The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-03-11
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WESTERN

WESTERN
The anti-cigarette bill failed of pas
sage IN the Kansas Legislature. 1t pro-
hibited smoking or possessing cigar
cites as we'll as selling or giving them
away.
While attempting 10 side slip to
landing field from an altitude OF 1000
feet, Walter c. Reams. a flying cadet
at Kelly field. was killed al San All
tonic, Texas
Ferdinand Michelena. once famed as
"A grand opera tenor, is dead following
an attack of apoplexy in San Fran
cisco His daughter Beatrice Michel
ena. Is famous as a movie star, and
another daughter Vera Michelena. is
noted In vaudeville and comic opera.
Mrs Kenneth Thornock of Brigham
city, Utah. wrapped her baby son in
quilt and put him on the oven door Of
;he kitchen stove while she went
across the street TO call upon neigh
for. When she returned thirty minutes
later she found the baby burned TO
death.
Claiming possession under a patent
land grant to Moses Butler, hero of
the battle of San Jacinto. which gave
Texas its freedom from Mexico, rela-
tives In the United States District
Court at Wichita Falls, Texas, filed
suit in trespass to quiet title to prop
erty in the oil field district of Young
county, said to be worth S1,000,0OO.
While taking an ocean scene at Cliff
tOn-by-the-Sea, near Redondo Beach,
Calf, six actors employed by motion
picture company were thrown into the
sea by the overturning of lifeboat.
The men were dragged unconscious
from the surf by other members of the
company while hundreds of persons,
including Sir Gilbert Parker, famous
novelist and now writer for the films,
looked on.
The word of Epigmenio Ybarra, Jr.,
governor-elect of the northern district
of Lower California, will be absolute
law" in the district, according to a
-4tnfray pfTvats sscrerafyt, captain
Jose NJ. Davila, quoting President
Obregon. The federal governments
only demand, the officer declared, was
that the governor prohibit all gambling
in the district.
Superintendent A. Il. Dunphy of the
Omaha Salt Lake division of the Air.
mail announced that beginning May
night flying by airmail pilots Will be
instituted between Cheyenne and Chi
cago. He said that the decision to
make night flying regular feature of
the airmail service at least during the
summer months, was the result of the
recent achievement of Pilot Jack
Knight in flying from North Platte,
Neb.. to Chicago through a storm at
night.
WASHINGTON
The gross public debt increased $685.
449,845 during the month of February,
the Treasury Department announced.
The gross public debt on Jan. / was
$23, ,993, 234 ,sS2 and on Feb. % it was
$24, ,O51, 1884, ,728. The increase was
largely due to the flotation of treasury
certificates
Authority Of former Postmaster Gen.
eral Burleson, to withdraw second
class mail privileges from any publi
cation which violated the espionage
act through printing articles tending
to create insubordnations or disloy
atty" In the military or naval forces
was upheld by the Supreme Court
Deductions from income taxes OF
persons whose businesses were ended
with the enactment of federal prohibit
tlon legislation will be approximate,
$1,000, 600, the bureau of internal rev
enue announced. The estimate was
made public as a result of statement
in the Senate which placed such losses
at 81, 900, 100000 to $4,000, 100000.
Suit for $4,000 damages has beer
filed In the District of Columbia Su
preme Court by the New YORK Cal
against Albert Sidney Burleson, who
retired as postmaster general March
s. John Block and Horace s. Whitman
Call attorneys, alleged that Burleson
as postmaster general, by cancelinl
the second-class mailing privileges O.
the Call, "misused and abused" hii
powers and "unlawfully, willfully, neg
ligently, mallclously violated the right.
and privileges Of the publishers of the
Call"
1.-The United States can prepare for {
6,000,000-bale cotton crop next yea
with whatever price that size crop may
demand" says Ellis M. Whitaker O
Memphis. 1.-The South is determined
that the cotton acreage for 1921 shall
be not more than half of what it wa.
last year, which viii produce eror
of about 100000 bales"
One member of the House, Represen
tative Ricketts,, Republican, Ohio, an
swered all Of the 592 roll calls of the
Sixty-sixth Congress, equalling his owr
record In the Sixty-fourth Congress
never before achieved.