Gilpin observer., 1920-05-20
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STORY OF the WEEK
sHoWiNo THE PRo0REeo or
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LAkpo.
WESTERN.
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clothing store in Omaha have an
nounced flat reductions of 20 per cent
on their entire stocks.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
State BaiM at Colon, Neb., stole about
$4,000 of the banks cash, robbed pri-
vate deposit boxes of an unestimated
amount and escaped
Fifty families were rescued by po-
licemen and firemen in boats Mt Oma-
ha when the breaking of n levy in
North Omaha, due to the rise of the
Missouri river, flooded that district.
Four carloads of sugar. alleged to
have been held on sidetrack since
April IL for speculation, have been
seized ut Wellington and Emporia,
Kan, by u deputy United States mar
shal.
One of the largest department stores
in Omaha has announced a flat reduc-
tion of 80 per cent following 20 per
cent cuts made by three stores. A
large mems clothing establishment
made a 20 per cent reduction, making
five stores which have reduced
fourteen miles northwest of Phoenix,
and 5000 acres of land adjacent for
S1,O00,OOO has been announced by the
Southwest Cotton Company, Il cotton
producing subsidiary of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company of Akron,
Ohio
Mountain lions are menacing the
vast herds of sheep in the Spenceville
region, according to reports of stock
raisers of Yuba county, Calf This
season of the year the beasts are par
ticularly ferociOus and until watches
were placed on all herds the nightly
toll was reported to be twenty-five or
thirty sheep.
One man is dead and four critically
III at Florence, Ariz., after having
eaten preserved string beans and pre-
served beets, according to County Ply
sician w. G. Small of Florence. DIR.
Randall said the men were infected
with the bacilli of botulism, like re-
cent ripe olive poisoning" cases in
various parts of the country.
WASHINGTON.
The Supreme Court has decided that
telegraph companies cannot be held
liable for the full amount of losses
caused by delays in delivering tele.
grams.
n. Samboln Jones, American minis
ter to Honduras, has resigned his post
and his resignation has been accepted.
the State Department announced. His
successor has not been selected.
Appointment of James Duncan, vice
president of the Federation of Labor
aa . member of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, has been indorsed
by the federatiOn's executive council
Mr.. Duncan's appointment is now be
fore the Senate committee.
With gasoline and fuel oil consump.
tion Outstripping production and the
underground reserve liable to exhaus
tion In twenty years, the natioii Is
facing liquid fuel crisis calling for
drastic action, according to DIR. Van
H. Manning. director of the Bureau OF
Mines.
BY vote of 33 to 10l the Hous,
refused to give up the free seed dis
tribution perquisite which attaches t.
the office of congressman. Instruc
tions were given the conferees on the
agricultural appropriation bill to in
sist on the restoration of the S2i0. .00(
item for free seeds stricken from tn,
bill in the Senate.
Senator Smoot, Utah, has introduced
an amendment to the sundry civil bill
authorizing the government to pay tn,
railroad transportation home of wa
workers who resign or are discharged
before July /. Senator Smoot said tn,
amendment was designed principally I,
bring about the dismissal of extra EN-
ployes hired during the war
Establishment of paper mills In Alas
ka was recommended as n means OF re
lieving the paper shortage by Secre
tary Meredith of the Department O
Agriculture. Alaska Is destined 4
become second Norway" Secretar
Meredith said. With her enormous for
ests of rapidly growing species suta
bic for pulp, her water power, and he
tdewater shipment OF manufa cture
products, Alaska will undoubtedly be
come one of the principal pape
sources of the United States.
A bill proposing that Congress imm,
dintely begin plans for the holding o
an international exposition In Philade
phia In 1926 to commemorate the on
hundred and fiftieth annivarstry of tn
signing of tbs Declaration of Indepent
ence, was sent to the House by Repr,
sentative Darrow, Republican. of Penn
sylvanla. An appropriation OF $4,000
is proposed and II would be used b
commission composed of two repr,
sentatives from each state TO be ay
pointed by the President, which woul