The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-12-17
IA DRlEF RECORD OF PAGING
1vKNTs IN THIS AND FOR
RIoN coUNrRlKs
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PRooRKSe
OF THE AGE.
western newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN


Sonoma county jail at Santa Rosa,
forcibly seized George Boyd, Terence
Fits and Charles Valento, alleged slay-
ers of Sheriff James A. Petray, Miles
Jackson and Lester DOrman, ana
hanged them from the limb of a tree in
a cemetery.
Friendly suit to determine whether
the signatures of Jacob Charles Den
ton, wealthy mining promoter, upon
two checks for sums totaling $3.50,
cashed for Mrs. Louise L. Peete, his
alleged murderess, were genuine, was
filed in the superior court at Los An
geles against the Farmers and Mer-
chants National bank by Judge Russ
Avery, special administrator Of the
Denton estate.
One man was killed and two were
wounded in gun battle between Of
ficers and blockade runners near
Uvalde, Texas. Mounted Customs In
spector Nat Malone and Ranger Cap
tain Miller, whose headquarters are at
Del Rio, commanded the occupants of
an automobile to halt. A volley of
bullets was the answer and the Off
GERS returned the fire. The car was
occupied by one American and two
Mexicans, one of whom was killed.
Pearls and diamonds valued at $780,,
900 are in the hands of the Los Ange-
les, Calf, police as result of search
of a safety deposit box maintained in
the name of Mrs. Frances Matthews,
under arrest there and suspected of
being one of the cleverest shoplifters
and pickpockets that ever operated in
the West. These gems were in addi-
tion to jewelry, clothing and other ar
ticles valued at about $4,000 which
were seized when detectives raided the
palatial Matthews home.
WASHINGTON
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has stirred up a hornets net in
Congress with its notice that the prac-
tice of permitting senators and repre-
sentatives to send messages from any
office in the country with the govern
ment settling for the bill monthly
would be abandoned on Jan. 1.
Peter j. Dooling, son of Congress
man Peter Dooling of New York city,
was killed by the accidental discharge
of rifle that was being shifted in
an automobile near Fresno, Calf, ac-
cording to a verdict of coroner's
jury. Dooling was driving an automo-
bile on the last lap of trip from New
York to San Francisco with Hugo
Engle and Joseph G. Farrell.
Credit for saving the lives of 1900
Austro-H Hungarian prisoners Of war in
a prison camp near Chabarovsk, in
eastern Siberia, during the fall of 1913,
is given to officers of the Twenty
seventh United States infantry by
Lieut.. Col. Ferdinand Reder of the
former Austro- Hungarian army, in an
open letter to the press of Austria and
Hungary. Colonel Reder's letter, for
warded to the state department by the
American mission at Budapest, says an
epidemic of influenza had threatened
to convert the camp into vast cem-
etery" when personnel of the Ameri-
can regiment took charge.
The widow of the late lord mayor OF
~
sented to the commission of the com
mittee of 100 investigating the Irish
question her story of the hunger strike
in Brixton prison, London, of her hus
band, and of his death and the de-
tails, as she had witnessed them OF
attempts by the Irish republicans to
gain freedom for their country.
hz rn;o T,I
pany has brought suit in the District
of Columbia Supreme Court for an in
junction restraining the secretaries OF
state, war and navy from interfering
with the proposed connection of the
company's cable with the new cable
line from Barbados, where is con-
meets with British cable to South
America.
Nearly one-half of the nations rec.
ord breaking overseas commerce in the
past fiscal year was carried in Ameri-
can ships, Secretary Alexander shows
in his annual report The overseas
trade reached the unprecedented total
of $11, ,ST5. .424 900 and S5,071, ,905, 900 OF
it was carried in American-owned YES
sells as against 36S,359,00O carried in
American bottoms the year before the
war.
The net cost of the war to the Amer
lean government was fixed by Secre-
tary Houston Wednesday at S24 ,O1O,-
100000 This, he said, represented the
adjusted" expenditure of the treas
ury, excluding all other outlay which
had no relation to the actual prosecu-
tion of the war during the period from
April 6, 1917, to June 80 last, which he
said covered the extremes of the gov
ernment's war time fiscal operation.
An explosion, followed by a fire, has
completely destroyed the Kearney,
Neb., gas plant. The loss is estimated
at 100000