The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-10
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PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
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FROM ALL SOURCES
isAYlNos, NGs, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.

AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News ssrvics.
WESTERN
J. L. Johnson, go, a foreman in the
Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad shops
at Marshalltown, Ia, and his wife,
were burned to death when Mrs. John
son by mistake poured gasoline into
the kitchen stove to hurry a fire.
Gerald DeWitte, 10 years old, is a
prisoner in the Stanislaus county Jail
at Modesto, Calf, charged with MUIR
der in connection with the shooting
and death Of Louis Cooper, Jr., an IL
year-old playmate. near Turlock,
where both resided.
The climax of the police depart
ment's war against speeding and reck-
less driving was reached at Sioux
City, Iowa, when Judge Sam Page
sentenced James Wilson and A. C.
Anderson to three days each in the
county jail after they had been found
guilty of speeding through the heavy
traffic.
With his brother in the engine cab
witness to the accident, Jess Q. Sims,
AZ years old, drayman, was ground
to pieces at Marshalltown, Ia, when
struck by Minneapolis & ST. Louis
train in the local yards. 1t is believed
Sims intended to board the pilot of the
locomotive in order to see his brother,
Walter, who was fireman on the en-
gine.
Oregon agricultural college officials
announced an egg-laying record by a
pullet on the ranch of G. B. Coon, To-
Gated just outside the city limits of
Portland. For 131 consecutive days
this pullet has laid an egg, the college
authorities say. The previous record
is said to be an egg day for ia days
The chicken, White Leghorn, has
laid POI eggs in 2a9 days.
Utah, forty-first state in population
ten years ago, and the 1920 population
Of which was announced by the census
bureau as 1916, has shown the larg-
est percentage of growth of any state
thus far announced in the fourteenth
census. Its rate of growth, 20.4 per
cent, was almost as fffse as that for
the decade ending yea 1910, but its
numerical increaseN7Ss exceeded in
that decade.
The hunters and trappers made away
with 634 predatory animals in Utah in
July, hunters report, after receiving Of
ficial reports from the state. This fig
ure only includes the known bagged
game, the poisoned animals and those
dying from gunshot wounds; those not
found, of course, not being included
There were 3 bears, 35 wildcats, ZIG
coyotes, 81 badgers. fox, skunk, 21e
porcupines.
WASHINGTON
Army recruiting again broke all
peace-time, records in August, accord
ing to a statement by Adjutant Gen
eral Harris, showing 1922 enlistments
for the month. July enlistments were
1881.
Gold imports continue to exceed ex
ports, according to figures made publ,
by the Federal Reserve Board for tn,
ten days ended August Goth. Imports
of 81, $4,000 against exports of 1,766,
600 were reported for the period. Sill
yer imports aggregated s1,264,OOO
while exports of that metal continue,
to decline, the figure for the ten day
being $426,755.
The War Department has issued al
order permitting men of the regula
army, including those in Germany
from New York state to register 70
and cast their ballots in the election
this November.
Maj. H. S. Green, officer in charg
of the Quantico, Va, marine barrack
post exchange, was knocked uncon
scious at his quarters in the camp b,
robber, who escaped with $4,000 o
the funds in his possession. His as
sailant abandoned $1,000 in check
and silver which was included in tn
exchange receipts, and took all tn
currency. Major Green is now in tn
post hospital, but will recover
An injunction restraining the ship
ping board from foreclosing a $5,OO0
600 mortgage on the plant of the Puse,
& Jones Co., Wilmington, Del, wa
trict of Columbia Supreme Court. Th
action was designed 30 give the com
pany opportunity to file suit agains
the beard with the Court of Claims il
connection with counter claims arisin,
out of the communicating Of the plan
by the government at the outbreak o
the war.
Postmaster General Burleson has or
dered the removal of eleven clerks il
the Chicago postoffice for soliciting
or causing to be solicited sums of mon
ey from the public, and for publishing
or causing to be published false ant
slandsrous statements relative to tn,
postal service"
Census figures announced in Wash
inpton give the state of Vermont 352