The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-17

WESTERN
Jack Johnson, former world
heavyweight champion, was sentenced
to one year and day in Leavenwortf
penitentiary and fined $1,000 by Fed
eral Judge George A. Carpenter of Chi
cago for violation of the Mann act.
Alison B. Cole and Vincent Crammer
condemned Nebraska murderers, have
been reprieved by Governor McKelvie
until Nov. IL in order to allow time
for disposal of applications which
were filed In Federal Court. Cole has
received fourteen reprieves and Cram
mer twelve.
Eighty pupils in the printing class
at the Central High school at st. Louis
went on strike" because a non-union
man was appointed instructor, posi-
tion formerly held by union printer.
The board of education recently ruled
that no one connected with organized
labor would be employed in the public
schools.
1t required three rounds from five
army rifles at Salina, Kan, to kill Sny-
der, trained elephant, belonging to
circus. The animal had gone mad with
hundreds of persons massed about the
animal tent. Before being killed the
elephant upset many cages containing
animals and threw one cage, contain
ing four lions, thirty feet.
Mrs. Luze Corral de villa, wife Of
Francisco Villa, who has resided in
San Antonio, Texas, four years, has
departed for Parral, Mexico, to join
her husband. There were twenty
others in Mrs. Villas party. The
Villas will be established on the Ha-
cienda del Canutilo, one of the
villistas.
Dog fanciers of San Francisco
learned of the death in Alexandria,
La, of Bilmer Bingo, champion Aire-
dale, who won many blue ribbons al
Frisco bench shows. Bilmer Bingo
owned by DIR. w. G. Billings, formerly
--O6- the -lEGvernment health service il
mond-head moccasin snake in the
grounds of the Billings home.
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The United States Shipping Boart
has announced the sale of five Hos
Island-built ships for $7,23S, ,123 to tn,
American Fuel and Transportation Cor
poration.
Approval of loan of $67O3, 400 II
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Com
pany and $S96,925 to the Termina
Railroad Association of st. Louis, ha
been announced by the interstate com
merce commission.
President Wilson, in a telegram t
representatives of the anthracite min
workers in Pennsylvania, refused t
grant their request to reconvene tn
joint scale committee of operators an
miners for the purpose of considerin
a new wage award.
Controller of the Currency William
asserted that the records of his offic
confirm Senator Owens recent charge
that certain New York banks hav
loaned $5O0.O0O,OO0 at extortionat
and burdensome interest rates, ruI
ming as high as 80 per cent
That the shortage of newsprint wi
be overcome by new paper mills in A
aska, has been predicted by Col. w.
Greeley, chief of the forest servic
who has just returned from a month
inspection of timber and water powe
on the Tongass national forest.
Roy H. Kuehling, held by the polio
for investigation in connection wit
the drowning of his wife, Gertrude
Kuehlfng, was released after the gran
jury in the District of Columbia coul
had voted not to return an indictmer
by coroner's jury from blame in col
nection with the death of his wifi
which occurred while they were cano
ing on the Potomac river.
An injunction restraining the shil
ping board from foreclosing a $4,000
600 mortgage on the plant of the Puse
& Jones Co., Wilmington, Del, wa
granted by Justice Siddons in the Di
trict of Columbia Supreme Court. TIL
action was designed to give the con
pany opportunity to file suit again,
the board with the Court of Claims
connection with counter claims arisin
out Of the Communicating of the plar
by the government at the outbreak {
the war.
An ultimate settlement of the p'
troleum controversy between tn
Mexican and United States govern
ment satisfactory to both countries
expected by DR.. A. Tore Diaz, recen
ly appointed Mexican minister to Bri
I'll, now in Washington on his way
his new post
Attorney General Palmer has begu
collecting evidence against several al
sociations of California fruit grower
It was learned at the justice depar
ment. following the institution of ant
trust proceedings against the Califol
r.a Association of Raisin Growers.