The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-02-25
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN


at the point of revolver held up and
robbed Mrs. Shire. her two daughters
and two girl visitors of jewelry valued
at $1,000.
A baby weighing two and three-quar
ters pounds was born in Omaha to Mr.
and Mrs. John Weimer Nurses have
placed the child in an improvised in
cubator, and physicians say it proba-
bly, will live
Creation of motion picture censor
ship board of three to be appointed by
the governor, and with power to pre-
vent showing of any film it sees fit if
considered immoral or improper, was
passed by the North Dakota house, e.
10 AS.
Intoxicated hogs so interested Tex
arkana, Texas, police Officers and fed
eral enforcement agents that an inves-
tigation resulted in the finding of a
still on farm two miles from the city.
A quantity of mash also was found.
The owner of the farm and negro
tenant were arrested
A family of four was killed by a
pack of hungry wolves on a ranch in
the state of Durango, Mexico, accord
ing to a dispatch received at Ell Paso.
Wolves have attacked sheep and cat
tle herders and are terlorizing families
in Isolated mountain communities, ac-
cording to the dispatch.
Thomas Brady, convicted of being an
accessory to the attempted attack on
Jean Stanley in San Francisco last
Thanksgiving eve, was sentenced to a
term In San Quentin ranging from one
to four years. His attorney gave no.
tice of an appeal and Judge Ward
granted certificate of probable cause
The two largest freight vessels ever
launched in San Francisco bay-the
14,5O0 ton Manulani and Manukak
sister ships. destined for the II,
waiian trade, slid from the ways viii
in an hour at the Moore Shipbuildiif.
Company yards at Oakland The YES
sells were built for the Matson Naviga-
tion Company.
Mrs. Louise l.. Peete has been sen
Quentin penitentiary for the murder
of Jacob Charles Denton Superior
Judge Frank X. Willis of Los
Angeles pronounced sentence after
he had denied motion for
new trial. Counsel for Mrs Peete an
nounced they would appeal to the Ap
pellate Court for new trial
WASHINGTON
The United States has no intention
Of participating in any attempt by the
allies to compel Argentina or any
other neutral country to prevent i'm
portation from Germany or arms and
munitions of war. it was learned at
the State Department.
The text of the FrancoB British agree
ment by which the Syrian desert is
from French to n British
has been received in official
circles and Is expected to engage the
close attention of State Department Of
ficials in connection with the study Of
the allied mandates in which the Amer
can government has been concerned.
United States Commissioner G. u.
announced at Kansas City
hat no more search warrants would be
issued against homes where mere
showing of possession Of Intoxicating
liquor is made.
China will stand by the United
States If this country ever is in need of
Il friend to aid against any enemy
from across the sea, DR.. 7. Hsieh, sec
retary of labor of China. told a gath
erng of congressman and businessmen
at Washington interested In Chinese
relief measures. He commented on
fhe bitterness he said existed in China
over .Japan's demands following the
war.
Soldier bonus legislation will be de-
ayed- by the Senate until the extra
session, Chairman PenrOse of the fl
nance committee, said, in connection
with statement by Senator McCum-
Jer, Republican, of North Dakota, that
he was preparing ''for the Senate and
he American people" statement of
costs of the relief measures. Mrs. Pen
-ose said the bonus legislation should
,e handled properly if at all and he
feared the jam of the last few days
night destroy deserving features.
Efforts to attach as rider to the
Dostoffice bill an appropriation of
s100,0O0,00O for road construction
iailed in the Senate A motion to in
sert the appropriation was lost on a
fote of Al to 33, or nine less than the
'equired two-thirds majority. Rejec-
ion of the good roads rider was re-
,arded as foreshadowing defeat for the
'oad appropriation at this session.
A. bill appropriating S5,000,000 to
)uy seed grain for farmers in drought
stricken areas of the West passed the
Senate without a record vote. 1t now
goes to the House.