The Snowflake herald., 1922-06-16
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 Service,
WESTERN

WESTERN
Judge Richard A Ballinger, who
secretary of the interior during Presi-
dent Taft's administration, died resent
ly in Seattle after an illness Of swo
days.
Three men are dead, three bamS in
jured and a dryer wrecked as the re-
suit of an explosion at the Trojan
Powder Company plant at San Lor-
EMO, eleven miles from Oakland.
Lodged in the Ada county Jail at
Boise is George Han, Jr., aged IL,
who, according to his written confess
sion, on two different occasions at
tempted to kill his mother by putting
poison in her tea and coffee.
The highest honor in the gift of the
National Association of Real Estate
boards came to L. f. Eppich of Den
yer, when he was elected president for
the long term at the election for Of
ficers recently in San Francisco.
ROdOlph Valentino, screen actor,
whose principal roles have been of
love heroes, was cleared of a charge
of bigamy at Los Angeles when the
felony complaint was dismissed after
a preliminary hearing before Justice
of the Peace Handy.
Closing of the observation-disclosures
border to all persons save those show
ing signs of having been successfully
vaccinated has been urged upon the
United States pubnc health service by
the State Board of Health, after an in
vestigation of an epidemic of smallpox
in Mexicali, Mexico.
A five million dollar merger of tuna
and sardine packing interests of south
ern California to be known as Van
Camp Sea Food Company, Incorpor-
ated, has just been made public. Firms
included in the merger are Van Camp
Sea Food Company, White Star Can
ming Company, International Packing
Corporation. Nielsen & Kittle Canning
Co, Ltd four of the largest fish pack
ing plants of Los Angeles harbor, and
two in San Diego, with several others
acquired by association and purchase.
WASHINGTON
A bill designating the daisy as the
national flower of the United States
has been introduced by Representa-
tive Kissel, Republican, of New York.
A resolution approving the holding
of an international exposition at Phil
adelphia in 1926 in celebration of the
150th anniversary of the signing of
the declaration of independence was
passed by the House and sent to the
Senate
Decision to build new veterans bu-
reau hospitals for the treatment of dis
abled soldiers at Liberty NY; Knox
vile, Iowa; ChillicOthe, Ohio, and Ia
coma, Wash, and to lease a hospital
at MuSkogee, Okla, for the same use,
has been announced by Director
Forbes.
More women will seek high political
offices in elections this fall than ever
before in the history of the country,
a survey made by the National Wom-
ans party shows. Already reports
have been received that four women
are candidates for the Senate, twenty
for the House and two for governors
of states.
Chief Justice William Howard Taft
of the Supreme Court will leave this
country about the middle of June for
England, where he will spend several
weeks in a survey of the English
courts, it was announced The tour
will be unofficial, Taft said This is
the firstt ime that a chief justice has
made such a trip during his term of
office
Within one month of the end of the
fiscal year 1922, the governments or
binary receipts were ST ,245,000,OOO un-
der those for the same period last
year, according to treasury officials.
Total ordinary receipts for eleven
months vera $3,626,OOO,OOO. In the
same period last year they were $4,-
S69000,000. The loss is attributed al
most entirely to shrinkage in income
taxes
An injunction by Wyoming to pro-
hibit Colorado from taking water from
the Laramie river was granted by the
Supreme Court to the extent of re-
straining Colorado from using an
amount of water in excess of the
amount fixed by the court. The state
of Wyoming sought to prevent the di-
version of water for the Greeley-Pou-
Dire irrigation project in Colorado.
The Senate commerce committee
unanimously agreed to incorporate in
the rivers and harbors bill provision
committing the government to an ulti
mate expenditure of $1,394,OO0 for the
construction of deep-water harbor at
COrpvS Christi, Texas The entire pro-
ject calls for an expenditure of $4,000
600
A reduction of SOL, 1862, 749 in the pub
lie debt of the United States in May
was announced by the Treasury De-
partment recently. The nations total