The Snowflake herald., 1922-03-31

was upheld by the Supreme Court in
denying the application of Elvie d.
Kerby, under death sentence in con-
nection with the murder of Sheriff Til
Taylor of UmatilIa county, for writ
of habeaS corpus.
Two bandits walked into the office
Of the California theater, in the heart
of the downtown district of Los An
geleS and robbed the office safe Of the
days receipts, estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000, according to re
ports to the police.
The retrial of Madalynne Obenchain,
charged with the murder of ]. Bolton
Kennedy, her sweetheart, in Beverly
Glen, near Los Angeles, the night of
Aug. 5, last, will commence June 5.
The first trial of Mrs. Obenchain re-
suited in a disagreement of the jury.
Miss Lydia Fricke of Klamath Falls,
Ore, Klamath county health nurse. is
recovering from a hazardous trip of
twenty-three miles on skis III q blind
ing Snowstorm, which she undertook
for the relief of q destitute family in
the northern part of Klamath county,
Oregon.
An inspection tour of the section of
the Colorado river including the site
Of the proposed Boulder Canon dam
was made by Herbert Hoover, Secre-
tary of commerce, acting as chairman
Of the Colorado River Commission. He
was accompanied by the governors of
Arizona and Nevada and other Off
Gals.
Reckless automobile drivers of SpO-
kane, Wash, and speeders hereafter
will go to the rock pile, which up to
the present has been operated for the
benefit of DRINKS and Migrants, Police
Judge Witt declared recently. "After
this, those going over thirty miles an
hour get no sympat11y-they get the
rock pile" he announced.
Robert Ford, IL years old, was ac-
quilted of the murder of his step
father, G. B. Smith, killed at his home
in WOrley, Idaho, last November, by a
jury which reported in District Court
at Occur D'Alene, Idaho. Judge w. F.
Naughton adjudged the boy a juvenile
delinquent and paroled him to the
custody of his mother.
Freight rates on coal from Wyo-
ming mines to Nevada points will be
reduced April % as follows, according
to announcement made by Union Pa
cif1c officials at Salt Lake City: Be
tween Montello and Winnemucca $3.50
a ton, compared with the present rate
of $6.371a; Winnemucca $3.50, present
rate 1915; Reno 1925, present rate
$7.12k.
WASHINGTON
When Raymond T. Baker retired as
director of the mint he turned over
to G. E. Scobey, his successor, approx
n;ately one-third of the worlds gold
supply. The gold bullion and gold
coin held at the United States minis
at Philadelphia, Denver and San
Francisco and at the assay office in
New York on March 1, totaled more
than $3,OOOOOO,OO0. The worlds sup
ply amounts to about $9,000O00,0OO.
A clause in the army appropriation
bill, which provides that by July the
number of regular army officers must
be reduced from approximately $4,000
to 1000, has been approved by the
House.
The Senate supported its appropria-
tons committee, inserting in the an
nual postOffice appropriation bill an
item of $1,900,00O for continuation of
the New York-San Francisco air mail
route. Such an appropriation failed
in the House.
Approximately $500 aliens admitted
into the United States under temper
airy permits which expired March %
and left them liable to immediate de-
portation, have been given an indefi-
mite extension of time for their stay,
Commissioner General Husband of the
immigration bureau has announced.
Coal operators who face the pros
pect of a strike of their employees
April 1, but who still refuse to enter a
national conference with the coal min
erSe' union, are not controlled by
"mere madness, but determination to
cure a deep-seated disorder" George
III. Gushing, managing director of the
American Wholesale Coal Association,
declared in an address before the
Washington City Club.
Waving the stern wand of economy,
Congress is threatening to shrink the
United States navy to approximately
nine battleships-half the number
with which it emerged from the Wash
lngtOn conference. That, in effect,
will be the result of the threatened
cut to $4,000 men, according to naval
estimates.
The resolution of Senator Lodge,
Republican Massachusetts,, extend
ing for twenty-five years the loan of
$50,000,000 made to Austria for famine
relief, has been adopted unanimously
bV the Senate and sent to tho Houco