The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-09-08
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE. sa
WESTERN

II.
kiuctor Thomas Burke OF Provo was
badly injured and Fireman Honeycup
0f Provo slightly hurt in collision In
a tunnel on the Utah Railway Com
pany line at Spring canon, near Help
or, Utah.
G. A. Sehlbrede, famous as feder-
al district Judge In southeastern Alas
ka In the gOld-runs days of 1886 and
thereafter, died at Corvallis, Ore, aged
n. At the time of the "Soapy" Smith
gangs depredations at Skagway, Judge
Sehlbrede saved several members or
the gang from lynching.
A complete skeleton of saber-tooth
tiger which roamed southern Califor-
MIA and the Southwest generally in the
pleistocene period, some 100000 years
ago, has been assembled at the Los An
geles County Museum of History, Art
and Science in Exposition park, Los
Angeles, after a long period OF re-
Search.
Led by Admiral w. Fl. Billiard, U.
S. N, the passengers on the steamship
President Grant, which arrived at Sc
attic recently from the Orient, unani-
mously signed a protest to the United
States Shipping Board against Iimi-
tAti6n of speed, which they declared
Was the only reason the Canadian Pa
die liner Empress Russia beat the
President Grant IN a race across the
Pacific ocean from Yokohama.
Twenty-eights triking Northern Pa
cific shipment at Assoc, Wash, are
starting suits for $1,000 each against
the railroad because they have lost
their Jobs. After the strike was de-
claPed the railroad management de-
cided to build a fence around the
shops as a protection to the property
and the workers. The contract for
building the fence was let to con-
struction concern. The twenty-eight
idle shopmen Immediately applied for
Jobs helping put up the fence, and got
them. When the Northern Pacific
nound It out, the twenty-eight allege
m their lawsuit, they lost their new
Jobs Boycott and blacklisting are
charged.
WASHINGTON
The Colorado river commission will
meet In Santa F9, N. NJ, Nov. o, Secre-
tary Hoover, its chairman, has an
neunced.
Federal funds totaling $500, 900 have
been allotted to states cooperating
with the government In protecting for
est lands from fire.
Funds amounting to $4,000 have
been authorized by President Harding
to enable army engineers to begin con;
struction work on the Wilson dam at
Muscle Shoals, Ala, on an extensive
scale, pending use Of the 81, 800 900 ap,
propriated by Congress, which becomes
available Oct 1.
Appointment Of Edward r. Finch,
justice OF the Supreme Court of New
York, to take the place Of Cyrus FL. K.
Curtis, Philadelphia publisher, on the
official American mission to the Bra
lillian Centennial Exposition has been
announced at the White House. Mr..
Curtis was unable to go.
The McNary land reclamation
amendment to the soldiers bonus bill
was approved by the Senate, 43 to 28.
F0odstuffs exported during July de-
clfned sharply, according to foreign
trade reports issued by the Commerce
Department
Instructions have been sent to all
postmasterS by First Assistant Post
master General Bartlett to require all
heuSeh0lders Within four months to in
stall mail boxes or cut slots In doors to
facilitate the delivery of mail.
New regulations covering disuibu-
.tion Of wine for sacramental purposes
In accord with the recent opinion Of
Attorney General Daugherty were is
sued by Internal Revenue Commission
err Blair, to become effective Sept. Is.
The regulations provide that manufac-
turers or importers of sacramental
wine may sell only to rabbits, ministers,
priests or other authorized officials of
ia church. Church officers may not
manufacture wine for their individual
use nor for the use Of the congrega-
ton, but may qualify as proprietors Of
bonded wineries for the purpose of
manufacturing wine for religious pur-
poses or may be employed by qualified
wine makers to supervise the produc-
tton of sacramento wines.
/ Rates maintained by western rail.
roads on sugars, canned fruit, vegeta-
kles and fresh and evaporated fruits
from California and Utah to Nevada
points were held justified by the In
terstate Commerce Commission, though
hVe of the eleven commissioners dis
serted from the majority conclusion.
Custom officials seized 10000 rounds
of ammunition and fifty German make
rifles from the China mail liner Nile
just before 1t cleared the San Francis
co port for the Orient. The arms and
ammunition were found hidden In the
crews quarters.