The Snowflake herald., 1922-01-20
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News servics.)
WESTERN

Donald c. Wheeler, 81, of Reno,
New. was frozen to death in the Black
Rock desert, near Gerlach, New, fol-
lowing an accident to his automobile.
]. Henry Jurgens, veteran of the
Yellowstone Indian campaign of 1864
and former member of the territorial
legislature, died at Kalispell, Mont,
aged 70 years. He was native of
Minnesota.
After losing his right hand in a
hunting accident, I'll. J. Jones of NAL
den, Wash, stopped the flow of blood,
walked several miles to his automobile
and then drove forty miles over ice
covered roads to doctor.
At a special meeting of the State
Board of Examiners at Helena, Mont,
it was announced that the record book
containing the minutes of the board
during the years 1918, 1919 and 1920
had strangely disappeared from the
vaults in the office of Clerk A. E. Nc
Partridge.
Permission from Attorney General
Daugherty for William G. Grant, for
fner cashier of the First National Bank
of Santa Rosa, to leave San Quentin
prison under guard and come to the
bedside of his wife at Merritt hospi-
tai at Oakland, has saved her life, ply
Sicians announced.
Fifty pounds of brass passed a gold
test applied by John Miller, assayer
and pawnbroker at st. Louis, and was
h. l. 70
his report to police. Miller said the
chemicals he used evidently had been
tampered with. Two men asked $13,-
600 for the metal, he said.
Dissatisfied with the food served to
tmem recently at the evening meal a
number of inmates of the Utah state
prison at Salt Lake staged a minia-
ture rebellion in the prison dining
roOm Overturning several tables load
ed with food and later yelling and
pounding on their cell doors after they
had been locked up by Warden James
Devine. The menu consisted of chilli
beans and bread and tea, and the recall
citrantS not only spoiled their own
meal, but caused many others to go to
bed hungry.
WASHINGTON
The United States Supreme Court
held invalid the North Dakota state
capital stock tax, as applied to rail-
roads doing business in the state. The
lower courts had upheld the tax but
its invaIidity had been contested by
James c. Davis, director general of
railroads; the Northern Pacific rail-
way and other roads, on the ground
that the law violated the commerce
clause of the federal constitution.
Per capita circulation of money in
the United States declined $500 dur
ing the last year, according to a state
ment issued by the treasury. On Jan.
1, 1922, the per capita circulation was
S53.03, based on a total of $5,775, ,400,-
315, and an estimated population of
10S,917, 900 as compared with per
capita of $5912 on Jan. L, 1921, based
on total of $6,34O, ,436,718 in circula-
ton and an estimated population of
107 7,249,000.
The nautical school for the training
of former service men for the Ameri-
can merchant marine, to be estab-
lished by the veterans bureau, will be
put at some illogical place" on the At
Iantic coast, Director Forbes has an
nOunced.
A new white, hullesS oat that threSh-
es out like wheat and weighs approx
imately sixty pounds to the bushel in
stead of forty-five pounds, is one Of
the chief new horticultural productions
of Luther Burbank plant wizard, at
San Jose, Calf.
Postmaster General Hays in letter
to Senator Nelson of Minnesota, chair
man of the Senate judiciary commit
tee, came out squarely in opposition to
a bill recently passed in the House
which would make it an offense for
newspapers to publish racing news.
A tax of 8 cents a gallon on gaso-
line, to be paid by the producer, the
proceeds of which would be used for
soldiers bonus, is proposed in a bill
introduced by Representative Bacha-
rach, New Jersey, Republican. The
tax, he estimated, would yield from
S240,O0O,O00 to $250,000,O00 annually
SufflclenC revenue, ne SAID, TO meet
cash payments to former service men,
provided for in the BILL
Higher prices for sugar may be ex-
pected vOaccording to the results of an
Investigation into the situation in the
sugar industry made public by the
Commerce Department.
A total of 6,454 civilian employees
have been dismissed from federal
service I'm the Panama canal zone since
March 2, Secretary Weeks announced
i'm Washington recently
President Harding signed an execu-
tive order establishing a permanent
hospital for ex-service men at Jeffer-
son City. No., on a part of the Jeffer-
son City barracks military reservation.