The Ordway new era., 1920-01-16
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDEMNED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union New, service.
WESTERN

WESTERN
Theft of 5000 worth OF dues stamps
belonging to Metal Mine Workers
Union number 800, the Phoenix head
quarters OF the mining branch of the
l. w. W.. was reported to the police,
union officials stating the headquar-
ters was ransacked and records re-
moved.
Three indictments against Thomas ].
Mooney. two against Israel Weinberg
and two against Mrs. Rena Mooney,
wife of Mooney, were dismissed ut San
Francisco. All were ON charges or
murder growing out of the bomb explo-
sion during the preparedness day par
ade in July, 1915.
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Payne, SO years
old, first cousin of Abraham Lincoln,
was buried In Ogden, Utah. She died
OF heart trouble. Mrs. Payne, who was
daughter of william Hall, was born
in Louisville, Ky. Her features bore n
striking resemblance to those OF Abra-
ham Lincoln.
A decrease of $S,063, ,T62, or &c per
cent in the output of the metal mines
llminary figures made public by the
geological survey. Gold, silver, copper,
lead and zinc produced in 1919 was val
ued at $23, 124, ,045, as compared with
S3l ,1s7, ,s07 the year before.
A score of persons travelling IN day
coaches were injured about fifty miles
west of Morridge, S. D., when the west
bound Columbian passenger train ON
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
road broke through II small bridge near
Watauga. Ten are quite seriously in
jured, but all probably will recover.
A New Year gift of S1,000000 TO
Throop College of Technology, condi-
tlonal upon an equal amount being
raised from other sources, was an
nounced by President james A. B.
Scherrer. The name of the donor was
withheld. The donation was said to
be the largest individual one ever made
to nn institution in Southern CalifOr-
MIA
Ezra Perrin Savage, former governor
OF Nebraska, died ut Tacoma, WASH,
Mt the age OF a. He had lived quietly
In Tacoma for the past sixteen years
after a long career as a legislator In
Nebraska. where he was in the grain
and cattle business. A boyhOod asso-
ciate of william #. Cody buffalo
BilD. he served with the famous
plainsman as a scout in the Civil war
and as a soldier in the armies OF Grant
and Sherman.
WASHINGTON
An appeal to the American people to
extend aid to T,OOO,OOO Austrians
threatened with anarchy and death by
starvation during the winter has been
forwarded to Washington by Baron
EichOff, who is head of the American
peace delegation.
1t may require $175,OOO to S2OOOOO
to send the American athletes to the
Antwerp Olympic games. The squad
will include track and field athletes,
swimmers, cyclists, marksmen, football
players, horsemen and fencers and
will sail early In July. The games, ms
Aug. II and continue three or four
weeks.
By a vote of 9 TO 5, the House mill
tary affairs committee refused to ap-
prove of bill giving the rank of lieu
tenant general to Major Generals
sLiggett and Bullard. Proposals for
that rank for Major General CrOwder
and General March have not been acted
upon.
There will be no summary action by
the House to elect Victor Berger,
elected from the Fifth Wisconsin dis
trict after being barred from the House
last fall because of alleged disloyalty
Representative Mann OF Illinois an
nounced he would object to summary
action and would demand that the Ber-
ger case be given committee consider
alton in order to protect the rights of
the voters of Wisconsin.
Minimum salaries of $40, COO for am
bnssadors and $4,000 for ministers,
with gOvernment-owned embassy build
ings and allowances for upkeep were
recommended to the House foreign af-
fairs committee by Secretary Lansing.
The committee is holding hearings on
the annual diplomatic and consular
service appropriation bill. Ambnssa-
dors now receive S17, 800 and ministers
Sl2,5OO
The sum of $T6O, 100000 was realized
from the sale OF American stocks re-
manning in France after the departure
of the American army, said Brig. Gen.
w. u. C0nnor, chief OF staff of the
American department of supplies. He
estimated the value of the stocks at
S1,T00, 0,OOO,0O0 and declared it would
have cost s75,OOO,OO0 to take them back
10 America.
Some OF the changes in railroad OPP
Grafton adopted during the period of
government control will he continued