The Ordway new era., 1920-04-02

The safe of the First National Bank
of Greenwood, Neb., twenty miles
northeast of Lincoln, was blown open
and robbed of S10i,30O in Liberty
bonds and $500 in cash by yeggmen.
III. L. Pittman surrendered himself
to the county jail at Fresno, telling
the sheriff lie was wanted for the
murder of A. Nicholson, Il Fresno
building contractor.
james Ayres and Charles OFF. for
mer world war veterans, were drowned
in the Mississippi river at Keokuk,
Iowa, when the canoe in which they
were riding turned over in severe
wind storm.
Four persons, Mr.. and Mrs. +. NJ.
Parr and their two sons, Harold. Ia,
and Earl, 4, were killed when their
home at Bingham, Utah, was destroyed
by a snowslide. All the bodies have
been recovered.
The special session of the Washing
ton Legislature came to an end at
Olympia after the Senate reluctantly
agreed to accept the referendum pro-
vision of the soldiers bonus bill. The
referendum puts the measure up TO a
vote of the people in November.
The Nebraska Constitutional Con
vention fixed September 21st as the
date for special election at which
voters are to ratify or reject the pro
posed new constitution. The question
of electing Supreme Court judges by
districts will be on n separate ballot.
More than two million sheep and cat
Al. Al Y,nI
ranges of the Rocky Mountain region
this summer. These stock will turn
off a gross revenue in beef and mutton
to their owners next fall of over S21,-
100000, according to estimates of For
est Service officials.
A signed statement that he has evil
dence that Ambrose Bierce, noted sat
irist, who disappeared in 1915, was put
to death by villista firing squad near
the village of Icamoli, on the trail to
Monterey, was made in the San Fran
cisco Bulletin by James ii. wilkins, a
special writer, who has returned from
Mexico, in search for evidence re-
garding Bierce's fate.
WASHINGTON
The Senate has confirmed the NOM
ination of Balnbridge Colby us secre-
tary Of state.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has granted the Pullman Com
pany permission to file petition for
an increase of 20 per cent in Pullman
car rates.
An immediate investigation of the
high price of gasoline and other oils
by the Federal Trade Commission Is
provided In resolution favOrably re-
ported by the House judiciary Com
mittee.
An official estimate by the State
Department placed the number of
Americans in Germany at about 5000,
of whom approximately 400 are wom-
en-. All American travellers in Berlin,
1t was said, were given ample oppor-
tunity to leave on special cars pro-
vided after the recent revolutionary
outbreak, but many failed to leave, as
they felt they were safe.
With view to protecting the ma
tons gold reserve from depletion,
Representative McFadden, Republican,
Of PENNSYLVANIA, has introduced bill
proposing an excise tax of $40 an
ounce on gold used for jewelry and
other manufacturing, the tax to be
paid to producers for new production.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has announced that 1t has re-
ceived acceptances from more than
500 railroad corporations declaring
their intention to operate under the
guarantee provisions of the transporta-
tion net. Fewer than dozen lines
have thus far refused the income
guarantee, and many of these, Off
cials said, We're small corporations.
Secretary Houston awarded the con-
tract for construction of Broadview
hospital, Cook county, Illinois, prof
ect bitterly fought over In Congress,
to the Shank Company, Chicago, for
$1,000, 900, or S4OO0 900 below the limit
of cost. Under the contract the gov
ernment becomes owner of the entire
project, covering 800 acres and an un-
completed main hospital building,
which was started by Edward Hines.
Work must be completed by July 10.
Less than one-seventh of the fuel oil
requirements of the navy on the Pa
cific coast for the next fiscal year
were covered in bids opened by the
Navy Department. Against requests
for 4,5O00,OO0 barrels, the department
received but one bid of 602 900 barrels
from the Standard OH Company of
California.
The House bill authorizing the
United States Grain Corporation to sell
100000 barrels of soft wheat flour
In Europe on credit MS relief meas
ure has been passed by the Senate