The Ordway new era., 1920-09-10
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EioN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
western Newspaper Union News ssrvie..


practicing physician, and founder of
the Omaha Herald. later made part OF
the World-Herald, is dead at Orahn.
In the Pacific coast states there
were $4,000 motor vehicles and 5000
tractors five years ago, whereas to-
day there are 10000 motor vehicles
and 250,OO0 tractors.
Whisky, estimated to be worth
$1,000, some of which the police said
they believed was smuggled from
Canada, was seized by officers from
an automobile found at Omaha. The
driver of the car was not located.
More than $1,000 acres of heavily
timbered areas along the Canadian
border, particularly in Montana and
Idaho. have been swept by some 1,oOO
forest fires for the past month. More
than $2,OOO,OOO worth of fully ma
tured timber has been destroyed.
Farmers near La Crosse, Wis, COM
plain that harvesting is being sori-
ously hampered by crickets eating
binder twine. On many bundles the
twine is entirely consumed. Farmers
who soak the twine in poison declare
the crickets eat is quicker than the
untreated twIne.
Col. Malvern Hill Barnum, cavalry,
now stationed at San Francisco. has
been detailed commandant Of the
United States disciplinary barracks at
Fort Leavenworth, succeeding Maj.
Gen. ]. II. McRae. who has been as
signed to command the second dl-
vision at Camp Travis.
The climax of the police depart
ment's war against speeding and reck-
less driving was reached at Sioux
City, Iowp, when Judge Sam Page
sentenced James Wilson and A. c.
Anderson to three days each in the
county Jail after they had been found
guilty Of speeding through the heavy
traffic.
Eight hundred ploys, harness for
1000 mules, two tractors, twenty now
ing machines, two threshing machines
and thousands of dollars worth of ad-
ditional agricultural implements pur-
chased in the United States are ex-
pected to complete the subjugation of
Francisco villa, erstwhile Mexican
bandit and guerilla.
For brevity the will filed at Seattle.
Wash, for William H. Gordon, former
instructor In penmanship in the Uni
versity Of Colorado. author of text
books and originator of the free-hnnd
method of card writing, is unique in
the superior court records there. 1t
reads: leave everything l own to
my sister, Mrs. Douglas Mckay, 1928
Center street, Peru, ILL.,"
WASHINGTON
Maj. II. S. Green, officer in charge
of the Quantico. Va, marine barracks
post exchange, was knocked uncon-
scious at his quarters in the camp by
robber, who escaped with $4,000 of
the funds in his possession. His as
sailant abandoned $1,000 In checks
and silver which was included in the
exchange receipts. and took all the
currency. Major Green is now In the
post hospital, but will recover. A
board of inquiry is investigating the
circumstances.
Cotton production this year has
been forecast at 12,7S3000 bales by
the department of agriculture, which
based its estimate on the condition of
the crop on Aug. %, which was an
nounced as 67.5 per cent of a normal.
Gen. John ]. Pershing will tour the
principal countries of South America
at the end of this year, as the per
sonal representative of President VIII
son, IL present plans of the state de-
partment are carried out.
Organization of flying unit that
is expected to prove the nucleus of
an American reserve TO be organized
by the army will be begun at n meet
ing of former aviators in Chicago. The
meeting has been called by group of
wealthy Chicagoans acting under a
purely patriotic impulse whose iden-
tity has not been disclosed
There will be no Womans party
ticket in the political field this year,
and the chance that there ever will
be one is exceedingly remote, judg.
ing from the views as to the party's
future activities, which have been un-
der animated discussion at the ma.
tional headquarters ever since the
suffrage amendment passed definite
ly into the constitution.
In an attempt to get baby panther
as n mascot, members of the One Hun
dred and Fourth aero squadron fought
a mother panther and four cubs In a
cave near SandersOn, Tex, according
to war department advices in Wash.
ington. The mother panther defeated
the squadron.
Combined federal and state expendl-
lures for road building may reach a
total of $25O.O00.O00 during the cur
rent fiscal year, according to Thomas
II. Macdonald. chief of the bureau OF
public roads, department Of agricul-