The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-09-01
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Washington
ashington-Argentine government
notifies state department it will re-
nounce British cable monopoly; opens
way for Miami cable to South America.
ashington-Secretary Hoover has
received a cable from Consul Sample
Forbus at Paris that France. by legis-
iation and executive order, has been
compelled to go back to war bread.
Poor wheat crops and an estimated
shortage in the next wheat harvest of
about 100000 tons is given as the
reason.
Washington-Use of naval facilities
which will include radio apparatus will
be made by Secretary Hughes on his
trip to Brazil, acting Secretary OF
Navy Roosevelt has announced. In
Mr.. Rooseyelt's opinion a considerable
saving could be effected by their use
over private corporations.
shington-President Harding, re-
viewing citizen soldiers from summer
training camps, voices hope that there
will be more like them next year.
Hints at use of troops to preserve
government by law"
Washington-All efforts fail in effort
to get senate to agree on definite
time for vote on soldier bonus bill.
Washington - Congressman Frank
Clague has succeeded in securing al
lotment Of additional funds by the
War department to maintain the Fifth
Minnesota regiment, National Guard,
in camp at Lake City for full training
period of Is days, earlier arrange
ments allowed for a stay of only 10
days.
Washington-Rev. DR.. Henry C. Cou-
den, aged 70, blind chaplain of the
House of Representatives for 25 years
until February %, 1921, is dead at his
former home at Fort Myer, Va.
Westinghouse demand for the re-
moval of Roy A. Haynes, federal pro-
hibition commissioner, on a charge
Of "defrauding the government" by
illegal use of the franking privilege,
was made on Secretary of the Treas
nry Mellon by Representative Hill,
republican, Maryland.
Washington-While there has been
no official announcement on the sub
ject, members of congress regard it
as an accepted fact that further con-
sideration of the administration ship
subsidy will be postponed until the
December session.
shington-President Harding in
an address here today to citizen SOL
diers from Camp Meade, Md, de-
clared he favored military training for
more than 100000 civilians annually,
not for any prospective aggressive
warfare but to preserve peace.
Domestic
New York-Mrs. A. P. Crawford,
aged II, mother of five children and
grandmother of many more, is taking
a summer course at Columbia univer-
sity, New York.
Manila-The date of the departure
of Governor General Leonard Wood
for Philadelphia to assume the presi-
fency of the University of Pennsyl
vania depends considerably on the
speed with which the Philippine leg
islature works. General Wood is pre-
pairing a program which he expects to
carry out in the legislature before he
leaves. This may require his pres.
ence for several weeks after Jan. l.
Muskogee, Okla.-Exie Fife, age
Is, full blooded Creek Indian owns
100 acres of oil land and wells, and
has an income of $1,000 a day. She
lives in a small implanted cabin and
owns a touring car, very much dilapi-
dated.
Los Angeles-David Lightner, al
legged narcotic king" OF the Pacific,
arrested in the orient after federal
agents had chased him 10000 miles,
arrived here in Irons. He will be
taken to Portland, Ore. for trial.
Chicago-More than 500 Klansmen,
masked and wearing the white robes
of the order, filed into the Immanual
Baptist church last night and donated
$1,000 for the erection of a new spire.
Bridgeman, Mich-Fifteen dele
gates to the national convention of the
Communist Party of America have
been arrested by deputy sheriffs and
federal agents here.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.. V. Streeter
and l.. J. Thomas of St. Paul have
been arrested here charged with rep
resenting a $4,000 building in st. Paul
as being worth $4,000 in deal for a
real estate mortgage covering 261
acres of Delaware, Iowa County, land.
Nyack, n. Y.-Mrs. Warren G. Har-
ding, whose recent gift of $40 toward
a fund to buy feed for Clover" the
51-year-old horse, brought her an offer
OF honorary membership in the Nyack
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, has accepted.
Chicago-An appeal will be filed in
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals in an effort to obtain rehear-
ing for Samuel Pandolfo, st. Cloud
motor manufacturer, whose sentence
was upheld by the court of appeals
here, his attorney, Bernhard Frank,
has announced.
Chicago-Seyen persons were res.
cued from death when fire destroyed a
building formerly occupied by the no
torious Izzy Goldstein's Campbell gar
dens.
Banff, Alta.-American Bar associa.
ton delegates, travelling east from its
recent convention at San Francisco
spent two days in tt" Canadian Roc
kies.
Chicago-Disorder continued to flare
in the rail strike ia the early hours
Of its eighth week. despite peace ne
gotiations pending at New York and
assurances by chiefs OF the big four
or no sympathetic strike.