The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-30


a campaign of vengeance against the
Yaqui Indians in Sonora, was killed at
TecOrpIa, Sonora, according to re-
port received at Nogales, Ariz.
AS result of the activity of Ger
man consuls in Mexico there has been
arranged steamship line between
Germany and Mexican ports which will
begin regular service at once. A steam
er will reach Mexico each week from
Germany, according to Mexican news
papers.
The problem of handling large elk
herds, big game and livestock on the
forest reserves will be discussed at
meeting of forestry officials and the
game wardens of the Western states,
together with the federal game war
den and his deputies at Salt Lake City,
Feb. 16.
Mrs. Marion A. Forrest, prominent
in Eastern Star circles in California
and New Mexico, was instantly killed
in Oakland, Calf. by an automobile
driven by Harold Craven, a Univer-
sity of California student. Craven is
charged with manslaughter 1t is
sive speed.
The first shipment of elk from Yel-
lewstone park to point outside the
United States left Gardiner, the north
ern entrance, for Rocky Mountain
park, Banff, Alberta. Two hundred
and 2-year-old elk were loaded in four
cars and shipped by express to the
Canadian park, where they We're
turned loose
Capt John f. Blain, former North
Pacific district manager of the United
States shipping board, was arraigned
in Seattle and given two weeks to
plead to an Indictment returned
against him charging him with accept
ing secret commissions on sales to the
board while he was manager
Gov. William D. Stephens of Cali
iofnia has declined to grant an au-
dience to committee appointed by
the Oriental Exclusion League and
other organizations to seek from him
an expression as to whether he pro-
posed to call special session of the
State Legislature to deal with exclu-
sion legislation
Thirty establishments at Ell Centro
and in Imperial and Calexico, Calf,
were raided by deputy sheriffs, and $50
men and women, alleged bOotleggers
and gamblers, were arrested. District
Attorney Simon issued statement in
which he declared that the police of
the three cities were either asleep or
negligent"
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Eastern Missouri, at it's annual con-
vention In St. Louis, unanimously
adopted resolution giving dea-
conesses the privilege of voting in
diocesan conventions on the same
basis as the clergy. So far as Episco-
palians here know, this is the first
diocese In the United States to take
such action.
WASHINGTON
Henry p. Fletcher has resigned as
United States ambassador to Mexico
To take effect In the course of the
next few weeks.
Dr. Hugh S. Cumming of Hampton
Virginia, was nominated surgeon gen
eral of the public health service by
President Wilson. He succeeds DR.
Rupert Blue, whose term expired on
Jan. Is.
Since Sept. /, 1919, less than 7,OOt
cases OF Influenza have been reporte1
to the United States public health serv-
ice, it is announced. During the pre-
ceding similar period last year more
than 100000 cases occurred.
A bill to prevent Transmission by
mail or wire of any record of betting
odds on horse races or other contests
ir which man, beast. or automobile
takes part, was introduced by Sen.
ator Sterling, South Dakota.
BY a margin of one vote the House
appropriations committee refused to in
clude in the deficiency appropriations
bill a fund of S1O,000,000 asked by the
Navy Department for repairs to ships
mttee that unless the money was made
available necessary repairs to many
capital ships and destroyers could not
be made and that Is, 300 navy yard en-
ployes would have to be discharged
next month.
Anti-sedition measures were given II
further setback by refusal of the
House rules committee to give legis-
lative preference for their consdera-
ton. No further hearings will be
held. and the judiciary committee is
expected to report a new measure, in
cooperating the features of the Davey
bill, which has been suggested as
ample by the Department of Justice.
The excess of American exports
over imports for the year 1919
amounted to $4,O17, 100000, a new rec
ord, the Department of Commerce an
nounced in Washington.