The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-01-23
Washington

Washington
Lincoln. Neb, was selected for the
national convention of the prohibition
party July 81.
Recent nominations of postmasters
included: John d. Haney, Mitchell, S.
d. Thomas w. Mckenzie, Havre,
Mont.
Congress was asked by the interior
department to appropriate $S,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 S5,O0O,O0O 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. y,
Texas, introduced a bill Endorsed 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
bill introduced in the house
Ending a 10 years fight, the Senate
passed the water bill which now goes
| to conference for the composing of diff
ferences between the House and Sem
ate. Final enactment of the measure
within few weeks is expected.
Secretary c. H. Glass announced
| that subscriptions for treasury certi-
ficates of Indebtedness, dated Jan 2
and maturing Dec. Is, amounted to a
total of $703,026,000. 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
by 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,
Idaho and Arizona. Three full suf-
frage safes, Washington, Nevada and
Oklahoma, and West Virginia, where
the legislature is pledged and the gov
ernor had declared he will call ses-
sion sooner or later, bring the number
to "a, leaving the 35th and 36th to be
won from Delaware, New Jersey, Mis-
sissippi, Maryland, Vermont and Con-
necticut.
Foreign
The German troops have begun to
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
loan to Germany.
DR.. Jose Luis Tamayo, representing
majority of the liberal party, was
elected president of Ecuador for the
four year term beginning next Septem-
Der by a vote of $4,000.
The sentence of death pronounced
upon Count Arco Valley for the assas.
sination 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
| kilometers of the borders of the coun.
try held by foreigners against per-
fectly well defined precepts of the con-
stitution," says dispatch from Mexico
City.
| 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 Dresdner
bank, Berlin, awaiting disposition. The
fund reached Berlin on the eve of the
break in relations between the United
States and Germany.
Domestic
The Chicago stockyards labor coun-
Gil, composed of $4,000 workers, re-
signed from utilization with the Chi.
cago Federation of Labor.
| L. H. Lackey was held to the dis.
trict court at Alliance, Neb., on a
charge of causing the death of his z
year old daughter by giving her poi.
soned candy.
| On his way to an undertaken to ar.
range for the funeral of his mother-in.
law, Fred P. Metz fell dead on the side.
walk in front of the undertaking par.
lors at Milwaukee.
| The greatest sale of aircraft for
commercial purposes in the history of
American aviation was made at the
first western aeronautical show, which
was given at Chicago. One thousand
and 3S planes and one dirigible were
sold, for total of $7,543,OO0.
| Every citizen of the IInitad Sfatoc