The Ordway new era., 1921-11-04
cAuoHr 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
Approximately 100000 silver dollars
nIs being made daily at the San Fran
cisco mint under recent Instructions to
speed up production, according to Su-
perintendent NJ. ]. Kelly.
Frank Lemen, IA years old, believed
one of the oldest circus men in the
country and who was credited with
having taken the first circus to Aus
tralia, Is dead at Kansas City.
Farmers of Stockton, Kan, have or
ganized with an agreement 10 burn
corn this coming winter instead of
coal, on account of the difference in
price between these two commodities.
Four armed bandits robbed the Ho-
tinmont Bank, just outside of St
Louis, OF S7,1So. Six employees and one
customer were compelled to lay face
downward while the men scooped the
money into sacks. The robbers es-
capped in an automobile.
Packing house employees OF Des
Moines. Iowa. voted TO accept a 8 per
cent wage cut declared recently by the
packing companies. Officers of the
union said that there will be no strike
by the employees unless it is declared
by the national officers.
The s-months-old baby Of Mrs. Signe
Swanson of Spokane, Wash, was
smothered in a lounge whclh painters
had closed, believing it contained only
bedding. The child was dead when
Mrs. Swanson opened the lounge five
minutes after 1t had been closed.
Mrs. Louise L. Peete, convicted of
the murder OF j. C. Denton, was do
MED by the District Court of Appeals a
rehearing OF her appeal upon which
the court ruled several weeks ago. Her
attorneys announced the case would
be taken to the California Supreme
Court.
Seventy-year-old Carl RuebIe. re-
tired Iowa farmer, shot and slightly
wounded Mrs Gabe Oleson, the wife
Of q neighbor and then turned the gun
on himself and committed suicide. Rue
ble's attention to the 55-year-old wife
of his younger nelghbor has been the
subject of jest for some time.
WASHINGTON
The War Department announced
that ,000 seats, about one-fifth of the
total seating capacity of the memorial
amphitheater, Mt Arlington Armlstice
day had been reserved for gold star
mothers or other nearest relatives of
men who died In the World war. Not
more than two seats will be given any
application.
The appointment of Capt Jesse F.
Cottrell, representative in Washing
ton of several Tennessee newspapers
for many years, as U. s. minister to
Bolivia ia being hailed with satisfac-
ton by the newspaper fraternity.
Captain Cottrell, who left his profes-
sion to serve the country during the
war, has won an enviable reputation.
The new revenue law to be enacted
next year to take the place of the one
which Congress will soon pass, will
contain the chief provisions of the
SrnSot bill, providing for manufactur-
ing or sales tax on commodities.
Agreement to this effect has been
reached among Senate leaders of the
eastern bloc, representing the indus
trial sections of the country.
Persons paying federal taxes under
protest cannot bring proceedings to re-
cover such taxes against a successor
OF the collector to whom the taxes
were paid, the Supreme Court held in
deciding q case brought by the Indi-
ana Steel Company.
Suit 70 test constitutionality of the
CapperTincher bill passed by Con-
gress to regulate grain exchanges and
put them under direction of the secre-
tary of agriculture was filed in federal
District Court by John Hill, Jr.,
member Of the Chicago board of trade
Approval of loan of s1,0Oo,0O0 to
q financial Institution for credit ex-
tensions on live stock in Montana and
Wyoming, was announced by the War
Finance Corporation. The corporation
did not make public the name of the
institution nor the terms of the loan.
The governments annual report on
mortality statistics for 1920, soon to be
issued, shows 1.142,578 deaths within
~ oSuh leBiotiation dreu, represent
ing a rate Of 131 per thousand, as
compared with 12.9 in 1919. Fatalities
from automobile accidents and injuries
increased from 9.4 to 104 per hundred
thousand.
The Supreme Court declined to con-
sider an appeal brought by Hector II.
Elwsal, city editor of Chicago news
pnpsr. convicted Of contempt Of court
for rsfuslng to Identify for federal
grand jury the person who wrote
esrtnin article printed in his newspa-
psf. Elwell appealed ON the ground
that he could not be compelled to give
testimony which might incriminate