Gilpin observer., 1920-01-08
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Otto Walker won the 100-mile mo-
tOrcycle race held at Ascot speedway
one hour, seventeen minutes and forty
two seconds. Ralph Hepburn was sec
Ond and l.. Il. Parkhurst third.
Twenty-one alleged 1. w. w. were
released and charges against them
under the state syndicalism law were
Superior Court. Fifty remain in Jail
to be tried on the state charge.
PrOfiteering in sugar purchased In
Utah and shipped to Eastern states is
being investigated by the United States
district attorneys office in San Fran
cisco, according to n statement made
by him. Prosecution will be instituted
in number of cases, he said.
James +. Armour, realty dealer,
shot and killed his 14-year-Old son,
James Cochrane Armour, while the
latter lay in bed on a sleeping porch
at the Armour home in one of the best
residence districts in Pasadena, and
then shot and killed himself.
State Land Commissioner w. A
Moeur and w. ]. Kingsbury, banker, of
Tempe, Arz, We're slightly injured and
Samuel Barkley, Il Phoenix business
man, was seriously hurt when Il motor
truck collided with the automobile in
which they were riding from Tempe to
Phoenix.
A decrease of $S,O63, ,762, or 26 per
cent in the output of the metal mines
of California in 1919 is shown by pre-
liminary figures made public by the
geological survey. Gold, silver, copper,
lead and zinc produced in 1919 was val
ued ut SOB, ,124,045, rs compared with
$31, ,1S7, ,S07 the year before.
Pulling II stroke of forty-two to the
minute, a crew from the United States
cruiser Birmingham easily defeated a
crew from the scout cruiser Salem in
a race of one and one-half miles for
twelve-oared cutters on San Diego bay.
Il is reported that more than $4,000
changed hands on the event. The time
was announced as IL minutes and 4J
seconds.
jackson Barnett, richest of Uncle
Sans Indian wards, can now buy an
automobile and employ chauffeur, in
addition TO donating 100000 to the
Baptist Church Cato Sells of Wash
fr.,t,
arrived in Fort Worth, Texas from
Barnett's home at Henrietta and said
that he had authorized these eXpendi-
lures for the Indian.
WASHINGTON
Some of the changes in railroad OPP
GRAFTON adopted during the period of
government control will be continued
after the roads are returned to private
operation on March 1.
The Supreme Court declared consti-
tutional sections of the Volstead pro-
hibition enforcement act prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of beer,
wine or other Intoxicating malt or vim
GUS liquors" containing one-half of one
tanning 275 per cent of alcohol is ille-
gal under the wartime prohibition act,
the Supreme Court decided.
Out Of fund of $3O0OO,OOO avail
able for Its work this year, the Ameri-
can Red Cross has set aside S15,0OO,-
600 for European relief, S13, ,75O, 900 for
use at home and S1,250,0O0 for complet-
ing its program in Siberia.
The report of traffic handled on the
western front during the war by the
signal corps made public at Washing.
ton shows that 310665 enemy radio
messages were intercepted and 176,9l3
radio bearings taken on enemy sta
tons.
The first move of the American gov
ernment to aid financially In the re-
construction of Europe came when the
war finance corporation announced 1t
had practically consummated four
loans aggregating S17,O00,0O0 TO manu-
featuring exporters.
There Will be no summary action by
the House to eject Victor Berger
elected from the Fifth Wisconsin dis
trlct after being barred from the House
last fall because of alleged disloyalty.
Representative Mann Of Illinois an
nounced he would object to summary
action and would demand that the Ber-
ger case be given committee consider
alton in order to protect the rights of
the voters of Wisconsin.
The Pacific Development Company
OF New York, including some or the
principal banking institutions OF that
city. has advanced n $1,000, 600 loan to
China. 1t has been learned that this
is only the first OF several other in
stallments that are to follow IL condi-
tions In China appear to warrant It.,