The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-30
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
Denial of reports circulated in the
United States that Candid Aguliaf'
son-in-law of the late President Car
rama, has entered Mexico to organize
a revolution was made by Minister OF
War Gales at Mexico City.
A telephone conversation, over 4,loo
miles of wire and wireless, establish
ing what was said to be a worlds
record, was held between Avalon,
Santa Catalina Island, thirty miles off
Los Angeles harbor, and the steamer
Gloucester, 200 miles off Philadelphia.
A sentence that he be clean shaven
for six months he must pass in jail,
was imposed by Justice J. B. Cox of
Santa Ana, Calf, on James Furry,
convicted of vagrancy. Furry's beard,
Justice Cox held, was the chief reason
for his '.orneryness and shiftlessness. !"
Frank p Mason of Tulsa, Okla,
died at a local hospital after living ex-
actly six months with two inches of
his spine missing He was caught be-
meath still which collapsed April 26
and so injured that he lost a section
of his spine. He was totally para
lyzed
Proposed rates, ranging from 213
cents to 6 cents per 100 pounds on
lumber and other forest products from
Missouri River crossings to destina-
ton in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, South Dakota and Wisconsin,
were suspended by the interstate COM
merce commission until Feb. %, 1921.
Louis F. Swift, packer of Chicago,
in statement published declared that
live stock market conditions will i'm
prove now that the United States gov
ernment has sold all of its cold stor-
age meat supply. This supply, said
Mr.. Swift, has been a bear factor. Mr..
Swift also advised Texas stockmen
against liquidating, stating with the
recovery Of the market their own lot
will improve.
Robert L. Fulton, father of the irri-
CATION movement in Nevada, one of the
founders of the Reno Gazette, for
many years land agent of the Southern
Pacific Co, in Nevada and leader in
the Republican party in the state, h
dead, at Oakland, Calf, aged 70. He
was pioneer railroad telegrapher,
starting with the Erie road in the early
sixties and was with the Union Pacific
while it was being built across the
plains.
WASHINGTON
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a s100,0O0,000 corporation to finance
the nations foreign trade was given
by the American Bankers Association
in convention at Washington.
The self-propelling steel barge Birm-
ingham has been accepted by the gov
ernment representatives following a
trial trip and will leave on its first
trip in the st. Louis-New Orleans
service. The vessel is of 1000 tons
capacity.
Resolutions demanding immediate ac-
tion by the Polish government to end
reported discrimination against the
Jews in that country were adopted at
conference of the provisional or
ganization, American Jewish Congress
in session at New York.
One-fifth of the appropriation of
$5O0,OOO made the Red Cross for the
lief of sufferers in the famine area of
China will be transmitted Immediately
through the State Department, it was
announced at National Red Cross
headquarters.
Reports of the national committee
of the Prohibition party, filed with the
clerk of the House of Representatives
showed receipts of S13,24449 in the
party's national presidential campaign
and expenditures of S13,O17.S2 UP to
October 18th.
An expression of thanks to the
American government and people for
their courteous reception was issued
by the delegates from Great Britain
to tercentenary of the landing of the
pilgrims at Plymouth and the first
legislative assembly at jamestown, Va
Fearing to leave any question as to
the citizenship of their expected child,
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Byam came
from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Omaha,
and little Jocann first blinked her
eyes in an American hospital in that
city. Mr.. Byam is manager of the
Morris Packing Company plant in
Uruguay and accompanied his wife on
the S000-mile trip.
Suit for s2,s53,41e damages against
the United States Shipping Board and
the Emergency Fleet CORPORATION has
been started by the Huron. BIinneapo-
lis, St Paul and Binghampton Steam
ship Companies The four companies
allege they lost this. amount through
failure of the two bodies 10 keep an
alleged promise to transfer to Cana
dian registry twelve steel freightars |
and to advance S75O.oO0 to facilitate
the construction of the vessels last
year at the Virginia Shipbuilding Cor
DOration ward at AInxqndria Ns