The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-03
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WEsTL2N
DIR. George L. Miller, Omaha's first
practicing physician, and founder Of
the Omaha Herald, later made part OF
the World Herald, is dead at Omaha.
In the Pacific coast states there
were 239, 700 motor vehicles and 5000
tractors five years ago, whereas to
day there are 100000 motor vehicles
and 25O0O0 tractors.
About $4,000 in cash, nuggets and
jewelry were found in the safe of the
sunken steamship Princess Sophia
when Harold Post, temporary receiver
for the Deep Sea Salvage Company,
opened it at Juneau, Alaska.
Col. Malvern Hill Barnum, cavalry,
now stationed at San Francisco, has
been detailed commandant of the
United States disciplinary barracks at
Fort Leavenworth, succeeding Maj.
Gen. J. H. McRae, who has been as
signed to command the second di-
vision at Camp Travis.
Two st. Louis army officers are be-
ing sought by the military authorities
in connection with the disappearance
of S.S,7S9 from the quartermaster
corps of the United States army it be-
came known at st. Louis when the To-
cal police received an army bulletin
containing a request for their arrest.
The provisional government of Mex
leo has issued orders closing all sa-
the Rio Grande, according to informa-
tion received at San Antonio, Texas.
The order also provides that hereafter
license to operate saloons in Mexico
will be issued only to Mexican citizens.
Eight hundred ploys. harness for
1,60O mules, two tractors, twenty NOW
ing machines, two threshing machines
and thousands of dollars worth of ad-
ditional agricultural implements pur-
chased in the United States are ex-
pected to complete the subjugation of
Francisco Villa, erstwhile Mexican
bandit and guerilla.
Gold yield of placer camps in the
Yukon valley for 1920 is estimated at
81, ,4S5,0O0 by mining company officials
at Dawson. Camps In the interior OF
Alaska are expected to yield $G,985,-
900. There has been considerable
shrinkage in the output, it is stated,
owing to a dry season and the decrease
in the purchasing power of gold.
For brevity the will filed at Seattle,
Wash, for William H. Gordon, former
instructor in penmanship in the Uni
versity of Colorado, author of text
books and originator of the free-hand
method of card writing, is unique in
the superior court records there. 1t
reads: Leave everything / own to
my sister, Mrs. Douglas Mckay, 1923
Center street, Peru, H.
WASHINGTON
Organization of a flying unit that
Is expected to prove the nucleus OF
an American reserve to be organized
by the army will be begun at a meet.
ing of former aviators in Chicago. Tho
meeting has been called by group OF
wealthy Ghicagoans acting under q
purely patriotic impulse whose iden
tity has not been disclosed at Wash
ington.
The right of women to the ballot wa.
formally made part of the ConstItu
tion of the United States when Secre
tary of State Colby proclaimed ratifi
cation of the nineteenth amendment.
Combined federal and state expendi
lures for road building may reach {
total of $250,O0O,0OO during the cur
rent fiscal year, according to Thoma.
II. Macdonald, chief of the bureau o.
public roads, department of agricul
ture q
In an attempt to get baby panther
as a mascot, members of the One Hun
dred and Fourth aero squadron Tough
mother panther and four cubs in
cave near Sanderson, Tex, accordjn,
to war department advices in Wash
ington. The mother panther defeate,
the squadron
There will be no Woman's part,
ticket in the political field this year
and the chance that there ever will
be one is exceedingly remote, judg
ing from the views as to the party.
future activities, which have been un
der animated discussion at the ma
tional headquarters ever since til,
suffrage amendment passed definite
~ into the constitution.
President Wilson approved the ma
1ority report of the anthracite Goa
m m s n, awarding anthracit,
miners wage increases aggregatfn.
$S5,0O0,000, and notified the miners
that he expected them "to accept tnt
award and carry it into effect in goot
faith
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pa
ciftc railroad have applied to the in
terstate commerce commission fol
authority TO issue general mortgage
gold bends to the amount of $1,000
nd