The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-28

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WESTERN
One of the first official acts of GOV.
Pat. M. Neff, who was inducted into
office at Austin, Texas, was issuance
of an order for Texas rangers to re-
main on duty at Galveston for amin
definite period
State passenger fares in Iowa must
be raised to the same level as those
prevailing in interstate commerce, the
Interstate Commerce Commission
ruled. 1t said present rates discrim-
mated against the interstate rates.
Roy Hawkins, a mechanic, 26 years
old, shot and killed his wife, Annie,
II, at Kansas City, and then commits
ted suicide, according to Mrs. Annie
Hunt, at whose home the shooting oc-
Cured. The couple had been separ-
ated
ChicagO's canine population tops the
$4,000 mark, horses number 10000, and
the feline census equals both of them,
although nobody wants cats" The
facts came out in the annual report
of II. L. Roberts, secretary of the Anti
Cruelty Society.
L. l.. Laughlin, a farmer, was
granted judgment of $4,000 at Kinks
vile, Mo-, against Edward German,
neighbor, who was alleged to have
painted the word '.slacker" on Laugh
Inns barns and fences during the war.
L.aughlin sued for $4,000.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
handle 10000 Mexicans going back to
Mexico from the Salt River Valley of
Arizona, according to r. c. Dawson,
an official of the road, who says the
men are cotton pickers. The men are
without work and short of food.
Discovery by chemists of the United
States Department of Agriculture of
the underlying cause of the destructive
CORN disease Root Rot" will enable
lorn ptoducii& states to, increase fheir
crops probably 10 per cent, 3. T. Mer'
edith, secretary OF the department. said
at Des Moines in telling of the discov-
cry.
WASHINGTON
Appropriation for $1O0OO0.00O for
public roads during the next fiscal year
is proposed in a bill reported by the
House roads committee.
President Wilson plans to spend 81
600 in repairing the $150,000 home in
the Sheridan Circle section which he
purchased as his residence after
March 4th.
Convictions of crime should not also
carry loss of civil rights, unless the
crime warrants such deprivation of cit
izenship, committee representing the
American Bar Association advised q
Senate judiciary committee consider
ing legal reform Legislation.
The agricultural appropriation bill
carrying $33, ST, ,459 for the next fisca
year, S19,511, 1926 less than the esti
mates, has been reported to the House
The total exceeds that for the current
year by $1,SO4,675. The bulk Of the
appropriation is for use by the De
partment of Agriculture, but 81 ,0O0,0
was authorized for the national fores
reservation committee for acquisition
of additional lands at headquarters oi
navigable streams. The committet
asked IOT $1O,OUU,OOO.
A resolution directing the Senat.
naval affairs committee to repor
whether it is possible for the United
States to suspend its naval buildin.
program for six months was adopted
by the Senate.
The Supreme Court upheld the au
thority of the alien property custodian
to seize securities deposited in thi.
country by the German insurance com
panies to protect American polio.
holders. The court said there coult
be no doubt that the trading with thu
enemy act authorized such seizure.
The opinion that the American peo
pie were ''mulcted" of billion and ;
half dollars last year by the men il
the coal trade was expressed by Sen
ator Calder, Republican, New York
who was a witness before the Senat,
committee considering his bill for fed
eral regulation of the coal industry.
An amendment to the constitution
providing that In apportioning repre-
sentatives among the several states
according to their respective numbers
aliens shall not be counted, was pro
posed in the House by joint resolu
tion introduced by Representative
William H. Hill, Republican, of New
York.
One man in the United States hat
an income of more than $5,000,0O0 il
1918, according to statistics made pub
lie by the commissioner of interna
revenue. The identity of this billion
aire was not disclosed, the commission
er explaining that the law requires
that returns be held confidential. II
1917 there were four individuals II
the United Stctes who paid taxes OIL
incomes in excess of $5,000,000. The'
combined net income was S57,000,00O
abo.h $14,250.0O0 each, and the. aver
age amount If tax paid by each o
these individuals was S4,e37,73l.