The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-07
CONDENSED REc o 10 OF THk
pnooREss OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAvINos, polNos, ACHIEVE
MENrs, sUFFERiNos. HoPEs
AND FEARS or MANKIND.
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WESTERN.

Everett Morgan ana Ole MdfsH 1891
their lives in fire which burned the
rooming house in which they We're
sleeping at Mitchell, Neb. The IRE
is supposed to have been caused by
the upsetting of lamp.
Six persons were seriously injured
and twelve others suffered lesser in
iuries when tornado passed through
the northern part of Eureka, kan- The
high school building and fifteen resi-
dences were badly damaged.
Ruth Taylor, aged s, and Ruby Mo
ger, Z, school girls, were struck Ivy
lightning and killed at a school house
in the country near Dunning, Neb. The
school building was demolished, but
none of the other occupants was in
jured.
The bodies of Joe West, ranch
worker, his wife and their two chill
dren, aged s and years, were found
in their home near Roundup, Mont,
by relatives. Authorities said the in
dications were that West killed him
self after shooting his wife and chill
dren.
Life-sized portraits OF Theodore
Roosevelt, bearing his last message on
Americanism, are to bep laced in every
school throughout the country through
the efforts of the American Defense
Society, according TO an announcement
from the headquarters of that organiz-
alton.
w. r. Powell, a Department of JUS
tice agent at Albuquerque, received a
package that officials for a time sus-
pected was a bomb. When it was fl
nally opened, however, it was found
to contain an alarm clock. 1t bore a
Tucson, Ariz, postmark and is be-
lieved to have been intended as a joke.
Thomas Morris, 126 years old, is
dead at the home of Charles NIitten,
ranchman, eight miles northeast of
Ansley.. Neb. He was born in Berren,
North Wales, ..JanuatyA5, 1894. The
aged manrs.aassE marriedfnnd followed
the profession Of a col}bler for 100
years. He came to this country in
1871, locating at Streator, ILL.,, and
moved to Custer county, Nebraska, in
1856
Ex-service men may enlist for an ex-
tended cruise with the fleet. according
to word received at the Denver Navy
Recruiting Station, that the United
States battleship Connecticut, flagship
accompanied by the U. S. S. Michigan
the U. S. s. Minnesota, U. S. S. Kan
sas, e. S. S. South Carolina and u. S
8. New Hampshire will make an ex
tended cruise. Men re-enlisting fol
this cruise will be sent to Philadelphia
Pa, with orders to report to the com
mander of the squadron for duty.
WASHINGTON.
Coinage of Roosevelt two-cen
piece has been authorized by a bill
passed by the Senate.
The navy's radio system whereve
located, would be open to transmission
of commercial business messages, in
Guiding press dispatches for two years
under a resolution ordered favorabl.
reported by the House Merchant Ma
rine Committee as substitute for tn,
Senate measure
Farm loans aggregating more thai
$5O,OOO,OOO have been held up by tn,
litigation over the validity of the farm
loan act, it developed at the confer
ence of farm loan officials at Wash
ington.
Approximately $1,5O0,O0O,OOO ha.
been saved for 1921, Chairman Good o1
the Appropriations Committee told the
House. The reductions will not pre-
vent the .healtAful and vigorous func
tioning of every needed government
activity" he said, adding, however
that they did mean retrenchment.
The average cost of living for wage
earners advanced Z per cent between
November, 1919, and March, 1920, ac
cording to report made public by
the national industrial conference
board This makes total of 94.8 pei
cent since July, 1914. and Of 21 pei
cent within one year, the report said.
Collection Of the nations taxes last
year cost the government So cents fol-
each 500 in revenue, according to q
statement by the Bureau Of Intern6l
Revenue Total collections for the
year were $3.50. 10000. and total ex-
penditures in collecting that amount
OF $20,573, 900, the statement declared.
After forty years of congressional
discussion of the advantages of bud
get system, the Senate has passed SEN
ator McCormick's budget bin without
a roll call or a dissenting voice The
House has also passed a budget bill,
and with it the Mccormick bill will
aow go to conference. There is con-
siderable difference between the two
measures,
President Wilson has signed the
Fuller pension bill increasing the pen
sions OF veterans of the Civil war and
widows and other dependents Of vet
Grams.