Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-12
THE WORLD

CFoi the HOW Oh gOlQ INTO the OnlIeu
States.
Tokio-Carranza is buying NUM-
lions of war on a large scale from
japanese manufacturers.
Washington-If there is a paper
trust the government plans criminal
action against the men responsible.
London-The Germans have laid
mines to within half a mile of the en-
trance of Falmouth harbor, England.
Westinghouse bogus $40 gold GER
tificate bearing the letter A and plate
number 8 is discovered to be in gen
eral circulation.
Washington-The stock subscrib-
ing books of the IL farm loan banks
have been opened. The initial sub
scriptions are very heavy.
Duluth-The first domestic serv-
ants union has been organized here
with 100 charter members.
Pittsburgh-Charles Schwab says
a period of depression is coming, but
that it will not be seriously felt for
several years following the war.
Chicago-It is reported here that a
fleet of foreign merchantile ships,
conveyed by warships, is on it's way
to New York to load with wheat for
the allies.
Washington-The postal author
tiles have ruled that mail matter, left
on mail boxes, is not deposited"
and the government is not RESPONSE
BILE therefor.
Washington-Nearly SO per cent
of the governments expenditures
during the next fiscal year will be to
pay cost of war and in preparing for
possible war.
New York-Juan T. Burns, consul
general at New York for the defacto
government of Mexico, has been ar
rested for shipping arms to Mexico
in violation of President Wilson's
embargo.
Eel Paso-Villa followers drove a
railroad spike through the heart of
the eagle on the shield of the United
States consulate at Parral and tore
the American FLAG to ribbons.
st. Paul-The Non-Partisan league,
which controls the government of
North Dakota, is planning a cam
paign by which the farmers will be
able to control affairs in Minnesota
as we'll.
Los Angeles-An electrically oper-
ated centrifugal machine gun said to
throw 5000 projectiles a minute with
an initial velocity of 1000 feet a
second is being tested out at Vallejo,
California.
Summit, N. j. DR.. Hamilton
Wright Mabie, associate editor of the
Outlook, is dead. He was 20 years
of age and was born at Cold Springs,
N. Y. He is survived by a widow
and one daughter.
MuskOgee-A tornado wrecked a
country school house near McAlester,
Eleven children were killed, four IA
tally injured and eight seriously
hurt. Several homes in the neigh
borhood were destroyed.
New York-A five million dollar
fund has been raised by the Episco
pal church, the income from which
will be used to pension superan
nuated ministers. The minimum pen
sion will be $500 per year.
Pittsburg-Bernard Wesley Lewis
scion of a wealthy PittsburI
family, about to be arrested for tn,
murder of Maize Colbert, an artist
model, killed himself as the polio,
broke into his apartments.
st. Paul-Among the bills intro
duced by the farmers in the Minneso
ia legislature are measures designed
to regulate the sale of grain, trading
in futures and a more strict observ
ance of weights and measures.
New York-A. G. Bedford, thu
new president of the Standard Oil
says that in order to cultivate better
relations between the great corpora
ton and the public he will at al
times be accessible to newspaperro n
Washington.-President Wilson il
determined to continue his effort
toward peace. If the entente repl,
to his peace note fails to meet hi
proposal for an early occasion for al
avowal of terms, the president will
make at least one more move.
WashingtOn-The population O
the United States and territorial DOS
sessions is 122,444,6 $40, according t,
estimates of the census bureau. TIL,
population of the United States prop
err is 102,017,312. The first five cit
les are New York, 5,602,8O1; Chica
go, 2,487,722; Philadelphia, 1,7O9,
51S; st. Louis, $4,000; Boston
756,473.
Washington-The increase in tn
national debts of Great Britain
France, Russia, Germany and Aus
tria-Hungary is estimated by the fed
eral reserve board at $49, 600, 900,
600 from the beginning of the wa
until the latter part of 1916. TIL
central powers indebtedness i
placed at 100000 900, 900 and tina
of the entente allies at $29, 900,
900.
London-Petticoat influence il
high places in the British army is dis
closed in the report of a boar,
censuring Mrs. Cornwallis-Wes an
a number of officers for actions de
trimental to the honor and rank O
Lieut.. Patrick Barrett of the Irisl
~fusiliers. Mrs. Cornwallis-West be
came unduly interested in the lieu
tenant. He repulsed her advances
Mrs. Cornwallis-West then used he