The Ordway new era., 1922-12-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

OF Kitchen range near which her co
had been placed exploded in her HON,
in Vancouver. B. C. The child wa.
struck by flying fragment OF iron.
Air Mail Pilot Henry G. Boonstra
lost in n blizzard while flying with
government mail from Salt Lake tc
Rock Springs, Wyo.. was found alive
and well at Rigby ranch, near Coal
Vile, Utah, by searching party
William A. Farr and Rex Aylett
confessed that they were the two BAN
dts who shot and probably fatally
wounded Miss Roylance Fitzgerald on
road south of Salt Lake City as the
elimination OF series of highway
robberies that have terrorized Salt
Lake City motorists for months past
Capt. George Macklnnon. master of
the Pacific mail passenger steamer
Newport. has been accused formally of
sailing away and leaving in peril the
lumber schooner Svea when the two
vessels collided near Port San Luis II
few days ago. \ complaint was filed
with the federal steamboat inspectors
AT San Francisco by Capt. Karl Roh-
berg OF the schooner Svea.
Eight union trainmen leaders were
convicted Of conspiracy to obsuucr In
terstate commerce for their activities
In connection with a strike last Au-
gust against the Santa Fe railroad by
verdict Of a jury in the United States
District Court in Los Angeles. In this
strike some twenty trains were ahun-
doned in the Califurnia-Arizona desert
leaving the passengers stranded.
WASHINGTON
Announcement was made that the
Department of Justice was preparin.
10 file Il suit against the Wright-Mar-
tin Aircraft Corporation to recover a
s3,601,71J war claim.
The budget bureau left out the an
nual item of 100000 for free seed dis
tribution by senators and representa-
tives, and it was not placed in the bill
by the appropriations committee.
Ed Hayes entered the headquarters
of the |. W. W. in Salt Lake City and.
1t is alleged, at the point of revolver
held up Pat Nee, secretary of the Salt
Lake City branch of the l. W. w, and
Thomas Hodges, who happened to be
In the room.
The Postoffice Department has esti-
mated that waste of S1.740OOO an |
nually results from wrongly addressed
mail. survey just completed re-
yeals that the average number of let
ters received ut postofflces daily with
improper addresses was 3T5,3S1, and
that the salaries of postal employees
required TO readdress this mail
amounts alone TO more than $1,000. .ouO
& year.
The refusal of Representative Kel-
Ter, Republican, Minnesota, to respond
to subpoena requiring him to give
ahder oath the information upon which
he based his impeachment charges
against Attorney General Daugherty,
has created a precedent of such posi-
BILE far-reaching Importance that the
House judiciary committee decided to
refer the whole matter to a sub-com-
mittee for investigation.
Three Mexicans were killed in
running fight with mounted customs
inspectors and Texas rangers near Mi
rando City, Webb county, Texas, ac-
iording to report received In Snn An
tonic by Deputy Collector of Customs
Ed COtulla. No member of the federal
force was injured
An attack on the Norris bill for gov
rnment development of Muscle Shoals,
Alabama power project, was made in
the Senate by Senator Ladd, Republi-
81,
the author Of the bill, Senator Norris,
Republican, Nebraska, for having sup
ported the federal reserve act. Both
are members of the new progressive
group and also of the Senate farm
bloc.
An investigation by the Senate for
eign relations committee TO ascertain
"the true state of affairs" In Nicara-
qua, the facts concerning American oc-
cupation Of that republic in 1910, why
American forces are still quartered
there, and "the connection between
certain New York commercial houses
and the ChamOrro clan government of
Nicaragua" was proposed in resolu-
ton introduced by Senator Ladd, Re-
publican, North Dakota.
The Senate has extended the right
Of world war veterans to a sixty-day
preference on all homestead entry
claims to Americans who served with
the allied forces during the war The
measure, already passed by the House,
would effect thousands of veterans in
khe Northwest who served In the Cana
dian army.
An appropriation Of So, 300. 600 for
construction Of forest roads and trail
and rural post roads a. authorized un-
der the federal highway act is recon-
mendod In the agricultural bill for next