The St. Johns herald., 1922-10-12
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIcN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNGs AND HAPPENINGS. THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

Five nurses carried thirty DaDy or phans to the ground from the second story by an exterior stairway when the home of the Pacicic Coast Rescue and Protection Society of Medina, near Se- attle, Wash, caught fire.
 Seventy thousand acres of forest fires are burning in California, accord ing to dispatches received In Washing ton by the United States Forest Serv- ice from its San Francisco office. Three fires on the Shasta National Forest have burned over 19,000 acres.
 Seven men were injured In fire in the engine room and crews quarters of the motorship William Donovan, lumber carrier. The vessel was saved from destruction by flooding the hold and permitting it to sink in the harbor at Los Angeles. Damage was esti- mated at $75.O00
 Several families were homeless, the Port Townsend, Wash, water system was menaced and S3O0,OOO worth of logging equipment and timber had been destroyed as the result of two forest fires there. All available men in Port Townsend and soldiers from Fort Worden were battling the flames.
 Official inquiry into the cause of the wreck were expected to follow the side swiping of a 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.
 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 sub- 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 $500,O00 in the last few years. The company has sheep in Ne vada, Idaho and Utah.
 Angelina Waycaster, 19 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. It 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
 With a total of 97,740 visitors this season, Yellowstone Park has broken all records for travel and leads it's nearest rival, Yosemite Park in Cali fornia, by more than 2,500 tourists, ac- cording to figures announced by HOr- ace M Albright. superintendent of the Yellowstone.
 President Harding notified Senate and House leaders that he will sum- mon Congress in extra session begin ming Nov. 15, for the purpose of con- sidering and passing the ship subsidy bill. It is expected that the extra ses- sion will run into the regular session of Congress, which begins the first Monday in December.
 An army board inquiry is being made to ascertain the cause of the crash of 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 forces at the cantOnment. One of the six victims, it was reported unofficial Iy at the field, was a "stOwaway."
 The drastic temporary injunction order asked by Attorney-General Har- ry M. Daugherty against shOpcrafts strike leaders was put in force by Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago, without any of it's effectiveness being modified. Several slight changes in the wording of the original order sub mitted were made by Judge Wilkerson to clarify its meaning.
 British Ambassador Geddes was among Secretary Hughes callers on the latter's first day back at his desk in the State Department after an ab- 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 cpssed.