The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-02
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WESTERN.

After DaVlQS aulDllteu ColiihltliH5
thefts said to break all records of the
Superior Court at Phoenix, Ariz, as to
number, Thomas Bragg, 10 years old,
was sentenced to serve two to five
years in state prison.
Three Mexican prisoners, escaped
from the county Jail at Tombstone,
Ariz., have been recaptured at John
sons ranch, twenty-five miles south
west of there by deputies acting under
orders of Sheriff James F. Mcdonald
Tommy Milton, driving fifty miles on
the one and one-fourth mile Los An
geles speedway in 26 minutes and
1920 seconds, won the third and final
heat and a prize of $500 in a series
of races His average for the fifty
miles was ILLS miles an hour
New York may be able to reach
across the continent and set the hands
of the clock ahead in San Francisco.
A few days may determine this point.
An effort will be made to persuade
the supervisors to enact daylight
saving ordinance for San Francisco.
Three persons We're instantly killed
ana 1OuT So StNtItlN llJuICu tilttt my
died a short time later when the
northbound Texas special struck all
automobile near LuXello, twenty-five
mile north of San Antonio on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railway.
A German revolver he had captured
overseas was used by Harold Wood,
South Bend, Ind, world war veteran,
al In Ia
hope is entertained for his recovery.
"You know the cause of this said
note addressed to his mother at South
Bend.
The first wage petition tried before
the new Kansas Industrial Relations
Court resulted in a victory for the
workers. Decision No. l was handed
down by the court at Topeka granting
an increase in wages to linemen of
the Topeka Edison Company from 60
10 67R cents an hour.
Harold Halstead of San Francisco
was shot and killed on the road to 81
ezra Blanca, Texas, siXty-nine miles
east of El Paso, according to informa-
ton received at Ell Paso, Texas. He
was Ill an lutOIllODile Win ~. =. CihN-
ford, business associate of Ell Paso
and Topeka, Kan, at the time.
Eighteen of thirty-one Chinese mem
bers of the crew of the British steam
ship Warslibadar who deserted the
vessel at Port Arthur, Texas, to seek
illegal residence in the United States,
have been captured and are being de
otIa 30
ported under arrest at Beaumont and
the remaining ten We're in custody at
Shreveport, according to telegraphic
advices from the Louisiana city.
WASHINGTON.
The Mexican government soon will
resume payment of interest on its for
eign debt, the Mexican embassy at
Washington has been advised by the
Mexico City foreign office. This in
tention of the government was EN-
bodied in decree recently issued by
the Department of Finance. Interest
payments have not been made since
1914.
Award of distinguished service
crosses to Maj. Gen. John L. Hines
and Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt
has been announced ut the War De
partment.
Charges of delay, incompetency and
mispIacement of former service mer
in vocational training by the federal
board for vocational education were
made before the House education com
mittee by Cornelius w. Wickersham
representing the American Legion OF
New York.
Directors of the New York. Chicago
& ST. Louis railway, at a recent meet
ing, voted not TO accept the six months
government guarantee of the standard
return under the new railroad law, il
has been learned mt Washington. The
directors decided they did not need
governmental aid.
An appropriation of S6O,00O,0O0 for
the aviation forces of the army for the
coming fiscal year has been asked by
Major General Menoher, director of
the air service, appearing before the
House military affairs committee. He
stated that '$23,O0OoOO is necessary for
training and operation.
Another postponement until next fall
of arguments in seven antitrust suits
now before the Supreme Court has
been decided upon. 1t Is said that the
Department of Justice desired to stud.
the recent decision against the govern
ment in the United States Steel Cor
poration case and to review the disso
luton suit now pending.
President Wilson will spend the
summer at Woods Hole Mass, where
the summer White House will be es-
tablished on the estate of Charles r.
Crane, Chicago business man, recently
appointed minister TO China.