The Snowflake herald., 1918-01-18
FOREIGN

San Salvador, Salvador newspapers
pie lost their lives in the Guatemala
earthquake.
For having boarded sugar Marie Co
relli, the novelist, was fined fifty
pounds ($25O) under the food restric-
tions at London
A decree creating an Italian War
Committee to be presided over by
Premier Orlando was published in the
Paris Official Journal.
Confirmation was received at Buen-
os Aires of the report that DR.. Rom
ulo S. Naon, the Argentine ambassa-
dor to the United States, has resigned.
An American aviator was killed
near Paris while making a test flight
at an aviation center before French
and American pilots and observation
aviators.
Fire broke out in the royal palace
at La Granja, Spain, and before it
could be checked it had spread to a
nearby church, which with the palace
was destroyed.
Premier Clemenceau at Paris re-
fused the request of a delegation of
Socialist members of the Chamber of
Deputies for passports to PetrCgrad
for Socialist delegates.
The Zurich observatory reports
that a serious earthquake, which was
recorded recently, has been located at
Oberammergau, in upper Bavaria, and
also in the upper valley of the Lech
river.
Reports in regard to the serious
coal situation in all parts of Ontario
indicate that the shortage now is
acute and in many places only suf-
ficient fuel to last two or three days
is on hand
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic
explorer, is not at Fort Yukon, Alas
ka, as reported recently, but is be-
lieved to be at Herschel island or
Bailey island, both of which lie in the
Arctic off the Canadian coast, says a
special dispatch received from Ottawa
by the Vancouver, B. c., World.
Bhagwan Singh, defendant in the
trial of thirty-one Hindus and others
at San Francisco, on charge of at
tempting to foment a revolution in In
dia, once tried to pass as an English
Jew and as the fiance of an American
girl in Arizona, according to the tes-
timony of Capt. G. W. Read, U. S. A.,
in the trial at San Francisco.
SPORT
Twenty-seven national and worlds
records, sixteen for men and eleven
for women, were shattered in 1917 by
American swimmers.
Governor Houx at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
ordered the arrest of the principals,
seconds and the referee in three prize
fights which were held at Eagle hall
New Year night, and also the arrest
of newspaper reporters at the ring
side. The prosecuting attorney was
ordered to file charges against all un-
der the state law prohibiting prize
fighting.
Although the annual tournament is
over month away Colorado volIey-
ball teams are looking forward to the
fourth annual state competition. 1t is
expected that more teams will enter
fbic fipoo fhop houo opDoorod in 4bo
big scramble in past years. The 1918
tournament will be held at Pueblo in
stead of in Denver, as in past seasons.
The date is Feb. %. The game will
be played on the Y M. c. A. floor.
One of the biggest turf deals of the
year was pulled off at Cincinnati, o.,
when H. G. Bedwell, the Maryland
trainer, purchased from J. B. Respess
the great sire Marathon. Bedwell was
acting for his employer, J. K. L. Ross,
the Canadian millionaire, and the
price was reported to be $4,000. 1t
was only few weeks ago that Bed
well purchased the colt Cudgel for
the same price and for the same man.
GENERAL
Governor Whitman's estimates of
the amount it will take to conduct
New York states affairs for 1918 to-
tai approximately $78,000OOO.
China already has 125,OO0 men be-
hind the firing lines in Mesopotamia
and France. DR.. Wellington Koo, Chi
nese ambassador to this country, said
in an address in New York.
Practically all the oil men of Wyo-
ming and Colorado have agreed on the
form of the amendment to the Walsh
leasing bill now up for passage in
Congress, which they are urging SEN
ator Kendrick of Wyoming to substi-
tute for his amendment.
Charles Qualey, a mining man, heav.
lily interested in Mexican properties,
was shot and instantly killed on Pho.
neer Plaza in the business district of
Ell Paso, Tex William Russell, cattle
man from Lubbock, Texas, is under
arrest charged with the killing.