The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-07-25

William Bluett, who was passing on
the sidewalk. The falling man suf-
fered a few bruises, but Bluett died
of broken back after the collision.
The jury in the case of Roy Emerson
of Creston, Ia, charged with beating
his mother to death with an iron brace
and throwing her body down an ele-
vatOr shaft, returned verdict of
guilty of murder In the second degree
Five persons were killed and sixth
so badly injured that his life is de-
SPARED of when an interurban electric
car ran into an automobi.s st a rail-
road crossing four miles north of
Nampa, Idaho, on the Boise-Nampa
electric line.
Charles D. Greenfield, state commits
sioner of agriculture. said that news
paper reports regarding Montana crop
conditions are exaggerated. He has
prepared a review showing that 1919
900 acres in the state will produce
good crops.
Forested areas in the eastern sec
tion of the Thunder mountain region
of southern Idaho are a cauldr0n of
smoke, and there Is no way to estimate
how many new fires are eating into
the timber of that region underneath
the hazy pail.
One man suspected of being a high
wayman is dead, two others were seri-
ously injured and Detective James
Britton, former chief of police, prob
ably was fatally wounded following ID
pistol fight between detectives and
robber suspects in restaurant AT
Sioux City, Iowa.
DR.. Charles r. Kruger and party,
travelling by automobile to California.
were attacked by band of timber
wolves on the transcontinental high
way east of Flagstaff They killed
three of the animals with their revol-
yers and wounded five others before
the band was driven off
Her 3-year-old infant clasped in her
arms, Mrs. Candelaria Galvan, 26, of
Hurley, n. NJ, and nine children were
drowned when a wagon in which they
were riding was swept away in swol-
len stream. Five of the children,
whose ages ranged from to 15 years,
were those of Mrs. Galvan.
Francisco Villa and General Felipe
Angeles have disbanded their forces
until September and announced to
their troops they would go to Japan
in an effort to obtain ammunition for
the villa revolution, Americans whu
arrived in Ell Paso from chihuahua
City reported. They said Villa issued
an order to his men telling them te
return to their homes until fail, when
he would call them together again.
WASHINGTON
Sentences imposed on American sol
diers by courts-martial during the wal
would aggregate about 2S,000 years
Senator chamberlain of Oregon, rank
ing Democratic member of the Senat,
Military Affairs Committee, declared
in introducing bill in the Senate pro
viding for the restoration of militar,
rank and granting of amnesty to sol
diers, sailors and marines so sen
fenced.
Yeggmen blew the safe in a postoi
flee on the outskirts of the nationa
capital and got a haul of $1,000 il
cash and war savings stamps.
BY vote of 1856 to Al the Hous
passed the bill providing minimum
wage of SO for all government EN-
ployes except those in the postal ser
vice. The wage is exclusive of th
wartime bonus of $240 year allowed
employees.
Secretary Daniels said that he ex
poets to leave Washington for the Pa
cific coast about Aug. l, arriving il
San Diego Aug. 6 to meet the Pacifi
fleet which is due there the mornin
of Aug Z. The President, 1t is under
= stood, will arrange to be on the Pa
cific coast in mid-August and probabl
will review the fleet in San Francisco
- Carrying increased appropriation
for the rehabilitation and edu
cation of disabled soldiers sail
ors and marines, the S613
100000 sundry civil appropriation bill
was passed by the Senate. 1t now goe
to the President, who vetoed the orig
inal bill because it limited funds TO
training wounded service men.
Appointment by the President of ;
special commission to investigate th
high cost of living would be author
lied under a resolution introduced b.
Representative Tinllham, Republican
Massachusetts. The commission woult
make its report by December 18th.
Henry p. Fletcher, American am
bassador TO Mexico, told the Hous'
Rules Committee in Washington tha
since his appointment three years ago
about fifty Americans had been killed
in Mexico without Il single prosecution
being made by the Mexican aGthor
ties.