The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-16

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
Shrine Auditorium, in recent years
the principal convention hall at Los
Angeles, has been destroyed by fire. 1t
was the property of AL Malaikah tenn
pie, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine. The
property loss was estimated at $780,
900.
Soon after getting his discharge
from the United States marines, Edgar
Tiffin Highes, of Fort Scott, Kan, was
found dead in his room at Fort Worth,
Texas. An empty chloroform bottle
was by his side. He is believed to
have committed suicide
Major F. NJ. Scanland, charged with
murder as the result of the killing of
John Hutchings, driver in the El
Paso-Phoenix road race, early in No
vember, was released from the state
penitentiary of New Mexico after he
had furnished $4,000 bond.
The University of California base
ball team has been invited to play
Harvard at Cambridge, Mass, this
spring. Acceptance of the invitation
is expected, as the Californians are
scheduled to make an Eastern trip to
meet several Middle West college
teams.
Edward Raymond, 81, assistant gen
eraI manager of the Santa Fe rail
road, died at the Santa Fe hospital in
Topeka, Kan. He had been i'll more
than a month from nervous exhaus-
ton. Mr. Raymond has been with the
Santa Fe since 1873, when he started
as day laborer.
Lawrence Lackey Is under arrest at
Alliance, Neb., charged with the muir
der of his 7-year-old daughter by Civ
ing her poisoned candy. 1t is alleged
the child, after eating the candy, COM
planned it was bitter A post-mortem
examination disclosed the presence of
strychnine in the stomach.
Roy Elfin of New Sharon, Iowa. has
been sentenced to ten years in prison
by Judge Dan Hamilton, on his Pa
of guilty to arson and conspiracy to
destroy property of persons known as
"Hollanders' In the vicinity of Oska-
loosa. He was alleged to have hired
others to set fire to the property.
Harry O'Brien, % years old, recent
ly discharged from the British army,
has been taken to Phoenix from Wick
enburg, Ariz., where he was shot and
seriously wounded. DR. Thomas
surrendered to Wickenburg officers
after the shooting which was said to
have followed an alteration about a
young woman.
WASHINGTON
Withdrawal of American troops
from Siberia will be begun at once.
Secretary Baker announced Some of
the 5000 troops will be removed i'm
mediately to ships now in Siberia and
the remainder will be Withdrawn as
the evacuation of the 10000 Czecho-
Slovaks proceed.
Forty well-knOwn men and women,
speaking for twenty-six great Organi-
cations, comprising 2O,O0O,OO0 mem
bers, descended upon the Senate and
made a determined effort to break the
deadlock on the peace treaty. So far
us could be ascertained they did not
get any encouragement.
Bituminous coal production has
come back to normal since the settle
ment of the strike.
Hearing of the governments case
against the United Shoe Machinery
Company has begun in United States
District Court at Little Rock, Ark. The
case Is said to be important because ii
will be the first to construe that pro
vision of the Clayton act which amends
the federal antitrust laws.
-Four new aerial mail routes to link
the important cities of the country
from coast to coast will be established
II Congress grants an appropriation of
$3,OO0,OO0, Postmaster General Burle-
son stated A fifth route is under
contemplation but has not yet been
given the approval of the Postoffice
Department.
Only eight cities in the United
States showed decrease in 1919 over
1918 in building activities. A gain OF
70S per cent is shown in the amount
of construction last year over the pre-
vious year, according to reports re-
ceived by the Building Age from build
ing inspectors of all cities. The report
shows that government restrictions
were not lifted until Nov. q, 1919.
The extent to which the woman vote
will count in the coming presidential
election, If the amendment is ratified
in time, may be seen in the fact that
there are approximately 2S,0O0,00o
women of voting age in the United
States.
Leon Salinas, subsecretary of the
Mexican Department of Commerce and
Industry, and other Mexican govern
ment officials en- route to Washington
via Laredo, Texas, presumably are GO
ing to attend the Pan-American finan-