The Snowflake herald., 1921-07-01

Unofficial details of fight between
Mexican federal troops and about fifty
alleged bandits near Huisachito, south
Of Nuevo Laredo, give the number of
soldiers dead as eight and 200 wound
ed. Bandit casualties are unknown
and no further trace of the band has
been found by pursuing federal troops,
reports at Laredo, Texas, said.
Two army aviators, sent from Ma
ther field, Sacramento, Calf, at the
request Of the coroner Of Ell Dorado
county, located the bodies of two
young women and man that had been
drowned in Fallen Leaf lake. In the
search for the bodies the aviators, Har-
old Zufall, cadet aviator, and Private
Kraut, twice narrowly escaped death
in two 1,4OO-foot falls.
Because, he said, John Schnier,
farmer, couldn't or Wouldn't pay
him $115 he claimed was due him, Will
Maddox, farm hand, shot and killed
the former at his farm near Pender,
Neb. Maddox then forced George
Koin, Schnier's uncle, who was visiting
the farm, to drive him toward West
Point, but a posse overlook them near
Pender and Maddox surrendered.
The Paulsen ranch at Lewiston, the
best farm in Trinity county, California,
has been sold for $4,000 to Lewis Gar
della, an Oroville gold miner, who will
turn the alfalfa fields of the ranch
upside down to get the $1,5O0,O00 in
placer gold which the log Of the pros
pector's drill holes says is there. The
farm of 800 acres is split by the Trim
ity river, which will furnish water for
the dredging operations.
Latest efforts to obtain some trace
of the missing tug Conestoga have re-
suited in failure, with the return to
San Diego of five torpedo boat de-
stroyers that have been engaged in an
extensive search for derelict reported
to have been sighted off the lower
California coast. The destroyers left
following a report by officers of the
steamship Floridian that derelict of
about the same length as the COnestO-
ga, had been sighted about $50 miles
south Of there. A thorough search of
the coast and of the ocean for a dis
tance of 100 miles from land failed to
find the derelict.
WASHINGTON
Permission to make the first photo
graph OF President Harding seated in
his desk in the executive offices has
been granted to Benjamin Grey of
New York, wounded soldier, trained
in photography by the federal voca-
tional educational system. The ap-'
pointment was made by Chairman
Kahn Of the House military commit
tee.
The new Volstead bill designated to
make the eighteenth amendment air
tight, appears to be blocked by an ar
ray of opposition composed largely of
"dry" congressional leaders who are
fearful that prohibition enforcement, If
carried to extreme, may defeat its own
ends. The bill not only would prohibit
the prescription OF beer as medicine
but would lay down new and drastic
regulations for the use of industrial
alcohol
Congress will be virtually on sum-
mer vacation schedule soon, taking
three-day recesses under agreement
that no important business shall be
transacted until fiscal legislation is
ready. Meanwhile work on perfecting
the tariff and taxation measures will
continue in committee rooms.
At least $5OO,O 900 will be required for
the "relief and rehabilitation Of the
stricken people of Pueblo, Governor
Shoup Of Colorado declared in a tele-
gram to Secretary Weeks, made public
In Washington. He protested against
the erroneous impression which, he
said, had been created by recent
statement OF Mr.. Weeks summarizing
activities of the War Department in
the flood area.
Instructions have been sent to all
federal prohibition directors to rein
state all reliable and trustworthy en-
forcement agents, it has been an
nounctd by the prohibition bureau. Be
cause Of lack. Of funds about TOO
agents were laid off in May, but with
the deficiency appropriation of $780,
600 made available by Congress, it was
explained that the bureau would be
able to fill out its force.
Austria has signed the protocol of
the permanent court of international
justice under the League of Nations.
She was the thirty-eighth signatory.
Seven have accepted the clause for
compulsory jurisdiction of an arbitra,
tion Of international disputes by the
court
Maj. Gen. Peyton c. March, chief of
staff of the army, will retire from ac-
tive service on Nov. /. He will be sue
ceeded by General Pershing on July /
and will go on leave at that time until
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