The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-11-05
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MENTs, suFFERlNos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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WESTERN
]. W. Patterson, 70, native of Miller
county, Arkansas, reputed to be the
tallest man in the United States, died
at his home in Bloomburg. He was
z feet 5 inches in height.
Six are known to have been killed
and fifteen injured in the wreck OF
the Pacific Overland No. 1O2 near
Yermo, Calf, according to message
received from Las Vegas, New.
Allen Charlton, prominent Dallas
attorney, was acquitted of the charge
of murder by jury in connection with
the shooting to death last June 70 OF
Charles Eubank, Dallas business man.
Reports were received at Southern
Pacific Railway offices at San Fran
cisco that Pullman porter was killed
and two passengers injured in col
lision of two sections of Southern
Pacific train at Coram, northern Cali
fornia. The train was en- route from
San Francisco to Portland, Ore.
A stockmen's cooperative selling
agency has been launched at Fort
Worth, Texas, with the appointment
of Ralph Harris of San Angelo, chair
man of the organization committee, by
President Turney Of the Texas Cattle
Raisers' Association. The agency will
buy and sell all cattle raised by MEM
bers Of the association. The action
was taken, President Turney said, be-
cause of Increased prices asked by
commission firms
A submarine chaser rescued Navy
Lieut.. T. Garnette, four seamen and
five musicians on the open sea Off
Oceanside, forty miles north Of San
Diego, after the party had spent a
night adrift in a crippled seaplane,
while submarine chasers searched up
and down the coast for them. The
plane left San Pedro to bring the mu-
sicians to a dance at the North Island
naval air station. Engine trouble
forced the machine to alight at sea.
Clyde W. Ryder, % years of age, a
former lieutenant in the British air
service, credited with having brought
down twenty-one enemy planes, is
dead as result Of injuries received
near Wells, New, in a railroad acci-
dent Ryder was Southern Pacific
fireman. As the train climbed the
Pequop grade, the side rods Of the
engine became disconnected. In the
confusion following the accident,
upon a pile of rocks.
WASHINGTON
Fewer persons were killed on rail
roads during 1919 than in any year
since 1898 and fewer were injured
than in any year since 1910, said a
statement issued by the interstate
commerce commission.
Recruits for the regular army con-
tinue to flock in at record-breaking
rates, Adjutant General Harris offices
announced, and 17,625 enlistments ac-
cepted during October broke all peace
time records for the month. A notable
matter in connection with the record,
it was said, was the fact that &C
per cent of the months enlistments
were for the full three-year period.
The total strength of the army is now
20S,7S1 officers and men, of which
15S,466 are in the United States.
For the first time in more than five
years, the international bridges be
tween Ell Paso, Texas, and Juarez,
Mexico, are unguarded by United
States troops. The removal of the
troops, it was explained at military
headquarters, is due to the restoration
of peaceful conditions in Mexico which
make their presence no longer neces-
sary.
Further increases in freight charges
will be opposed by the packers and
other shippers. This was made known
when the Institute of American Meat
Packers and other shippers organiza-
tions filed protests with the Inter
state Commerce Commission against
new demurrage rates which the car
riers have filed and which would be-
come effective Dec. 1.
Il. L. Rice, a patent attorney of
Washington, filed a damage suit
against Secretary of War Baker and
number of officials of the War De
partment, seeking damages of more
than S102O00,0OO. Rice, in his decla-
ration, alleges conspiracy on the
part of the War Department officials
in connection with the use of certain
patents in the manufacture of air.
planes.
The War Department answered
charges that the government had suf-
fered great loss through the sale of
surplus war supplies with the claim
that it had saved over S4,675, ,342. .S91.15
to the taxpayers through the sale of
such supplies and settlements of
Claims
Treasury operations for October re
suited in further reduction in the
public debt according to figures made
public showing the gross debt to be
s24, ,062, ,509,672. This represents a re
luction of S24,s46,455 during the
MONTH