The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-19
FOREIGN

MADE 1Or the DO0y OF MS son, WHO WAS
killed in August, 1914, in the Belgian
Ardennes.
The Porto Rico government has an
nounced that the last sugar crop ag-
gregated 100000 short tons, or $1,000
tons less than the 1918 crop. 1t added
that shipments to date had been 341,-
600 tons.
figures voiced by American Red Cross
workers and forwarded to national
headquarters. Most of these returned
to their homes to find themselves or
phans, and the Red Cross is seeking to
phanages.
An American company having cap
ital of $1OO,0OO,0OO is being organized
in Poland to extend credits to Polish
cities so they may meet their necessi-
ties, especially for the construction of
canals, water plants and hospitals, ac-
cording to the Vossische Zeitung Of
Berlin.
Extension of relief activities in
western Russia and the Baltic prov
inces has resulted in the American
Red Cross increasing the appropriation
for its commission in that region from
$270,O0O to $5O0,O0O, it has been an
nounced. Both Esthonia and Lithu-
ania will benefit.
Russian troops on the Archangel
front are carrying out a successful of
fensive against the Bolsheviki i'll the
railway sector, says an Archangel mes
sage received in Paris. Russian volun-
teer troops, it is announced, have oc-
cupied the town of Omega, which was
taken by the Bolsheviki in one of their
recent pushes northward.
Alberta's wheat yield a few weeks
ago was estimated as being practically
negligible, but two weeks fairly steady
rains so improved thes ituation that
the yield is conservatively estimated
at 21,94S,00O bushels, while the yield of
oats is estimated at 56,220,00O, barley
7,051 900 and rye 100000. These fig
ures are certain to be exceeded as the
threshing results are exceeding expec
tations.
GENERAL
Figures have been compiled showing
that upward of $1S,0O0,0OO worth of
automobiles were stolen last year.
Jack Kearns, manager of Champion
Jack Dempsey, has refused to consider
an offer of $150,0O0 for champion
ship bout in London, according to re-
ports in New York.
The wreck of the steamer Barnsta-
hle, disabled in a storm en- route to Ha-
vana, has been located by the revenue
cutter Itasca and one survivor rescued.
Eleven others of the crew are believed
lost
Capt. Kermit Roosevelt has been
appointed secretary or the American
Ship and Commerce Corporation, the
holding company of the Cramps Ship
building Company and the Kerr Navi-
cation Company.
One soldier, Oliver Eager, 10, is
dead and five others are in the hos
pital at Fort Benjamin Harrison as a
result of drinking poison which it is
said they mistook for whisky. The
men were prisoners.
Thousands of shipyard workers who
quit work in Brooklyn, Staten Island
and New Jersey yards in an attempt
to force a demand for a Saturday halt
holiday, found themselves discharged
when they reported for work.
A bomb was found at the rear en-
trance to the federal building directly
under the window of District Judge NJ
| Ifro nfftpn of Okla
| A percussion cap was in place, but the
| mechanism to explode it had not been
| attached.
| Two men were killed and six in
| jured by the explosion of six-inch
shell which was being unloaded from
a barge in the Raritan river at the
Raritan arsenal at Bonbamtown, N. ].
The ammunition on the barge was
being transferred to one of the maga-
zines The victims of the accident
| all were civilian employees
Burial of the dead at Mobile, Ala,
on Sunday is punishable by fine of
800 under city ordinance just
adopted. Passage of the ordinance
was the result of a petition to the city
commission by ministers, undertakers
and grave diggers.
Demobilization of the navy has de-
moralized the Atlantic fleet so far as
man power is concerned, it has been
said at the Navy Department. Scores
of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and
other vessels are moored at navy
yards with crews so greatly reduced
that in many casts it is difficult, and
| in some cases impossible to keep
up steam. Only two battleships of the
Atlantic fleet have anywhere near full
| crews.
"If anyone attempts to raise the red
| flag of anarchy in this country, shoot
him on the spot" declared Clarendon
e. Adams, commander-in-chief of the
| G. A. r., in ending his annual ad-
| dress of the national encampment of