The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIeN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
western Newspaper Union News Service,
WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News service.)
WESTERN
Policeman John Layton was shot and
seriously wounded during revolver
duel with automobile bandits whom he
surprised robbing soft drink estab-
lishment in Butte, Mont. The robbers
escaped with their loot.
Settlement of a California oil land
leasing action which will mean the
payment of $4,000 in royalties to the
government by the Miocene Oil Com
pany, has been announced in the Unit
ed States Circuit Court at San Fran
cisco.
The towns Of Covina, Glendora and
Azusa in the San Gabrielle valley,
20 to 25 miles east of Los Angeles,
were rocked by what was declared by
inhabitants to be series of explosions.
Each shock was accompanied by loud
report.
An unidentified burglar was shot to
death in the residence of William
Crutchfield in Omaha by squad of
police armed with riot guns and pis-
tolls. The officers had been tipped off
TO the prospective robbery and replied
to the burglars fire when he discov-
cred them.
Frank Delbridge, a convict in the
Nebraska state penitentiary, sentenced
from Omaha on conviction of house.
breaking, hanged himself in his cell,
making moose of his suspenders. He
had recently been paroled, but was re-
turned to the prison for alleged infrac-
ton of parole rules.
Deputy District Attorneys Stafford
and Turney of Los Angeles have been
in San Francisco to question two new
witnesses who are to be brought to
Los Angeles to testify for the prosecu-
tion in the trial of Mrs. Louise Peete,
charged with the murder of Jacob C.
Denton, wealthy mining broker.
The "China Eggs law, requiring ho-
tells, restaurants and other places that
use foreign eggs in the preparation of
food, or that serve foreign eggs, to adj
wise the public of that fact by ''plain
ly readable sign" has been upheld as
constitutional in d decision handed
down by the State Supreme Court OF
Washington.
John r. Milholland, investment brok-
er, of the firm of AIilholland & Hough
of Spokane, accused by Jay B. Hough,
in an alleged confession to the police,
of having participated with him in en-
bezzling S35O00O in bonds and money
from James F. Callahan, millionaire
Wallace, Idaho, mining man, was
found dead at his home in Spokane,
Wash.
WASHINGTON
Deportation of Donal O'Callaghan
lord mayor of Cork, who arrived at
Newport News as stowaway and
without passport, has peen request
ed of the Department of Labor Tues
day by Acting Secretary Davis of the
State Department.
A law requiring lobbyists in Wash
ington to register, telling who they are
and who they represent, was advo
Gated by Senator Kenyon, Republican
of Iowa sWashington is crowded with
lobbyists" he declared. 1.-THE oil, lum-
ber and other big interests are lobby
ing"
Publicity of official coal cost data to
be collected through the Federal Trade
Commission as means of keeping
down charges to the consumer will be
proposed by the Senate reconstruction
committee following its investigation
into the coal situation, it was said by
Chairman Calder.
Investigation by the Department OF
Justice of lumber interests with spe
cial reference to the yellow pine in
dustry of the South and decision OF
the department to intensity its in
quiry into the building materials stu
alton, have been announced in Wash
ington to determine if there have beer
violations of the Sherman antitrust
law. Both investigations are being
conducted separately.
Special wireless telephone apparatus
will transmit President-elect Hardings
inaugural address to every army post,
every battleship and halls in various
cities where inaugural parties" will be
held, E. B. Mclean, chairman of the
inaugural committee, has announced
A committee on inaugural radio news
has obtained the cooperation of the
army and navy radio services to carry
out the plans.
Maj. Gen. Peyton c. March, chief of
staff of the army, will act as chief of
staff for General Pershing, grand mar
shal of the inaugural parade, in Wash
ington March A. At General Pershing's
invitation also, Maj. Gen. Peter G.
Harris, adjutant general of the army,
will serve as adjutant general of the
grand marshal.
A reduction of S1o,S24000 in gold
output of the country, and of III, ,941
ounces in the silver output during the
last year as compared with 1919 has
been announced by the bureau of the
mint.