Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-01-21
Washington !.

Washington
Lincoln, Neb., was selected for the
national convention of the prohibition
party July q,
Recent nominations of postmasters
included: John D. Haney, Mitchell, S.
D. Thomas w. Mckenzie, Havre.
Mont. s:
! Congress was asked by the interior
department to appropriate $8,000,000
for expenditures on the Alaska rail-
way during the year beginning July.
Employment Of extra help to handle
the increased volume of mail caused
the postoffice department to ask con-
gress to grant $5,ooO,o 900 additional
Withdrawal of American Red Cross
personnel from Siberia simultaneously
with the movement of the American
Siberian expeditionary force home
ward has been ordered.
Alaska's mineral output in 1919 was
the smallest of any year since 1910,
and its value was less than half that of
| 1916, preliminary estimates of the
geological survey show. - =.
Representative Carlos Bee (dem. J..
Texas, introduced a bill indorsed by
postmaster General A. S. Burleson,
! providing for letter telegraph serv-
ice under supervision of the postoffice
department.
Government owned wireless stations
on the Pacific coast, in Hawaii and the
! Philippines would be permitted to
transmit press dispatches at any rate
fixed by the navy department, under a
| Dill introduced in the house.
! Ending 10 years fight, the Senate
passed the water bill which now goes
to conference for the composing OF diff
ferences between the House and SEN
| ate. Final enactment of the measure
| within a few weeks is expected
Secretary c. H: Glass announced
that subscriptions for treasury certi-
| tlcates of Indebtedness, dated Jan. 2
and maturing Dec. Is, amounted to a
total of $703,026,OOO. Subscriptions
for the certificates, which bear Az per
| cent interest, closed Jan. 16.
thousands of tons of high explosives
now in temporary. storage along the
eastern seaboard would be moved to
storage houses to be erected some dis
lance from Savanna, ILL.,, Sparta, Wis,
and Ogden, Utah, under plans outlined
Dy army ordnance officers to the
| house appropriations committee.
Suffragists are beginning to specu.
late as to which state will give the
Susan B. Anthony amendment the fin
al vote necessary to ratification
Twenty-six notifications have been
achieved, four special sessions are
agreed upon, Wyoming, New Mexico,
ldaho and Arizona. Three full suf-
rage safes, Washington, Nevada and
Oklahoma, and West Virginia, where
the legislature is pledged and the gov
| ernor had declared he will call a ses-
sion sooner or later, bring the number
Ito "a, leaving the 35th and 36th to be
won from Delaware, New Jersey, Mis-
s1sslppl, Maryland, Vermont and Con-
nect1cut
Foreign
The German troops have begun to
1:evacuate Silesia. =
Herr Meyer, German minister of the
treasury, has resigned.
Paper money is in circulation in
Mexico for the first time since 1916.
| Many cases of influenza have been
reported in Havana. A newspaper re-
port states that 1000 cases have been
found there.
! Although final details have not been
completed, Dutch-German commits
sion has agreed to plan by which the
Netherlands government will negotiate
a loan to Germany.
Dr. Jose Luis Tamayo, representing
a majority of the liberal party, was
elected president of Ecuador for the
four year term beginning next Septem.
Der by vote of $4,000.
/ The sentence of death pronounced
upon Count Arco Valley for the assas.
slnatlon of Kurt Eisned, the Bavarian
premier has been committed to life
imprisonment, according to advices.
The Mexican government has re.
solved to buy or acquire by condemna-
ton proceedings all oil lands within SO
kllometers OF the borders of the coun.
try 'held by foreigners against per.
fectly we'll defined precepts of the con.
stitution, says dispatch from Mexico
City. $3.50. -.
Six hundred thousand marks con.
tributed by Americans to the German
| Red Cross in the winter of 1916-1917
still are on deposit in the sDresdne1
bank, Berlin, awaiting disposition. The
fund reached Berlin on the eve of the
break In relations between the United
States and Germany. . T..
Domestic H..
The Chicago stockyards labor coun.
Gil, composed Of $4,000 workers, re.
signed from affiliation with the Chi
cago Federation of Labor.
Z. II. Lackey was held to the dis.
trict court at Alliance, Neb., on q
charge of causing the death of his Z
year old daughter by giving her poi