The Ordway new era., 1921-09-02

Fire started in the most thickly pop
ulated part Of Moscow several days
ago and burned several days, it i> as
serted by the Helsingfor correspond
ent of the Central News. Several hun
dred houses have been destroyed, the
correspondent says.
Whisky valued AT several thousand
dollars was seized mt the mouth ot
the Fraser river, near Vancouver. b.
c., when provincial police officers
seized a party of men who had deliv-
cred two truckloads of liquor To he
loaded on scow. Officials believe
the whisky was To have been exported
to the United States.
GENERAL
| Julius NJ. Hansen. wanted In Lewis
town, Mont, for rhe alleged em0ezzlc-
ment of $4,000 from the Empire Bank
and Trust Company. was arrested at
Shreveport, I.a He has been sought
since October, 1917. Preparations are
being made To return him to Lewis
town.
Edwin II. Stephenson, preacher,
| who shot and killed the Rev. James f..
| Coyle, pastor Of 81. Paul's Catholic
church. Aug IL. nj Birmingham, Ala,
was bound over To await action of HE
county grand jury, after preliminary
| trial at which the defense offered no
testimony. Bond was not allowed.
Jay S. Gehan, Sioux City air pilot.
was probably fatally injured and his
brother, John c. Gehan, an occupant
of the plane, was seriously injured
when the airpune in which they We're
doing circus flying failed to come out
of tail spin and sent them crashing
to the ground, 800 feet below ON the
flying field al South Sioux city, Neb.
Chief of Police Fitzmorris has of
ffcially barred public exhibition of the
Dempsey Carpenter fight pictures in
| Chicago. Fitzmorris announced that
police would stop any attempt of Tex
Richard, the New York promoter, or
any other person to exhibit the pic
lures before a paid audience. He said
| he would not interfere with exhibi-
tions before wounded soldiers.
The first day of the John Bailey
murder trial at Monnt Vernon, KY,
growing out of the Bailey-White noun
tain feud, was productive of nothing
more thrilling than the searching for
weapons of every person who entered
the courtroom. Soldiers and deputy
sheriffs stopped each clansman AS he
entered the doorway. None resisted
the search and no weapons except a
l OF lyvI
the women We're not exempt.
Forecasts of the wheat crop yield in
the northern hemisphere, issued by
the International Institute of Agricul-
ture, show that it will he approximate
ly 100000 tons, compared to II ,30O,-
900 tons in 1920. The crop in Europe,
leaving out of consideration Great
Britain, France and Gerniny, is esri-
mated at 100000 tons, compared to
1 10,500000 last year The United States
and Canada are expected 10 produce
2S,500,0oO tons, against 2S,600,0O0 tons
in 1920, and India, Japan, Algeria, Mo-
rocco and Tunis will, it is said. yield
8, 100000 tons, against 12,000,OO0 tons
harvested last year.
Jim Nesbit, nimble negro, turned Il
novel trick on the bloodhound seat out
to trail him in South Carolina. Sery-
ing life sentence for murder on the
chain gang, Nesbit escaped. A blood
hound was sent on his trail. Tie ne
gro waited until the bloodhound
caught up, tied the animal to tree
and continued his flight He was cap
tured later, however.
Arkansas famous family of "mouil-
| tain dew distillers has changed
trades by decree of juries. Horace
Cox, fifth member Of his family to be
found guilty of 'moonshining," has ell
tered the high walls Of the Arkansas
state prison TO do period of penal
servitude. He is 10. His father and
three older brothers preceded him to
1.-The city of silent men,"
Two steam yachts, the Venice and
the Tranquillo, confiscated by local
authorities for alleged whisky rum
ming between Canada and Cleveland,
Ohio, will be sold as soon as legal
formalities can be arranged. Federal
Prohibition Agent Fred Counts an
nounced upon his return from II secret
mission in connection with the ships.
The estimated value of the crafts was
placed at $4,000 each.
| Andrew Little, dishonorabIy dis
charged soldier, has learned to salute
the American flag. 1t took good
flOgging to teach him the lesson. Fol.
lowing the burial at Benton, H., ot
Stanley McCollum, who was killed in
the Argonne, Little, according to mem
bers of the American Legion, refused
to salute the flag. The Legion men
nogged him. Now he salutes.
The national assembly at Budapest
ratified organization Of the Hungarian