Gilpin observer., 1919-03-27
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTe
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union new. service.
WESTERN

Ihe twelve L. w. WIS in the SnnW-
nee county jail at Topeka, on trial
last week In Wichita, and which was
postponed until September, are on a
hunger strike.
With Mayor Frederick Il. WoOdman
and two others under indictment for
bribery, the probe Of vice conditions In
Los Angeles continues with startling
Developments.
By vote of eight to four, the Sen
ate of the Nevada Legislature refused
to pass a resolution indorsing league
of nations "Of which the United States
shall be a member" The resolution
was passed by the assembly early In
the session.
"A detachment Of 1908 casuals, rne
largest number yet to reach San Fran
cisco from Vladivostok, arrived on the
transport Sherman. Most of the cas-
.uals, which included sixty-eight men
listed as patients, were from the 81
berlan expeditionary force.
A string of American motion picture
theaters under American management
will be established in Europe and the
British isles by the "big four" combi-
nation of film stars forming the Unit
ed Artists Corporation Of Los Angeles,
starring Miss Mary Pickford.
Addition Of two steamers to the
present fleet of the South American
Pacific line, operating between Seat
tie, San Francisco, San Pedro, Calf,
and Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and
Chile, was announced by Bjarne Lind
Wig, general agent of the line at San
Francisco,
william Rathbun, an Ida county
farmer, in an affidavit introduced at
the Iowa House judiciary committees
investigation of the pardon of his son,
Ernest, after conviction of criminal as
sault, declared he gave George Clark,
his attorney, $1,000 for the expressed
purpose of delivering it to Governor
W. L. Harding, for the pardon.
The Aviation Club of Chicago may
make the first transatlantic air flight.
Capt. B. b. Lipsner, president of the
club, announced that an airplane cap
able of making the flight has been Of
fered the club by Dayton, Ohio,
manufacturer, and that IL present
plans worked out trial at n trans
atlantic flight will be made shortly.
WASHINGTON
Collections from the first quarterly
installment of income and profits
taxes amounted to S1,001 ,224 900 in
sixty-three of the sixty-four collection
districts Internal Revenue Commits
slOner Roper announced in Washing
ton.
Fraud or Misrepresentation by pri-
vate income tax advisers in many
cities has been reported by revenue
officers, and investigations are to be
made by United States attorneys
Prosecutions are probable in Il number
of cases.
Between 500 and 900 Germans, nc
longer considered dangerous, will be
released on parole from internment
camps at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort
Douglas within the next two weeks
1t was announced at the Department
of Justice.
Persons who neglected to pay the
first installment of income taxes have
lost the installment paying privi
lege and must now pay their entire tax
upon demand of revenue collector.
Substantial reductions in the price.
of pigiron and finished products OF
steel were announced at the close o
the conference of steel manufacturer,
with the United States industrial
board at Washington.
The war finance corporation is con
sidering floating large bond issue
probably of 5000, 100000, within few
weeks. to provide funds for railroad,
and TO meet any other demands on tn,
corporation. The interest rate con
'templated is an per cent.
Differences between the manage
ment of the Postal Telegraph an,
Cable Company and Postmaster Gen
eral Burieson, acute since the govern
ment assumed control of the TELEGRAPH
and telephone systems, eliminated II
an order by the postmaster genera
summarily relieving the chief officers
directors and owners of the Postq
Company from all duties in connec
tIon with government operation o
their system.
Since the American troops oversee
have stopped fighting they have TAX
en- to letter writing and rememberln
friends at home with souvenirs fron
the battlefields in France. This wa
indicnted by a Postoffice Department
announcement that the amount o
mail from the American expedltionar
forces had increased more than 20 pc
cent since cessation Of hostilities.
Census report shows the cotto
crop OF 1918, excluding linters. to b
1883. .188 bales, counting round a
n q