Gilpin observer., 1920-07-01

injured, probably fatally, when truck
carrying load of picnickers was
struck by passenger train one mile
west of Huntingburg, Ind.
A $650000 parcel post building is to
he erected as a temporary relief from
the mail congestion in the postoffice
at Chicago. A ten-year lease ut $780,
900 term rental was made by the gov
ernment.
Frank G. COgswell of Minneapolis,
Mimi, and his daughter. Dorothy, were
killed at Lakeview, Wash, near Taco
ma, when an airplane in which ehey
were passengers plunged into IA sand
bank
DissensiOn among members Of the
Perkins Grove Lutheran church, south
of Dixon, Ill.,. resulted in some of the
members breaking into the church dur
Ing the night and with axes and saws
destroying pews and pulpit.
The proposed Hudson bay trade
route, designed to relieve traffic con-
gestion during the heavy annual
movement of grain from the West, has
been pronounced feasible by the spe-
cial Senate committee appointed to in
vestigate the project.
The establishment of fund of $780,
100000 to extend financial aid to west
ern woOl-growers, while awaiting the
re-establishment of the wool market.
was considered at a conference in Chi
cago recently OF western bankers and
sheep ranchers. Chicago bankers We're
asked to displace Boston banks in fl
nancing the annual wool clip of the
country, which plan would make Chi
cagO the wool center of the nation
WASHINGTON
The 1920 population of Delaware is
222,O13, an increase of 206S1 since
1910, or 10.2 per cent, the census bu-
reau has announced in Washington.
The population of Continental
United States Is estimated at l05 ,OOO,-
900 by ]. A. Hill, chief statistician of
based on the combined population of
1,4O6 cities and towns for which statis-
tics have been announced.
The population of Colorado Springs,
Colo, was announced mt &c, 105 in the
preliminary statement on FL Paso
county, Colo, issued at Washington.
That is 533 more than the citys pop
ulation as previously announced, when
the total was given as 29.572
Philadelphia's population has been
announced by the census bureau as /.
S23, 15S, showing that the country's
third most populous city had main
tained during the last ten years the
steady rate of growth it has had since
the first federal census in 1890.
Women's hats, plain or adorned, are
necessities of life under the meaning
of that term. as used in the Lever act,
Howard Figg, special assistant to the
attorney general, ruled. Mr.. Figgs
ruling was in reply to an inquiry from
the National Retail AIilliners' Associ.
alton as to whether women's hats
come within the range of the act
under which the department of justice
is authorized to prosecute for profi
teering in necessities.
Tennessee may be the thirty-sixtl
state to ratify the suffrage amendment
In spite of the clause in the constitu
tion OF the state providing that no Leg
islature shall act on an amendment (,
the federal constitution unless clecte,
after the proposal of the amendment
The present Legislature was electe,
before the proposal of the amendment
but II nevertheless has the "clear pow
or to ratify the amendment" accord
ing to William r. Frierson, acting ut
torney general of the United States.
Plans for financing the wool grow
ers until a market for wool is estab
lished have been worked out at con
ferences between the growers and tn,
federal reserve board, was announce,
by +. II. Marshall of Salt Lake City
Aecretnry OF the National Wool Grow
<rs' Association. Under the plan, Mr.
Marshall said, "a wool grower ma,
ship his wool to one of the ususi
points of distribution, obtaining from
the railroad n bill of lading for tn,
shipment; the grower may then draw
n draft against his bank Tor such M
amount ms may be agreed upon by tn,
grower and the bank, secured by tn,
bill of lading.
The National Womnn's party vii
call n convention of women voters {,
decide upon an election policy. Alic,
Paul, leader Of the militant suffrnglsts
announced In Washington. The con
yention will meet In one of three suf
frnge cties-Chicago, San Francisc,
or Denver-nnd the call for It will b,
issued shortly.
Bub0nic plague has appeared at Ca
tania, Italy, several cases having beer
reported Of which two have prove,
fatal, the state department ut Wash
ington has been advised by the Ameri
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