Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
CONDENSED REC ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
BAviNoe, DoINos, ACHIEVE.
MRNTs, sUFFKRiNos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.


WESTERN.
Patrol of Alaskan waters next sum-
mer to enforce laws relating to fisher
les, game and the liquor traffic will be
undertaken Jointly by vessels of the
navy coast guard and geodetic sur
vey.
Fire of undetermined origin at Kan
as City destroyed the garage and
barn of the City Ice Company, burn
ing to death 11S horses and three mo-
tor trucks and resulting in damage
estimated at $20O,00O.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Searle have
been acquitted Of charges of killing
Mrs. HildaI Neamy, whose body was
found in the furnace of her home in
Lead, S. d., last January. Mrs. Neamy
was Mrs. Searle's mother
II didn't know it was loaded,
claimed another victim at Las Vegas,
N. NJ, when Winfield Barnett, 10 years
old, was shot and dangerously wound
ed by George frost, II, while playing
with shotgun and revolver.
A. ]. Cooper, %, an emplOye Of the
Union Pacific railroad, was killed ut
North Platte, Neb., when he was struck
by IL switch engine that was running
wild. Cooper stepped from behind n
train into the path of the runaway To-
cOmOtive.
Four women were drowned at Port
Arthur, Texas, when an automobile in
which they were riding plunged
through an open bridge and fell into
the ship canal. None of the bodies
has been recovered and the identity
of the women could not be learned.
Appeals to the people and legisla-
lures of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
California, Nevada, New Mexico and
Arizona will be made by Governor
Thomas Campbell of Arizona, the new
ly elected president of the League of
the Southwest, to obtain contributions
to finance an educational campaign
for the Colorado river basin project,
covering 244, 900 acres.
Residents of Sitka say that the
herds of seal migrating northward to-
ward Bering sea this spring are great
er than they have seen in years and
that the migration is three weeks
ahead of its usual time. Countless
thousands of the seal have been pass
the great size of the migratory herd
Ia evidence it pays to protect.
WASHINGTON.
Voluntary instead of compulsory
universal training, as proposed by the
army reorganization bill, has been
adopted by the Senate. The vote was
46 to 8.
Approximately 1000 of the 5000
alien reds arrested by the Department
of Justice In the raids on radicals a
few weeks ago nre to be set free by
the Secretary of Labor, before whom
the deportation proceedings are pend
ing.
All German cargo vessels taken over
by the government have been disposed
Of to private interests. the weekly
sales report of the Shipping Board,
made public, shows. During the week
ending April 10th the board sold
twenty-eight vessels for S21,751 ,065.
Included were eleven former German
merchant ships.
The United States Bituminous Coal
Commission, which settled the dispute
between soft coal miners and opera
tors, declared in formal statement
that present prices of bituminous coal
"were inexcusable" and "out of all re-
lation to the increase in the cost of
production caused by higher wages
granted by the commission"
A bill to re-enact the law imposing
tax of so per cent on excess war
profits has been introduced by Rep
resentative johnson, Republican, South
Dakota, as n means of raising rev
enue for soldier bonus. There also
would be a levy on the privilege of
issuing stock dividends. The bill would
be made applicable to profits of 1919,
1920 and 1921, and Mr.. johnson fig
ured 1t would raise $1,000, 100000.
Capt. Ronald Amundsen, discoverer
OF the south pole and now leader of a
north polar expedition, has not left his
ship, the Maude, for n final dash to
the pole The denial of the recent re.
port from London that the Amundsen
dash had actually begun was received
in Washington by Gilbert Grosvenor
president of the National Geographic
Society, in cablegram from the Nor
wegian Geographical Society.
Eggs have been nationalized in soviet
Russia. according to dispatch re-
celved by the Department of State at
Washington. A decree apportlonng
the amount Of eggs to be consumed In
each soviet district has been signed by
NicOlai Lenine. II the hens do their
full duty all will be well.
Senator McNary's bill enlarging the
Oregon National Forest by adding A..
900 acras of It's northern mud wastoru