The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-14
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"10 G1xb3Ns
Magnus Vallien, Jr, was killed ant
eight persons were injured in Omahi
when police patrol going to an acci
dent struck an automobile in which siA
persons were riding.
Several thousand dollars worth OF
Liberty bonds and other securities are
estimated to have been stolen by bur
glars, who broke into safe deposit
boxes in the Farmers State Bank OF
Bountiful, north of Salt Lake City.
Resolutions condemning strikes and
urging greater individual economy as
Il means of reducing the living cost,
We're adopted at the closing session of
the convention of the American Associ-
alton of Engineers ut st. Louis.
Airplane wireless forest fire patrol
began in California with the departure
of two detachments of five machines
each from Mather field, Sacramento,
for their bases at Red Bluff and FIRES
no. Not more than two machines will
be sent out daily from each base.
A search for lost brother that ex
tended over a period of fifteen years
and through most of the states of the
Union was brought TO an unhappy end
ing in Las Vegas, \. NJ, when Miss
Laura Newman of San Francisco found
her brother in the state asylum in that
city.
A jury in the District Court at Null
len, Neb., found Louis G.. Holcombe
guilty of murder in the second degree
for the killing OF Perry kirkpatrick, a
neighbor. Holcombe testified kirkpat-
rick had slandered his wife, and in the
fight that followed he shot him in self
defense
Miss Camille A. Dosch, society ed
itor of the Portland Oregonian, is dead
from injuries received in a collision of
two electric trains near Portland Her
death swells the fatality list of the ac-
cident to nine. Miss Dosch was sis
fer of Arno Dosch-Fleurot, a war cor
respondent.
Forty miles of steel will be laid on
the government railroad between An
chorage and Nenana, Alaska, this sea-
son and plans are being made to have
the road in operation over its entire
length of nearly 800 miles by January,
1922, according to Col. II. Z. Warren.
engineer in charge of the supply divi-
mission.
The American Association of En-
gineers in convention at st. Louis ap-
proved a plan to raise $2,S0O,0O0 to
construct national engineering build
ing in Chicago. 1t was recommended
that deans of engineering schools be
paid from $1,000 to $4,000 a year, ac
cording to the size of the institution
and that assistant instructors be paiG
minimum of S1,S00, and professors I;
maximum of $4,000.
WASHINGTON.
The family food budget in February
was exactly twice the sum expended
for the same articles of food in Febru
AIRY, 1913, according to Department o
Labor statistics. During approximate
ly the same period in Great Britain
the increase was only 130 per cent
while in Italy it was 1877 per cent. Ger
many Outranked all countries enumer
ated with an increase of 224 per cent
Germany's presidential election prob
ably will be held late in August, ac
cording to a Berlin dispatch to TIL,
Exchange Telegraph Company. TIL,
Deutsche Zeitung is quoted as saying
President Ebert will not seek re-elec
ton.
Births in the registration area of thu
United States, which covers about s.
per cent of the country's estimated
population, during the year 1918 ex
ceeded deaths by 34.4 per cent. Sta
tistics for that year just completed b!
the census bureau show total of /,
1888, $40 births in the territory, which i:
a small decrease compared to 1917
while the deaths, 1,01462O, show {
slight increase.
Among more than $4,000 burials o.
American soldier dead in Europe, tn,
graves registration service has reduced
to 2 per cent the number of cases il
which identification is incomplete, ant
this number will be still further re
duced by the checking up of all pro
curable evidence at the European head
quarters, Ralph Hayes, private secre
tary of Secretary Baker, reported to
Chairman Porter of the House foreign
affairs committee.
Japan has withdrawn all objections
to the Chinese consortium and has pre-
pared a communication accepting the
terms as agreed upon by the United
States, Great Britain and France, the
State Department has been informed
by the American embassy at Toxic.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has been requested by representa-
tives of grain and livestock interests OF
the middle West and the Northwest to
invoke the emergency powers act TO re-
lieve the stringent car shortage which
is preventing the movement of grain
and li-estock-