The Ordway new era., 1922-05-19
FOREIGN

soldiers near San Pablo del Monte.
Mexico, captured fiftytwo Indians.
who are suspected of having taken
part in train holdup near Jalapa
when a number of persons were killed
and wounded.
A dispatch TO the London Times
from Dublin pictures the outlook for
an agreement by the peace conference
rather hopelessly. 1t says that rs far
as could be learned, the two parties
to the conference are as far from
agreement as ever.
France" said high official of the
government, will not recognize the
Russian soviet government until the
United States does France has kept
Il free hand in this matter, and it
makes no difference what action the
Genoa conference may take"
The German reply to the repara-
tions note of April 13, which has been
received by the reparations commits
sion in Paris, protests the good will of
the German government, but pleads
the material impossibility of imposing
sixty billion marks new taxes before
May 81, or complying with all the con-
ditions laid down on March 81.
Recent Inauguration by the Mexican
government of the continental system
of telling time, by which u midnight
becomes -twenty-four O'clock has not
met with favor. except in a few gov
ernment offices. There has been Il
general reversion TO the old system of
dividing the day into two parts of
twelve hours each.
Pilgrims from the four corners of
the world visited the quaint little vii
lage of Oberammergau TO look on
while the simple Christian towns
people redeemed their age-old vow to
God. For the first time since 1910
the Passion play-the famous dramati-
zation of the life of Christ-was en-
acted The war prevented intervening
production.
King George and Queen Mary, with
n suite including Field Marshal Earl
Haig and Admiral Lord Beatty recent
ly left London for Belgium TO be the
guests of King Albert and Queen Eliz-
abeth. Troops lined the breakwater
at the eastern pier in Dover as the roy
al party embarked on the yacht Alex
andra, which was escorted across the
channel by nine destroyers.
GENERAL
Recognized on the street of Seattle,
Wash, as an escaped life termer from
the Illinois state penitentiary AT Joliet,
John b. Koetters is being held for Il
linois authorities.
Flood backwaters of the Mississippi
and tributary streams have inundated
3.759 square miles in nine Louisiana
parishes, leaving 25,00O persons who
will need assistance, according to
statement issued at Baton Rouge, La,
by Joseph C. Logan. assistant man
ager of the southern division, Ameri-
can Red Cross.
Several of twenty-five persons re-
Gently indicted by federal grand jury
at Omaha on a charge of conspiracy
TO use the mails to defraud in connec-
ton with promotion of the Guaranty
Securities Company of Omaha, Des
and Denver, have furnished
bond. They included I. II. Matters,
Omaha attorney, and the Rev. Charles
H. Rogers of Lincoln.
Eli Du Puy. manager of Hotel Mar
garet in Brooklyn Heights, New York,
and Albert Bradich, vermin exter-
minator, were held in 5000 Eail on
warrants of suspicion of homicide by
Geismar, as the result of
the deaths at the hotel recently of Mr..
and Mrs. Fremont NJ. Jackson, who are
alleged to have been killed by fumigat-
ing gas. Du Puy and Bradich are al
legged to have caused the deaths by
negligence in not properly sealing the
rooms in which the fumigating gas was
used
Senator Borah demanded in the Sen
ate that Boris Bakhmeteff, so-called |
Russian ambassador, appear before
Senate committee instead of hiding |
behind his diplomatic immunity and |
through communications to |
the State Department to clear himself |
of the serious charges made against |
him.
Hundreds of delegates and visitors |
to the guadrennial conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, be-
ing held in Hot Springs, Ark. left J
their beds to watch the "Old City Hall''
building burn to the ground, with an |
estimated loss of $4,000. For a time
the entire heart of the business dis /
trict was threatened The plant of the
Sentinel-Record, a morning newspaper, |
was located in the destroyed building.
One of the most far-reaching deci.
sions ever reached by the United
ruling that places ban on the con-
tract system which many roads are al
legged to have been evading the boards