The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-14
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoINcs, ACHIEVE
MENTS, sUFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN
twest.rn Newspaper unlou New. Service, ,

The largest diamond yet mined in
Arkansas field was found in Pike
county, The stone weighs 2O.25 carats
in the rough and is estimated to be
worth $4,000.
Reargument of the Wyoming Colo
RADIO long contested dispute over the
division of the irrigation waters of the
Laramie river was assigned for Jan.
8, 1922, by the Supreme Court recently.
The body of John Edward Dreiffein
of Moline, H., one of the two sailors
whose lives were lost in the sinking Of
the submarine RIG in Los Angeles har-
Dor recently, rose to the surface of the
water about twenty feet from where
the craft sank.
Fifteen western senator's Joined in
kilograms to officers of the principal
western railroads urging that the west
ern carriers grant 1-cent-a-mile rate
to the Kansas City convention of the
American Legion. Eastern railroads
have already granted such rate.
Fire destroyed 140 cars of alfalfa
belonging to the Elephant Butte Alfal-
ia Association at Fabens and for a
time threatened the entire town, which
The loss Is estimated at $4,000. In
surance of $4,000 was carried.
After writing and signing a will and
a series of notes, Mrs. Christian
Mauch, 63 years old, widow, and her
son Henry w. Mauch, 30, of st. Louis,
committed suicide by sealing them
selves in a room Of their home and
found by the police.
Signs along the route of the Victory
highway, for the promulgation of
which the Victory Highway Associa-
tion was organized and incorporated
in Topeka several months ago, will be
placed from California to Kansas City,
Mo-, by Nov. 1. The marking of the
highway is complete from the coast
to Denver, Colo.
Wylie McNeely, negro, was burned
to death by a mob near Leesburg
Camp county, Texas. He had been ar
rested charged with assault upon q
girl. The negro was seized by the mol
when he attempted to leap from thu
jail to an automobile waiting to spiri
him away from the large crowd which
had surrounded the Jail.
WASHINGTON
The Western Pacific railroad has ap-
piled to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for authority to issue $3,O00,.
600 in first mortgage per cent gold
notes. The funds are to be used fol
retirement of equipment trust certifi
Gates and to reimburse the treasury OF
the company for equipment trust Ger
tificates matured and paid Aug. 1.
Values of imports and exports Of
merchandise each fell off materially
during September, according to fig
ures made public by the Departmen
Of Commerce Imports for Sertembe
were $180,O00,0O0, me iowesr for an,
month this year - !la- :, t....t mont
totaled $325,Gn Fs ~ S5,OOOOO
more than the lt p la, An this year
July, and $46, ma i,e a~, the Au
gust record. DGa Imports and eS
ports were approxilS ale,y so per cen
below the totals for September, 1926
Decisions Of lower courts holdin
that irrigation companies can fore
close on farmers for failure to pa
water rent were in effect upheld whe
the Supreme Court declined to reyiey
appeals of John H. Martens and 9th
ers of Idaho against the Twin Fall
Oakley Land and Water Company.
The chair used 10y Theodore Roost
velt at his desk at the White Hous
was formally presented by Presiden
Harding to the Roosevelt Memoria
Association. The gift was received b
committee headed by William Boyc
Thompson, president of the associs
ton, and will be placed in collection
of Roosevelt mementoes now being as
sembled.
In order that the coal mining indus
try might be kept free from the men
ace of unemployment and in orde
that the American coal export trad
may be increased, Secretary of Com
merce Hoover has referred to Chair
man Lasker of the United States ship
ping board, idle ships now tied up b.
the shipping board, be leased to Goa
exporters for 81 month. Operation
of the ships, would prevent deteriora
ton, which comes when the vessels ar
tied up, it was stated.
Retail food prices during Septembe
were found by the Labor Department
TO have declined in all but two of tn
cities in which it conducts investiga
tions. Decreases amounted to 2 pc
cent in Minneapolis and Portland, Me-
and 1 per cent in Atlanta, Phiadel
phia and Salt Lake City.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifi
has been authorized by the Interstat
Commerce Commission to issue 81 1905
600 of its own bonds for the purpos
of paying off obligations of a sui
sidiary, the Burlington, Cedar Rapid
& Northern.