Gilpin observer., 1920-12-02
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
WESTERN

luy ana destroyed properly estimated
to have been worth $4,000. The fire
department from Mexicali, Mexico,
came across the boundary and assisted
in quelling the flames. Help was also
sent by the El Centro fire department.
Relief vessels searching the rocky
coast of Washington in the vicinity of
James island for the lost barge w. j.
Pirrie has been cOmbing the sea in the
neighborhood of Giants Graveyard
rocks, ten miles south of that island,
according to message from the navy
radio station at North Head, Wash.
An earthquake was felt In various
degrees of mildness from Portland,
Oregon, to Spokane, Wash. At Hood
River, Ore, 1t was strong enough to
awaken sleepers and to cause some
alarm to the timOrous. At Spokane 1t
was said to have been "a pronounced
earthquake" Of duration of ten min
utes. No damage was reported.
Ben ]. Salmon, Denver's most motor
iOus Stacker, draft evader and self
styled conscientious objector," who
was sentenced to serve twenty-five
year sentence in the federal prison at
Fort LeavenwOrth, Kan, on charge
of desertion from the United STATES
army during a state of war, has been
released, according to news dispatch
received from Washington, d. G.
f. Ray Groves, Los Angeles, secre-
tary of the Democratic state central
committee, and his two brothers, Ralph
Groves, former prohibition enforce
ment director here, and Il. C. Groves,
have been arrested on indictments re-
turned by federal grand jury.
Although the indictments We're not
made public, it was said by officers
that they charge conspiracy to violate
the Volstead prohibition enforcement
act.
]. G. Townsend, CO, former banker
and cotton grower of Charlotte, n. c.,
is on his way home from Salt Lake
City, after he had refused to believe
that Frank Wells, alleged confidence
man, had attempted to swindle him of
S35,O00 The two met in Los Angeles.
Townsend returned home to get the
$4,000 md met Wells in Salt Lake
City. Townsend's family employed de-
tectives and Wells was arrested Wells
was allowed liberty upon $500 bail un,
der vagrancy charge.
WASHINGTON
The postwar reorganization of the
army marks new era in the military
history of the country, Secretary Baker
declared in his annual report, rs 1t pro
vides an effective model on which
great armies could be swiftly built In
times of emergency.
All Conscientious objectors" who
had been imprisoned during the wal
have been released, according to an an
nouncement made by Secretary of Wal
Baker, who said: "rhe cases of the thir
ty-three conscientious objectors who re
manned in custody some weeks ag,
have now been finally reviewed by til,
secretary of war, on the recommcnda
ton of the adjutant generals office
and the remainder of sentences have
been remitted and the men discharged
Two new saving treasury certificates
81 treasury savings stamp and n 50
treasury savings certificate, will b
Issued during the coming year, Secre
tary Houston has announced The $
savings stamp will be non-interes
bearing. The $25 certificate will be OF
fered in 1921 to mature January, 1926
Repeal of the excess profits tax an,
reduction of government expenditure
to such point MS to make ii possibl
to do without any substitute wer
urged by Representative Mondell o
Wyoming, Republican leader of IN
House. Mr.. Mondell declared that th
need for additional capital In industr
WINS so great as to make II inadvisabl
to attempt to pay up the government
Indebtedness in the near future.
Exports during October. increased b
nearly $150.0O0,o0o, and imports dc
creased approximately S1,000,000, foi
eign trade figures made public by tn
Department OF Commerce show. Es
ports We're valued at S752, ,OO0, 90
against G0500o.00o in September, an
imports were valued at $500 ,0OO. 90,
The excess of exports over imports l
October, amounting to S300,000,00O,
the largest in any one month OF tn
present year.
Nineteen cargo steamers, totaln
more than 100000 deadweight tons, al
TO be withdrawn from service and tie
up at Norfolk and in Pacific and Gu
ports under orders issued by the shil
ping board. The largest vessel to 1
withdrawn is the 9.410 deadwelght to
steamer Yosemite, to be tied up on ii
Pacific coast.
Decision Of Secretary Baker not {
authorize the removal of the body ,
an unidentified American soldier fro
France for interment in Victory hal
Pershing square, New York, has bee
announced by the War Department.