The Ordway new era., 1920-02-06
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN
w..tern New.paper Union Now. Service.

robbed, and the yegg> escaped WIN
more than $1,000 In Liberty bonds. The
bandits gained entrance To the bank
by breaking down the front door. They
escaped in an automobile.
Three hundred and five wells are
turning out petroleum in Mexico at
daily rate OF l.925,223 barrels, accord
Ing to ndvices received In FL Paso by
Alberta Ruiz. Sandoval, acting consul
general for Mexico.
Governor Boyle OF Nevada has Is
sued II call for special session oil
the Legislature. TO consider ratifica-
iion OF the federal suffrage amend
ment. The Legislature is 10 convene
for one day, Feb. :.
A man who has been identified by
papers In his pockets ms. Frank
Travers OF Eureka. Calf. walked in
10 the lobby of the National hotel
New York. placed n gun at his head
and fired bullet into his brain. lie
died in an ambulance.
Seventeen of the leading wholesale
grocers of Chicago have been indicted
by the federal grand jury ON charges
of making Illegal gains by profitcering
in sugar. Indictments bring up the
total of sugar profiteers caught In the
federal net to twenty-four and more
indictments are expected in a few days
The first shipment OF elk from Yel-
lowstone park to point outside the
United States left Gardiner. the north
ern entrance, for Rocky Mountain
park. Banff. Alberta. Two hundred /
and 2-year-old elk We're loaded in four
cars and shipped by express 10 the
Canadian park, where they We're
turned loose.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Eastern Missouri, at It's annual con
vention in st. Louis, unanimously
adopted "A resolution giving dea-
eonesses the privilege of voting in
diocesan conventions on the same
basis MS the clergy. So far as Episco-
palians here know, this is the first
diocese in the United States to take
such action.
Burglars forced their entrance
through IA brick wall with the aid of
picks and crowbars, robbed the cloth
Ing establishment of Charles Perizki
ut Salt Lake City of twenty-seven
suits OF clothes valued Mt approximate
ly $1,000. Perizki, In his report TO the
police, said his stock had been thor
garments taken.
WASHINGTON
Henry P. Fletcher has resigned as
United States ambassador to Mexico
IN tn n affaef n tho ~ tho
next few weeks.
Former service men may reinstate
their war risk term insurance at any
time before July l, 1870. under a new
ruling of the bureau of war risk insur-
nnce. announced by Director Choline-
ley-Jones
War prosperity has doubled the de
mand for precious stones. American
buyers of diamonds and pearls spent
SS5,00o,00o for gems with London eS-
porters in 1919, figures of the Com
merce Department in Washington
show.
The Senate has voted TO appropriate
S50o,Oo0 for the use of the public
health service in its fight against in
fluenza
DIR. Hugh s. Cumming of Hampton.
Virginia, was nominated surgeon gem
eral of the public health service by
President Wilson. He succeeds DR..
Rupert Blue, whose term expired on
Jan. 10.
Anti-sedition measures We're given a
further setback by refusal of the
1lansa ole.
lative preference for their considera-
tion. No further hearings will be
held, and the judiciary committee is
expected to report new measure, in
cooperating the features or the Davey
hill, which has been suggested as
ample by the Department of Justice.
Secretary Baker has ruled that no
changes would be made in the present
army uniforms, mally because of the
high cost of material. Al recent
conference of general officers and de
partment commanders, suggestions
We're made for changes in Uniform
regulations which would include the
adoption of the rolled collar. the sam
Brown belt and limited use OF the
old blue uniforms.
Consumption Of wool In December
increased from 2G,ocoooo pounds TO
64.O0000o pounds, the monthly report
OF the bureau of markets showed.
There was continued demand for
fabrics made from the finer grades Of
wool, "a per cent OF the total consump-
tion being OF, the fine grades
Silver production in Mexico from
January to September, 1919. amounted
TO 46,94S.621 ounces, compared with
62, ,225,344 ounces for the year 1918,
according to a report received in
Washington from Mexico City to the
Department OF Commerce.