The Ordway new era., 1921-01-14

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WESTERN
The fifty-flfth annual encampment
of the G. A. r. will be held in Port
land, Me-, according to advices re
ceived from Sioux Falls, $. d.
While skating on the Milwaukee
river in Wisconsin, the three sons of
Mr.. and Mrs John Hecker Of West
Bend, Clarence, II; Leo, 10, and Law
renee, @, were drowned.
The minimum charge for an auto
mobile license in Texas Is $3.50, which
includes any motor from one horse
power up to twenty-one horsepower.
From twenty-five horsepower on up,
there is a charge Of 50 cents per horse
power
Travelling at rate faster than sew
enty-two miles an hour, seaplanes Nos.
5 and of the NC division in the San
Diego to Panama flight, reached Ban
deras bay on the Mexican mainland,
ending a successful dash from Nagda-
lena bay.
Two women we're burned 10 death in
q fire which destroyed the Lone Star
hotel at DesdemOnda, an oil town in
Eastland county, Texas. The victims
were Mrs. Bantell and her nineteen
year-old daughter, members of vau-
deville company.
Brick masons employed by the Utah
Fire Clay Company of Salt Lake City
which employs several hundred men,
hr IN rlIrPa
their wages from so to So day, ac-
cording to announcement made by
Lawrence Greene, manager.
A permanent Injunction was granted
in the United States District Court at
Kansas City restraining the secretary
of agriculture from enforcing his or
der restoring the wartime commission
rate for handling livestock. Judge Ar
ba S. Van Valkenburgh characterized
the action of Secretary Meredith as
ian arbitrary executive order"
Three unmasked bandits held up the
State Guaranty Bank at Sperry, Okla,
and while two of the robbers kept AT
bay seven customers and the two EN-
ployes, third stuffed all the money
in sight, about 81. 200 in currency and
$500 in silver, in his pockets. The
three then walked out of the bank got
into a car in which the other two men
were waiting and speeded out of town.
WASHINGTON
All proposals advanced by the "big
five meat packers for divesting them
selves of their stockyard interests
were rejected by Justice Stafford in
the District Supreme Court. The COM
panies were given thirty days TO sub
NIT new plans.
Publicity of official coal cost data to
be collected through the Federal Trade
Commission as means of keeping
down charges to the consumer will be
proposed by the Senate reconstruction
committee following its investigation
into the coal situation, 1t was said by
Chairman Calder.
A decrease of S192, ,932,O75 in the
public debt during the last month of
1920 has been announced by the treas
nry. On Dec. 81 the total gross debt
was S23,9s2, ,224, ,16s, as compared with
S24,175, 1924 on Nov. 80. The de-
crease during the last quarter of the
year amounted to S105, 131, ,l96 from
the Sept. 30 total of S24,0S7, ,356, ,12s.
A total of 2,325,O 900 workers are out
of employment in the country, accord
ing to survey Of the industrial stu
alton made by Clint C. Houston for the
current issue of Labor, official organ
of the Plumb Plan League Mr.. Hous-
ton asserts that his inquiry disclosed
the greatest industrial slump since the
money panic Of 1907.
Parents of minor children of .h.,
sage Indian tribe won their suit in the
District Of Columbia Court of Appeals
for mandamus to compel the secre-
tary Of the interior to pay them
moneys due their children as accumu-
lated bonuses on the sale of Usage oil
lands The decision affects withheld
bonuses of more than s33,OOO,OOO.
The Legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill, the big yearly
measure, reported out by the House
appropriations committee carried TO-
tai Of $112,72S,43S, or S23,724, 1856 less
than departments asked for, and So
72s,771 below the amount appropriated
for the current year. As an indication
OF the wartime increase, the bil's to-
tai in 1915 was 36,91O,798.
The federal government is planning
an increase Of so cents horsepower
on motor vehicles, 2 cents gallon on
gasoline and extra sales taxes to raise
100000 more from motor car own.
: ers, which would make the total taxa.
tion from the industry practically $780,.
100000.
The People's Bank Of De Soto, Mo-,
has been closed pending completion Of
an exanination Of the institutions
books. a number Of overdrafts were
put through the bank, 1t was said Ros.