The Ordway new era., 1920-05-21


The family of J. b. Henderson of
Hutchinson, Kan, has established n
new moving record. 1t has moved
thirty-four times in the last thirty
years.
Miss Camille A. Dosch, society ed
itor of the Portland Oregonian, is dead
from injuries received in a collision of
two electric trains near Portland. Her
death swclls the fatality list of the ac-
cident to nine. Miss Dosch was a sis
ter of Arno Dosch- -Fleurot, war cor
respondent.
One man is dead and four critically
i'll at Florence, Ariz.. after having
eaten preserved string beans and pre-
served beets, according to County Ply
sician w. G. Small of Florence. DIR.
Randall said the men We're infected
with the bacilli of botulism, like re
cent "ripe olive poisoning" cases In
various parts of the country.
Council Bluffs was confronted by n
mystery few days ago. The nude
body of a man with both legs off at
the knees and both arms Topped off
at the elbows was found in the Mis-
u
From the condition of the body it ap-
parently had been in the water for
some time. There was no clue to Its
identity.
Purchase of the town of Marinette,
fourteen miles northwest of Phoenix.
and 5000 acres of land adjacent for
S1000,000 has been announced by the
Southwest Cotton Company, cotton
producing subsidiary of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company of Akron,
Ohio. Officials of the cotton company
said the purchase increased the com
pany's holdings in that vicinity to 49,
600 acres.
The American Association of En-
gineers in convention Mt st. Louis ap-
proved a plan to raise S2,S0O,0O0 to
construct n national engineering build
ing in Chicago. 1t was recommended
that deans of engineering schools be
paid from $4,000 to $4,000 u year, ac
cOrding to the size of the institution,
and that assistant instructors be paid
minimum of 81 800, and professors n
maximum of $12O0
WASHINGTON.
Births In the registration area of the
United States, which covers about 53
per cent of the country's estimated
population, during the year 1918 ex-
ceeded deaths by 34.4 per cent Sta
tistlcs for that year just completed by
the census bureau show total of L.
363, $40 births In the territory, which is
Il small decrease compared to 1917,
while the deaths. 1,O14.82O. show
slight increase.
Among more than $4,000 buriaIs of
American soldier dead in Europe the
graves registration service has reduced
to per cent the number of cases In
which Identification is incomplete. and
this number will be still further re-
duced by the checking up of all pro
durable evidence Mt the European head
quarters Ralph Hayes. private secre-
tary of Secretary Baker. reported to
Chairman Porter Of the House foreign
affairs committee.
By vote of 33 to 101 the House
refused to give up the free seed dis
tribution perqulsite which attaches to
the office of congressman. Instruc-
tions were given the conferees on the
agricultural appropriation bill to in
sist on the restoration of the $240, 600
item for free seeds stricken from the
bill in the Senate.
Legislation designed to aid the rail-
roads and shippers In the car short
age situation by extending the use of
the $30O,OO0,00O revolving fund pro-
vided in the transportation act from
five to fifteen years, and also amend
ing the law in other respects, has been
agreed upon by the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee
Establishment Of paper mills in Alas
ka was recommended as a means of re-
lieving the paper shortage by Secre-
tary Meredith of the Department of
Agriculture Alaska is destined to
become n second Norway" Secretary
Meredith said. With her enormous for
ests of rapidly growing species suita-
be for pulp, her water power, and her
tIdewater shipment of manufactured
products, Alaska will undoubtedly be.
come one Of the principal paper
sources of the United States.
The family food budget In February
was exactly twice the sum expended
for the same articles of food in Febru.
ary, 1913, according to Department OF
Labor statistics. During approximate.
ly the same period In Great Britain
the increase was only 100 per cent
while in Italy 1t was 1877 per cent Ger
many outranked all countries enumer.
ated with an increase of 224 per cent
Walker d. Hines, who has retired
as director general of the railroad ad-
mlnistratiOn, Is to leave soon for Eu-
rope on n confidential mission for