The Ordway new era., 1919-02-28


citizenship papers to escape military
service during the war, were denied
citizenship rights by Superior Court
Judge b. J. TalIman at Seattle.
A band of several hundred Yaqui
Indians was defeated In battle with
Mexican federal soldiers near Idsbor-
regoa, Sonora, forty miles south of No
gales, Ariz., according to word re-
ceived
The Public Utilities Commission of
Utah has issued an order to NIL tel
ephone companies that the rates and
charges OF service as stipulated by
Postmaster General .Burleson should
not be recognized
City and county authorities at St
attic are centerIng their energies in
search for Leon Green, whose real
name is said to be Leon Butouetsky
Russian, and one of the recent labor
agitators during the general strike
there.
To help solve one OF the most per-
picking postwar problems, what to do
with our vast shipyards and merchant
marine. the Los Angeles Pacific Navi-
CATION Company has been organized by
financiers and business men of South
ern California.
A Flnthead Indian council, said To
he the first held in western Montana
since the white man arrived there in
large numbers, was held last week at
the mission, and It was learned that.
as result of it the Indians, backed
by Major Sharp. the agent, will ap-
peal to Washington for the right to
administer their own financial affairs.
Under vi provision of bill intro
duced In the Washington House Of
Representatives, any public employe
who Joins strike movement. will lose
his position and face a maximum term
of Imprisonment of ten years, or n
maximum fine of $4,000, or both. The
bill is result of the general strike
Mt Seattle and Tacoma. A Senate bin
would make sabotage a felony
Harry A. Wheeler, president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, told 1000 delegates to the
Transmississippi REIMBURSEMENT con-
gress in Omaha thnt better railroad
service is obtainable under private
ownership of the railway lines than
under public ownership. There has
been n sluffing of enthusiasm, ingen-
uity and initiative under government
CONTROL" he declared.
WASHINGTON
BY order of President Wilson, Amer
icen troops In Russia will lie returned
20 the United States as soon as possi-
BILE, possibly before June l.
Col. c. Mason Pendleton, one of the
last of Mosby's raiders and a pictnr-
esque fighter Of the Civil war, is dead
nt his home In Washington.
Uncle Sam, ever alert to serve his
millions of investors, is putting out
new postnge stamp. 1t Is of the 13-
cent denomination and is issued pri-
mnrily for use in preparing n single
rate of letter postage and special de-
livery fee, or for postage and registry
fee. 1t may be used, however, for
other purposes for which ordinary
stamps are used.
An appropriation of S75O,OOO,OOO for
the operation of railroads under gov
ernment control was approved by the
House Appropriations Committee.
Trials by court-martial of two naval
officers In connection with charges of
bribery and graft in the third naval
district hnve been ordered by Secre-
tary Daniels.
Philippine foreign trade showed II
steady and encouraging increase dur
ing the calendar year of 1918 with the
United States the dominant nation,
the bureau of insular affairs of the
War Department announced at Wash
ington. Total imports amounted to
$95, 800. .200-an increase of 20 per cent
over 1917-while the export total in
= creased from S95,604,3 300 to Sl35. .6S2, :
800.
The House agreed on the confer
ence report In the postofflce appro-
priatlon bill without record vote.
As amended by the Senate and agreed
to by the House the hill carries ap-
preparations agregatlng S6o0.00O,OOO.
-Four hundred millions of this amount
is for strictly postal purposes and
S2OO.0OO,0O0, put in the measure by
the Senate, is for federal aid In road
building,
Short-term notes maturing in from
one to five years would be offered in
the Forthcoming Victory Loan cam
paign instead of long-term notes un-
der n tentative agreement reached by
the House ways and means committee
to fix the terms Of the loan by legis-
lHtion.
To encourage American Investments
in foreign securities. the government
has taken steps to gather extensive in
formation on credit conditions in other
countries, to be placed at The disposal
of prospective purchasers of private
securities.