The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-08
WORLD IN BRIEF

OF lnlS year IS worth $24, 900 ,OOO.
Spokane.-TheG Great Northern has
placed orders for new freight equip
ment to the extent OF $2,7O0,000.
st. Paul.-Dr. Thomas JaspersOn
has invented a process whereby old
papers are made over into clean,
white stock.
New York.-Every employe of Ho-
tel Aston of New York has been in
sured by proprietor, involving cost
of over $250,00O.
London. Harry Lauder has
bought 14,000-acre estate at Glen
branter on the Argullshire coast, said
to have cost 100000.
Washington.-It is quite certain
that compulsory military service will
be one of the big questions before
congress at the forthcoming session.
Terre Haute.-The city has leased
coal mine and is selling coal
through the municipal market for
$2.775 ton against Sc asked by
dealers.
New York.-Living costs have in
creased about 80 per cent since last
year. The increases range from 20
per cent for bread to ia per cent
for potatoes.
New York.-Pickle manufacturers
are paying farmers at Riverhead, N.
Y. as high as 500 ton for cauli-
flower. Early in the season price
was $40 a ton.
Wheeling.-All Wheeling stoges
have been cut one inch in length and
price will be increased from three for
five cents to five Tor ten cents, on
account of high price of tobacco.
New York.-Harry Paine Whitney
has just purchased of the Curtis COM
pany an air plane designed to carry
live passengers, and equipped with
all the luxuries of a seagoing yacht.
Washington-The war department
has refused permission to take more
water from the Niagara river for
power purposes. Buffalo and Mag
ara plants are threatened by water
famine.
El PasO.-Newspapers in Mexico
City are selling for $3.50 each, Mex
lean money. Mexican peso, worth
normally SO cents in American cur
rency, has dropped to one cent Unit
ed States money.
Seattle.-Where there were thou
sands of bartenders in Washington
last year there is just one now. He
is Jerry Riordan and he tends bar
for the state, being in charge of the
liquor permit bureau.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. legis-
lation will be sought to relieve ma
tional guardsmen who signed the fed
eral oath requiring three years re-
serve duty, and to limit their service
to three years. actual service.
Paris.-The rubber eye has super
seder the glass optic. 1t is soft
and elastic, responds to the muscular
movement of the socket, does not ir-
ritate, and has the additional advan-
tage of being unbreakable.
New York.-A statewide boycott
on eggs is to be inaugurated in New
York. 1t has the sanction of mayors
of various towns and cities through
out the state. The movement is di-
rected against the egg Spectator.
New York.-Food situation is rap
idly growing serious. Commissioners
Hartigan of bureau of weights and
measures predicts $40 for a barrel
of flour and wheat bread at 10 and
Is cents loaf in near future unless
drastic action is taken.
WashingtOn.-It looks as though
the house will stand: Republicans,
315; democrats, PA, with six indie
pendents holding the balance of pow
or. Martin, prohibitionist of Louisi-
ana, will vote with the democrats on
organization. Control is matter of
conjecture.
Baltimore.-To discuss the United
States Supreme court as model for
an international court of justice, the
American Society of Judicial Settle
ment of International Disputes will
hold conference in Washington
Dec. 8 and 8.
New YOrk-Cigars are to be raised
in price, plugs of tobacco will be re-
duced in size, and there will be less
cigarettes in each package, on &C
count of increase in tobacco prices
costly strikes, and the advance in
price of all materials used in connec-
ton with the trade.
New YOrk.-John D. Rockefeller
has gone to his Lakewood estate
With him went his % secretaries
clerks and housemen, a telegraph OPP
orator and herd of cows which sup
ply milk to his household. When he
goes south the COWS will go also.
New York. - Roald Amundson,
south polar explorer is here to buy
two hydroairplanes for use in his
1918 expedition into the north polar
region. The flying machines, he
said, would be constructed so as to
travel over smooth ice as we'll as on
water, and will be used for explora-
tions.
New York.-Based on an inquiry
which disclosed that the employees of
the Central Trust company are pay
ing from rs to 35 per cent for
such necessaries as food and cloth
ing, salary increase equivalent to
from 80 to 81 per cent was an
nounced by the company today. 1t