The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-09
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 A warrant for the extraditiOn of John J. Hastings, former banker of Fargo, N. D., and one time secretary of the NOnpartisan League of North Dakota, who is charged with em. bezzlement, has been issued in San Francisco. Delay had been asked by counsel for Hastings in order that he might consider institution of habeas corpus proceedings.
 With uniform marriage and divorce laws as their campaign slogan, Mrs. Irene c. Buell. and Mrs. A. K. Gault, sisters, are building up political fences in the race for seats in the national House of Representatives. Mrs. Buell. has been city prosecutor of Ashland, Neb., for eight years. Mrs. Gault is mayor of St. Peter, Minn. They are making the race as the result of a pO- Iitical pact between themselves, says Mrs. Buell..
 Information through the forester at Blackleaf, Teton county, received at the Jefferson National forest head quarters at Great Falls, Mont, states that a geyser, or volcanic eruption Oc- cured at Mount Black Leaf cafiOn re- gently, mud and steam shooting POO feet high for two days and then sub siding to a steady OutpOur of missing steam. During the first Outburst the noise of the eruption could be heard several miles.
 Reduced railroad rates of unusual interest to land men of the West have been announced in Denver by the Den yer & Rio Grande Western railroad in the form of hOmeseekers' rates from Eastern states to all interior points in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. The rates will be one fare plus $2 for the round trip from all points in Michi- gan, Illinois, Iowa, the Missouri river and southern Minnesota. The return limit is twenty-one days.
 After intensive search, investigation and sleuthing, the mystery surround ing the staying of William Desmond Taylor, famous film director, is as dense and impenetrable as the night he was slain, a month ago. And chances of a solution seem remote, while as a mass of clues, "tips" and scores of theories have been checked, little in the way of evidence that would serve to fasten the crime on any individual has resulted.
 After six years spent in cOnstruc- ton, the Alaskan railroad is now ready for use, from sea level at Se- ward, on Resurrection bay, nOrthward to Fairbanks, a distance of 467 miles. Fifty-two millions of dollars is the total sum which has been expended to date on the northern line and an addi- tional $4,OOO,OOO will be needed for bridges and other construction not es- sential to the initial operation, ac cording to William Gerig, one of the construction engineers, who has just returned to Portland, Ore, from Alaska.
 WASHINGTON
 Advances aggregating $472,OOO for agricultural and livestock purposes in Colorado and Wyoming were approved by the War Finance Corporation
 The American relief administration expects to withdraw from its under taking in the famine stricken districts of Russia by next Sept 1, Edgar Rick ard of that organization said after he had conferred with Secretary Hoover
 Business conditions throughout the country are better than they were a year ago in the view of treasury off cials who declared, however, that the improvement has been gradual and there was no immediate prospect of a sudden pickup in business activities. Some seasonable activity might be looked for in the spring, they asserted, but in general only gradual better ment was to be looked for.
 Liquor imports during the past year increased by nearly $1,5OO,OOO as com pared with 1920, while shipments of soft drinks into the country fell off by more than $2O0OOO during the same period, according to for eign trade reports made public by the Commerce Department. During 1921 the total of spirits, wines and malt liquors imported aggregated $4,711 ,OOO compared with $3,269,0O0 in 1920, while mineral waters and other beverages en- tering the country amounted to $347,- 900 ds against $569,O00 in 1920.