The Ordway new era., 1922-08-11
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
EVENTo IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGS AND HAPPENINGS THeT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE ACE.
WESTERN

lngton railroad train number four
struck a broken rail near North Fork.
Oregon.
Armed raiders in automobiles
swooped down on the South Pacific
railroad shops at Colfax, Calf. and
after firing several volleys at the win
dows, which were shattered and at
the walls of the plant, withdrew as
mysteriously rs they had come. No
body was Injured.
Union printers will return TO their
former positions in the newspaper and
job departments of the Billings Ga
zette. according 20 an announcement.
Printers in the newspaper department
have been on strike since May l. while
those in the job office have been out
for more than a year. The press
rooms are Included in the settlement.
Harold Anderson. alias Eugene Mil
ton, charged with grand larceny, es-
capped from the Silver Bow, Mont,
county Jail by saving the bars on a
fourth floor window and lowering him
self to the ground by rope made Of
blankets Jack Brown. held on a va
uty as he was attempting TO follow An
derson.
Isadore R. Eidelstein. alleged by To-
cal police to be q notorious safe bur
gIar. with q long criminal record. IS
accused of having burglarized, single
handed, eighty vaults in the PauIsen
building at Spokane in a first-deEree
burglary warrant sworn out by Detec-
tive Chester Edwards. There are now
out for the arrest of the vault robber .
and the recovery Of stolen bonds, re-
wards aggregating $500.
The public of the United States and |
the world at large has been "deliber- !
ately misinformed as to the results of I
prohibition in San Francisco" and
there has been a decided increase in /
the number of inmates in state cor
receive institutions since prohibition
began" the Grain Trade Association
OF the San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce said in resolutions made public
recently The total monthly arrests
in the city for intoxicatlon have
steadily and rapidly increased since
the first month of prohibition" the
resolution said, They continued that
not only has there been an increase
in the number of inmates in state
prisons. insane asylums and institu-
tions for the feeble-minded, but
decided increase in serious crime.
WASHINGTON
Notification of the decision of the |
Supreme Court, ordering dissolution of |
the Southern Pacific Central Pacific !
combine would be of untold disadvan-
tage to the mountain and middle west
ern states" according 10 letter from
Governor Shoup of Colorado, received
by Ser tor Phipps. Similar letters and
kilograms have been received by other
senators from western and middle
western states urging that no action
be taken by any federal agency TO null
lily the purpose of the Supreme Court
decision.
Representative Lemuel P Padgett
of Tennessee died at his home in
Washington.
Brig. Gen Oliver Lyman Spaulding.
former assistant secretary of the treas
ury and for many years prominent in
public affairs in Michigan died recent
ly at his home in Washington, aged 50
years. General Spaulding served
throughout the Civil war with the
Twenty-third Michigan infantry.
American relief work in soviet Rus
sia will continue for three or four
months at least, Secretary Hoover an
nounced upon his return from New
York. where he met with Col. William
n. Haskell, head of the American re-
lief administration forces in Russia;
former Governor Goodrich of Indiana
and other officials to decide the fu-
ture program for Russian relief
Warnings against unofficial promo
ters of colonization schemes in South
America has been issued by the Com
merce Department which added that
such promoters have been particular
ly active in the Western states. Many
Americans going to South America as
colonists have found that they invest
ed their savings in land in the remote
wilderness. the department said
Whether the administration tariff
bill will be enacted before the Noyeu-
ber elections has again become the
subject of private discussion at the
capitol. There is more or less gen.
eral belief now in the Senate that the
measure cannot be brought to a final
vote In that body before Sept. Is. and
there are those who believe the iron
ing out OF differences between the Sen
ate and the House In conference will
be such a slow and tedious process
that It cannot be completed before
Congress goes homo for the fall CAM
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