Gilpin observer., 1920-11-18

StOTe ulSuTlCI OIL sacramento, GALL,
caused loss estimated at S1,500000.
Four firemen were injured fighting
the flames, one perhaps fatally.
The robbers who pillaged the Bur-
lington railroads transcontlnental fas:
mail at Omaha and secured loot vari-
ously estimated ut from $4,000 to ST.
100000, have dropped completely out
of sight
High rents caused two southern
California partors, the Rev. NJ. C.
Deweese Of Los Angeles Methodist
church and the Rev. Warren Elsing
of Presbyterian church at Van Nuys,
suburb, to move their families into
their churches.
Mrs. Mildred Harris Chaplin, mo-
ton picture star, again became Mildred
Harris. Judge York at Los Angeles
granted her divorce from Charlie
Chaplin, world famous screen come
dian. An agreement, by which she
will receive approximately 100000,
was approved by the court. 1t pro-
vided that $4,000 should be paid to
her at once and S57, 800 within one
year. The settlement agreement speci-
files she shall not use the name of
Chaplin professionally.
Seventy-six counties in Colorado,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska
Michigan and Minnesota will share in
the distribution of $213,632 derived
from national forest business in the
Rocky Mountain District of the U. s.
Forest Service during the fiscal year
1920. This amount is % per cent of
the total receipts received from tim
ber sales, grazing, water power, spe-
cial uses, etc, which by act of Con
gress goes to swell the road and
school funds of the counties in which
the national forests are located
In the midst of traffic jam with
hundreds looking on, Dewey Morgan
iitney driver, was shot to death on
Kansas City's busiest corner. V. P.
Miller, jitney passenger has been ar
rested and has admitted the shooting.
Morgan was shot five times in the
back. Miller told police he shot Nor
gan because the latter had lured his
wife from her home. Police had diff
ficulty in saving Miller from the
crowd. which threatened lynching
Morgan owned several livery and lit
ney motor cars. Miller drove one of
these cars for Morgan at night.
WASHINGTON
The internal revenue bureau con
tirmed reports that crusade against
home brewing of alcoholic beverages is
planned by the governments prohbi-
ton enforcement agencies.
John Burke, treasurer of the United
States, n former governor of North
Dakota, has submitted his resignation
to become effective Jan. l, when he
will become president of an automobile
body manufacturing company.
Home-brewing was brought actively
under the prohibition ban when it was
learned that enforcement officials had
ruled against the sale of hops and
malt to others than bakers and con-
fectioners. Great secrecy surrounded
the prohibition bureaus action.
The Washington government has
been advised that the presidents of
Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador are
in conference Mt Amalpa, Honduras, to
consider boundary disputes and the
problems arising from use of adjacent
territory of one as base of revolutions
AIRY operations by political refugees
from another.
The 1919 death rate in the death
registration area OF continental United
States, embracing 81 per cent of the
total population, was shown in sta
tistics made public by the Census Blu.
reau to be the lowest recorded for
any one year. The rate of 12.9 per
1000 OF population showed drop of
81 per 1000 from the unusually high
rate OF 1918. resulting from the cpl
demic of Influenza.
Organized workers will strike in.
stantly ut the first attempt of any en-.
ployer to cut wages In n union shop
In violation OF existing contracts, Vice
President James Duncan OF the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor warned upon
leaving the opening session of the fed.
eratiOn's executive council at Wash
ingtOn. "The American Federation OF
Labor will back them up Vice Presi.
dent Matthey Woll added.
Decision of the War Department to
authorize the maintenance of only -four
permanent cemeteries in France has
been announced. These will be at Su.
resnes, on the outskirts of Paris; at
Romagne, in the Argonne region; at
Belleu wood, where American soldiers
and marines met the Germans in the
first important engagement, and at
B0ny, In the department OF the Aisne,
which shall be known as "Flanders
field" A permanent cemetery also will
be established near London for those
soldiers who died In Great Britain
while en- rniItn To Erance