The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-13

An eruption at Lassen peak, the
only active volcano in the United
States, has been noted by observers
at Redding, Calf. This is the first
eruption in three months.
Army building projects under pro-
cess of construction along the lower
800 miles of the Rio Grande will cost
$i,015, ,427. .53, 1t has become known at
I'll Paso through official military cham
nelS
The Nevada Legislature in special
session ratified the federal suffrage
amendment at Reno. The vote was
unanimous in the Senate and but one
vote was cast in opposition in the AS
sembly.
A distinguished service medal was
conferred on d. G. Jackling, copper
magnate and head of the bureau of
explosives during the war, at san
Francisco by Lieut.. Gen. Hunter Llg-
gett, commanding the western depart
ment of the army.
Charges of grand larceny against
]. Wesley Homer were dismissed at
Los Angeles on receipt by the district
attorney of report Homer had shot
and killed himself on a train while
returning in custody from Washing
ton, d. C.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals affirmed a decision Of the
District Court at San Francisco I'M
posing a fine of $4,000 and three
years Imprisonment OH Henry Albers,
Il Pacific coast miller, on charges OF
violating the espionage act.
Retail druggists are take advant-
age of the Influenza epidemic to
charge exorbitant prices for whisky
prescribed by physicians, selling it for
$25 to $50 gallon, according to re-
ports which Justus S. Wnrdell, collec-
tor of internal revenue ut San Fran
cisco, said were reaching him. He
said he saw no way to stop this kind
of profiteering."
Four bandits robbed the Arno hotel
at San Francisco of $500 and escaped
after an exciting chase through the
mission district, in which PatrOlman
James Kirby fired more than twenty
shots at the quartet as they sped
away in an automobile Abandoning
their car, they escaped by fleeing in
different directions. The money was
taken from Henry Rodts, manager of
the hotel
Military authorities at Fort Bliss
are investigating the disappearance of
%, 500 rounds of ammunition from the
Eighty-second field artillery supply
company store house, revealed by an
invoice. Major General Dickman,
commander of the Southern depart
ment, In bulletin recently received
at FL Paso, warned against thefts of
supplies in border camps. Much of
The stolen property eventually is find
ing its way to Mexico, he said.
WASHINGTON
A bill by Senator Fernall, Republi-
can. of Maine, abolishing the housing
corporation and transferring its af-
fairs to the Treasury Department on
June 80 next, has been passed by the
Senate
President Wilson is seriously con-
Senator John f. Shafroth of Colorado
to succeed Franklin X. Lane as secre-
tary of the Interior, according to re-
ports in political circles.
More than 10 per cent of the visitors
to the Yosemite valley, California, are
tourists that come by automobile. Ac
cording to a national touring bureau
$4,000 persons are expected to visit
this great national park this year.
Friends of free seed won their an
nual fight in the House by defeating
by vote of 100 to II motion to
eliminate from the agricultural bill an
appropriation of S239.0O0 for seed dis
ernment expense.
The War Department, generally as
sociated in the public mind with the
implements of warfare, is going to
take up cattle-breeding. Through its
bureau of insular affairs, the depart
ment has purchased in Texas 100
Hereford bulls and twenty Hereford
heifers for breeding into the stock of
Philippine zebu cows. The Herefords
will be forwarded soon to the Philip
pines aboard an army transport for
use in the island of Madanao.
Rear Admiral Bristol, American
high commissioner at Constantinople,
has begun an investigation of the re
cent murder in Syria of two American
citizens, representative of the Young
Mems Christian Association, who were
conveying a relief supply expedition
under the auspices of the American
commission for the relief of the Near
East
Nineteen thousand United States
troops are still overseas, 5000 in ST.
IBERIA and 1900 in Europe, Secretary
Baker told the House foreign affairs
committee at Washington.