The Ordway new era., 1922-12-01
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

tHe Uesltn tOil OF tUe sinking OIL heN
lean freight and passenger steamer in
the Gulf Of California at La Bomba
a Mexican port at the junction of the
Colorado river and the gulf. thirty
five miles south of Calexico, Calf.
Because he declared that he bought
all the food he needed for q cents a
day, Arthur Belour is being held by
Spokane police rs an insanity suspect.
Belour had S6T2.S5 in his pockets
when unprecedented, which he said was
his savings as 4 result of frugal living.
A record price for eggs in Washing
ton was established when II. f. Leath-
ers of Woodland sold twenty eggs from
Lady Jewell, his champion White Leg
horn hen, for $500 Lady Jewell laid
315 eggs for the year ending Nov. 1 ut
the official egg-laylng contest con-
Quoted by the western Washington eX-
pertinent station.
Aiutiny charges against five mem
bers of the steam schooner Jacinto
were dismissed in the United States
Commissioners Court at San Francis
co after it developed that the disturb
ances that brought the vessel back 10
San Francisco after she had put out
for Grays harbor was merely
drunken brawl.'
One hundred and seven members OF
the freshman class of Pomona College
at Claremont were technically under
arrest ar Uplan, near Clurenont, on
charges OF stealing lumber 1t was
reported the "froSh" had been dele
gated to supply the wood for bon
fire at a college rally, preliminary 10
the football game at Los Angeles with
Occidental College.
Kansas opened Il legal fight on the
Ku Kux Klan when custer proceed
lngs were filed in the State Supreme
Court at Topeka by the attorney gen
eral under the direction of Gov. Henry
]. Allen. The custer proceedings are
directed against the knights of the X.
K. X, a Georgian corporation, and
against officers of the khan in Kan
sas.
Twenty-Five years of almost contin-
uous effort to bring the main line to
Boise" ended in conditional victory
through Boise's acceptance of the of
fer of the Oregon Short Line to build
a railroad line from Orchard to the
capital city. The railroad company
will spend approximately S3,200,000 in
and near Boise TO comply with its end
of the contract.
Three men were taken into custody
at Los Angeles for questioning in con-
nection with the Staying of one man
and the probable fatal wounding OF
another near Johannesburg, Calf. The
men gave their names as Ed Callan,
T. F. White and George Lynch, and
said they were miners. The Atolio
tragedy ended in the killing of man
named Moore. 4 resident of Brooklyn.
WASHINGTON
The bill to provide for purchase and
sale of farm porducts through $780,
100000 government corporation, intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Nor
ris, Republican, Nebraska, was pre-
sented in the House by Representative
Sinclair, Republican, North Dakota.
a plot to smuggle ammunition into
Fortress Monroe, Fort Storey and
Camp Eustis vas unearthed recently
at Norfolk. Va by postal inspectors.
Large boxes Of rifle cartridges were
found In mail cars bound for each
place United States agents are puz-
zled- One man is held for questioning
The star Of woman suffrage reached
its highest ascendency in American
history when Mrs W. Il FELTON,, the
grand old lady Of Georgia" won her
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woman senator. 3irs- FELTON, won her
senatorshIp when chiyalry triumphed
over legality. 4 single objection from
any one Of the ninety-fiye male sen
ators would have prevented her taking
her seat.
Pierce Butler of Minnesota has been
nominated by President Harding as as
sociate justice of the United States
Supreme Court Butler succeeds to
the seat made vacant by the resigna-
ton Of Justice William r. Day. His
home is in st. Paul, where he is a
prominent corporation lawyer. He is
Democrat and has served for a num-
ber of years as member of the board
of regents of the University of Mime
sofa.
The United States Supreme Court
has held that Liberty bonds held by
national banks are taxable by the
states for state purposes. An appeal
brought by the Peoples bank of King.
fisher, Okla, from a lower court de-
cision that national banks are not
entitled to deduct from their capital,
surplus and undivided profits in pay
ing state taxes, money invested in
Liberty bonds and other forms Of tax
~~s,nr,f serurifiea was dismissed by