The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-27
CONDENSED REX ORD or THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, ooINes.. ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

clerk of Los Angeles, who reported
that the safe in the court room had
been broken open and $4,000 in bail
money taken, was arrested ON charge
of embezzlement and lodged in the Los
Angeles county jail.
Bird dogs from all parts Of the Unit
ed States will be in Crookston, Mimi,
Sept. 8 for the All-American field trial
club events. Announcement has been
made by DR.. L. Benton King, secre-
tary Of the club, that the field trials
will be in the vicinity of Crookston.
The four United States airplanes
flying from Mineola, N. Y, to Nome
arrived there safely. The actual fly
ing time from New York was fifty
five hours, Capt ST. Clair Street, head
of the expedition, announced The
hop-off on the return trip to New York
will be made in few days.
The purser's safe, raised by divers
from the wreck of the steamer
Princess Sophia, which sank in the
Lynn canal in October, 1918, is at
Juneau, Alaska, awaiting examination
by Officers Of the company which op-
Grated the steamer. More than 200
lives were lost in the sinking of the
Princess Sophia.
Charges that A. G. Townley, presi-
dent of the Nonpartisan league, owns
the controlling interest in sisal COM
pany at Miami, Fla, are contained in
suit filed at Fargo, N. D., by James
r. Waters, former manager of the
Bank of North Dakota. Mr.. Waters
demands payment of $1,000, which, he
alleges, was the annual salary prom
ised him by Townley for handling
the latter's interests in the sisal COM
pany. Mr.. Townley recently testified
in bankruptcy proceedings that he had
no interest of any kind in any
property.
A few hours after Macedonia Esca-
lante, house painter. touched power
sxiEa that sent l1-i2O volts Of cleo
tricity thfeaEh hi 1T Phoenix. Ariz.,
he was telling Mis- -atheE he would be
all right in day or two. C. L. Baker,
his foreman, saw him hanging from
the wire, smoke rising from one arm
As Baker ran to get help, Escalante
dropped to the ground five feet below
and was taken to hospital He had
been painting the. transformer house
of a cotton gin. Physicians declared
the voltage many times enough to kill
a man.
WASHINGTON
Appointment of Lewis J. Bailey as
assistant director of the federal bureau
of investigation, succeeding Frank
Burke, resigned to join the shipping
board, has been announced by Attor-
ney General Palmer. Mr. Bailey has
been in charge of the Atlanta office
of this bureau.
The campaign of the National Wo-
mans party for ratification of the
suffrage amendment has cost $3.50, 900,
according to an announcement at
Washington. Party Officers estimated
at least $4,000 was spent TO get the
thirty-sixth ratification, at least S10,-
900 of which is yet to be raised.
Letvia has been asked by the United
States to recall Alfred Nagel, bearing
credentials as Letvian secretary of
legation, who is being detained at New
York by the immigration authorities.
1t was stated officially that Nagel was
regarded as an undesirable resident
and would not be permitted to enter
the country. The reason was not given
The first wireless message ito be
heard around the world" was received
by Secretary Daniels from the Lafay-
ette radio station at Bordeaux, France.
The message was the first sent from
the Lafayette station, the largest in
ed States navy, and is undergoing Of
ficial test before being turned over to
France
Production of bituminous coal reach
ed it's 1920 peak during the week end
ed Aug 14th when the miners turned
out II, ,72S,000 net tons. The geological
survey, in making this announcement
made public figures showing produc
tion of btuminous coal since last
January LIST to total 324 4,S77,000 tons,
which is 4S,250OOO tons greater than
the 1919 production at the same date.
Advices have reached Washington
that both Great Britain and Japan are
much exercised over the new United
States shipping law. The information
from Toxic is that the act, known as
the Jones law, is a cause of grave
in japanese trading and ship
ping circles in view of what is felt to
be its possible menace to cargo trans
portation of Japanese steamship COM
panies operating service in the United
States Provisions of the law in favor
Of merchandise carried in American
vessels is being regarded as measure
aimed at the expulsion of shipping.