The Ordway new era., 1918-02-22
FOREIGN

IN the recent Blf1hth IN Berlin nave
been cent to prison by extraordinary
courts-martial.
Boio Pasha. who WAS convicted by a
Paris courtmartiaI of treason and sen
fenced to death. appealed from the
verdict to the Court OF Cessation.
Peace with the Ukraine was made
not only 30 that the central powers
might obtain foodstuffs. but also to
effect a breach in the eastern front, it
is indicated in a dispatch from Vienna
According TO the lobby correspond
ent Of the London Daily News, facts
are known which bring tho possibility
OF a separate peace between Austria
Hungary and the entente allies much
nearer
Great quantities of arms and muni-
tions bound for Finland have been
seized in the harbor of Stockholm. the
Social Demokraten OF Stockholm says.
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen.
The police at Copenhagen arrested
the leader OF the Syndicalists. who es-
capped during the riots. in which be
tween $4,000 and $1,000 persons at
tempted 10 storm the treasury, plum
der shops and enter the royal palace.
The extension of the franchise to
Canadian women was announced by
the government as a part of It's estab-
lished policy. II was stated that wom-
an suffrage would be an established
fact in Canada before another election
is held
NJ. HOlzmann. Maximalist envoy to
Switzerland. says in an interview with
the Socialist newspaper Sentinelle of
Geneva. that If the Russians refuse to
accept GerInany's conditions the Ger
refuse to fight.
President Wilson stands head and
shoulders above all others as the
spokesman OF the allied peoples, in the
opinion OF the Manchester Guardian.
mainly because he Is able TO keep firm
ly and constantly in view the reasons
why America came into the war.
Mrs. William b. Leeds, a wealthy
American widow, and Prince Chris
topher Of Greece. accordine 10 the
London Daily Sketch. have been quiet
ly married In Switzerland. where Mrs.
Leeds has been stopping for time
with a son who is in delicate health
In the House of Commons former
Premier Asquith. commenting upon
President Wilson's speech to Con-
gross, said the President had discrim.
mated Justly in regard TO both tone
and substance between the declara.
tions of the German chancellor and
the Austro Hungarian foreign minister
in their utterances regarding war
aims.
Russia's withdrawal from the war
was real withdrawal, and the throw
ing away of all agreements with her
former allies, said Leon Trotzky. the
Bolshevik foreign minister In report.
to the all-RussiGn workingmen's and
soldiers councils on the result of the
Brest-Litovsk conference, according to
Russian wireless dispatch received
at Berlin.
SPORT
Az usual. 154 games will be played
In the American league in the coming
season, according to the official sched.
ule. The season will open in the East
April Is. one day prior to the opening
in the West.
The fifth annual Midwinter Carnival
will be held in Steamboat Springs,
Colo. on Feb. 81 and % Henry Hall.
holder of the worlds title. made on
the Steamboat course on March 9,
1917, will not be there. but the title
Will be contested for by Lara Haugen,
Hans Hansen. Carl Howelson and An
ders Haugen, all of them experts and
any one likely to set new worlds
mark
GENERAL
The Maryland Senate passed the
resolution ratifying the federal prohib-
ition amendment. The House previous.
| ly had passed 1t.
Capt. Vernon Castle. famous dancer
and member of the Royal flying corps,
fell to his death at Benbrook flying
field at Fort Worth, Tex. sacrificing
his own life to save that OF fellow
| aviator.
| Col. Theodore Roosevelt has so far
recovered from his recent operations
for abscesses that he will be able to
leave the hospital for his hotel within
two weeks and return to Oyster Bay
ten days later.
| Directors of the Arizona chapter of
the American Mining Congress, repre-.
senting every mining district OF the
state, held two days meeting at
Douglas to discuss possible methods OF
increasing copper production. The
chief problem before the mining men
is how 10 handle more lower grade
ores.
RADIO and Wyoming. subject to the pay
ment of income tax to the United