The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-21
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElcN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINcs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
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WESTERN

WESTERN
Tons of baked potatoes We're served
free when Idaho celebrated her bump
er potato crop with Spud Harvest
week, which festival was held at
Idaho Falls.
Walter Hammond, IS years old, OF
Belleville, ILL.,, driver of a racing au-
tomobile, was killed and his brother,
Fred, escaped serious injury when the
car overturned on the Belleville race
track at st. Louis.
A twenty-year courtship eliminated
in the marriage of William Coburn, 90
years old, and Mrs. Edith r. Wood, 50,
In the chapel of the Soldiers Home at
Swatelle, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Bride and bridegroom declared they
"never felt younger"
Mrs. Emma Depointer was found
unconscious with her skull crushed
and powder burns on her face, and her
10-year-old daughter, Gladys May
Trowbridge of Miami, Okla, was
found dead with two bullet holes in
her body, by motorists, mile west of
Tyro, Kan.
The Kansas district of the United
Mine Workers of America, district No.
IA. has been suspended by John l..
Lewis international president Alex
Rnder Howatt and all other district Of
ficers are summarily removed and
George L. Peck, until the districts sus-
pension the international board mem
Der, has been appointed acting presl-
dent of provisional district.
Nathan Loar, Mexican war veteran.
celebrated his one hundredth birth
day at Leavenworth, Kan. He was
born Oct, 1921, near Culpepper court
house, Virginia. His wife, with whom
he lived seventy-two years, died six
years ago. They were parents of ten
children. Loar has forty grandchild-
ren, fifty-three at-grandchildren
and five grandchildren.
The submarine R-6, attached to the
Pacific fleet which sank in San Pedro
harbor Sept. % with the loss of two of
her crew, has been brought to the sur
face, it was announced at the sub
marine base at the harbor at Los An
geles. The hull was in apparent good
condition, although 1t was thought
that the engine and batteries had been
damaged by salt water. The vessel
was raisei by means of large tube
securedsfto the coming tower, through
which air was pumped into the hull.
Governor Joseph M. Dixon of Mon
tana, in answer to message from ths
national unemployment congress, ha.
wired e. F. Blaine, representative O
the western governors reclamation
congress, suggesting that 1,50O mel
could be used on the different recla
nation projects which have alread
been started in Montana. Besides tn
use of unemployed OH Montana pre-
iects, the governor stated that man
thousands could be employed to at
vantage in other big western recla
nation projects.
WASHINGTON
The American Lutheran mission a
Saujbulak, West Persia, has been al
tackled and looted by Kurds, accort
ing to official advices to the State Dt
partment from the American charg
d'affaires at Teheran, who said he ha
been informed Of the attack of tn
French and British consuls at Tabri,
Director Dawes Of the budget al
nounced the creation of two addition
al boards which he declared would pr
more business efficiency. In govern
mental affairs and result in savings I
the government of several hundre
million dollars a year. The new boz
les set up are the federal specific,
tions and federal traffic boards.
A resolution by Senator Overmal
Democrat, North Carolina, adopted b
the Senate, directs the federal resery
board to report as to the salaries pal
by reserve banks and other expense
of these banks. The resolution recite
that 1t had been charged that salarie
in the New York bank had been il
creased more than $1,OO0.OOO since til
war.
Second failure of the House With
a year to increase its membership b,
yond 435 virtually means there will b
no addition, according to the view e,
pressed by leaders of the fight to kee
the number at its present total Ha,
ing rejected proposal to increase til
total to 4S3, the House refused /
make it AGO, sending the bill back [
committee with the certainty that
could not be reported again this Sc.
sion.
The Standard Oil Co. of New Jel
sey announced that the bonus of 1
per cent to its employees at its variou
refineries in New Jersey would be re
moved Oct. 10. but that it would en-
deavor to create as much additiona
work as possible to increase the hour
of employment for men now workin;
part time or luid off entirely.
A message from the president of tn
republic to President Hard
ing, thanking him for rememberin:
that country on it's tenth national an
has been made public b,
he State Department