Gilpin observer., 1920-05-13
coNpENeEp RRc o I'D OF ThR
PRooREss OF EvRNrs At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
oAvINoo, DoiNes, AehIHvg-
MsNrs. svFFERlNos, HoPEs
AND FEARs OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

WEST GhN.
Magnus Vallien, Jr., was killed and
eight persons were injured in Omaha
when a police patrol going to an acci-
dent struck an automobile in which six
persons were riding.
The longshoremen's union has de-
clared general strike along the Seat
tie waterfront to enforce demands that
the employers select crews from list
prepared and displayed by the union.
The question of wages is not involved,
1t was announced.
Airplane wireless forest fire patrol
began in California with the departure
of two detachments of five machines
each from Mather field, Sacramento,
for their bases at Red Bluff and Fres-
no. Not more than two machines will
be sent out daily from each base
The steamship Cody. named in hon
or of the late Buffalo Bill' Cody, IA
nous scout and Indian fighter, will be
launched at Hog Island, Pa, May 31st,
according to work received at Mime
apolis by Mrs. Mary Allen, daughter
of Cody, who is on visit i'm that city.
tended over a period of fifteen years
and through most Of the states of the
Union was brought to an unhappy end
ing in Las Vegas, N. NJ, when Miss
Laura Newman of San Francisco found
her brother in the state asylum in that
city.
Forty miles of steel will be laid on
chOrage and Nenana, Alaska, this sea-
son and plans are being made to have
the road In operation over its entire
length of nearly 800 miles by January,
1922, according to Col. III. p Warren.
engineer in charge of the supply div-
sion of the Alaskan engineering com
mission.
Mrs. Lena Steiger 81 years old, is in
Jail in Salem, Ore, in default of $1,000
bond, after having been indicted by the
Marion county grand jury in charge
of assault with intent to kill her hus-
band. Jesse Mullinix, aged 40, testi
fled before the grand jury, according to
the prosecutor, that Mrs. Steiger
agreed to pay him 500 to kill her hus-
band, after which they would marry.
The American Association of En-
gineers in convention at St Louis ap-
proved plan to raise So, 100000 to
construct national engineering build
ing in Chicago. 1t was recommended
that deans of engineering schools be
paid from $4,000 to $4,000 year, ac-
cording to the size of the institution,
and that assistant instructors be paid
minimum of $1,SO0, and professors a
maximum of $4,000.
WASHINGTON.
The budget of expenses of the
League of Nations from its organiza-
ton up to July l will total approx
mately $1,25O,OOO. The figures will be
presented to the league council at
Rome. This sum includes both direct
and indirect expenditures, the latter
covering preliminary costs of numerous
commissions and other bodies and the
total represents the complete organiza-
tion period Of the league machinery.
Salaries represent the heaviest items
In direct expenditures, totaling S4S5,-
600, while the international labor Of
flee, at s290,0OO, ranks first among in
direct costs.
Senator Wadsworth's resolution pro-
posing to remove the New York state
barge canal from government opera
tion and control has been adopted by
the Senate.
Births In the registration area of the
United States, which covers about 81
per cent of the country's estimated
population, during the year 1918 ex-
ceeded deaths by 34.4 per cent. Sta
tistics for that year just completed by
the census bureau show Il total of L.
383.649 births in the territory, which is
small decrease compared to 1917.
while the deaths, 1,O14,620, show a
slight increase.
Among more than $4,000 burials of
American soldier dead in Europe, the
graves registration service has reduced
to per cent the number of cases I'm
which identification is incomplete, and
this number will be still further re.
duced by the checking up of all pro.
durable evidence at the European head.
quarters, Ralph Hayes, private secre-
tary of Secretary Baker, reported to
Chairman Porter of the House foreign
affairs committee.
Japan has withdrawn all objections
to the Chinese consortium and has pre-
pared communication accepting the
terms as agreed upon by the United
States, Great Britain and France, the
State Department has been Informed
by the American embassy ut Toxic.
The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion has been requested by representa-
tives of grain and livestock interests Of
the middle West and the Northwest to
Invoke the emergency powers act to re.