The Ordway new era., 1920-03-26
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WESTERN

All public SchOOi tencnerS III Oihhha
will get an increase Of S4O0 each next
fail. instead of $500 previously agreed
upon, by the Board of Education.
A demand for resubmission Of the
eighteenth amendment IL mnde III n
resolution adopted by the license com
mittee of the Milwaukee common coun-
Gil. Coupled win the resolution is
also request for the repeal of the
Volstead enforcement net.
David and John Goertzen, cousins of
Henderson, Neb., are held ut Fort
Omaha as deserters. 1t Is alleged they
obtained permission to visit Canada In
1918, before being called in the draft,
and didn't return until recently. They
are members of Mennonite colony.
Damage In California from incen-
diary fires and other forms of sabo-
tage attributed to radicals and advO-
Gates of "direct action" was estimated
at $50,OOO,OOO by s. j. Shannon, dep
uty United States marshal ut Fresno,
testifying at Los Angeles, at the trial
OF Nicholas Steellnk, alleged Indus
trial Worker OF the World.
As result of charges made In Su-
perior Court at Spokane by two pros
pective Jurors In the case of James
Stevens and Charles Butts, alleged In
dustrlal Workers of the World, ON trial
there charged with criminal syndical-
ism, that efforts had been mnde 10 in
fluence their opinions regarding the
cnse, an entire special venire was dis
missed and the case was continued.
The annual meeting of the National
Education Association will be held at
Salt Lake City July to 10 and will be
featured by extended discussions ON
the shortage of teachers and the neces-
sity for the profession to unite for leg
islation to obtain wage increases. The
council of state school superintendents
will hold two dnys' conference pre-
ceding the general meeting All ses-
sions will be held In the tabernacle of
the Mormon church.
A skeleton, believed TO be that of n
mnstodon, has been unearthed at Pen
awawa on the Snake river near Spo-
kane, Wash, it is announced by the
Rev. NJ. w. Fink of Penawawa. The
gigantic bones were discovered by n
road construction crew. The skull of
the animal Is reported to be two and
n half feet between the eye sockets,
the tusks to be eight inches In dinm
eter at the base and the teeth four
to five inches ncr0ss. An effort will
he made Wednesday to unearth the
hindquarters of the skeleton.
WASHINGTON
The population of Hawaii Is 249-
002, the Census Bureau at Washing
ton announced this week. This Is an
increase of 5SOS3, or 30.3 per cent us
compared with 1910.
The Pacific and Atlantic fleets will
meet off the Pacific coast of Panama
next January In their first joint man-
euvers, designed to keep the navy ''on
Its toes" during peace time.
A peace-time army of 299,OOO en-
listed men and 1880 officers has been
approved by the House, in passing the
army reorganization bill by vote OF
246 to 92 The measure now goes to
the Senate.
Fuel oil bids opened by the Navy De
pnrtment covered less than one-fifth
of the 100000 barrels asked for and
prices quoted were more than 100 per
cent above those In current contracts.
Living costs In February We're six.
tenths of / per cent less in January,
according to figures made public by
the Labor Department. The figures
are based on reports from retail food
dealers in fifty-one cities.
Wholesale cancellations of deporta-
tion warrants against Communists nnd
anarchists have been ordered by the
Department of Labor. More than 100
of the agitators arrested during the
recent raids conducted by the Depart
ment of Justice have been turned loose
during the last few days
Decided decrease in exports is shown
by the February foreign trade state
ment issued by the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, exports for
the month amounting to S645.0O0,00O
the smallest monthly total since Octo-
ber 1910. Imports also decreased
from S474, 100000 In January to Si67,-
100000. Imports of gold during Feb
ruary We're unusually small, amount
ing to S4,473,OOO against exports OF
$43,OO0O0O.
Seeing in increased production n
means of restoring normal business
and price conditions, the Chamber OF
Commerce OF the United States, 1t was
announced, will make its eighth nn-
nual meeting, to be held mt Atlantic
City. April 27 to %, an "increased pro
duction convention"
Mexican federal troops have brought
about the release of Peter W. Sum-
mers, American ranch owner. who was
kidnapped and held for ransom by reb-
els in the vicinity of Snlinn Cruz, Mex
leo, according to advices reaching