The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-11-26
WESTERN.

ed at Spokane last week by b. H.
Horribly. president Of the company.
President Hornby stated that the I.
W. W. activities had cost his company
100000. and that had led to the de-
cisiOn to quit the field.
Meat packers Of Nome. Alaska, will
he prepared to ship at least 5000 rein
deer carcaSses to American markets
through Seattle next year Carl. J.
14omen of Nome said in Seattle. Nome
interests are building two additional
refrigerating plants at Egavik and
Golovin. near Nome. and plan to eS-
tablish string of such plants along
the cost of Alaska. The reindeer herd
owned by one company in the vicinity
of Nome now numbers more than 35.-
600 animals. Mr.. I4omen predicted
| there would be 1.COO.OW reindeer in
the Alaska territory within 10 years
The conviction and sentencing of
Thomas J. Mooney and Warren X.
Billings on charges Of murder in con
nectinn with a preparedness day bomb
explosion in San Francisco on July
-. l"l6. WAS Il gigantic frame-up
from the first to last" Police Officer
Draper Hand. an important figure in
the case. said in statement submit
ted to Mayor James Eolph last week
according to- Il story appearing in the
San Francisco Call Hand. according
to the Call. was active in the gathering
of witnesses. Several witnesses. ne
said. were coached for weeks in what
they should say on the stand.
Carl Larson. Salt Lake shoemaker
said to be former secretary Of the
Communist Labor party in Utah. ha~
been arrested by government officials
who announce that proceedings lookin.
| to his deportation as an undesirable
| will be started soon.
GENERAL
French francs sold nj the lowest
| price on record in a general decline of
values in the foreign exchange market
In New York last week. selling at ST.
cents apiece. Rates ON London and
the leading continental centerS react
| Ell shortly from recent recoverieS with
French money leading in the drop
Demand bills on London fell to 3.21l@
and Italian. Spanish and Greek remit
tances recorded new minimumS ut
$40. 1927 and 500. respectively.
The Calumet and Hecla and subsidi-
airy mining companies have announced
at Calumet. Mich. Il Il per cent cut
IN all wages and salaries. effective
November 16 The Osceola Consoli
dated. branch of the Calumet and
Hecla at White Pine and La Sale
Mich. will he closed down. The low
price of copper the limited market,
| unSoid surplus. excess production and
| cost are given rs reasons. 1t is est.
mated that 1.5OO men will be thrown
| out of work.
Two hundred and fifty high school
pupils. including 40 girls. were dis
missed indefinitely from the Topeka.
kaS.. schools as punishment for leav-
ing school in Il body Alrnis,ice day
without permission The students left
their class rooms. gave Il snake
dance in the street. marched through
several other schools and joined in the
days parade down town. remaining
absent from school the remainder of
the day. The suspended pupils req
resent about one-fourth of the student
body
John e. Weaver Il Civi! war vet
cram. said to be the last survivor of
six men who carried President Lincoln
to the White House after he had been
shot in Ford'S theater. Washington.
=. e.. died in Philadelphia last week
AT the home of his daughter. Mrs.
Anna Jury. He was born in Potts
vile. Pa. in 1892
The warning baseball factions in the
ior leagues have made peace, each
side connecting certain points TO the
other III the battle over the rpOrwa MIA
tion Of professional baseball control.
After a three-hour session in Chicago
last week The representatives, of tie
Ii clubs voted unanimously 10 apl,oinr
Federal Judge keneSaw Mountain
Lands supreme dictator of the desff-
MES of the leagues hut did away with
the civilian tribunal proposed by the
LaSker plan. voting in>Iend that Judge
Lands should be- II COMMITTEE. uf one
in complete charge Of the administers
zion Of The leagues affairs, Judge
l.andi> salary rs chief Of baseball will
be S3-,1"H Il year and he also will re-
relf@ $'.N] Il year as federal judge.
giving him ah annual stipend IF $50
COO
The head Of man with 1t bullet
hole through The right cheek was
found last week in II pile Of ashes
back Of a cnf" in the out>kirt> of the
downtown section of Chicago by Il
hotel fireman who was removing the
ashes. A thorough search If the en-
tire pile revealed no Other uartS Of
the body. Tn" head had been cut