The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-11-19

STORE ulStflct OIL NdtTHuicllto, YAM
caused loss estimated at 81, 100000
Four firemen were injured fighting
the flames, one perhaps fatally.
The robbers who pillaged the Bur
lngton railroads transcontinental fast
mail at Omaha and secured loot yari
ously estimated at from $4,000 to ST.,
100000, have dropped completely oui
of sight.
High rents caused two southern
California partors, the Rev. M. G.
church and the Rev Warren Elsine
of Presbyterian church at Van Nuys,
a suburb, to move their families into
their churches.
Bloodhounds from Albion, Neb.. have
been used in an effort to run down
Dennis Chester, who escaped from a
Burlington train near Broken Bow,
while en- route from Great Falls,
Mont, to Kansas City, where he is
wanted in connection with the shoot
ing to death of Florence Barton,
daughter of wealthy shoe manufac-
turer.
The loss in the Burlington mail car
robbery at Council Bluffs, Iowa, will
total at least So, 100000, it was made
known when additional postoffice of
flcials came to assist in Investigations
and a check of the insurance on the
pouches was made. The sack which
was found had been ripped open con-
tanned $S00,000 in government bonds.
the investigators said.
Mrs. Mildred Harris Chaplin, mo-
tion picture star, again became Mildred
Harris. Judge York at Los Angeles
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 $57, 800 within one
year. The settlement agreement speci-
fies she shall not use the name of
Chaplin professionally.
In the midst of traffic jam will
hundreds looking on, Dewey Morgan
jitney driver, was shot to death OF
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 til,
back. Miller told police he shot Nor
gan because the latter had lured hi
wife from her home. Police had diff
ficulty in saving Miller from tn
crowd, which threatened lynchine
Morgan owned several livery and jit
ney motor cars. Miller drove one o
these cars for Morgan at night
WASHINGTON
The internal revenue bureau cor
firmed reports that crusade agains
home brewing of alcoholic beverages
planned by the governments prohib
tion enforcement agencies.
John Burke, treasurer of the Unite
States, former governor of Mort
Dakota, has submitted his resignation
to become effective Jan. l, when h
will become president of an automohil
body manufacturing company
The Japanese population of tn
three Pacific states-California Or,
gOn and Washington-has increase
at lower rate since 1910 than it di
between 1900 and 1910, figures al
nounced by the census bureau shoy
In Hawaii, however, there was d
cided increase and nearly half tt
total population of the islands is mac
up of Japanese.
An insurance policy on the life
a person who commits suicide is pa
able, if all conditions of the policy al
complied with, the supreme cou
ruled at Washington, in sustainir
lower court DEGREES in suit brougl
against the Northwestern Mutual Lii
Insurance Company by Isabel H. Johl
son, beneficiary under a policy o
tanned by her husband.
The 1919 death rate in the deaf
registration area of continental Unite
States, embracing 81 per cent of IL
total population, was shown in st
tistics made public by the Census B
reau to be the lowest recorded fl
any one year. The rate of 1873 p,
1000 of population showed a drop
81 per 1000 from the unusually hlf
rate of 1918, resulting from the er
demic Of influenza.
Home-brewing was brought active
under the prohibition ban when it WI
learned that enforcement officials hs
ruled against the sale of hops al
malt to others than bakers and co
fectiOners. Great secrecy Surrounde
the prohibition bureaus action.
Orders Withdrawing from servi,
twenty ships totaling more than roo,
dead weight tons, have been issued /
the shipping board. They will be tic
up at Norfolk, Baltimore and on IL
Pacific coast. The largest vessel witt
drawn is the Western Scout, S.422 ton
to be tied up at Baltimore