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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1920
Page
5
The readable portion shows fragmented text with phrases like Hite and Auiare and numbers 1 5 1 8, suggesting a corrupted or partial sports or event note. No clear persons, organizations, or events are identifiable.
An incomplete excerpt shows Mry Taylor discussing a coal strike settlement commission. The fragment references five states in the southwest and mentions a figure said to have added a comment about today.
Opened lands will allow ex service men to enter North Platte tract on March 5 and Shoshone project on March 18. Priority rights remain in force for 60 days, after which remaining lands become public. North Platte entry begins May 4 and Shoshone on May 4.
The Associated Press reports in Mukogee Oklahoma February 5 that forty delegates with half a vote each were chosen for the national Democratic convention in San Francisco. They are pledged to support Senator Robert L Owen for the Democratic presidential nomination until he is nominated or releases them.
The weekly Bank of France statement shows an increase in gold on hand to 400,988,000 francs with notable growth in reserves. Paris notes the rise as part of ongoing monthly updates.
A strike by electricians on the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul railway division from Harlowtown Montana to Avery Idaho disrupted service. Mass meeting in Deer Lodge Montana voted to return to work at midnight, with one passenger train detoured via the Northern Pacific.
Officials of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway are rapidly replacing strikers and planning to restore freight and passenger service in Seattle Washington on February 5. Strong entities include Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway and Seattle. The article notes efforts to resume operations as disputes persist between labor and management.
In Pine Bluff Arkansas on February 6 a gunman, George Wicks, shot Memphis Slim and killed City Detective C C Lynn and Mrs Sam Saltz. After a three hour standoff the house was set on fire and Wicks was killed by a posse. Several bystanders were wounded, two seriously, as the mob dragged the slain Memphis Slim’s body through the streets.
New York reports Major Joseph Lasses of the French high commission to the Kolchak government predicts the overthrow of the Russian Soviet government within months. He says change may come sooner despite Soviet gains but favors Soviet rule over a monarchist return and cites political shifts eroding anti-soviet restoration. Siberia remains outside Soviet control as opponents push to force abdication.
Washington, Feb 5. The decennial census heading to release results shows the center of U S population shifting eastward rather than west or south. J A Hill, census statistician, told the National Press Club the 1910 center was in Bloomington Indiana and 1900 near Columbus Ohio. Preliminary figures indicate ongoing eastward movement, driven by postwar eastern city growth and eastern industry, offsetting the usual westward drift.
Associated Press report from Montebsano notes twelve men ready to be sworn as jurors to try eleven alleged Industrial Workers of the murder at Centralia. Prosecution prepares its opening statement as jurors are chosen.
The Associated Press report from New York on February 5 describes a severe winter storm driving up a fifty mile swath of ice and snow along the shorelines of New York and Long Island. Ships, including the New England Steamship Company liner, were driven ashore and ice floes blocked navigation while fuel shortages threaten Perth Amboy and New York City. Snow drifts reached up to eighteen feet in some areas and trains ran hours late amid floods and high seas.
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