Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-01-30
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j.. u. Evans, 30 years old, son OF
Congressman Robert II. Evans OF Da-
kotn City, Neb, was Instantly killed
In nm automobile accident ut Sioux
Falls, s. ID.
Starvation Is believed to threaten the
elk of the Sun river district In Mon
tana. There are 5000 animals In the
herds there. The range was In the
drought aren and has been visited by
heavy storms.
Rather than serve a thlrty-flve day
sentence In the Oakland cit Jail, Pearl
Whltford, %, eluded the matron and
climbing through nm open window on
the fourteenth floor OF the city hall,
jumped 300 feet to her death. Hun
dreds OF persons witnessed the trag-
edy.
Theodore Bell, counsel for California
wine interests, has announced that
some of his clients would submit TO
prosecution In order 10 test the valid
ity of constitutional prohibition. Manu-
facture and sale of wine for purposes
Of testing the law would take place
soon, he said.
Bank notes worth $4,000 were
stolen from the mallrOOm Of the
steamer Cheloshln Just before the
boat entered Vancouver hnrbor from
Prince Rupert, b. &. The mallroom
wns broken into and mail sacks were
cut open. Police did not reach the
HINT ttutu uII tho nogunuwapy had Iaft
A dense fog, the first In the history
Of Douglas, Arlz, obscurlng objects
only u few feet away, caused almost
total suspension OF business for one
day. A hendon street-car collision, re.
sulting In the injury of both the mo.
tOrmen, and IN automobile truck col
llslon, In which one man was Injured,
occurred.
First installation of wireless tele-
phones for commercial purposes IN
Utah was completed when a cement
manufacturing company ut Ogden
erected aerinls above It's offices and AT
Its plant thirty miles north OF Ogden.
Similar equipment Is to be installed for
a coal company with n mine at Rock
Springs, Wyo.
Production OF oil from California
fields amounted to 1O1 POI, TSi bnrrels
In 1919, the daily average being 27T,-
800, according to figures announced by
the Standard Oh Company. Total
crude stocks amounted 20 32,0i2.0 23
barrels on Dec. 81, 1918, and 80,iSO,323
on Dec. 81, 1919, n decrease of l,5G2, 600
In the crude oil reserve. Wells TO the
number Of $50 were completed and Is
wells were abandoned during the year.
WASHINGTON
In order that schools may teach their
pupils something about the 1920 cen
sus, the Census Bureau has prepared
a special circular for the use OF teach
ers.
with much pork" eliminated, the
annual rivers and harbor a%pproprla.
ton bill carrying funds for the next
fiscal year has been reported To the
House by the ways and means COM
mittee. The bill would appropriate
only S12,4 5000, n slashing down Of
$50, 10000 from the total submitted
and considerable cut from the amounts
usually carried.
Many marine mines which were car
rled away by the heavy storm which
prevailed over the North sea for sew
eral days are floating through the
scandinavian straits.
validity OF the federal constitution
al prohibition amendment Is to be de-
termined by the supreme Court, which
today granted the state OF Rhode Is.
land permission 10 institute original
proceedings TO test It and enjoln It's
enforcement IN that state.
S%uffrngists are Specializing which
state will give the Susan Il. Anthony
amendments the vote necessary to rutl-
fication. Twenty-slx notifications have
been achieved, four special sessions
have been agreed upon-WyOming,
New Mexico, Idaho and Arizona. Three
full suffrage states-washlngton, Ne
vHda and Oklahoma-and West Vlr.
glnia, where the Legislature is pledged
and the governor has declared he will
call a session sooner or later-brlng
the number to thlrty-four, leaving the
thirty-flfth and thlrty-slxth TO be won
from Delaware, New Jersey, MIssis.
sippl, Maryland, Vermont arr Con.
nocticut.