The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-16
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WESTERN

Alfred R. Wildman, veteran news paper man and author of nature stories, died at his home at San Fran cisco after an illness of three years.
 Hanford MacNider, national com. mander of the American Legion, re ceived a challenge to debate the bonus question before the city club post American Legion at Mason City, Iowa The challenge was forwarded to him in Chicago.
 George L. Warren, wealthy president of the Central Michigan Paper Com pany of Grand Rapids, Mich, and his wife left Los Angeles recently for their home in Grand Rapids, following con- victiOn and payment of fines in the Police Court on charges of shOplifting
 Mir. and Mrs. Paul E. Gray, their two children, baby of and a girl of 3, besides a nurse, Miss Lillian Spencer, were killed at Santa Bar bara, Calif., by inhaling carbon mon- oxide gas, which filled the Gray home from a gas water heater.
 The management of the Pacific Co., operative League, operating forty y-thre9 general merchandise stores in Cali fOrnia, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, petitiOned for receiver in the United States District Court at San Francisco. The league has done an annual business of $3,0O0,0O0.
 What is declared to be the worst landslide in many years in the CajOn pass, California, buried the west bound track of the Santa Fe railroad between CajOn and Summit, where an eighth of a mile of track was covered, in some places to a depth of thirty feet.
 Alex Howat, busted head of the Kan SaS coal miners union, is back in the Columbus, Kan, jail completing his sentence of six months, imposed when he refused to give peace bond after a conviction for violation of the Kan sas Industrial Court laws. He gave bond and was released from jail to attend the miners convention at h. dianapOlis, where he fought for rein statement, but was defeated.
 Rain at Emporia, Kan, and in the watershed of the NeoshO river from which the city water supply comes, was received with rejoicing not only because of its benefit to crops, but because it will mean an unlimited supply of water for Emporia bath tubs. EmpOria has been virtually on a ration system as far as bath water went since last summer with residents urged to use the existing supply as frugally as possible.
 The New York Life Insurance Con- pany has filed suit in Circuit Court at St. Louis, alleging Clarence J. Cur by, local manufacturer and president of the Missouri Automobile Club, com mitted suicide. Curby held insurance policies amounting to $1,44O,OOO in va rious companies, and the suit is in resistance to one for $10O0OO. Curby was found shot to death in his home Feb. II, and members of his family asserted a rifle was discharged while he was cleaning it.
 WASHINGTON
 The postal service would be required to provide weekly pay days for all em- plOyes under a bill introduced by Sen atOr Lodge, Republican, of Masschu- setts.
 The United States has made a for nal protest to the Japanese govern ment against the smuggling of opium, morphine, heroin and other narcotics into this country by means of Japanese steamships.
 Many of the wool importing coun- tries of the world have regained nor nal pre-war consuming bases and are converting raw stocks into finished goods at almost the prewar rate, the Department of Agriculture has an- nOunced.
 Finance applications filed recently | with the Interstate Commerce COmmis- | sion included an application from the receivers of the Denver & Salt Lake | railroad for a government loan of S6,- 500,0O0. The Denver & Salt Lake in | its application announced it intended | to use its loan, if granted, to construct | a six-mile tunnel through the Rocky | Mountain divide, which the line crosses west of Denver.