The Ordway new era., 1919-04-11
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FROM all SOURCES
SAYINGS, . o IN O .. ACHIEVE
MENTs, svFFERiNos, HopGs
AND pGARs OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Approximately 1900 independent
fishermen went on a strike at San
Francisco against the fixing Of fish
prices by the state market director.
The Carrie Nation home, on the
Kansas side, established By the fam
Gus saloon smasbsr, used for years as
q tenement, has been reopeped as a
mercy institution by the VI. G. T. o.
Of Kansas.
Prices for steers In the Salt Lake
market reached the record marx for
beef cattle at Salt Lake when 42h
cents pound was paid for 2-year-
old Hereford entered at the Intermoun-
tain Fat Stock show.
A. A. sedkwick Of Hoqulan, Wash.
shot and killed Sidney ~ Heath, an
attorney, Louis Sedgwick, his wife.
and then ended his own life. Sedg-
wick, sufferer from tuberculosis,
had been sued for divorce.
Five men were killed near Mel
bourne. Wash. and three others prob
ably fatally injured when logging
train on which they were riding be
came unmanageable on down grade
and plunged from the rails into a ra-
vine.
A Korean Battalion OF Death"
consisting OF coo men. fully armed,
has crossed the Tumnnkang river from
hnnchurin into Korea, pledged not 10
return until Koren ~ free, according
20 a cablegram received 81 San Fran
cisco by the Korean national assOcia-
tioD from The Rev. Hymn Soon. lis
representative In Shanghai
To learn II 1t Il necessary for
Sebrnska to make special provision
for caring for discharged soldiers who
have become mentally deranged while
Ia the service, Governor Samuel II.
McKelyie Of that state, sent a com
rpunication to Secretary of War Baker
asking for Immediate Information on
the subject.
Ballots cnst In the recent municipal
primary In Butte, Mont, in which
William r. Cults. recently captain In
the United States army. wns declared
:he Democratic nominee for mayor
over w. +. Dunn, under conviction Of
ssdition, were missing from the ballot
box OF one precinct when 1t was
opened In court In the hearing OF the
contest Dunn had Instituted over the
election.
WASHINGTON
Members Of the special mission Of
the Philippine Legislature at Washing
ton seeking immediate Independence
of the islands were told by Secretary
Baker that he spoke President Will
sons mind when he said he believed
the time had come to grant the com
plete Independence desired by the Fill
pino people.
The meat packing Industry, which
his been under federal license since
October, 1917. has been released from
s-o,: administration control by pro-
clamation signed by President In Paris.
Under the proclamation "all persons,
firms. corporations or associations en-
gnRed In importing, manufacturing, In
cludinR packing, storing or dIstribut-
ing fresh, canned or cured beef, pork,
mutton or lard are released from
license by the food administration.
Charges Of gross carelessness and
negligence in pnAventing and control
ling the Eipsad Of typhoid and para
typhoid fevers In the army are made
against many medical officers serving
with the forces overseas In n circular
published by the chief surgeon of the
American Expeditionary Forces
Another case of executive ciemency
has been announced by the War De-
partment The President, 1t was said.
has commuted to dishonorable dis
charge and life Imprisonment the
death sentence OF Private James @.
Slsiies. Company ID. 321st machine gun
battalion, who. on Aug. 10, killed
Sergt. George j. onken OF the same
company at Trondes, France.
First aid instruction for public
school children IN to be introduced un-
der the supervision OF the American
Red Cross In schools throughout the
Washington announced that arrange
ments had been made for adding the
course to the curriculum OF the schools
OF Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
California, Washington, Alnska and
New York City and that the plan had
been endorsed In many other states.
Unusual growth OF trade between
the United States and Oceania was
shown In u report In the Bureau OF
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. In
the first eight months of the fiscal
year oceania took S135.sSO,769 worth
Of exports from this country. ms con-
pared with SS3,000,S06 In the same pc
rlod last year. and sold the United
States goods valued Mt Sl30,ST1 ,G02, mn
increase OF S62.00O,00O over last year.
The United States government has
sold TO the Czecho- Slovak military au-
thorities aeroplanes and aeropiane