The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-23

Falls, 5. ID.
Starvation is believed to threaten the
elk of the Sun river district in Mon
tana. There are 5000 animals in the
herds there. The range was in the
drought area and has been visited by
heavy storms.
Rather than serve thirty-five day
sentence in the Oakland city jail, Pearl
Whitford, %, eluded the matron and
climbing through an open window on
the fourteenth floor of the city hall,
jumped 300 feet to her death. Hun
dreds of persons witnessed the trag-
edy.
Theodore Bell, counsel for California
wine interests, has announced that
some of his clients would submit to
prosecution in order to test the valid
ity of constitutional prohibition. Manu-
facture and sale of wine for purposes
of testing the law would take place
soon, he said
Bank notes worth $4,000 We're
stolen from the mailroom of the
steamer Cheloshin just before the
boat entered Vancouver harbor from
Prince Rupert, B. G. The mailroom
was broken into and mail sacks were
cut open Police did not reach the
boat until all the passengers had left
A dense fog, the first in the history
of Douglas, Ariz., obscuring objects
only few feet away, caused almost
total suspension of business for one
day A headon street-car collision, re-
sulting in the injury of both the mo
tormen, and an automobile truck col
lision, in which one man was injured,
occurred
First installation of wireless tele-
phones for commercial purposes in
Utah was completed VIXEN cement
manufacturing company at Ogden
erected aerials above its offices and AT
Its plant thirty miles north of Ogden
Similar equipment is to be Installed foi
coal company with mine at Rock
Springs, Wyo.
Production of oil from California
fields amounted to 1O1, ,221, ,7s4 barrels
in 1919, the daily average being 2T7,-
800, according to figures announced by
the Standard Oil Company. Total
crude stocks amounted to 32,042, ,923
barrels on Dec. 81, 1918, and 80, $50, ,32233
on Dec. 81, 1919, decrease of 1,562, 500
in the crude oil reserve Wells to the
number of $50 were completed and IS
wells were abandoned during the year.
WASHINGTON
In order that schools may teach their
pupils something about the 1920 CEN
sus, the Census Bureau has prepared
a special circular for the use of teach
ers.
With much pork" eliminated, the
annual rivers and harbor appropria-
tion bill carrying funds for the next
fiscal year has been reported to the
House by the ways and means com
nittee. The bill would appropriate
only $12,4OO,O00, slashing down OF
$50, 100000 from the total submitted
and considerable cut from the amounts
usually carried.
Many marine mines which were car
ricd away by the heavy storm which
prevailed over the North sea for sew
era days are floating through the
Scandinavian straits.
Validity of the federal constitution
al prohibition amendment is to be de
termined by the Supreme Court, whicl
today granted the state of Rhode Is
land permission to institute origina
proceedings to test 1t and enjoin it.
enforcement in that state.
Suffragists are specializing which
state will give the Susan 3. Anthony
amendments the vote necessary to rati
fication. Twenty-six notifications have
been achieved, four special sessions
have been agreed upon-Wyoming
New Mexico, Idaho and Arizona Three
full suffrage states-Washington Ne
vada and Oklahoma-and West Vir
yinia, where the legislature is pledged
and the governor has declared he will
call a session sooner or later-brina
the number to thirtyfour, leaving the
thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth to be wor
from Delaware, New Jersey, Missis
sippi, Maryland, Vermont and Con
necticut.
PfeSluent WILSON may go TO iOll
olulu at the expiration of his term oil
office. At least Alexander Hume
Ford rendered the President an invi
tation to become active president OF
the Pan-Pacific Association and to
Consider residence and leadership in
land where there is no race preju-
dice"
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs
Lane have announced the engagement
of their only daughter, Nancy, to Phil
lip c. Kauffmann. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Victor Kauffmann. fhe wedding will
take place in the late sp'ing.