The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-05-14
CONDENSED EcoRD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN ACHIEVE
MENTS, sUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union News serics.)
WESTERN

City, Iowa, was drowned wnlle canoe
ing on the Iowa river. The body was
recovered an hour later.
A new kind of "crop" was unearthed
near Idaho Falls. Idaho, when deputy
sheriffs dug twenty-four gallons of
"moonshine" out of plowed field
near the city. The fields owner pro-
tests ignorance and innocence of how
it was planted"
Production of an alleged German
made film in a Los Angeles theater
was stopped by the management after
crowd, INCLUDING about score of
sailors, had attempted to force an en-
trance to the building, protesting
against the performance. The sailors
were stopped by squad of police
Three women and two men were Sc
riously injured in an explosion that
wrecked a cleaning establishment at
st. Louis. The police are investigating
report that the blast was caused by
bomb. William Allen of Des Moines,
Iowa, was the most severely injured.
He suffered fracture of the left arm
and right hip.
-Four thousands pounds of ammuni-
tion were seized and the engine crew
on the Mexican Central passenger train
which left Juarez was arrested near
Chihuahua City, according to Rafael
D. Davila, commander of customs
guards in Chihuahua The ammunition,
Mr.. Davila said he had been privately
informed, was intended for rebels in
central Chihuahua. The ammunition
was hidden in the tender of the engine
under the coal, he said.
WASHINGTON
The War Department Stacker lists as
issued from time to time Will be pub
lished in the Congressional Record. Re
quest for such publication was made in
the House by Representative Johnson,
Republican, South Dakota, a former
service man, and there was no objec-
tion.
Reform organizations of various
kinds have disclaimed the parentage
of an anti-tobacco drive which got
some attention in Washington recent
ly There was a question of just who
was IL, Dul News OI Tile ar
rival of the movement in the capital
caused much alarm in many quarters.
The Townsend bill for the establish
ment of post-road and interstate
highway system, and the creation of
federal highway commission, has
been introduced in the Senate, and
hearings on it are to be held soon. This
Iiffarc I
Townsend bill in several particulars,
and 1t recognizes the federal aid prin-
ciple, but with reservations.
A bill said to be designed to carry
out President Harding's desires fol
the curbing of demands from execu
tive departments for deficiency appro
priations has been introduced in tn,
House. 1t would create a board, il
which the chairman of the Hous
and Senate appropriations committe
would sit, to pass on applications 70
deficiency appropriations before the
could be transmitted to Congress
Between 100000 and 100000
pounds of wool will be sold by the Wa
Department at public auction to b
held in Boston about May 20, Secretar
Weeks has announced. Additiona
sales may be authorized If the first ar
satisfactory to reduce the S0,O00,0O
pounds the army has on hand.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has granted the Butte, Anacond
& Pacific Railway Company in Nor
tana permission to increase its passer
ger and excess baggage rates to til
level in effect in interstate commerc
tariffs to be filed upon five days no
tice. The carrier Is an electric roa
and on that account was omitted fror
the last rate order issued by the CON
mission.
William Fl. Stevenson, vice directo
of the experiment station of the low
State Agricultural College, has beel
named permanent delegation of tn
United States to the international In
stitute Of Agriculture at Rome, the De
partment of Agriculture announced
The appointment fills the vacanc,
caused by the resignation of Dean I
F.. Hunt, president of the Californi;
State Agricultural College.
Twenty million acres of arid land
in the West could be reclaimed unde
the McNary bill to develop homestead
ing projects through federal aid, E.
Blaine of Seattle, chairman of tn,
Western States Reclamation Associa
tion, testified before the Senate irri
cation committee. The bill would pro
vide fund of $250,OO0OOO from which
interest bearing loans would be mad,
TO reclamation associations. Former
service men would be given preference
in the acquisition of the reclaimed
lands