The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-12-03
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in Portland. Ore. to $1,000 wholesale
Retailers, however We're advertising
sugar at 10 cents a pound with n limit
Of 10 pounds to a customer The price
Of refined sugar in San Francisco was
cut to $3.50 hundred weight. mark
ing a reduction of 80 cents. Beet sugar
dropped to $500 at the refineries
Austin F. Flegel. assistant United
States attorney at Portland. Ore.
charged at a hearing in that city tina,
police officers of Portland had sup
piled a bootlegger with liquor which
was later sold in case lots to prominent
citizens. some of whom he named. The
occasion was the trial before the pc.
lice board of Police Patrolmen +. W.
Huntington and G. w. Russell. both
accused of connivance in the alleged
plot.
The fierceSt rate war in the history
of shipping is looming on the Pacific
and assuming proportions of ma
tional issue. according ia A. F. HaneS.
vice president and general manager OF
the Pacific Steamship company. in
Portland. Mr. Haine> is on his way to
Z Seattle. where. he said the question
Of economic peace or war will be de-
ter,nined at a meeting of the Pacific
westbOund conference. The act which
threatens to precipitate the rate war
is the recent withdrawal from the
conference of NlitSu 4 Co. one of the
strongest of the Japanese lines. and
the Blue Funnel line. operating in the
flag. Mr. Haines said.
J. c. ("Harry') La France. under
arrest in Portland charged with forg-
cry and larceny. confessed. accord
ing to Police Inspector Swennes. that
the body which he used in 1913 in put.
ting over his $4,000 swindle on in
Surance companies was purchased by
him from small undertaking estab-
1ishment for $500. and that he paid two
undertakers' assistants 81 600 each for
assisting him in taking the body to
lonely spot on the Clackamas river.
above Estacada.
Great Falls. Mont. dispatches an
nouncing that the Northwest Livestock
show. held annually at Lewiston. Ida.
for the last IL years. is to be aban-
doned. has brought the announcement
from the directors Of the association
that the statement is without founda.
ton. The report gained circulation.
it was stated. because Of the fact that
the 1927 exhibition is to be supplement-
ed by the general line Of industrial
exhibits.
Amendment Of the Volstead prohihi-
ton enforcement act may be necessary
as result Of the recent decision Of
the United States supreme court le-
galizing the movement of liquor in
tended for personal use. Congressman
Andrew J. volstead said in Minneapo-
lis. ".r the situation seems to call
for it, we can easily amend the law"
he said.
Hundreds OF Indians in the upper
Copper river district of Alaska are
facing starvation because of failure
of the salmon fishing in their section
Paul Schwartz. recently returned from
Alaska. told a commission In session in
Seattle to investigate the demands of
residents of juneau and Cordova
Alaska. for restrictions on salmon
fishing on the upper river.
FOREIGN
The German government no longer
considers itself bound by the clause of
the Versailles treaty hy which Ger
many surrenlerS her colonies 10 the
allies. according to an official note Of
protest presented To the league Of ma
lions now in session ut Geneva. Swift
Zerland. The note declares that the
allies have not fulfilled their under
treaty concerning the allotment Of the
German colonies and mandates. II
adds that. having signed the pact of
the league Of nations. Germany I'M
derstood she would he admitted to the
league. and consequently take part in
the allotment Of mandates. hut that
now she no longer considers herself
bound by that clause.
The condition of former Empress
Augusta Victoria of Germany. who has
been suffering from a severe heart at
tack, is so much improved thar former
Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm. who
had been summoned to Doorm. Holland.
because Of his mothers illness. has
returned to his home ut Wierengen.
The Ulster College of Irish. at
Clough- Aneely. county Donegal. was
destroyed by fire. The cooperative
stores there were burned. Roth fires
are believed to have been OF incendiary
origin.
Allied nations probably will inter-
rene to prevent the return Of former
King Constantine to the Greek throne.
aaid Charles 4. A. Jonnart. former
French high commissioner in Greece,
Ind at present extraordinary French
to the vatican. A similar
,pinion Is voiced by Baron Denys
cochin. an eminent French authority
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