The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-11-25
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western newspaper Union ye.. s.rlc.j
WESTERN

An attempt to rob the mail car OF
train No. ITO of the Atcheson, Topeka
& Santa Fe railway while the trair
was standing at the station at Phoe
nix, was frustrated when Herman In
derlied of Phoenix, mail clerk In
charge of the car, overpowered the
would-be robber.
Mexico will be represented by com
mission at the meeting Of the League
of the Southwest at Riverside, Calf.
in December, it was announced by Ar
mold Kruckman, secretary of the
league. He said he had received let
ter from Gen. Alvaro Obregon, presi-
dent of Mexico, to this effect.
Relics of the pioneer California
days of 1S49 were stolen from the mu-
scum of the Association of Pioneer
Women of California in Golden Gate
park at San Francisco, according to
reports to the police. Many of the
most valuable of the antiques in the
collection, which had taken years to
gather, were reported missing.
Adolph Lunic, a groceryman in Sioux
City, Iowa, was murdered in cold blood
in his store by negro bandit, who
fired three shots and escaped with a
bag containing $500, the receipts of the
days business. Mrs. Lunic. who had
come to the store to get the money,
was threatened by second negro, but
was not injured She was the only wit
ness of the crime.
William Bouck of Sedro Woolley,
WASH, former master of the Washing
ton State Grange; c. r. Cottrell, ].
II. Wrage and X. A. Briggs, all of
Washington state, were expelled from
the National Grange at its convention
at Portland, Ore, and forever barred
from re-entering the order. Bouck
and his associates were accused of
: radical and disloyal actions.
WASHINGTON
Notices have been sent out from the
Navy Department to all naval districts
and stations that the time limit for
submitting applications for transfer
to the volunteer naval reserve list had
been extended to Jan. l.
Construction of highways to the to-
tai value of $76,4OO0O0, covering g.
261 miles and employing more than
10000 workers, is about to be under
taken by thirty states as the direct
result of the recent passage of the
federal highway act.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
returning from survey of liquor con
ditions in Michigan and along TIL,
Canadian border, declared in a state
ment he was more optimistic as I,
enforcement of the Eighteenth amend
ment than any time since assuming of
flee"
Expenditure Of $53O,OOO to provide
channel forty feet deep and 1000 fee
wide through the bar outside of Sa
Francisco lharbor was recommended t
Congress by Major General Beacl
chief of army engineers Additions
appropriations of 100000 annually fo
maintenance also was urged.
Uncle Sam is quite a capitalist an
investor. He holds securities, whicl
of course in his possession are ia
free, amounting to grand total {
$11 1926, ,731, $3.50. At least he had il
vestments of this sum at the close
the last fiscal year. Since then thei
have been some changes, but the gros
total is about the same.
Removal of war savings STAN
from the certificate upon which 1t ws
issued constitutes a crime under tt
counterfeiting laws, according to IL
supreme court. The question arose
the federal District Court at New Yoi
where the government failed in its e
fort to convict Paul Sacks Of purcha
ing certificates and removing tt
stamps.
The proposals Of the United Stat,
for ten-year naval holiday will ha,
no effect on the present status of Il
American naval building prograr
Secretary of the Navy DENLY sal
The present building program will co
tinue until some definite agreeme
has been reached and there will n
be even an effort to slow down
curtail the building operations pendiI
the final agreement on the matter, II
secretary said.
OF $1OS, ,213, 1885 collected in regi
tration fees from 9,245, 1876 passeng
cars and commercial vehicles, 2S,1
trailers and 177,234 motorcycles,
well as chauffeurs' licenses in the 70
ty-eight states and the District of G
lumbia, Jan. / to July /. 1921, accor
ing to the United States bureau of pu
lie roads, the sum of $101, ,793,4 ,416. or
per cent, is available for good road
Total revenue for the year 1920 in re
istratfon fees was $102, $40. .212.25. II
revenue for the first half of this yea
therefore, exceeded the entire revenr
for 1920 by $5,666, ,953.08-