The Ordway new era., 1921-06-17
FOREIGN

EOkE1GN
Seventeen persons were drowned in
the Ida mine at Meuselwitz, Sake Alt
enburg, owing to the flood of the mine
by the Erlenbach river.
Guerilla warfare between French
ana Turkish Nationalist troops has
been renewed In Cilicia. Turks are pre-
parins to recapture the city of Aintab
from the French, while Nationalist
leaders are being arrested by the
French authorities.
caribou and native reindeer are re-
ported ranging the hills like droves of
sheep in full view of Dawson. Y. T.
AS 1t Is ealving time, the herds are NOT
allowed to be molested, and instead OF
shooting with gun the citizens of
Dawson are shooting" with a camera.
Two hundred and four tenements,
stores and other buildings in Honolulu,
declared unsafe and insanitary, have
been torn down since the beginning of
the building cleanup campaign in
augurated last year by city officials,
according to recent official report on
the progress Of the drive.
A link with the old days of the
Hawaiian monarchy was broken re
Gently when the death occurred of
Mrs. Emily C. Judd, widow of Charles
Hastings Judd, chamberlain to King
kalabaua, the last king of Hawaii.
Mrs. Judd was born in Portsmouth.
N. H., March 10, 1910, and went to
Hawaii in 1858.
Pursuit of the mirage of religious
freedom has been taken up again by
10000 Mennonites. For four centuries
the sect has followed the phantom. Ar
rangements We're completed for the
transportation of the colony now resid-
ing in Canada to land in Mexico, pur-
chased from the ObregOn government
for $5,0OO,OOO.
conference of the foreign minis
ters of Lithuania, Letvia ana EsthOnia
will be held in Riga in June, according
TO advices. 1t is understood that the
conference originally was suggested by
Finland with the view to organization
Of Il league of Baltic states. Although
Finland and Poland are NOT expected
to participate it is believed that the
league, if it comes into being, will have
the support of both countries.
Reports indicate that there will be a
considerable increase in acreage sown
to wheat this season in Calgary, espe-
cially in the north country, which has
had an exceptionally early spring.
Many points state from 10 to 80 per
cent of this grain has been already
sown. One or two cases have already
been reported of wheat above ground,
notably at Carseland, east of Calgary,
and at Cadillac, Saskatchewan.
GENERAL
The Milford biological expedition
has sailed for South America to eX-
plore the headwaters of the Amazon
and seek Theodore ROosevelt's famous
River of Doubt.
Letters and documents signed by
royal personages of former centuries
brought only 81 to $14 each in an auc-
ton sale at Philadelphia, while Benja-
min Franklin's essay on "Hygrome-
ters' went for S27O
Progressive rediscount rates now in
effect lin the st. Louis and Kansas
City reserve districtS-described by
President Harding recently as "penal-
izing rates"-prObably will be removed
by the federal reserve board soon.
Offering of cigars at election polls
by candidates was held to be n viola
tion of the corrupt practices act by the
District Court after Jacob Beck, town
ship treasurer of Granite Falls, Minn.,
was removed from office on petition of
forty residents because he had given
away cigars at the polling place in his
tOwnShihp.
A great meeting of the representa-
tives of all the railway unions affected
by the wage cut decision of the rail
way labor board to be held in Chicago
At that meeting the unions will give
their answer to the $4OO,0OO,OOO wage
cut and in all probability the question
of strike or work will be decided there.
Two young men forced two clerks
and customer of the Citizens State
Bank at Priest River, Idaho, into the
vault and escaped with about S2,oOO
in currency that lay on the counter.
1t was announced at the Union Ma
tional bank in Newcastle, Pa, that the
five bandits who held up the bank had
secured $60,300. 1t was also stated
that the bandits failed to take $41S,-
600 in securities which was within
their reach.
F. S. Tyler of Washington has been
appointed by the Supreme Court as
commissioner to take testimony on the
question of "what constitutes the south
hnnls of the Red river and as to where