The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-15
AN EPIToME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
condemned REC ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoiNos. ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERiNos, HoPEs
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
WESTERN
R. B. Leady, recently appointed pro-
hibition enforcement group chief for
North Dakota, has been arrested on
charge of violating the prohibition
laws. He was placed in the Cass coun-
ty Jail in default of $1,000 bail.
All banks Of Los Angeles have joined
in an arrangement to finance the cot
ton crops Of California, Arizona and
New Mexico to the extent of $2,5OO,-
J. Dabney Day, vice president of the
First National Bank. n
Gen. ]. T. Dickman, commandant OF
the Eighth corps area, and Gen. Alvaro
Obregon, president-elect Of Mexico, re-
viewed the Twenty-fifth infantry at
Camp Stephen D. Little at Nogales,
Ariz. A military reception at the Off
GERS club followed.
The body of Miss Elizabeth Lewis,
81, daughter of Col. and Mrs. q. A.
Lewis, was found in her home at San
Francisco with gas jet nearby turned
on She had been prominent in army
social circles. Colonel Lewis is sta
toned at Camp Funston, Kan.
Attempts of three military prisoners
to escape on an improvised log raft
from the army disciplinary barracks
on Alcatraz island, in San Francisco
bay, failed when they were rescued at
dawn by ferry boat, nearly senseless
from submersion and all night expos
ure.
The Wheat Growers association OF
the United States, with a membership
of 10000 in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
Nebraska and South Dakota, has is
sued from its office at Wichita, Kan,
proclamation to all its members urg.
ing them to refrain from selling any
wheat after p. m. Oct. 25, until such
time as the price of good wheat is
raised to $3 a bushel at growers ter
minal markets.
WASHINGTON
Conviction of Frank Moore and five
other negroes who have been sentenced
to death for participation in race riot
in Phillips county, Ark, last October
will stand as result of the refusal OF
the Supreme Court to review their
cases.
The Supreme Court refused to re-
consider its decision of last June z, sus-
tanning the validity of the prohibition
amendment and provisions of the en-
forcement act. The rehearing had been
asked in petitions by Christian Feigen-
span, brewer of Newark, N. j., and
George G. Dempsey, wholesale liquor
dealer OF Boston, Mass.
Americas tax bill for the fiscal year
ending June 80 amounted to $5,40S,-
075, 1853, approximately $1,000, ,000
more than was paid into the federal
treasury in the previous twelve months.
The figures were contained in the pre-
liminary report of the commissioner of
internal revenue, made public. 1t shows
that from income and profits taxes the
government received approximately
three-fourths of all its revenue. In
these two items there was an increase
of $1,356,000000 over the fiscal year
of 1919, receipts for the two years be-
ing: 1920, $3,957, ,701, 900; 1919, $2,600,-
100000.
Approximately $500 acres of home
stead and desert land in the Eureka
and Sacramento land districts of Cali
fornia, will be opened to entry Dec. 3,
the Interior Department announced.
The land is classed as non-agricultural,
mountain grazing land, and entry will
be reserved to ex-service men for sixty
days after the opening as provided by
law.
A saving of 3O,OOO,OO0 tons of coal
annually, representing $150,OO0,OOO in
value and the labor of more than thirty
thousand miners and the release of
vast railroad carrying capacity for
other freight were pictured as among
the possibilities to result from the pro-
jected eastern Industrial region super
power electric system, in an address
by w. S. Murray, before the Water
Power League at Washington.
President Wilson has directed that
on Sunday, Nov. IA, the American flag
be displayed at half-mast on all pub
lie buildings and naval and military
posts "as a token of the nations par
ticipation in the memorial services
held for the heroic American soldiers,
sailors, marines and others who gave
their lives to their country in the
World war;
The question whether Congress will
continue the present basis for repre-
sentation, one member for each 211,S7
population and thereby increase the
membership of the house about fifty,
or whether the ratio will be increased
so as to confine the membership to It's
present number, 435, will be decided
by an act of Congress.
Prosecution of anthracite coal oner-