividends are
not subject to federal income tax un-
ter the income tax law of 1916.
Information that seven men of the
crew of ten of the American oil
schooner Augustus H. Babcock were
lost when fire consumed the vessel at
sea last week.
Capt. Samuel Filgate, 100 years
old New Years day. veteran navi-
gator of the st. Lawrence, is dead at
Montreal. He was born in Toronto
and built and commanded the first
iron steamer to ply the st. Lawrence
WESTERN
The Montana Stockgrowers' Asso-
citation, in session at Helena, went on
record against government ownership
and operation of livestock facilities as
proposed by the Simms bill now be-
fore Congress.
In view of the shortage of teach
ers in New South Wales, Australia.
A G.. F. James, minister for educa-
ton. has arranged for immediate re-
lease of teachers who enlisted in the
Australian armed forces.
Mrs. Clara Hanson, aged 35, shot
and killed her five children near
Sioux Falls. s. D.. and fired a bullet
Into her own head in an attempt at
s,,ic rlr tn, viz o.,
children, who were sick, is believed
to have unbalanced her mind.
The annual convention of the
Western Retail Lumber Dealers
Association, set for Boise,
Idaho. Feb. 20 to 30. has been post
poned on account of the prevalence
of influenza in Western states, it has
been announced at Spokane.
If the plans of state officials bear
any fruit. the portion of San Juan
county, Utah, situated south of the
San Juan river will be traded to the
state of Arizona for a strip of terri
tory in Kaibib county. Arizona. One
of the Utah state officials is now in
Phoenix comforting with the governor
OF Arizona regarding the trade.
A sack of flour sold for s134,-
512.S4. John D. McGilvray, potentate
of Islam temple, San Francisco, has
announced. making public advices
from North Carolina where shriners
collected 1870 at Sudan temple,
Newbern, in the twenty-sixth sale of
the "Shriners Red Cross sack of
flour" All proceeds of the sale go
to the American Red Cross. Started
from San Francisco by Clarence f.
Pratt, historian of the temple, the
sack has been sold in Honolulu and
fifteen states since May. 1917.
WASHINGTON
Thirty-six states. the necessary
three-fourths, had certified to the
State Department their ratification
of the federal prohibition amendment
and preparation of proclamation to
make the amendment effective was
ordered.
Increase of the limit of cost of
roads to be built with federal aid
from $4,000 to $4,000 mile is
Pi''ihth Wy UNI ldNOTaDly
reported by the House roads commit
tee. The change does not increase
the amount available for various
states. Higher costs of materials
made the change necessary.
Commercial stocks of wheat, 191.-
775,417 bushels, held by 9,3O3 firms
Jan. /. were more than twice as large
as reported year ago. There was n
reduction in the amount of corn and
oats, and an increase in rye and bar
ley. The figures refer to stock ac-
tually reported and do not represent
the total commercial stock of the
country or stocks on farms.
Savings OF more than SIS 1000, ,O0O,-
600 in the contemplated war expen-
ditures of the War and Navy Depart
ments were reported to Congress in
a bill framed by the House appropri-
alton committee. The measure pro-
vides for the return to the treasury
of 7.179,156,944 in cash and for
the cancellation of authority for the
departments to obligate the govern
ment for ss.221.o29.2s4 additional.
Representative Heflin OF Alabama
announced in the House that he had
asked the Department of Justice to
investigate the New York cotton ex-
change. which he charged had vio-
lated the cotton futures act "in driv-
ing down" the price of cotton from
81 to "a cents pound.
Recognition OF labor unions by en-
ployers as ordered in many war labor
board awards does not mean a closed
shop, Joint Chairman Taft declared
in a statement at Washington re
Gently.