The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1920-05-08

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their lives in fire which burned the
rooming house in which they were
sleeping at Mitchell, Neb. The fire
is supposed to have been caused by
the upsetting of a lamp.
Six persons were seriously injured
and twelve others suffered lesser in
juries when tornado passed through
the northern part of Eureka, Kan. The
high school building and fifteen resi-
dences were badly damaged.
Ruth Taylor, aged s, and Ruby Mo
ger. Z. school girls, were struck by
lightning and killed at n school house
in the country near Cunning, Neb The
school building was demolished, but
none of the other occupants was In
jured.
The bodies of Joe West, a ranch
worker, his wife and their two chill
dren, aged S and o years, were found
in their home near Roundup, Mont,
by relatives. Authorities said the in
dcations were that West killed him
self after shooting his wife and chill
dren.
Life-sized portraits of Theodore
Roosevelt, bearing his last message ON
Americanism, are to hep laced in every
school throughout the country through
the efforts of the American Defense
Society, according 10 an announcement
from the headquarters of that organic
alton.
w. +. Powell, Department of JUS
tice agent at Albuquerque, received
package that officials for time sus-
pected was bomb. When it was fl
nalIy opened, however, it was found
TO contain an alarm clock. 1t bore
Tucson, Ariz, postmark and is be-
lieved to have been intended as a joke.
Thomas Morris, 126 years old, is
dead at the home of Charles Mitten,
ranchman, eight miles northeast of
Ansley, Neb. He was born in Berren,
North Wales. January 10, 1894. The
aged man never married and followed
the profession of a cobbler for 100
years. He came to this country in
1871, locating at Streator, ILL.,, and
moved to Custer county, Nebraska, in
1856.
Ex-service men may enlist for an eX-
tended cruise with the fleet, according
TO word received at the Denver Nav!
Recruiting Station, that the United
States battleship Connecticut, flagship,
accompanied by the U. $. s. Michigan,
the U. $. S. Minnesota, U. 5. 5. Kan
sas, u. S s. South Carolina and U. S.
S. New Hampshire will make an ex-
tended cruise. Men re-enlisting for
this cruise will be sent to Philadelphia,
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WASHINGTON.
Coinage of Roosevelt two-cent
piece has been authorized by a bill
passed by the Senate.
Tho novv,s radio system wherever
located. would he open to transmission
of commercial business messages, in
Guiding press dispatches Tor TWO years,
under a resolution ordereu IaNorhDig
reported u! 'he i'ouse Nei eii"n' wa
Iihe Noii'in'''ee as ava '"'
eeha'e
Farm loans aggregating more than
$50,0OO,oOO have been held up by the
litigation over the Valuity Oh the larih
loan act, IL developed at the CONFER
ence OF farm loan oi1lciais at WISH
ington.
Approximately S1,5OO,OOO 600 has
been saved for 1921, Chairman Good of
tho Annronriotions Committee told the
House The reductions will not pre-
vent the "healthful and vigorous func-
tiOning of every needed government
activity" he said, adding, however,
that they did mean retrenchment.
Tho averope cost of living for wage
eorners advanced 7 per cent between