The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-01

A man who registered at a Great
Falls, Mont, hotel as w. II. Sullivan of
Denver, was kicked to death in quar-
rel In the business district in that city.
His assailant is alleged to have been
f. K. Gust "A Great Northern railroad
employe, who was arrested.
f. j. Williams and Harry Lund We're
killed and Mrs. Lund and Mrs. Will
liams and three Williams children We're
injured when gasoline speeder on
which they were riding jumped off an
eighty-foot trestle on logging road
between Wheeler and Cochran, Ore.
Holbrook, Ariz-Leonard Douglass
was instantly killed at Adamana, Ariz.,
when a motor truck he was driving
was struck by Santa ,Fe train. His
body was taken to Holbrook. Relatives
at Fort Stanton, N NJ, have been no.
titled. Douglass was employed by an
oil company near here.
Suit for $1,700,145 inheritance taxes,
interest and penalties alleged to be
unpaid was filed in the United States
district court at San Francisco by the
government against the estate of the
late Henry Miller, millionaire Cali
fornia cattleman.
Raw alcohol that cost him S15
quart was watered by Pete Konwinsky
and sold in pop bottles at $6 the bot
tie, Konwinsky told the judge at AL
bion, Nebr. His only expense was
commission of 80 cents a bottle, which
he paid "agents'' who attended to his
sales of the 5000" concoction.
The Santa Fe railroad handled %
by per cent more business in the first
eight months of this year, represented
by carloads, than it did in the CORE
spending period last year and 11.2 per
cent more than for the same period in
1918, according to bulletin just is
sued by the railroads general office at
Topeka, Kan.
The University of California student
who maintains an automobile for his
or her own use will not be looked upon
with favor hereafter, declares a recent
editorial in the student daily, the Cali
fornian. President Barrows has issued
a statement condemning the custom
anu appealing IOl VI cat
er simplicity, especially in dress.
While Jake Kramer, farmer liv-
ing near Fort Morgan, was trying to
fix a tractor, his left leg became
caught in the moving machinery and
was torn off above the knee. Kramer
and another man were using a tractor
to pull their plow. Something went
xx,itI, ha
left his plow and climbed to the top
of the tractor to adjust it, The motor
was still running, and as he stopped
over he slipped and his left leg was
thrust into the machinery
WASHINGTON
Missouri has population of 3,4O3,-
547, an increase of HOPPE, or 3.3 per
cent, over 1910, the census bureau has
announced.
A fleet of 2S5 wooden steamers to-
falling 994,235 deadweight tons, has
been offered for sale by the shipping
board. The sale will be private and
bids will be received until Oct s, and
then opened.
News that Roberto Pesqueira, finan-
cial agent of the Mexican government
at New York, called on Under Secre-
tary Davis at the state department TO
urge Immediate recognition of the new
Mexican regime, caused something of
Il stir at the Mexican embassy. An
official statement issued by the en-
bassy said that it was the only agency
authorized to speak for Mexico in the
United States.
Rent rrofiteering has been renewed
with such relentless vigor in the ma
tions capital this summer that return
ing members of Congress are up in
arms, SO much so that some of them
are seriously discussing removal of
government departments to other sec
tions of the country to get even with
the "unconscionable" landlords, whose
robbery" Senator Kenyon of Iowa,
said, would make Captain Kidd and
his band of pirates look like pikers."
Replacing lost milk bottles adds to
the price of milk paid by city consum-
ers. an investigation by the department
of agriculture has disclosed, altho no
attempt was made to fix the amount
added to consumers billS Tor this rea-
son. In at least twenty-seven cities
junk dealers were found to carry on a
regular traffic in milk bottles.
To forestall the possibility OF BIZ
luminous coal shortage anywhere in
the country this winter coal operators
are bending every effort to attain a
weekly output of more than 12,00O,OO0
tons of soft coal from now to Dec. 1,
said a statement by the National Coal
association.
Gradual return to the law of supply
and demand as governing influence
over prices and the end of war
charges" for necessary commodities
has been predicted by government of
ficials in explaining the governments
attitude on credit extension.