The Snowflake herald., 1921-11-18
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MENTS, sUFFERINGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

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WESTERN
Judge Robert E. Lewis of Colorado
aas been named by President Hard
ing as federal circuit judge for the
eighth judicial circuit, to succeed the
tate Judge Hook.
Fire which broke out in the Trust
building at Nogales. Ariz, did damage
estimated at $150,000 or more before it
was eot under control by firemen. The
loss is believed to be fully covered by
Insurance.
Rafael Olquin, 100 years old, was
found dead in his bed at his residence
at SandovaI, n NJ He had not been i'll
aud had led an active life despite his
age. lie is survived by six sons and
four daughters.
Without candidates there can be no
election, the village trustees of Pal
mer, Ill.,, decided. That little town of
$50 inhabitants will foregO all election
joys Nov. s, because none of them are
anxious for office, although their
mayor. the city clerk and one of the
trustees have left their village.
Tie locking out of 300 employees
IN the mill work industry in Chicago
Is intended as a step toward establish
ing the open shop in the carpenter
trade. union officials declared The
mills include sash, door and window
and fixture mills, employing approx
mately 1000 carpenters.
HipolitO villa, brother of Francisco
Villa, former bandit leader of Mexico,
said that he had his two children, Ma
ria Louisa, G, and Abton, 4, whom his
former wife, Mabel Silva, accused him
of kidnapping, in private school on his
ranch Gt TorreOn, that he intended to
give them good education and then
release them and permit them to re-
turn to their mother il they so de-
sired.
WASHINGTON
Retail food prices decreased between
sept. 10 and Oct 10 in nine of the
eleven principal cities from which re-
ports, were received, the department of
labor announced. In Milwaukee there
was II decrease of per cent and in
Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis a
decrease of , per cent.
Returns from more than GOO mutual
savings banks for the year ended June
30 reveal unanticipated conditions"
accGI..ng to statement issued by
Il
ing unfayorable conditions he said,
"these savings institutions gained both
i'm number of depositOrs and volume
of deposits"
Advances aggregating S553,750 to
finance institutions for agricultural
and livestock purposes have been an
nOunced by the war finance corpora
ton. Seventeen advances were made
TO institutions in Nevada, Iowa, Ne
braska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Texas and Georgia in amounts
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000.
Charges that Haitian natives were
killed or inhumanly treated by
gendarmes. acting on order of Ameri-
can marine officers, were challenged
before the special Senate Investigating
Williams, who acted as assistant COM
mander and later as commander of
the gendarmes between August 1916,
and July, 1919.
Y Bryan Yamashita, representing
the Japanese peace society, has ar
rived in Washington to attend the con-
ference on limitation of armament.
MIR Yamashita came to the United
States at the age of 10 and, he said,
received his education 'at the hands
of" former Secretary Of State William
J. Bryan. then an instructor at the
University of Nebraska.
Expenditure of $3.660, ,250 on the dis
abied former service man and his
family and total of $19,361 $50 for
all purposes is proposed by the Ameri-
can Red Cross during the current fis-
cal year, it was announced at the or
gahizatiOn's national headquarters.
TIlis represents a reduction of more
than $5,060,000 from the $24, ,492, 74O
total spent during the last fiscal
year g
The United States shipping board
has gone into the junk business on a
tremendous scale in an effort to dis
pose of $35,00O,O0O worth of surplus
materials and supplies on hand after
building aud fitting out the emerg-
ency fleet. Within few days, it was
said today. advertisements will appear
offering eyer2hing for sale from
slightly used" steam locomotives to
1rugseand tobacco.
A bill appropriating $250,OOO to be
used in refunding losses by Liberty
Loan subscribers through failure of
five banks in which they had placed
partial payments has been passed by
the house and sent to the senate. The
sanks were located in Pennsylvania,
california. Ohio, Minnesota and North
Dakota.
The navy oiler Alan eda, carrying