The Ordway new era., 1921-04-01

Three hundred cows which had been
gathered together ut Scotland, ). D.,
for the purpose of shipment TO Ger
many were turned loose and are now
on their way, not to Germany, but TO
their former homes, generally in
Hutchinson county. Anti-Germans are
supposed to have released the cows
Accused of numbering a st. Paul.
Mimi. railway postal clerk and of
holding two others at bay with pistol
while he robbed mail car on the
Northern Pacific railroad of more than
$4,000 in currency, Delbert Smith,
alias ]. 2. Sommers. 20 years of age,
was arrested in Salt Lake City.
Harold Jones, 12-year-old school
boy. is dead at Muskogee, Okla. He
drowned in an effort to save his =
year-old brother, Samuel, wheE the
latter fell into n creek near their home.
the boys mother, Mrs. w. ]. Jones,
dove into the creek and saved the
younger boy, but was unable to reach
the older child.
Governor Louis F. Hart, of Washing
ton, signed the poll tax bill passed by
the last Legislature. The bill becomes
effective at once, and under it every
man and woman in the state be
tween the ages of 21 and 80 must
pay a poll tax of So before May
l of each year. The first years
tax is due May l, next.
Jack Rathie is to hang, but first, he
insisted he wants bonus for twenty
five months war service. Il want my
money for my mother explained Ra-
THE. Rathie is under conviction for
the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor of
Pendleton, Oregon. He has written the
Washington state auditor for the bo-
nus which is due him from that state.
An underground dope route" be-
tween Salt Lake and Ogden, which has
served to carry $436S0 worth of drugs
to Ogden victims in the last three
years, has been exposed, according to
the police in the arrest of Henry
Bankhead. Bankhead, the police said,
confessed to making two trips daily
for three years to Ogden, carrying $50
worth of drugs on each trip.
The Democrats .Dne representative
in the lower house of the State Legis-
lature, Clyde Asbury Hammond, died
at Salt Lake after several transfusions
of blood had proved futile. Represen
tative Hammond, who was So years
old, was Mormon bishop at Moab,
Utah. State Senator J. w. Knight and
others gave ofstheir blood in an effort
to save his life. Death was due to ul-
Ger of the stomach.
WASHINGTON
President Harding has accepted an
invitation to attend ceremonies to be
held April 10 at New York in connec-
ton with the unveiling of statue to
Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan patriot
Difficulty is being encountered by
the War Department in getting eX-serv
ice men to take victory medals. An Of
ficial notice said that twenty-four of
ficers have been detailed to the task
of canvassing the ex-service men and
facilitating the distribution of the
medals
Ambassador Ricci has referred to
the secretary of fine arts at Rome the
reported discovery in an obscure cafe
in New York of the genuine Francia
Madonna, stolen in 1919 from the fam
GUS gallery in Bologna, Italy.
President Harding has appointed
Washington Gardiner of Albion, Mich,
a former member of the House of Rep
resentatives and union veteran of the
Civil war, as commissioner of pensions.
He was commander-in-chief of the G.
A. r. in 1894.
AT a meeting Of the board of direc
tors of the United States Chamber of
Commerce at Chicago. it was an
nounced that the national chamber
consists of 1,429 commercial and indus
trial organizations with combined
membership of more than 10000 per-
sons.
The governments total revenue from
income and excess profits taxes for the
fiscal year ending June 30 next, will be
approximately s3,05O, 100000 according
to estimates based on the returns for
the first quarter of the year, it was an
nounced by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon. This amount is considerably
in excess of what the treasury experts
had anticipated from these sources
President Harding suggested to
Chairman Fordney that the House ways
and means committee sound out the
Senate Republicans as to the feasibil-
ity Of early passage Of an emergency
tariff that would take care Of farmers.
The proposal was discussed at length,
and 1t has been determined to pass
the emergency tariff at the special
session Of Congress In April.
House and Senate leaders have an
ncunced agreement on plan to push
soldier bonus legislation during the
eaz1y weeks of ~ special session Of
cossress - - April r.