The Ordway new era., 1922-10-27
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
Hume AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, OolNGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, suFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

of thousands of members of the In
dustrial Workers of the World, coming
TO participate in the waterfront
strike, Mayor George L. Baker by or
ders of the police caused the arrest
of $50 men for investigation
The three jail breakers, Herbert
Wilson, former evangelist-mail bandit
and convicted murderer, Adam Bias
zyk. convicted murderer. and Guild"
Spignola, convicted robber, were re-
captured in Los Angeles after - hours
liberty. They We're taken without
struggle in the home Of an eN-convict.
The movement of cattle from
drought stricken sections Of New Mex
leo 10 Old Mexico has begun stock
men near the border are driving the
cattle through, while further north,
near Magdalena and SocorrO, empty
stock cars are being loaded as fast as
they arrive. More than 100000 cattle
will be moved. according 10 W. r.
Morley of Magdalena.
Freight cars are now coming west
to relieve the car shortage, according
to Il telegram received in Topeka by
Clyde NJ. Reed, chairman Of the Kan
sas public utilities board, from VI. j.
Gormley, chairman of the car service
division of the American Railway As
sociation This is the first time in
months" said Mr.. Reed, that there
has been balance in favor Of the
West"
Mrs. Johanna Ryan, who has served
twenty-three days in Jail In LacUmu,
Wash, for refusing to obey Il court
order that she sign documents effect
ing property settlement with her di-
vorced husband, declared today: Il
won't sign any papers, even If l have
to stay in Jail twenty-nlne years
Mrs Ryan said she was getting good
food in Jail and that she liked it quite
well. I signed some papers once and
was always sorry" she added.
WASHINGTON
Washlngton.-The governments new
offering of S50O,OOO,OOO of IA per cent
bonds has been oversubscribed $1,000
100000, Under r-Secretary Of the Treas
ury Gilbert announced after compiling
reports from federal reserve banks.
The dirgible CO which was de-
stroyed By fire at San Antonio, Texas
was the army's best and largest
"bllmp." 1t was completed shortly
after the army's big Italian-built air
ship, the Roma, was destroyed with
loss of thirty-four lives at Norfolk
early this year. The CO had gas
capacity of $4,000 cubic feet and WAS
% Of
miles an hour.
Fire losses on railroads in this cOun-
try declined nearly 100000 in 1921,
as compared with 1920, G. L. Ball,
president, told the Railway Fire Pro-
lection Association at the opening ses-
sion of its convention in Washington.
Railroad fire loses in 1921, he said, to-
tailed S7,5S9,611, against Sl0,500.O00 in
1920. The association announced that
last year fire caused property loss
of S4S5, 100000 in the United States
killed $1,000 persons and injured more
than 10000.
The United States Coal Commission,
created by Congress to investigate and
report the facts on all phases Of the
coal industry, with recommendations
for possible legislation or government
regulation, at its first meeting in
Washington organized by electing
John Hays Hammond as chairman
and laid out program for future OPP
Grafton.
The American forces on the Rhine
now numbering some 1,2OO officers
and men, probably will be brought
home in the very near future it was
stated authoritatively, following a con
ference between President Harding
Secretary of War Weeks and Gen
John ]. Pershing at the White House
at which the matter was thoroughly
discussed.
Retail food costs for the average
family during September We're approx
imately ] per cent lower than during
August, the department of labor has
reported. The conclusion was baset
on reports of prices gathered at retail
markets in fIfty-one important cities
During the year since September, 1921
the report said, the decrease in retail
food prices has amounted to . pei
cent, but since September, 1913, there
mas Deen an iucIedSe VI oo PEI ttHl.
Great Britain, in communication
delivered to the State Department, de
clined to agree to the suggestion ol
Secretary Hughes for reciprocal
agreement for extension of the right o
search and seizure such as would give
the American prohibition navy juris
dlction outside the three-mile limit.
Walter f. George of Vienna, Ga.
received 3O4 county unit votes out o.
Georgia's total Of 400 In the specia
senatorial primary held to nominate {
successor to the late United Statei