The Ordway new era., 1920-01-23
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union S.v,s.r,ie.
WESTERN

Harry S. New. reputed son of Unit
cd States Senator Harry :. New OF
Indiana, was found guilty Of nurder
In the second degree at Los Angeles
]. h. Evans. - years old. son of
kota City. Neb., was Instantly killed
in an automobile accident at Sioux
Falls. $. ID.
Ward McCrili. serving ninety-day
sentence in the county Jail at Minot.
n. D.. on bootlegging charge. shot
and killed Ernie Thompson, the Jailer,
and escaped.
Soon after getting his discharge
from the United States marines, Edgar
Tiffin Highes, of Fort Scott. Kan. WAS
found dead in his room ut Fort Worth,
Texas. An empty chloroform bottle
was by his side He is believed TO
have committed suicide.
Bank notes worth $4,000 We're
stolen from the msilroom OF the
steamer Cheloshin Just before the
boat entered Vancouver harbor from
Prince Rupert. Il. &. The mailroom
was broken into and mail sacks We're
cut open. Police did not reach the
boat until all the passengers had left.
The University OF California base
hall team has been invited to play
Harvard at Cambridge. Mass, this
spring. Acceptance OF the invitation
is expected. as the Callfornians are
scheduled to make an Eastern trip 10
meet several Middle West college
teams
Roy Elfin OF New sharon, Iowa. has
been sentenced 10 ten years in prison
by Judge Dan Hamilton. on his plea
Of guilty to arson and conspiracy 70
destroy property OF persons known as
"Hollanders" In the vicinity OF oska-
loosa. He was alleged TO have hired
others to set fire to the property.
A dense fog. the first in the history
of Douglas, Ark, obscuring objects
only u few feet away, caused almost
total suspension of business for one
day. A headon street-car collision. re
sulting In the injury Of both the mo-
tormen. and an automobile truck col
lision, in which one man was injured.
occurred
American automobile manufacturers
have decided to spend Sa,ooo.ooo in
building good roads in China as a pre-
liminary to an automobile sales cam
paign in that country. according TO h
]. Moore. sales manager for several
American automobile concerns. who
arrived In san Francisco from the Far
East on the liner Tenyo Maru.
WASHINGTON
Hearing OF the governments case
against the United shoe Machinery
Company has begun in United States
District Court at Little Rock, Ark The
ease is said TO be important because it
will be the firs. 10 construe that pro-
vision OF the Clayton act which amends
the federal antitrust laws.
The largest postotfice appropriation
hill ever presented. carrying $46n9.I.-
SIS for maintenance OF the department
during 1921. has been passed by the
House. The original estimate was
>S9i.siS,6sS but the House added
S1aTS3aN for increases In salaries
provided for in previous legislation
The extent to which the woman vote
Will count in the coming presidential
election. II the amendment Is ratified
in time. may be seen in the fact that
there are approximately .SOOo,Oao
women Of voting age in the UniteS,
States
President Wilson may 20 To Hon
olulu at the expiration Of his term OF
office At least Alexander Hume
Ford rendered the President an invi-
-
The Pan-Paciflc Association and To
consider residence. and leadership in
a land whece there Is no rare preju-
dice"
The American merchant marine will
show a profit % approximately siOn-
opo a ship for 1919. ac,-or,iing 10 pre-
limtnary repcrts in the hands Of the
shipping bpSiri officials and estimates
III receipts by the treasury The sroSS
receipts OF the shipping bOard for the
year 1919 are estimated al approxt-
Inately Sl.oIocso0oa. and OF this sum
it Is expected tsat i clear pr,aat of an
pro1imately SloocslUoa VIII IL,
shown Officials Of the ShlpnsRr
board said one ship last year uvyyrd
profit of $4,000 during dVe
inoaths' cruise through the Orient.
Leon Salinas, sub>eSretary ot the
Mexican Impairment % COmnerce sat
Industry. and other Mexican So,err,-
inent officials en- route 10 Washington
via Laredo. Texas. presumably are 20
ing to attend the Pau-Auerican fInan-
cisl conference At Washington
Withdrawal OF Alneriesn tru-a,s,
frvm Siberia will b. begun at oOes.
Secretary Baker Sunounes,L Ssaae Of
the 5000 tgoops will he ressoved i'm,
uediately TO ships now in Siheria and
the remainder Will b. withdraw as
the evacuation OF tte 400 ce~eia..-
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