The Snowflake herald., 1922-03-03


Isolated from the rest of the world,
with no means of replenishing the sup
ply Of food, a father, mother and two
children living on a homestead twelve
miles north Of Reno, New, were saved
from possible starvation by the air
mail service, which sent a food-laden
plane to the district and while the
plane eIFcied over the house three
large sacks of food were dropped in
the yard.
Mrs. Alice M. Hills, Amherst, Mass,
and Harold Holloway, colored,
waiter, flung themselves into the sea
from the MatsOn liner Buckeye State
within two hours of each other while
the steamer was approximately 300
miles south Of Los Angeles, according
TO a radio message received from the
vessels master, Capt. John T. Diggs
Captain Diggs' message gave no rea
son for the supposed suicides.
With uniform marriage and divorce
flaws as their campaign slogan, Mrs.
Irene G.. 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, Mimi. They are
making the race as the result of a po
iiticaI pact between themselves, says
Mrs. Buell..
Information through the forester at
BlackIeaf, Teton county, received at
the Jefferson National forest head
quarters at Great Falls, Mont, states
that q geyser, or volcanic eruption oc-
Cured at Mount Black Leaf canon re-
Gently, mud and steam shooting 200
siding TO a steady outpour of kissing
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 So 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 six years spent in construc-
zion, the Alaskan railroad is now
ready for use, from sea level at Sc
ward, on Resurrection bay, northward
TO Fairbanks, a distance of 467 miles.
Fffty-two millions of dollars is the
total sum which has been expended to
date on the northern line and an addi-
tlonal 100000 will be needed for
bridges and other construction not es-
genital to the initial operation, ac-
cording to William Gerig, one of the
construction engineers, who has just
returned to Portland, Ore, from
Alaska.
WASHINGTON
The American relief administration
expects to withdraw from it's 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.
Disaster at the Hampton Roads army
base to the army's Italian-built airship
Roma, largest craft of her type in the
world, cast gloom over the War and
Navy departments as the long list of
officers and men who were burned to
death in the ship came in. Immedi-
ately on receipt of the news Major
General Patrick, chief of the air serv-
ice, left for the scene by airplane
Detailed recommendations for addi-
tional government hospital construc-
ton in various parts of the country
for former service men framed by a
conference of specialists on mental
diseases have been made public by the
veterans bureau. The proposed pro-
gram would include a total of 10000
beds needed for the care of mental pa
tients.
Business conditions throughout the
country are better than they were a
year ago in the view of treasury Off
Gals who declared, however, that the
improvement has been gradual and
there was no immediate prospect of q
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.
The seven Republicans of the House
ways and means committee who are
charged with solving the problem of
financing the soldiers bonus had an
other general discussion of the whole
question with Secretary Mellon. The
treasury secretary was heard behind
closed doors, but he was understood to
tnve taken substantially the same posi-
ton that ne did at the open hearings
two weeks ago when he reiterated his
opposition to a bonus at this time, but
declared that il such legislation was to
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