The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-28

WESTERN
Farmers of Stockton, Kan, have or
ganized with an agreement to burn
corn this coming winter instead of
coal, on account of the difference in
price between these two commodities.
Four armed bandits robbed the Ho-
dIamont Bank, just outside of st.
Louis, of S7,180. Six employees and one
customer were compelled to lay face
downward while the men scooped the
money into sacks. The robbers es-
capped in an automobile.
Packing house employees of Des
Moines, Iowa, voted to accept 5 per
cent wage cut declared recently by the
packing companies. Officers of the
union said that there will be no strike
by the employees unless it is declared
by the national officers.
A twenty-year courtship eliminated
in the marriage of William Coburn, 80
years old, and Mrs Edith R. Wood, 80.
In the chapel of the Soldiers Home at
Swatelle, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Bride and bridegroom declared they
''never felt younger
J. C. MacSpadden, 81 years old, a
former partner of John D. Rockefel-
Ter in the oil business, and a Mipneap-
oils pioneer, died ut Wasco, Calf. Mr..
MacSpadden, who has devoted the last
few years of his life to fruit ranches,
and eucalyptus groves in southern Cal
-tt.in
several days ago.
The body of John B. Tordiff. So, a
repair shop owner, was found in his
shop at Globe, Ariz. His clothing had
caught in the machinery in such a
manner that he strangled to death. Of
ficials said the machinery apparently
had tightened the clothing about his
neck and kept on running until the
gasoline which furnished the power
was exhausted.
Seventy-year-old Carl Rueble, a re-
tired Iowa farmer, shot and slightly
wounded Mrs. Gabe Oleson, the wife
Of neighbor and then turned the gun
on himself and committed suicide. Rue
ble's attention to the 55-year-old wife
of his younger neighbor has been TIL.
subject OF jest for some time Mrs
Oleson, according to her husband, pait
no attention to his advances.
WASHINGTON
The governments annual report Oh
mortality statistics for 1920, soon to be
issued, shows 1,142,57S deaths within
the death registration area, represent
ing rate of 1871 per thousand, as
compared with 129 in 1919 Fatalities
from automobile accidents and injuries
increased from "a to 10.4 per hundred
thousand.
The outlook is favorable for the
passage of the federal aid road bill by
Congress in time to help relieve un
employment In the building of high
ways The amount asked, 500, ,OOO, 900
states, would go long ways toward
helping out things. England has start
ed movement of this kind.
The War Department announcet
that 1000 seats, about one-Afth Of th'
total seating capacity Of the memoria
amphitheater, at Arlington Armistic'
day had been reserved for gold sta
mothers or other nearest relatives o
men who died in the World war. No
more than two seats will be given an.
application.
Director Dawes of the budget an
nounced the creation of two addition
al boards which he declared would pu
more business efficiency In govern
mental affairs and result in savings t,
the government of several hundre,
million dollars a year. The new bod
les set up are the federal specifica
tions and federal traffic boards.
A resolution by Senator Overman
Democrat, North Carolina, adopted b.
the Senate, directs the federal reserv
board to report as to the salaries pal,
by reserve banks and other expense
of these banks. The resolution recite,
that it had been charged that salarie
in the New York bank had been in
creased more than $1,0O0,0O0 since tn
war.
The new revenue law to be enacte
next year 10 take Ine pace OF tne on
which Congress will soon pass, vii
contain the chief provisions of tn
Smoot bill, providing for manufactul
ing or sales tax on commoditie,
Agreement to this effect has bee
reached among Senate leaders of tn
eastern bloc, representing the indus
trial sections of the country.
Twenty million dollars annually is t
be expended for the next few yeai
in the United States for America
rolling stock, machinery, rails and SUI
plies in connection with the expansio
of the South Manchuria railway, a
cordng to Yozo Tamura, who is
San Francisco from the Orient.
A petition filed in equity court
the Commercial Solvents Company f,
an injunction restraining the secretal
of the treasury from releasing lar.
quantities of fusel oil held in Atlant
,o..t custou warehouses has been di