The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-06


WESTERN
Governor Campbell has issued a call
for special session of the Arizona
Legislature to convene Feb. 18th to
conGider and ratify the suffrage
amendment to the constitutions of the
United States.
A gust of wind hurled Edward Skar-
ing, u mason, from the top of smoke
stack 125 feet high at Milwaukee. A
rope on the inside of the stack broke
his fall. He landed at the bottom with
his legs fractured in two places.
Mayor Couzens' $15,0O0,0O0 municipal
ownership street railway plan, includ=
ing use of Henry Ford's gasoline street
ear, was approved unanimously by the
Detroit City Council and is now ready
for the vote of the people April 9th.
Nelson BlackhalI, 81, was killed at
his home in Portland while taking a
both. He started to use an electric
vibrator while in the bathtub and doed
instantly. The water apparently sent
the vollage of the vibrator through
Blackhalls body.
By practically unanimous vote
Lincoln, Neb., taxpayers at special
election authorized the school board TO
grant uniform increase of S400 Il
year to teachers in the public schools.
Present salaries range from 1867 in
the grades to 81, 100 in the high school.
Seventeen of the leading wholesale
grocers of Chicago have been indicted
Inv tha fadarpJ GRAND jurv IN fhnrpaS
of making illegal gains by profteering
in sugar Indictments bring up the
total of sugar profiteers caught in the
federal net to twenty-four and more
indictments are expected in a few days
WASHINGTON
Immoral motion picture films would
be barred from transportation in in
terstate commerce, under bill
passed by the House and sent to the
Senate.
Former service men may reinstate
their war risk term insurance at any
time before July l, 1920, under a new
ruling of the bureau of war risk insur-
}nce, announced by Director Cholme-
ney-Jones.
War prosperity has doubled the de-
mand for precious stones. American
buyers Of diamonds and pearls spent
$50, 900 for gems with London ex-
porters in 1919, figures of the Com
merce Department in Washington
show.
Repeal of the wartime act giving
the federal government control over
the price and distribution of wheat is
proposed in bill introduced by Chair
man Gronna of the Senate agriculture
committee to which the measure was
referred. Among other things the bill
would abolish the United States grain
corporation.
Operation of the railroads, Pullman
lines. express companies and water
ways, unified under federal control,
has cost the nation approximately
$7OO,OO0,OOO, according to official cal
cuiatiOn, since they were taken over
two years ago. Figures made public
by the railroad administration re-
vealed net loss Of $594, 100000 from
railroad operation alone in the two
year period.
The government nitrate plant at To-
ledo,. Ohio, built at an estimated cost
OF $20,O00,OOO could have been dupli-
Gated, land and all, for $500, 900,
Henry G.. Tyrrell, of New York, form
erly an appraiser in the War Depart
ment, testified before a House war in
vestigating committee.
The death rate in the United States
for 1918 was the highest on record, ac-
cording to the census bureaus annual
mortality statistics just issued, which
shows 1,471,3 1867 deaths for the year,
representing rate of eighteen per l.
900 population in the death registration
area of thirty states and twenty-seven
cities with total estimated population
of 81, ,S6S,1O
The Supreme Court, in petitions
filed, has been asked to review Fed
eral Court DEGREES awarding judg-
ments for 100000 against officials
and members of the United Mine
Workers of America, in favor of eight
Independent, non-uniOn bituminous
coal companies in Arkansas. The
lower court sustained charges that the
union engaged in conspiracy in vio-
ldllOu VI lhC 0Iti man dhll-lIu ubI dCl
to decrease the independent COM
panies' production of coal.
Drastic reduction in the number of
national banks designated as govern
ment depositaries is being made by the
Treasury Department, with the result
than less than 400 of the 1881 such in
stitutions holding funds on June 30,
1919, are expected to escape the prun-
ing knife.
The federal government, it is esti-
mated, has collected Illegally $4,000
900 in taxes in the calendar years 1918
and 1919. This money is still in the
treasury and will not be repaid to the
taxpayers until Congress orders it thru
legislation