The St. Johns herald., 1921-10-06


 WESTERN
 Out of custody but not out of pris-
 on for nearly three days, three of the
 five men who took part in the break
 from the Utah state prison at Salt
 Lake City were found hiding within
 the prison wall.
 Alaska yielded the greatest amount of gold in the Yukon valley this year
 Statistics made public recently by
 Superintendent Richard of the north ern commercial posts in Alaska, showed that of the valleys total yield Of S4,000,000, Alaska's output wOs $2,- 675,OO0. Yukon territory's output was $1,250,OOO and Atlin, B. C., $75,OO0.
 Veterans of the famous Eighty ninth division, recruited from Colo radO, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota, are to be reassembled in the first great reunion of the division in Kansas City, Mo-, on Oct. 30, 31 and Nov 1, according to plans announced by Burton A. Smead, secretary of the Division War Society which is planning the event.
 City and county supervisors of San Francisco recently voted three exten- sions of the municipal street railway system calling for immediate expendi- ture of $850,0O0 The expenditure is to be made, it was announced, from surplus earnings tOtaling S1,2O0O00 in the street railway replacement fund San Francisco street raIIwayS, city and privately owned, collect 5 cents car fare.
 Jimmy Murphy, American automO- biledriver, who won the Grand Prix race in Paris last month, will drive in the Thanksgiving day race on the Bev- erly Hills track at Los Angeles, it was announced recently. Bitter elimina- tion trials for the Thanksgiving day race, as more drivers than are permit ted in the contest have already applied for entrance blanks, will be held. Rules for the American Automobile ASsocia- tiOn permit eighteen cars to start.
 WASHINGTON
 A solemn ceremonial to voice at once the nations gratitude to the soldier dead and its hope of deliverance from heavy armaments will be observed from coast to coast on Armistice day under the leadership of President Harding and officials of his admins tratiOn.
 Travellers paid 168 railroads $573,- | 2S4,211 in passenger fares under in- creased rates for the first six months | of this year as against $564, ,5S6,242 for the same period of 1920, before the in- crease went into effect, the Interstate | Commerce Commission announced. | Fares were paid by 522, ,195,O0O per sons as compared with 595,771, ,OOO in | 1920, the average Journey in 1921 be- ing 35.04 as against 36.41 miles in 1920. Each traveller paid an average of 3.133 cents a mile this year as against 2.6O3 in 1920.
 Decision of the transcontinental rail- roads to reduce rates on vegetables from California and other Pacific coast territory points to the territory be- tween the Rocky mountains and Chi cago and the Mississippi river was an- nOunced by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The reductions will sub- stitute 15 per cent increase over the rates in effect Aug. 25, 1920, for the 3311s per cent increase which went into effect Aug 26, 1920, "thus removing more than half of the increase made st that time," the commission said.
 Dr. J. D. Prince, a language profes- sOr at Columbia University and presi- dent of the State Civil Commission of New Jersey, has been selected by President Harding as minister to Den mark
 Ray Moore and Bert Orcutt, shot by officers near Vancouver, Wash, were later identified as two of the men who robbed a Sells-FlotO circus truck of more than $2S,OOO near Vancouver re- gently.
 Postmasters of the first, second and third class hereafter must put in an day under an order an- by Postmaster General Hays. POstmasterS "shall devote a minimum of eight hours daily during the busi- ness part of the day to duties as post masters" the order reads, land shall i give their personal attention to the z business of their offices and shall not S absent themselves therefrom for a t longer period than two days without c written authority" f