The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
WORLD news N
CONDENSED FORM

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has return
ed to New York after completing Il
round trip to Brazil for the benefit
of her health.
According to the Paris edition Of
the New York Herald. President Will
son asked for a delay by the league
Of nations in the matter concerning
the Saar valley until the United States
had appointed delegates to the league,
hut that nevertheless the Saar COM
mission was appointed without refer
ence to the United States.
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Nine. Schumann- Heink. noted con-
tralto. is at her home in Groslnont, Il
suburb Of San Diego. Cal. ill with
pneumonia. Her physician said that.
although her condition was not seri-
Gus. the remainder OF her concert tour
would have to he postponed indefi-
nitely.
Four men were killed. nine probably
fatally injured and several others Sc
verely burned by flaming crude oil,
when still at the Sinclaid Oil com
pany'S refinery in East Chicago ex-
ploded. The accident occurred as the
shifts were changing. The four kill
ed were working around the still. Their
bodies We're burned to crisp.
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+. {. Green. Il census enunerator at
Cheney. near Spokane. WASH. was shot
and wounded in the leg by Mrs. +. ].
Womach when he called at her home in
connection with his official duties.
Mrs. Womach said she was frightened
when Green opened the door. mistak-
ing her request for his identity for an
invitation to enter. She was not ar
rested.
The house of representatives has
passed bills comforting citizenship on
all Indians born within the United
States and providing Il final DISPOSE
ton of the tribal property among In
dams adjudged competent to admins
ter their affairs. All restrictions on
disposition of the property after APP
portionment would be removed by the
bill.
The largest postoffice appropriation
bill ever presented. carrying S4GO.977.-
S6S for maintenance of the department
lnpinr 1(rD1 hns hnns, Inv, = ,n
house. The original estimate was S:,9l :
1868. but the house added l.7S3.
900 for increases in salaries provided
for in previous legislation.
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Clothing prices next spring will be
from % to 10 per cent higher, accord
ing to H. II. King of Seattle. who adj
dressed the National Retail Clothiers'
association at meeting in Chicago.
He said the increase would come from
Il complexity of causes. chief of which
was increased pay to workers.
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Three million dollars collected and
sent by Slovaks in the United States
to Prague to be used to fight politi.
cally against the Czechs for the lib.
erty of their country has been seques.
tered ut Prague, according to advices
reaching Paris. The report says the
money probably will be confiscated by
the state.
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A six-year job faces federal prohi
bition agents in making the United
States dry, according to H. n. Gay,
lord, deputy commissioner Of internal
revenue, who addressed agents and In
spectors of western states at q meet
ing in Chicago.
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Sophie HOdosky, q New York wait
ress, who testified that she received
q salary of $12 q week. was fined s.
after she had pleaded guilty to viola
ton of traffic rules while driving hel
"a SOO orfOmOhilo Nho fO1d tho nOnlPi