The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-01-07
THE WORLD


AethDr1dge - Tom Basi0ff, con-
vacted murderer and head of a ban
dit gang which for several weeks
last summer terrorized the country
side Of Alberta, was hanged last
week.
= ottawa, Ont.-All taxes on luxur-
les in Canada, excepting alcoholic IL
Quors, confectionery and playing
CARDS, have been abolished by the do
minlOn government through an or
der-tn-c0uncil.
Astoria, Ore. Frank Wagner,
known as Dutch Frank" an escap-
ed convict from the Oregon peniten-
tiary, was killed in a duel with War
den Compton of that prison and nine
other officers.
New York Eighty immigration
inspectors at Ellis island were over
wnelmed with work as result of the
arrival of $4,000 immigrants over
the weekend, all asking admission
before Christmas.
Boise. Ida.-Charles p. Seymour
was burned to death and r.. H. Null
vih1ll overcome by smoke in a fire
that destroyed the packing house of
Van Hoesen & Seymour at Mesa, and
caused loss estimated at 100000.
The origin of the fire il unknown.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Helen Look, Is
years old, died here after lying in a
deep sleep for II days. All efforts
to arouse her failed. A medical dag
nosis ascribed tuberculosis Of the
brain as the cause of death.
Astoria, Ore.-Following his mar
rage to Miss Lillian M. Larsen, a
photographer, John H. Ward, aged
] 70, was arrested here charged with
being an escaped convict from the
Michigan penitentiary, where he was
serving time for bigamy.
Salt Lake City - Declaring that
hundreds Of babies are being literally
sold in Salt Lake City every year,
Judge Hugo B. Anderson of the local
Juvenile court in his biennial report
to the government recommends that
legislation be introduced to prevent
the continuance of the traffic.
Il New YOrk-The general executive
board of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, in special SEES
sion here, voted to raise a $1,O0O,OOO
relief fund for the $4,000 union
clothing workers in New York who,
1t Is said, are either on strike or are
locked out by the employers.
st. Paul-Dealing in grain futures
would be declared "a gambling con-
tract" punishable by fine for the
first offense and by a Jail sentence
for other offenses under the terms
! of bill to be introduced at the COM
Ing session of the Minnesota legis-
lature.
Kansas City-An advance of SO
ton in the contract price of news
print paper it uses was announced by
the Kansas City Star. Beginning
January l. the newspaper will pay
$3.50 a ton for it's white paper, ma
king an added cost of 10000 month
ly, the announcement said. The price
is for the first six months of 1921.
Berlin-Victor Kopp. the Russian
soviet representative in Berlin, has
been working under written instruc.
lions from Minister of War Trotzky
; Ito do everything in his power to
bring about a revolution in Germany
and overthrow the present govern
ment." it is charged by the Pan-Ger-
man Deutsche Zeitung
MinneapOlis-The deadlock in the
controversy between local milk deal
ers and 800 members of the milk wa
gOn drivers union, over the Ques-
ton of an open shop. which caused
suspension of milk deliveries here
for two days, was broken when union
members were directed by their Off
GERS to return to work on non
union agreement.
New Y0rk-Charging that his in.
come tax report filed March "a, 1916
was "incorrect, misleading and false
because he "failed to include in it as
part of his income 5O,1O4 shares OF
Illinois Pipe Line company and g..
176 shares of the Prairie Pipe Line
company" the government brought
suit against John D. Rockefeller fol
$292,678.
Boston-Charles Ponzi. whose slo
gan last summer of $50 per cent ii
As days" won him the confidence Of
; Thousands of investors and ultimate.
~ five-year prison sentence, has
written words for song. In a let.
ter from the Plymouth Jail received
by a Boston newspaper man. POM
asked information as to the necessary
copyright procedure.
ChicagO-Judge Kenesaw NJ. Ian
dis refused to sentence six mer
charged with stealing 600 sacks Of
sugar from trains in interstate com
merce, after learning that President
Wilson had last week granted par
don to James ]. Dorsey of Gilbert
III kn0vn M tho stn,illiOn n ro "a n 1e
king"
Washington--The anti-saloon lea
que will ask Attorney General Palm
; er to reconsider his ruling that the
use of cider in the home by its manu-.
facturer, even after 1t has become in
toxicating by fermentation, Is lawful
Wayne B. Wheeler. general c0unse
of the league, announced. Neither