The Ordway new era., 1921-12-09
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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WESTERN


WESTERN
Ruth Thompkins, 5 years old, was
crushed to death while playing in
cave dug by. children when the sides
caved in, burying her under two tons
of earth, at SCOTS Bluff, Neb.
Three unmasked men entered the
Northwestern Loan office, a block
from the police station in Omaha, held
up Sam Cohn and Ben Morris, propri-
etors, and escaped with $1,000 in dia-
monds, jewelry and cash.
Jack Sankey, prominent oil man,
formerly of Tulsa and Los Angeles,
was found dead in his apartments at
a local hotel in Fort Worth, Texas.
Police said he had killed himself by
shooting. He was one of the success
full operators in the west Texas oil
fields.
While playing with a roller towel at
his farm home, ten miles north of
Huron, S. D., Everett Mediger, IL
years old, twisted the towel about his
neck, slipped on the bathroom floor
and fell. breaking his neck He was
dead when his sister, the only other
person in the house at the time,
reached him.
W. Il. Hollis, a resident of Fort
Worth, Texas, was taken three miles
west of town by masked men and
whipped, he informed the police. He
said the men took him to the county
jail following the whipping and re-
leased him. Police say Hollis told them
that he was informed by the masked
men that he was whipped because he
possessed a quantity of liquor.
The Union Pacific railroad system |
has decided to begin its conferences |
between company officials and repre- |
sentatives of the workers on the ques-
ton of lower wages on Dec. 81, it was
stated at headquarters of the system
in Omaha. All classes of employees
would be affected, it was said. Some
of the conferences will be held in Oma-
ha, while others probably will be con-
Quoted in Salt Lake City, Portland
and Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON
Fifteen ships of the old navy will be
put on the auction block soon, is was
announced by the Navy Department.
Among them are the cruiser Brooklyn,
flagship of Rear Admiral Schley dur
ing the battle of Santiago. Others are
the cruiser Columbia, the battleship
Maine which replaced the battleship
of that name destroyed at Havana, the
battleship Missouri, launched in 1901,
the cruiser Memphis, now a wreck on
the San Dominican coast, and the tor
pedo boat Dale, recently known as the |
Oriole.
Values of the merchandise exporte !
during October fell to fractional parts |
of the totals for the same month last |
year, while decided drops in imports
were noted by the commerce depart
ment in its monthly summary Exports
to Europe aggregated S196, 100000 COM
pared with 423,0Oo,OOO in October
last year, while imports amounted to
$67, 100000 against SSS,000,000. Dur
ing the ten months ended with Octo-
ber exports to Europe We're S2,O56, ,0OO,-
600 against s3,720,000,00O. the corre-
spending months of 1920, while imports
aggregated $622, ,oOO,oO compared with
SLOTS, 100000.
Workers in the New York navy yard
passed resolutions asking Congress to
give years salary to all employees
who have been in the yard more than
a year should they lose their jobs
through suspension of work on agree
ment of the arms conference
Secretary of War Weeks estimated
that about 1000 of the American
forces on the Rhine will be at home be-
fore Christmas. The Cantigny. one of
the two vessels engaged to transport
the forces home, is already on the way
to New York with the first contingent.
W. r. Stansbury, the new clerk of
the o. S. Supreme Court, is now en-
5oying that satisfaction which comes
from the knowledge that long, faith
full and intelligent service has been
recognized. His position is for life,
and he started in as Junior clerk
more than thirty years ago.
Gus Branch, a pool hall proprietor
of Truckee, Calf, was placed in the
county Jail to await preliminary hear
ing on charge that he murdered An
ME Boyle, whose body recently was
disinterred at Ogden. The disinter-
ment is said to have disclosed that the
woman was beaten severely. An in
quest soon after death held she had
committed suicide by poisoning
Recent investigations by the United
States Geological Survey, Department
Of the Interior, In what Is known as
the superpower zone-the dense indus
trial region between Washington and
Boston-show a waste of coal used in
the production Of power by the indus
trial establishments in this zone in the
year 1919 to the amount Of 13, 1902, 100