The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-02-18

WESTERN
Psychology and the crime wave"
were blamed by Mrs. Louise l.. Peete
for her conviction on charge of hav-
ing murdered Jacob Charles Denton.
Joseph A. Bartos, cashier of the
Bank of Wilbur, Neb., for many years,
and active in business and politics,
was found dead A coroner's jury rem
lered a verdict that death was the re-
suit of alcoholic poisoning.
Bricklayers at Wichita Falls, Texas,
have voluntarily announced they will
accept a reduction of 81 a day in
wages, to permit builders TO proceed
with contemplated work. The scale
was S14 day. Now it Is S12.
Armistice day is made legal holi.
day in Oregon by a bill passed by the
Legislature and signed by Governor
Olcott. He also signed bills providing
for organization of board of aircraft
examiners regulating fliers and regis
tering aviatOrs.
eighteen miles from Eugene, Ore, and
his wife, 55, were found at their home
shot to death. A revolver lay behind
Wheat's body, and note. purporting
to have been written by him and ad-
dressed to brother in Portland, said
he was about to kill his wife and him
self because they had quarreled
Three armed posses are securing the
country around Blueridge, an oil town
near Houston, Texas, for the lone
masked bandit who beat to death As
sistant Cashier Robert Lee Kirby.
robbed the State Bank of Blueridge,
and escaped on foot across the prairie
with $4,000. The bank had only re-
ceived its charter and opened for bus
mess. The robber left only $40 in the
bank
George Conlan, civilian. was shot
and killed and Sergt. Meining Hall ant
Private Yates We're wounded by Pre-
sidio sentries when an automobile con
tanning six men started up after beinl
ordered to halt at the Lombard stree
gate of the military reservation in Sal
Francisco. The three men in the ca
who escaped are under arrest. Conlal
was the owner of the car and brough
it to stop. He stepped out of TIL
ear to adjust the lights when chal
ienged by the sentry.
WASHINGTON
Live stock on farms and ranges jar
ltary / were valued at S6.23o, $50. 90
compared with SS,507, ,145O00 in 1926
the census office has announced.
A resolution making immediatel
available $1,OOO,O00 to enable the II
terstate Commerce Commission to prt
ceed with its railroad valuation wor
was adopted by the House and Senat
and sent to President Wilson.
The naval appropriation bill. carr,
ing approximately 1896, 100000, wa
passed by the House after it had de
feated, 124 to 30, an amendment whic
would have prevented the expenditur
of any part of the $9O,000,000 provide
for battleship construction until an IL
ternational disarmament conferenc
shall have been called by the Pres
dent. The amendment was offered b
Representative Brooks Republican, l
linois.
Arrest of five men in Phiadelphi
in a raid on printing shop where a
legged counterfeit internal reyenu
stamps were being produced, has bee
announced by Chief Moran of the s.
cret service Chief Moran said abor
100000 strips of stamps as well q
liuuor labels were seized.
President-elect Harding will be es
corted by troop of cavalry from Fol
Never when he goes to the capitol t
be iDaugurated on March 4, Secretar
of War Baker has announced. Thes
are the only troops that will partic
pate in the inauguration. The priv
lege of escorting the President is on
eagerly sought by crack cavalry troop
all over the country
Cattle on farms are now valued q
less than prewar prices, the Depar
ment of Agriculture announced
Washington. The drop, the depar
ment said, began in January, 1919. Th
department further stated that the de
crease in value not only resulted in tn
loss of all the increases sustained dun
ing the war, but an additional so pc
cent. Hogs have lost SS per cent o
the gains made during 1917 and l91e
according to the figures.
The international communication
conference met again in Washington
to consider further the ALLEGATION o
the former German cables, but it de
yeloped that one of the delegates hat
not received instructions from his gov
eminent, and adjournment was taker
until later.
Unless trades unions are "affirma
lively and definitely" excluded from
the Calder bill for government regu
lation of the coal industry, organized
labor's opposition to it will be unyield
ing, Samuel Gompers told Senate
cammittee.