The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-03-11
FOREIGN


rice and fixing maximum selling
price OF 8 cents per pound wholesale,
has been signed by Gov. Gen. Francis
Burton Harrison at Manila, p. !.
Four members of snowplow crew
on the Canadian National railway
were smothered to death by an ava
lanche In the Canadian Rockies. The
accident became known when the bod
les arrived for inquest at Edmonton,
Alb The accident occurred forty-six
miles west of Jasper, near Mount Re-
splendent.
The introduction of German labor to
help rebuild the war-devastnted dis
,ricts of northern France, one Of the
suggestions made by the Berlin govern
ment during the reparations discus
sions, will be violently opposed by
French workers. The annual congress
of French building workers voted
overwhelmingly against the admission
of German laborers. though no objec.
tion was made TO the use of German
material
Preparations are in progress for the
y
houses TO indicate the new boundaries
of the Ulster area in ireland under
the new home rule act, says Belfast
dispatch Government surveys have
commenced in North Mona CHAN coun-
ty near the Fermanagh border, the
dispatch adds Sites are being selected
for new stations for thirty thousand
troops in the six-county area. The sta
tions will be Two miles apart
French, British and Belgian troops
occupy three German cities, Dussel-
dorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort. Less
than 25,0o0 troops used TO effect occu-
patton. No opposition offered by Ger
mans. Populace orderly. German Of
ficiaIs of occupied cities left in power.
Customs frontier established 1Sh
miles east OF Rhine. German ambas-
sadors summoned home from London,
Paris and Brussels American troops
remain at old positions in Coblenz.
Harding announces they will not be
withdrawn at present.
GENERAL
Frantic with pain from an attack Of
appendicitis, Earl Wilson, an S-year-
old boy, shot and Killed himself at
Bonner Springs, Kan.
The New York Central locomotive
repair shops at Elkhart, Ind, employ.
ing about 700 men, and those at Col.
linwood, both of which We're closed q
week ago, will resume operations al
once
Falling off a 1,O0O-foot bluff, Jach
Stewart, foreman at the New Kenka
Hill silver mine in the Mayo district
Alaska, landed on a snow-covered shell
200 feet below and escaped with thre'
\ hrfpisp Fire dHashsfsroyed Hahfsroy the rrrerror 81 IN,
Cathedral of SITS. Peter and Paul, caus
j ing damage estimated at $l00,000
is one of the oldest and best know
Episcopalian edifices in Chicago, dat
ing back to Civil wartimes.
Plots which involved the planned us
sassination of Cleveland citizens con
nected with the Loyal American
League, the destruction by dynamite o
downtown buildings and an intensIv,
campaign of anarchistic propa
ganda throughout the city. ar,
believed now to have been nipped b.
the arrest In Cleveland of eight men
said to be members Of an anarchists
group.
Union printers went on strike u
Binghamton, n. Y, TO enforce de
mands for increased wages and re
duced hours. AS result of the strike
evening newspapers and the Morning
Sun have suspended publication ant
the plants of the vail-Ballou Company
book manufacturers, and the johnson
City Publishing Company, job printers
are crippled The men rejected an OF
fer to submit the matter to arbitration
Lieutenant J. I. Lawson, "a, Of Harl
ford, Conn, and Private Joseph Reat
81, Of Norwood, N. j., were dashed t
, death at Camp Knox when an arm
aeropIane which failed to right itsel
during a tail spin, fell nearly 800
feet.
The Senate of the Washington Leg
+ islature passed the anti-alien land bi
by a vote of 80 to 2 The bill prohibit
aliens ineligible to citizenship fror
owning or leasing land In the STATE
1t was passed by the House and no'
, goes to the governor.
[ Macon, Ga, city council has refuse
5 to permit Donal O'Callaghan, lord ma,
or of Cork, to speak In the city aud
, torium. The city council also passe
an anti-flirting ordinance, making
I unlawful for a man to converse with q
, make signs at school or college girl,
. New York city taxpayers this yea
, face the highest tax rate in history, dt
, spite an enormous Increase In the a:
: sessed valuation of real estate. Base
( on the 1921 budget of S345, ,039, tn
) rates indicate increases over 1872
ranging from 30 to 81 cents per $10t
) Total valuation of real estate is con
J puted at $9,972, ,5S5, ,104 and persons
property S213222175.
al C, d. Il. King, president of the r,