The Winslow mail., 1923-10-05
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS. THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
& OF THE AGE
WESTERN

wien burlington train NO. 81 en- route
to Denver, crashed through a bridge
two miles west of Lockett, Wyo., fif-
teen miles east of Casper, into the
swollen waters of Coal creek.
The trial of John Browning, Jr., and
his cousin, Mariner Browning,
charged with first degree murder in
connection with the fatal shooting at
Salt Lake City last April of John Bal
lantyne, has been put over until
Oct. 25.
Five hundred thousand dwellings are
to be rebuilt in Japan and this will re-
quire 3O00,OOO,OOO feet of lumber, ac-
cording to estimates received by the
West Coast Lumbermen's Association,
from the United States Department of
Commerce.
That it was an error in judgment
and not an act Of Providence that
hurled seven ships to destruction and
twenty-three men to their death on the
rocks off Honda, Calf, Sept. 8, was
admitted by Captain Hunter Of the
Delphy shortly before he concluded his
testimony before the naval court of in
quiry at San Diego, which is investi-
eating the disaster.
One workman was seriously injured
and the main building of the Mason
By-Products Company at Sausalito,
Calf, was destroyed by fire which fol-
lowed a terrific explosion. Loss was
estimated at 100000. A four-hour
fight was waged to control the flames
and the firefighters were endangered
by the presence of a large quantity of
alcohol in the plant. Two warehouses
in which alcohol was stored were
saved.
Tourists from all parts of the
United States spent $7,7O0,000 in the.
Rocky Mountain national park during
the 1923 tourist season, according to
an estimate of the Department of the
Interior announced in Washington.
The number of visitors to the park
from outside the state is estimated at
$4,000. Travel to and through Mesa
Verde National park, Colorado, is esti-
mated to have brought $4000,00O to
the state in the last season.
Philip @. Valentine, son Of John J.
Valentine, former president of the
Wells-Fargo Express Company, was
granted a parole from the California
state prison at San Quentin by the
board of prison directors. Valentine
had served one year of sentence of
from one to three years on a charge
of driving an automobile while intOX
ocated. His arrest followed an acci-
dent in which Miss Marian Donald of
San Joose was run down and serious
ly injured.
WASHINGTON
Eleven-year-old Charlie Williams of
Grays Siding, Colo, has been written
a personal letter of thanks by Secre-
tary Wallace Of the Department of
Agriculture for his Service to the gov
ernment in detecting a fire in the
CochetOpa forest and securing the aid
of a railway section crew in putting
it out. Supervisor Agee of the forest
service told the department in a report
that Charlie was as thorough a fire
fighter as he had ever met outside the
service.
President Coolidge and his advisers
still are giving energetic study to the
agricultural situation. Secretary Wal
lace, upon whom has developed the
task of assembling data on the sub
ject, will not have his report ready for
several days, and consequently the
cabinet has made no effort to reach
conclusion.
The United States attorney in Los
Angeles has been asked by Lloyd's
London agency to proceed against
band of armed intruders who are al
legged to have taken possession of the
wrecked steamer Cuba on the rocks
near Point Arguello. The agency said
it believed that government interfer
enec was necessary in order that legal
claims should be preserved.
Conspiracy charges in the sale of
German dye patents to the Chemical
Foundation, Inc, were made in brief
filed by the Department of Justice in
the Federal Court at Wilmington, Del,
in the governments suit to set aside
the sale of the patents. Violation of
the law providing for custody of enc
my alien property was charged in the
brief and former Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer, Francis 2. Carvan,
former alien property custodian and
others were criticized severely.
Request was made of President Cool
idge a few days ago by a delegation Of
a dozen farmers and bankers from
Minneapolis federal reserve district
that a special session of Congress be
called to enact legislation for relief of
wheat growers through revival of the
United States Grain Corporation. The
delegation further asked that reduc-
ton in freight rates on wheat and flour
be made, but said after their confer
ence that the President had made no
promises to them other than that he
would consider their requests with his
advisers.