The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-06
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

phanS to the ground from the second
story by an exterior stairway when the
home of the Paclsic Coast Rescue and
Protection Society of Medina, near Sc.
attic, WASH, caught fire.
Official inquiry into the cause of the
wreck were expected to follow the side
swiping of Southern Pacific passen-
ger train by the Shore Line Limited
with the death of two trainmen, the
serious burning and crushing of two
more and minor injuries to twenty
three passengers at Montalvo, sixty
five miles north of Los Angeles.
G. A. Porter, the flying blue
Jacket" who started to fly from San
Diego, Calf, to his home in Long
mont, Colo, has sold his aeroplane to
George Thompson in Bellemont, AriZ.,
and bought a railroad ticket from
BellemOnt to Longmont. Porter ran
into bad luck at Bellemont which cul-
minated when he attempted to resume
his fight but was forced to land.
Five unidentified men seized w. w.
Glenn of Sacramento, in Contra Costa
county, near Berkeley, Calf, plunged
him first feet downward and then
head downward into a barrel of melt
ed tar, and left him in that condition.
Glenn experienced some difficulty in
extricating himself. A passing motor
ist brought him to Berkeley. He said
he could not account for the attack on
him.
Five sheep herders are in the Reno,
New, Jail under indictment of fed
eral grand jury charged with the theft
of sheep from the Idaho-Nevada Live
Stock Company, which is under a SUBJ
sidy of the War Finance Corporation.
A Department of Justice operative in
San Francisco said the men are al
legged to have stolen sheep valued in
excess of 100000 in the last few
years. The company has sheep in Ne
vada, Idaho and Utah.
Angelina Waycaster 10 years old,
pretty housemaid who was in the
home of Charles A. Faus when he was
shot to death by bandits on Feb. 3, was
convicted of murder in the first degree
at Salt Lake City. 1t was her second
trial for the alleged crime. The girl
has threatened to commit suicide ra-
ther than commence serving a life SEN
tence and she is being closely watched.
She asserted that she would die and
come back and haunt everyone who
had anything to do with her conviction.
WASHINGTON
United States Senator Thomas E.
Watson of Georgia died suddenly at
his home in Washington. Death was
said to be due to an acute attack of
asthma, from which Senator Watson
has suffered recurrently for some
years.
British Ambassador Geddes was
among Secretary Hughes callers on
the latter's first day back at his desk
in the State Department after an abb
sence in Brazil of several weeks. While
no statement as to the nature of the
conference was forthcoming, either at
the embassy or the department, there
were indications that the Near Eastern
situation was among the subjects dis
cusSed.
An army board inquiry is being
made to ascertain the cause of the
crash of a Martin bombing plane which
killed six army men at Mitchell field,
near Mineola, N. Y, at the conclusion
of the mimic air attack on the land
fOrooC af tho oonto0Doon+ noo &c a.
six victims, it was reported unofficial
ly at the field, was a "stowaway."
The drastic temporary injunction
order asked by Attorney General Har-
ry NJ. Daugherty against shopcrafts
strike leaders was put in force by
Judge James II. Wilkerson of Chicago.
without any of it's effectiveness being
modified. Several slight changes in
the wording of the original order SUBJ
mitted were made by Judge Wilkerson
to clarity its meaning.
Survey of the coal situation was
said at the White House to have con-
vinced President Harding that al
though a shortage during the winter
is inevitable as result of the miners
strike, the situation would not be par
ticularly acute. The President and his
cabinet had before them at recent
meeting report from the Geological
Survey which showed that effective
steps have been taken to prevent a
fuel famine.
President Harding in a proclama-
tiOn issued il Washington called upon
the country to set aside Monday, Oct.
9, as fire prevention day, and to OBJ
serve it in such a manner as to i'm
press upon the people the importance
of precautionary measures for the
avoidance of f.reS'
The entire operating personnel of the
railways of the country was called up-
on by President Harding for a "con-
centrated drive" for thirty days to pro-
vide the transportation facilities neces-
sary to meet the national coal emer-