Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
THE WORLD

Washington-The war department
has asked congress for 100000
for machine guns.
st. Lcuis.-Benjamin Hirsch, a
Russian ragpicker, has fallen heir to
a 100000 estate.
Corning, Ark.-Nineteen sons have
been born to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Scott during the past ten years.
Washington-It looks as though a
special session of congress will be
called some time after March 4.
L~Ondon.--In food riots that have
been raging in Dresden, women
fought the police for three days.
WashingtOn-The net income o.
the railroads for the year just closed
is in excess of $1,000, 000, 900.
Denver, Colo.-It is proposed to do
away with the National guard in this
state and organize a state constabul-
airy.
Valparaiso - The Chilean govern
ment contemplates the construction
of a railroad across the Andes noun
tains.
Observation-Disclosures Wilson is
against the proposed issue of bonds to
take care of the $300,000,O00 gov
eminent deficit.
New York.-Since the opening of
the wal SIS, ,0U0 has been in
vested by American manufacturers
in Canadian plants.
Spokane - This city has been
picked as the location of the farm
loan bank for the district of which
Montana is a part.
Misunderstanding the past year
letters sent to the dead letter office
contained checks, drafts and money
orders representing $4,000 900.
Laramie-For the first time in 20
years the Union Pacific has had to
suspend it's train schedule in Wyom-
ing on account of the depth of the
snow.
Plainfield-Francis Charles Lang
horn, who helped to organize the
Jolly Corks," from which sprang the
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, is dead.
Chicago-There is a holdup in Chi
cago every six hours, a murder every
second day, two suicides every "a
hours and an arrest every seven and
one-half minutes.
Atlanta - The Daughters of the
C~onfederacy have started a campaign
TO eliminate the term ''civil war; as
applied to the late unpleasantness be-
tween the north and the south.
London-Asquith, the retiring pre-
mier of Great Britain, was offered an
earldom by King George, and de-
clined it. He has been the leader of
the liberal party IN England for
years, and the liberals are opposed to
titles.
Fargo.-Twenty farm loan associa-
tons have been organized recently in
North Dakota. The associations re-
present a membership of 400 farm
ers, and the organization was effect
ed largely through the efforts of
county agents.
Ell Paso-villa forces are prepar-
ing to attack Chihuahua City ana
Juarez. The bandits army is said to
be 5000 strong, with plenty of am
munition, and provisions and a we'll
filled war chest as the result of re-
cent victories.
lei Paso-Vllla has altered his atti-
tude towards Americans, his friends
say, and as his army approaches the
border, is sparing the Gringo. Villa
is reported to have personally slaugh-
SSAOu bhAOC VI AlS oLdll OIllC0TS WHO
had incurred his ~disp1easure.
Spokane-Charles Cooper, a pris-
oner, who broke a safety razor blade
to pieces and swallowed the frag-
ments in an effort to commit suicide,
will ecover. The fragments stuck in
his throat, and in a violent fit of
coughing, were elected, much to
Cooper's discontinue.
Nauu Vnrlr nThirtp tb,oo x,;11s1.
dollars in gold, paid France in con-
nection with the French rights to
Panama, and in the identical boxes
in which the money was shipped to
France, was returned to the United
States recently in payment of war OBJ
legations. This same gold had re-
NAMED in French vaults since it had
been received, 13 years age.
Washington-The legal controver-
sy between Colorado and Wyoming,
as to which state has a prior right
to the use of the waters of the Lara
ME river, is up before the United
States supreme court. Colorado capt.
talists claim the water for an irriga-
ton project near Greeley, while wy
oming financiers claim it for a pro-
ject near Wheatland. Property rights
worth 800, 00O,0 600 are involved.
EdmOntOn.-The Royal Northwest
Mounted Police, the famous military
police of the Canadian northwest. is
to go out of existence in a blaze of
glory. The organization will be
mustered into the British service as a
unit of cavalry, and sent overseas.
Saskatchewan, Alberta and British
Columbia, where these rough riders
have been serving, Will establish pro-
v1ncial constabular1es to take their
places.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., as we'll as
many of the ne~utrals, approves of
President Wilson's suggestion to the
European belligerents that they say
what they are fighting for and on
what terms each of them will consid-
er peace. England is inclined to re-
sent President Wilson's oyertures.