The St. Johns herald., 1922-04-06

WESTERN
 Scores of guests escaped from upper windows in their night clothes when the Riverside hotel, the largest hotel at Reno, was destroyed by fire re- gently.
 Two bandits walked into the office of the California theater, in the heart of the downtown district of Los An geles and robbed the office safe of the days receipts, estimated at between $1O,OOO and $12OOO, according to re- ports to the police.
 Miss Lydia Fricke of Klamath Falls, Ore, Klamath county health nurse. is recovering from a hazardous trip of twenty-three miles on skis in a blind ing snOwstorm, which she undertook for the relief of a destitute family in the northern part of Klamath county, Oregon.
 An inspection tour of the section of the Colorado river including the site of the proposed Boulder Canon dam
  tary of commerce, acting as chairman of the Colorado River Commission. He was accompanied by the governors of Arizona and Nevada and other off cials.
 Reckless automobile drivers of SpO kane, Wash, and speeders hereafter will go to the rock pile, which up to the present has been operated for the benefit of drunks and vagrantS, Police Judge Witt declared recently. After this, those going over thirty miles an hour get no sympathy-they get the rock pile," he announced.
 Robert Ford, IT years old, was ac- quilted of the murder of his step- father, c. B. Smith, killed at his home in Morley, Idaho, last November, by a jury which reported in District Court at Occur D'Alene, Idaho. Judge W. F. Naughton adjudged the boy juvenile delinquent and paroled him to the custody of his mother.
 Freight rates on coal from Wyo- ming mines to Nevada points will be reduced April p as follows, according to announcement made by Union Pa cific officials at Salt Lake City: Be tween MontellO and Winnemucca $5.50 a ton, compared with the present rate of $6.37k; Winnemucca S590, present rate $675; Reno $6.25, present rate $7.12h.
 WASHINGTON
 The high cost of living is coming down very slowly. The retail cost of food was three-tenths of 1 per cent lower in February than it was in Jan uary, according to figures made pub lie by the Department of Labor.
 Cotton consumed during February amounted to 473,073 bales of lint and S8,5O9 bales of linters, compared with 995,115 of lint and 37,565 of linters consumed in February last year, the census bureau announced recently.
 The Senate supported its appropria- tions committee, inserting in the an- nual postofficN appropriation bill an Item of $1,9OO,OO0 for continuation of the New York-San Francisco air mail route. Such an appropriation failed in the House.
 Approximately 2,5O0 aliens admitted into the United States under temper ary permits which expired March g and left them liable to immediate de- portation, have been given an indefi- nite extension of time for their stay, Commissioner General Husband of the immigration bureau has announced.
 When Raymond T. Baker retired as director of the mint he turned over to c. B. Scobey, his successor, approxi- mately one-third of the worlds gold supply. The gold bullion and gold coin held at the United States hints at Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco and at the assay office in New York on March 1, totaled more than S3,OOO,OOOOOO. The worlds SUD- ply amounts to about $9,OOO,OOO,OOO.
 A threat to blow up every Polish consulate in the United States and Canada was contained in a letter signed American Ukrainian Black Hand, which was received at Washing ton by Senator Willis, Republican, of Ohio, in an envelope postmarked Cleveland, March 13. A list embracing the Polish legation here and the Pol ish consulate at New York City, Chi cago, Detroit, Buffalo and Pittsburgh, and at Winnipeg and Montreal, Can, was embodied in the letter.