Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-05

gross.
Permission for the entry into Ha-
waiiRn territory of $4,000 Chinese im-
migrants will be asked of Congress.
Fear Of a bread famine increased at
Buenos Aires when there we're add
tons to the ranks Of striking bakers.
A Stockholm dispatch to the Ekstra-
bladet says that bread and flour tick
cts will be issued in Sweden from Jan.
IS.
Five men were killed and six in
jured in a rear.end collision when the
c. p. r. Toronto train for Montreal
ran into the local train from Cornwall
to st. Polycarpe.
The keynote of the comment in the
Vienna press on President Wilson's
note to the ~belligerents is that the
idea of peace thus brought forward
will not easily be dissipated.
The London foreign office has re
ceived advices that the Greek govern.
ment is carrying out its promise to
demobilize the Greek army. The work
is proceeding satisfactorily, the ad-
vices indicate.
Gov. Gen. Won Beseler has signed
an order creating the Polish State
Credit bank, which shortly will issue
new paper currency in Polish marks
Of a value equivalent to German
marks, and guaranteed by the German
government.
Mrs. Venustiano Carranza, wife Of
the de facto president, accompanied
by several other prominent Mexican
families, has arrived in Nuevo Laredo
en- route to the United States. They
are said to be leaving Mexico because
OF Villas activities.
The London Times prints a forecast
of the report of the committee which
las investigated the results of last
years daylight saving. 1t says the
evidence taken shows that opinion
overwhelmingly favors making the
plan general in 1917.
Nine de Thebes, the most famous
%clairvoyant in the world, who prophe
sled the great war, the death of Queer
Victoria, the assassination of Presi
dent Carnot of France, the San Fran
cisco earthquake and other events o.
moment in the history of the nine
teenth and twentieth centuries, II
dead at her home at Meungsur-Loire
France. Her real name was Anne dc
Savigny. She was IS years old.
SPORTING NEWS
Sailor Grande, Philadelphia heavy
weight, stopped Neb Dewey in the
fifth round in New York.
Harry Greb of Pittsburg decisivell
outpointed Bob Moha of Milwaukee il
a ten-round bout at Buffalo, N. Y.
Billy Miske of st. Paul and Jacl
Dillon of indianapolis, middleweights
have signed for a twenty-round figh
at New Orleans, La, on Feb. 2.
Richard Croker, former Tamman!
leader and prominent racehorse owne
in the United States, will send hi
horses to the starters on American
tracks again.
Earl Cooper won the fifty-mil
match rae at the Ascot speedway a
Los Angeles, covering the distance il
44:41, an average of GLIB miles al
hour. Eddie Pullen finished one sec
end behind Cooper.
Roy E. Peterson of La Crosse, Wis
hoped into the Brazilian limelight a
Rio de Janeiro, when he and Sydne.
Pullen Won the tennis doubles cham
pionship of Brazil. They defeateI
Haynes and Tegeau, 6-l, 5-3, rs.
At Philadelphia Stanley Yoakuu
Denver iron man." took a beatin.
from Terry McGovern, Philadelphi
lightweight. Eddie O'Keefe, Philade.
, phia, and Artie Root, Cleveland bar
tamweight, went six rounds to a draw
GENERAL
Ernest Beauchalnp laid out Dan Kei
i, chel in the fifth round of their mil
at st. Louis.
Nine negroes are in Jail at Minder
La, in connection with the murder G
John Reeves, his wife and two chile
[ rem Christmas night.
| Adoption of the metric system G
weights and measures for commercia
, use in the United States and also tn
daylight saving" plan was advocate
r in New York by speakers in differen
, sections of the convention of tn
American Association for the Az
: vancement of Science.
The largest single days importatio
of gold into this country was recorde
with the deposit of $3S, 900. 900 in tn
New York and Philadelphia assay o
fees. OF this amount $4,000. 900 d,
posted in New York was in the forr
Of American eagles, being the identics
gold which was shipped to Paris i
! April, 1904, during the Roosevelt az
ministration by this government, a
part of the payment of $4,000. 90
made to the old French Panama Cana
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