Gilpin observer., 1919-09-11
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WESTERN
William Kuy iecke, who was serving
a life term in the state penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, S. D., on charge of mur-
dering three persons, has escaped.
Five masked men held up the Erie
bank at Erie Mich near Toledo, and
escaped in an automobile with $1,000 in
vash and securities yet to be esti-
mated
Six children belonging to two fami-
lies living in one house at JensOn,
Sask., were burned to death when the
house was destroyed by fire recently,
in the absence of their parents.
The Minnesota House of Represen-
tatives shortly after the special session
opened ratified the federal woman suf-
frage amendment. The vote was 12O to
3. The Senate ratified the amendment
90 to 8.
President Wilson will review the Pa
cific fleet at Seattle Sept. 13, accord
ing to telegrams from Secretary Tu-
multy received by chairmen of Seat
ties presidential and fleet welcome
committees.
May Mckee killed in the family
home yard rattlesnake fOrty-fOur
inches long and six inches around the
body. The reptile had eleven rattles.
May is the brave daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. r. Mckee
.Joie Ray of Chicago bettered the
In ard In, iyp i'm a
handicap race at the Canadian nation
al exhibition games Rays time was
4 IA %, 6 10 seconds faster than A. Il.
Kivlat of New York in race ut Mon
treal seven years ago.
In San Francisco Secretary of the
Nevy Josephus Daniels expressed him
self as opposed to the word "gob"
with reference to the men of the navy
and he says If official edict can stop
the use of the word, it will soon be
relegated to the scrap heap.
Harry ]. Hilles, one of the most eX
tensive stock raisers in western Ne
braska, has purchased two airplanes,
one for his personal use in riding over
his ranches and another larger one for
ranch of 1000 acres and a number Of
smaller ones.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson has signed the bill
making permanent the rank of general
for John J. Pershing, commander Of
the American expeditionary forces.
An.additional credit of SIT ,0OO,0O to
Italy has been announced by the treas
ury, making n total for that country of
S1,61S,975, 5,945 and total for all the al
lies of S9,6S4, ,272, ,567
1t is understood that the appoint
ment of Kijuro Shidehara as Japanese
ambassador to the United States to
succeed Viscount Kikujiro Ishi will be
gazetted early this month.
Four members of President Wilson'S
Cabinet-Secretarie Glass, Lane, Red
field and Houston-at n meeting at the
White House, prepared list of names
from which the President will select
fifteen to represent the public ut the
labor-industry conference here Oct G..
The names will be submitted immed-
ately to the President, 1t was said after
the meeting. Meanwhile they were
withheld.
Practically all restrictions against
trade with Hungary have been lifted
by the war trade board. 1t was an
nounced that licenses for the export of
American made goods to that country
would be issued freely on all commod-
tiles except those of a strictly military
nature and that imports to the United
States would be practically unre-
stricted.
For completion of the Alaska rail
road the House passed and sent to the
Senate a bill authorizing an increase
of the limit of cost from S35. 100000 to
$52,00O,0OO. Republican Leader Mon
dell charged miserable mismanage-
ment" had marked the conduct OF the
primarily due to the higher labor and
material costs.
The American army airplane fired
1pon by Mexicans was "at no time
over Mexican territory" the War De
partment was informed by Major Gen.
eral Dickman, commanding the South.
ern Department. Mexican officials
claim the machine had crossed the In
ternationnl boundary line before the
Mexlcans opened fire, woundlng Capt
u. w. McNabb.
The State Department received a
dispatch from the embassy at Mexico
City announcing that the Mexicans
who held up and robbed American sail
ors from the monitor Cheyenne In the
Tampico district some weeks ago, had
been caught and are being held al