The St. Johns herald., 1922-09-28
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DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
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 Four E-- were killed and six were Injured when Northern Pacific pas senger train, westbound, cOllided head on with a switch engine at Parkwater, four miles east of Spokane, Wash. At least three of the dead and all of the injured were. trainmen.
 Fire which partially destroyed the logging camp of the Madeira Sugar Pine Lumber Company at Sugar Pine' near Fresno, Calif., is reported to have been brought under control, though still burning in she forest nearby. It $ estimated thS loss may reach ST. 100000. ' Il
 Women Republicans of Montana will De given a voice in the party's cam oaign by the organization of an aux Iiary executive committee of women and appointment of a woman as state vice chairman, according to Joseph D. Scanlan of Miles City, chairman of the state central commission.
 Montana's wheat crop will be over 100000 bushels, within a million bushels of the largest wheat crop ever grown in the state. The cat crop will pc 80 per cent larger than last year. The state corn crop will be the larg- est in its history. This years wool crop will be 15,35O,OOO pounds.
 A Los Angeles firm of attorneys has served notice of withdrawal from the defense of Mrs. Clara Phillips, indict- ed for the so-called hammer murder" of Miss Alberta Meadows. No reason was given for the lawyers action. Rep resentatives of the public defenders office recently conferred with Mrs. Phillips.
 Surgeons from va1ioUs parts of the United States and Canada were in at tendance at Salt Lake City at the meeting of the Utah, Colorado and Wyoming section of the American Col lege of Surgeons. Clinics and clinical demonstrations were held at three To- cal hospitals and the. surgeons held a conference at a local hotel.
 After a search over the Panhandle of Idaho since Aug 4, Joe Farriri, wanted in connection with the shoot ing of Joe MarSden, timber cruiser, was captured in the brush near Her rick, Wash. The fugitive had been liv- ing on berries, fish and herbs ever since the shooting, which occurred fol lowing a dispute over money matters.
 Unable to let go of a live wire he had grasped in a coal mine near Clee- lum, Wash, J. Robertson ordered his son, who had been working with him, to cease his efforts to save him lest the son should lose his life. After the son had been seriously burned in his endeavors to rescue his father he ran for help and in thirty minutes sue ceeded in having the current turned off. The father died soon afterward. WASHINGTON
 By a vote of to 8, Senate and House conferees refused to sidetrack the administration tariff bill for the soldiers bonus measure.
 Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, who has been in San Francisco for several days on his way home from the Orient, has returned to Washing ton.
 T only want to say that 1 am not at all disturbed; that am not worried in the least way" was the only comment Attorney General Harry M. Daugher- ty in Chicago when advised of the mo- tion entered in tie House by Repre- sentative Keller, Republican, Minne- sota, u an effort to impeach the at torney general.
 The river and harbOr improvement bill specifying for projects upon which government funds may be spent, was passed by the Senate after amend nents providing for federal acquisi- ton of the Cape Cod, Mass, and Dis nal Swamp, Virginia-NOrth Carolina canals, had been adopted. The bill now goes to conference.
 Earnings of 197 trunk railroads which operate most of the cOuntry's rail mileage amounted to $69, ,239. 900 In July, according to compilations made public by the Association of Railway Executives. This was esti- mated to indicate an annual return rate of 4.04 per cent on the value of railroad property as tentatively fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion and was slightly less than earn ngs recorded for the same month of 1921, and almost $7,OOO,OOO below the pet earnings of June, 1922.