Gilpin observer., 1920-04-01
ooNDENeEp REQ o r D OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAviNoe, ooIhoe. ACHIEVE.
MGNTS, suFFERiNos, HOPPE
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

Wholesale drug house is poisonous. He
feared thirsty persons might buy it
Three Mexican prisoners, escaped
from the county Jail at Tombstone,
Ariz., have been recaptured at John
sons ranch, twenty-five miles south
west of there by deputies acting under
orders of Sheriff James Il. Mcdonald.
Tommy Milton, driving fifty miles on
The one and One-fourth mile Los An
geles speedway in 20 minutes and
1920 seconds, won the third and final
heat and a prize Of $500 in series
of races. His average for the fifty
miles was Ills miles an hour.
New York may be able to reach
across the continent and set the hands
of the clock ahead in San Francisco.
A few days may determine this point.
An effort will be made to persuade
the supervisors to enact daylight
saving ordinance for San Francisco.
Three persons We're instantly killed
and four so severely injured that they
died short time later when the
nOrthbound Texas special struck an
automobile near Luxello, twenty-five
mile north of San Antonio on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railway.
The Nebraska Constitutional Con
ventiOn fixed September 21st as the
date for a special election at which
voters are to ratify or reject the pro-
posed new constitution. The question
nP oIactinu Sunrama Cnurt juIyoc nv
districts will be on n separate ballot.
The first wage petition tried before
the new Kansas Industrial Relations
Court resulted In victory for the
workers. Decision No. | was handed
down by the court ut Topeka granting
the Topeka Edison Company from 60
to 87k cents an hour.
A signed statement that he has evil
dence that Ambrose Bierce, noted sat
irist, who disappeared in 1918, was put
to death by a Villista firing squad near
Monterey, was made in the San Fran
cisco Bulletin by James III. wilkins, a
special writer, who has returned from
Mexico, in search for evidence re-
garding Bierce's fate.
Eighteen of thirty-one Chinese mem
bers of the crew of the British steam
ship Warsubadar who deserted the
vessel Mt Port Arthur, Texas, to seek
Illegal residence In the United States,
have been captured and are being de-
tained in Jail. Three others were re-
ported under arrest at Beaumont and
the remaining ten were in custody Mt
Shreveport, according to telegraphic
advices from the Louisiana city.
WASHINGTON
The Mexican government soon will
resume payment of interest on its for
eign debt, the Mexican embassy at
Washington has been advised by the
Mexico City foreign office This in
tention Of the government was en-
bodied In decree recently issued by
the Department Of Finance. Interest
payments have not been made since
1914.
Award of distinguished service
crosses to Maj. Gen. John L. Hines
and Lieut. Col Theodore Roosevelt
has been announced ut the War De-
partment.
President Wilson Will spend the
summer at Woods Hole. Mass, where
the summer White House will be es-
tablished on the estate Of Charles II.
Crane, Chicago business man, recently
appointed minister to China
Directors OF the New York, Chicago
ing, voted not to accept the six months
government guarantee Of the standard
return uuder the new railroad law, il
has been learned ut Washington. The
directors decided they did not need
governmental aid.
secretary Houston awarded the con-
trvct for construction of Broadview
hospital, Cook county, Illinois, prof
'ect bitterly fought over In Congress,
to the Shank Company, Chicago, for
S3,O0O,OOO, or 100000 below the limit
of cost. Under the contract the gov
arnment becomes owner of the entire
project, covering 800 acres and an un-
COupitteu Iluin Hobpithi DuliulHS,
which was started by Edward Hines.
Work must be completed by July 10.
Less than one-seventh of the fuel oil
requirements Of the navy on the Pa
cific coast for the next fiscal year
were covered in bids opened by the
Navy Department. Against requests
for 4,5O00.O00 barrels, the department
received but one bid OF 802, 900 barrels
from the Standard OIL Company of
California.
An immediate investigation of the
high price OF gasoline and other oils
by the Fedora Trade Commission is
provided In u resolution favorably re-
ported by the House Judiciary Com
.mittse.