The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-03-04
A eRIEE RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiMos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
or THE AGE.
tw~..r. S.-..s- u.i'. ss.s Services. )
WESTERN

Mrs. Antoine Gasich 26 years old
Was held up, beaten and robbed of x2.-
o16 by three bandits, who accosted her
at busy South Side business corner
in St Louis. She was taking the
money to her husbands soft drink par
ior when assaulted.
A demand for hair bleach among
young men In Oakland looking for
Jobs, has been predicted. II. S. Nc
Cormack, New York business psy-
chologist,' told the Oakland Ad Club
luncheon that blond men think faster
than their dark-haired brothers.
A bill providing for special poll
raX Of S. annually on all bachelors re-
siding in Montana was passed by the
Senate. 1t now goes to the governor.
A Senate committee amendment to
make the law applicable also to spin
sters was killed by the Senate.
Raymond Burnette Pease, professor
of English at the University of Wyo-
ming, who has been on Il years alb
sence, doing special work at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin at Madison, has
rendered his resignation to the trus-
tees and president of the university
here and will not return to Laramie.
Warren Frederick Lewis, associate
editor Of 1.-The Cardinal" of Stanford
University, was elected president of
the Western intercollegiate Press AS
sociatiOn at its concluding meeting at
Salt Lake. J. S. Rietsoper, editor of
Do to;x so11
RADIO, was elected vice president.
Stanford University was selected as
the place for the 1922 meeting.
Jefferson City, Mo, authorities are
conducting an investigation into the
holdup of PostoffIce Messenger VIII
liams by four armed bandits who OBJ
tanned at least one pouch Of registered
mail containing $35,000 in Liberty
bonds, jewelry and legal papers. Com
munication with nearby towns failed
TO disclose any trace of the men, who
carried the messenger away in an au-
tom0bile and handcuffed him to a tree
thirteen miles north.
The Utah State Farm Bureau Off
ciaIs and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Com
pany concluded an agreement on the
price basis of the 1921 sugar beet
contracts which for the first time in
Utah will make provision for payment
on both the basis of the price received
by the manufacturers for the sugar
and the sugar content of the beets
grown by the farmers. On the present
price of sugar net TO the refiner of
81 80 per 100 pounds, the farmer would
receive $904 ton for beets as COM
pared with the $l2 minimum of last
year.
WASHINGTON
Agitation against infected shaving
brushes has resulted in virtually para
lying the Japanese bristle industry.
and, that the government is taking
steps to open national disinfection
office at Kobe to remedy the situation,
the Department of Commerce was in
formed from Toxic. Anthrax is dis
ease usually peculiar to cattle, ad-
vices to the department said. and has
been widely distributed through i'm
properly sterilized brushes.
President Wilson signed the $574,
100000 postoffice appropriation bill;
the $15,25O, 900 rivers and harbors bill,
and the deficiency bill carrying $780,
100000. Another bill approved by the
President authorizes homestead set
tiers who entered the military service
during the World war to make final
proof of their entries.
The Senate struck from the legisla-
tive appropriation bill as unnecessary
it's amendment authorizing purchase
by the Treasury Department of $780,
100000 of farm loan bonds. Chairman
Warren Of the committee said action
Of the Supreme Court in sustaining the
federal farm loan act permitted the
elimination OF the proposal.
Official figures compiled by the
American Automobile Association in
dicate that there were 9,180,S16 pas
senger and commercial motor vehicles
registered in the United States during
1920, OF which approximately s,234. 400
we're for passenger use and about 945.-
S26 were commercially employed. Dur
ing the same period 271, ,2S0 motorcy-
cles were also registered. The total
receipts from registrations amounted
to 800, ,141 ,097.
The United States marines who raid
ed newspaper office at Mangua, Mic
aragua, have been found guilty by
court-martial and have been given SEN
tences of two years and dishonorable
discharge, the Navy Department was
informed in IA message from Rear Ad-
miral H. |. Bryan The men all plead
ed guilty, the message said. The rated
men also were reduced
Rear Admiral Cary 7. Grayson,
President Wilson'S personal physician,
was ordered by the Navy Department
to duty as officer in charge of the
naval dispensary in Washington.