The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-03-05
WASHINGTON

If such is the wish of the nearest of
kin, bodies of American soldiers over
seas will not be disturbed in any way,
| whenever practicable, Secretary N. d.
Baker said.
The secretary of the interior has
ordered the opening to homestead en-
try of more than 100000 acres in wes-
tern Oregon, a portion of which is
adapted to cultivation.
A prospective shortage of fuel for
oil burning naval craft prompted Sec
rotary Daniels to issue call for con-
ference with representatives of the
War Commerce and Interior depart
ments to discuss the situation.
Between $4,000 and 100000 cases of
canned salmon bought for the army in
1913, were condemned as unfit for con-
sumption, Director Carl Alsberg of
the department of agriculture's bureau
of chemistry, told the house commit
tee investigating contracts.
Ripe olives, which have caused
many deaths recently from poisoning,
may be eaten with impunity within a
| few months as a result of changes in
preserving methods and abandonment
| of glass containers. DR.. Carl Alsberg
| of the federal bureau OF chemistry
said.
Drastic reduction of permanent Off
GERS of the army from their temper
airy ranks to regular army grades
effective March Is, has been ordered
by General March, chief of staff. Of
approximately 5000 officers now hold
ing temporary rank higher than their
permanent appointments, about 1000
probably will be returned to their reg
ular status. -s..r
Augustus Morrill,, formerly Ameri-
can consul at Manzanillo, Mex, was
killed by Mexican bandits February
26. Mr.. Morrill, was SO years old. The
present consul at Manzanillo, in re-
porting the killing to the State depart
ment, said Morrill, was attacked while
on his way to the Hacienda Ell Balloon,
three miles from Colima, where he liv-
ed, and that in a fusillade Of pistol
shots received two wounds.
Foreign
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies
voted confidence in the government,
IA to II.
Announcement is made that Albert
king of the Belgians, will visit South
America in June.
A bolsheviki communication today
announces that the bolsheviki have &C.
cupied Khiva in Turkestan.
A dozen persons were arrested for
appearing on the streets of Dahlin af-
ter midnight without permits.
An embargo against trading in
stocks, bonds or other securities from
countries outside Canada has been
proclaimed at Toronto.
Decision has been reached that the
former crown prince Of Germany must
pay taxes upon the basis of an annual
income of 100000 forms.
Ranks of the striking colored main
tenance of way employees of the Pana.
ma canal administration were swelled
to $4,000 by sympathizers.
A sapphire eight inches long and
| weighing more than five pounds is re-
ported to have been found at Mogok,
India, by Burmese. Its value is esti-
mated at between L35,000 and L50.-
900.
To safeguard the industrial regions
of west Germany, President Ebert has
issued decree proclaiming sentence
of death for arson, using explosives,
or flooding and damaging property, a
Berlin wireless message says.
A dispatch from Ra PABLO, Italy a
winter rest, Is miles from Genoa says
an American girl named Muriel Ridg-
way committed suicide by throwing
herself from the terrace of the Regina
hotel. The dispatch says she was born
in Detroit, Mich.
The London News says that an Eng
lish firm Of motorcar agents has COM
pleted deal with the American gov
eminent for virtually all the cars used
by the American army on the Rhine.
The transaction, the newspaper as
serts, involved between $6,50O,0OO and
! $4,000, 900.
One hundred and twenty vessels, in
Guiding eight battleships and num-
Der Of cruisers, will be handed over to
the Allies at once by the German gov
eminent under the terms of the treaty
of Versailles, according to an an
nouncement made at meeting Of the
Association of German Fisherman at
Hamburg. These vessels, the announce
ment said, would be manned by Off
GERS Of the German mercantile ma
rine.
Domestic
Dartmouth college at Hanover, N.
H., will receive more than 100000 by
the will Of Richard K. Tyler, real
| estate man.
Lieutenants G. L. Usher and M. L.
Wolf, held by Mexicans since their
forced landing Feb. on Mexican soil,
were released at Nacozari, Sonora.
DR.. Arthur T. Hadley, president of
| Yale university, will retire in the
spring of 1921 unless some grave en-
| Urgency should arise" he said He
will be 65 years old then.
A $25,000,000 independent pipe line
| to carry oil from the Kansas, Okla.
homa and northern Texas fields to Chi
cago, with a distributing center at ST.
Louis, will be in operation within a
! year, two petroleum journals announc-
ed.
| Another hunger strike was started
| by 125 radicals held in deportation pro-
ceedings on Ellis Island. They told
walters they you'd refuse to eat until
the government either released or de-
ported them. The first hunger strike
of radicals was instituted by those