The Ordway new era., 1917-01-26

TWO weeks The number OF Canadians
enlisted since the war began IS
3S7.4Os.
SPORTING NEWS
Johnny TiIlman OF Minneapolis out
pointed Walter Mohr in ten rounds in
New York.
The Second Texas infantry football
team defeated an all-star eleven from
Camp Wilson al san Antonio at Aus
tin, Tex, 81 TO 6.
David Fultz. president OF the Base
ball Players Fraternity, set Feb. 20
as the date the players strike is like
y to become effective.
Johnny KiIbane OF Cleveland
knocked out Young Drummie OF Jer-
sey City in the tenth round OF their
twelve-round bout at Waterbury. Conn.
The entire Boston Red So1 Base
ball Club will go on strike If Dave
Fultz. head OF the ball players fra
ternity, says the word, in the opinion
Of Duffy Lewis. star outfielder
Ray Schalk, declared BY White Sox
fans to be the best catcher in the
game, has signed a new White So1
contract in spite OF the fact that he
is member OF the Baseball Players
Fraternity.
Willie Jackson, New York light
weight, has jumped into the limelight
with a single punch. His knockout
OF Johnny Dundee. the clever New
York lightweight, has given him a
great following in tistic circles. It
was the first time Dundee had ever
been stopped.
GENERAL
Increased prices for cigarettes were
announced in New York
American farm products attained a
gross value OF s13,iis 900 900 in 1916
The body Of Admiral George Dewey
will repose in the mausoleum of Gen.
Nelson A Miles al Arlington national
cemetery.
An invitation petition for a state
wide prohibition statute was formally
laid before the Legislature at Carson
City, New, By the secretary of state
Mrs. Esther Redmond Power, eldest
daughter OF John E. Redmond, the
Irish leader, died at hospital in New
York She had been Ill only a few
days
W. ". Ray, United States district
attorney, has begun an investigation
Of the coal shortage in Utah to deter
mine whether any unlawful com bina-
ton exists,
Fifty persons were seriously hurt,
ten probably fatally, when half the
population OF the little town of Har-
ford. Pa, was trapped in a burning
frame structure during a wedding re-
ception and dance.
In recognition OF his services in
helping to open up the great West, the
{ alifornia State Assembly paid a trib-
ute to Col. w. F. Cody. In a resolu.
tion presented by Assemblyman
George c. Watson OF Los Angeles,
Buffalo Bill was Iauded as a man who
did more than mis- share to make the
early development of California pos
sible
William j. Bryan told the Indiana
Legislature at indianapolis two new
reforms are needed in national gov
eminent. The national constitution
should be made more amenable TO
changes and chain Of national news
papers, one published in WASHINGTON
and one in each state capital, should
be established. They should be pub
iished by non-partisan boards at the
expense of the government, he said.
Peter Crawford, Civil War veteran.
y years old, looked on at Eureka, Cal,
while surgeons amputated both his
legs, just below the knees, and com
forted himself with the reflection,
audibly expressed, that those pesky
corns" would trouble him no more.
At Joliet. ILL.,, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Stark. Caroline Stark, Is. and Vincent
Vousch are in jail, while Magistrate
J. L. Mccullough investigates a story
to the effect that her parents we're
endeavorfng TO force her into a mar.
rfass with vousch after hs had paid
$40 for her,
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