Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner. (Elizabeth, Colo.) 1920-1921, 1920-08-20
CONDENSED REC ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoiNos, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERlNcs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

WESl EhN
Official returns from the Kansas
statewide primary show j. b. Billiard
Democrat and former mayor of Tope-
ka who advocated beer and light
wines, won the nomination for Con
gress in the First district.
Pablo Altendorff, labeled a German
spy by Ell Universal OF Mexico City, is
being held there on charge of CON
spring In the United States with Gen
eral Lucio Blanco to organize all ex-
patrlated Mexicans in a counter revo-
luton.
Ed Shanahan, about 50 years old, of
St Louis. Mo-, was found dead in his
room In a hotel at Albuquerque. A
draft for 81 $40 and S425 in cash were
found on his person and note TO no
tify J. ]. Flynn, 8 South Sixth street,
st. Louis.
Phillip Lauricelli. San Francisco
laborer, shot and killed his mother
in-law. Mrs. Dolly Rollins. while she
was cooking breakfast az his home
in San Francisco. dragged his wife.
Eva. from bed and shot her. proba-
bly, fatally, and then killed himself.
A request for the appointment of
receiver for the Terminal Railroad AS
ISOLATION OF st. Louis was made in a
motion filed in United States District
Court Mt ST. Louis by the Missouri
Pacific; Missouri, Kansas & Texas;
Frisco, and Rock Island railroad com
panies.
A column of flame 300 feet high leap
ing from Standard Oil Company gas
well in the Elk hills, thirty miles south
west of Bakersfield, Calf, was visible
there. The well is In the vicinity of
that which burned several days last
August with a loss of approximately
6O0,00o,000 cubic feet of gas.
A conspiracy through which liquor
worth 100000 was fraudulently taken
from bonded warehouse at Owens
boro, KY, was revealed by raid in st.
Louis in which deputy constable and
ten others We're arrested after police
and government agents had recovered
1876 cases of whisky valued at S195,000.
G. A. Sanborn and David Libel, pro
prietors of a tailoring company, were
arrested in San Francisco on complaint
of T. Knorr of the San Francisco Ad-
vertising Club that they had adver-
tised falsely, asserting that they had
bought $4,000 worth of woolens from
q certain manufacturer when the pur-
chase actually was but $500 worth.
With villa out of the way and spo-t
radio banditry apparently suppressed,
Mexico business men are anxious to re-
sumo their old business and social re
lntions with the United States. In fur
therance of this, the chambers of
commerce of Ell Paso, Texas, and of
Juarez. Mexico, have held conference
to discuss the best means of bringing
1t about. Leading business men of the
two cities attended.
WASHINGTON
Loans of $997 $3.50 to the Chicago
Great Western railroad and $35, 900 to
the Ann Arbor railroad to assist the
roads in purchasing additional equip
ment has been approved by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
1.-THE famine price of white paper"
d,soaot;,,,a n,hiioation ~ 40 pad
Cos. ,,,aa.1ina n ,yos arnouno.d In
Washington.
Tho Detrait Tinted RAILWAYS Com.
nanv bos flied with the ITpited sta,es
Supreme Court petition asking per-
manent injunction restraining the city
of Detroit from taking over the De
troIt traction lines.
Increased copsumntion Of ro,s,ns IN
tho Tinted states since nrobIbition is
helievad m account for the / 400 nor
cont Increase In raisin imnorts from
Snain during tbe first six months of
1000 Nearly ooo 600 nopnds wore ex.