The Ordway new era., 1920-11-26

The robbers who pillaged the Bur
lington railroads transcontinental fast
mail at Omaha and secured loot vari-
ously estimated at from 100000 to ST.
100000. have dropped completely out
of sight.
Louis Daniel Giroux. son Of Joseph
l.. Giroux, millionaire mining operator
of Los Angeles and Marietta, Nevada,
has been arrested on a charge of hav-
ing attempted to evade the selectlve
draft in 1917.
Edward Burdish, being taken from
Omaha to the state penitentiary at
Lincoln as parole violator. jumped
from a passenger train near Gretna.
Neb. He was captured an hour later
and placed in jail
Resolutions protesting against in
reference with importation of Mex
lean labor to work on the cotton
lands of the Southwest were ap-
proved at Los Angeles at n meeting
of the International Cotton League
of the West.
Bloodhounds from Albion, Neb, have
been used in an effort TO run down
Dennis Chester, who escaped from IA
Burlington train near Broken Bow,
while en- route from Great Falls,
Mont, to Kansas City, where he is
wanted In connection with the shoot
Ing to death OF Florence Barton,
daughter OF a wealthy shoe manufac-
turer
The loss in the Burlington mail car
robbery at Council Bluffs, Iowa, will
total at least S3,5O0,0o0, 1t was made
known when additional postoffice of
ficials came to assist In investigations
and a check of the insurance on the
pouches was made. The sack which
was found had been ripped open con-
tained SS00,0O0 in government bonds
the investigators said.
WASHINGTON
Orders withdrawing from service
twenty ships totaling more than 10000
dead weight tons, have been issued by
the shipping board. They will be tied
up at Norfolk, Baltimore and on the
Pacific coast. The largest vessel with
drawn is the Western Scout, S,422 tons,
to be tied up at Baltimore.
A decrease of per cent in retail
food prices in October throughout the
United States was noted In statistics
on the cost of twenty-five articles of
food made public by the department
OF labor. Greatest decreases We're in
prices of sugar, "a per cent and po-
tatoes 10 per cent. The price of eggs
increased IA per cent.
Benjamin ]. Salmon. conscientious
objector. on hunger strike in Wash
ington. ID. c., has been transferred
from st. Elizabeth's hospital for the
insane to the Walter Reed hospital,
Washington. Salmon has been at
, st. Elizabeth's hospital since July
20. when he was transferred from
Fort Douglas, Utah. He was de-
clared sane by board of twenty
five physicians at st. Elizabeth IS
after two months observation. He
will remain at Walter Reed hospital
until court proceedings to secure his
release are disposed of, or until the
War Department releases him with
out court action.
The japanese population of the
three Pacific states-Calfornia, Ore
gon and Washington-has increased
u
between 1900 and 1910 figures an
nounced by the census bureau show.
In Hawaii, however, there was n de-
cided increase and nearly half the
total population of the islands is made
up Of Japanese.
An insurance policy on the life of
a person who commits suicide is pay
able, II all conditions Of the policy are
complied with, the supreme court
ruled Mt Washington, In sustaining
lower court DEGREES in n suit brought
against the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company by Isabel II. John
son, beneficiary under n policy OBJ
tained by her husband.
The 1919 death rate in the dealt
registration area of continental United
States, embracing 81 per cent OF tn,
total population, was shown In sta
tistics made public by the Census Blu
reau to be the lowest recorded fol
any one year. The rate of 12.9 pc
1000 of population showed drop o.
81 per 1000 from the unusually hlgl
rate of 1918. resulting from the epi
demic of influenza.
Temporary admittance to the Unite,
States has been granted by the de
partment of labor to George Balkan
off, Russian baritone of the Chicag,
Opera Company, who, on his arriva
from Europe, was detained at Eli
island and ordered deported by spe
cial board of inquiry. The respit
from the deportation order will be 70
three months and was issued, the de
partment said, to allow Baklanoff I
I'LL his engagement with the Chicag
Opera Company and also to allow In
xaetivotiop nf his easa