The Ordway new era., 1920-10-15
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
= WIRES ROUND ABOUT
49,. THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

II. McChensney of Huron, S. d. was
killed and three other workmen in
Iured at the plant of the Farmers Co
Operative Packing Company when an
elevator cable broke and precipltated
the men TO the basement.
r. B. Leady, recently appointed pro-
hibItlon enforcement group chief for
North Dakota, has been arrested on II
charge of violating the prohibition
laws. He was placed in the Cass coun-
ty Jail in default of $1,000 bail.
The body of w. L. Pierce, aged So
of Salt Lake City, was found in the
washroom of train when 1t reached
uavre, Mont. His throat was cut and
conditions led to the belief that he
had taken his own life.
Deputy District Attorney Richard
Diech announced that eileen Il. Aid
rich, former assistant paymaster in the
navy, with the rank of lieutenant, had
confessed to forgeries in Chicago ag-
gregatlng $1,000. Aldrlch Is under ar
rest at Portland, Ore, charged with
having passed spurious checks on mer-
chants.
The Luders gin, fifteen miles south
east of Stanford, Texas, was burned,
making the second gin burned within
the last few nights by fire apparently
Of incendiary origin. In each instance
the owners had received letters warn
ing that the gins would be burned un-
less they closed until cotton reached
forty cents a pound.
After hearing the plea of 10000 jap
Rnese farmers of California, transmit
ted through President Samuel Gompers
Of the American Federation of Labor,
the twenty-first annual convention OF
the California Federation of Labor at
Fresno, Calf, unanimously adopted a
resolution favoring the alien land
amendment on the November ballot
The action was taken without debate
Gen. Felix Diaz arrived in Vera
Cruz from Tlapacoyan, virtually the
prisoner of Gen. Guadalupe Sanchez.
An effort will be made, 1t is said, to
convince Diaz that he should leave the
country, Provisional President de Ia
Huerta having declared public opinion
would not permit him to remain as n
free citizen because of distrust of his
attitude toward the government.
WASHINGTON
The states of Arizona and North
Carolina We're shown in population an
louncements by the Census Bureau to
nave had during the last ten years the
argest numerical increases in their
history.
The crop reporting board of the
bureau of crop estimates, Department
Of Agriculture, made public the fol
lowing estimates, based upon Oct. ]
reports of its correspondents: Winter
wheat, production $50, ,641 900 bushels /;
yield per acre, 1876 bushels; compared
with December estimate of 14.7.
United States mints during Septem-
ber coined 100000 pieces of silver
money for Cuba and 64O,OOO pieces of
silver for Peru, Director of the Mint
Baker announced. No gold coins were
executed for the United States during
the month, but coinage from other
metals amounted to 61,615,O0O pieces
aggregating $2,7S0,930.
President Wilson has directed that
on Sunday, Nov. IA, the American flag
be displayed at half-mast on all pub
lie buildings and naval and military
posts "as a token of the nations par
ticipation in the memorial services
held for the heroic American soldiers,
sailors, marines and others who gave
their lives to their country in the
World war"
The total population of continental
United States is 105,6S3, los, an in.
crease of 13,710,S42, or 14.9 per cent
This figure does not include approx.
mately 12,250,000 people living in the
country's outlying possessions. The
population of Alaska and the total
classed under the military and naval
service abroad are yet to be an
nounced.
1t was intlmated at the State De
partment at Washington that negotia
tions with Japan over the alien LAND
and immigration controversies is pro
crossing and that there are signs OF
an agreement being reached in the
near future. Whether the agreement
would be reached before the California
referendum on the amendment to th,
alien land law to which Japan object.
was regarded as doubtful.
The question whether Congress will
continue the present basis for repre-
sentation, one member for each 211, ,S7i
population and thereby Increase tn,
membership of the house about fifty
or whether the ratio win be increased
SO as to confine the membership to it,
present number, 1876, will be decided
by an act of Congress.
President Wilson has received I
chaplain's war medal from the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of Chris
In America as an expression of ap
nreciatinn by the churchas of dis