The Winslow mail., 1923-10-19
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Inc jury at HHOoulX, Ar1Z., WHICH Uodru
the evidence in the trial of Mrs. Leila
Crandall for the killing of w. e. Rem
ington, former state legislator, re-
turned a verdict of acQuittal.
Two bandits who boarded the south
bound Southern Pacific San Francisco
express as it entered a tunnel near
Hit, Calf, killed three trainmen,
stopped the train and threw a bomb
into the mail car, killing the mail
clerk and wrecking the car. The eX-
plOSion wrecked the mail car so COM
pletely that no loot was obtained by
the bandits.
Decision to raise $750,OO0 for the
founding at San Francisco of hospi-
tai for Chinese in the United States
was reached by the Pip Sing Laborers
and Merchants Association in annual
convention in Philadelphia. Each state
and Alaska were represented by del
egate and each pledged his district to
raise $4,000. The convention will con-
tinue for one month
Mrs. Alex Kels of Stockton, Calf.
will get the $105,000 life insurance her
husband carried. Kels, who confessed
he murdered a man believed to have
been Ed Meserve, permitted his wife
to bury the body in the belief that it
was his and then disappeared, de-
-clared he committed the crime that
Mrs. Kels might have the insurance
on his life Kels has been sentenced
to hang on Jan. 4.
Harry Lacalle, a publicity and ad
vertising director, was shot and fatal
ly wounded in a roadhOuse on the
Bothell highway, a short distance out
side the city limits of Seattle, Wash
He died ten hours later in hospital
in Seattle as he was about to be placed
on the operating table. County author
tiles are holding Miss Winifred Glib
bons, 21-year-eld divorcee, Lacelle in
a dying statement having charged her
with the shooting, according to Dep
uty Prosecutor John D. Carmody.
WASHINGTON
Postoffice department expenditures
during the last fiscal year were $685.
$4,000, with revenues of $685.
-S2S,000, showing an apparent deficit of
24,065,000, it was announced a few
days ago by Postmaster General New.
Friends Of Mrs. Florence King
Harding have been informed that she
has decided definitely to spend the
coming winter in Washington, but is
still undetermined as to where she will
make her future home. George Chris
tian, the former presidents private
secretary, has returned to Washington
from Marion, where he discussed set
tlement of some of Mrs. Harding's
personal affairs.
Hope that Hawaii would obtain
from the federal government an "ordi-
nary garden variety of square DEAL"
was expressed by Governor Earring
ton after a conference with President
Coolidge. The governor, who came to
Washington for conference with Sec
retary Work, discussed Hawaiian
problems with the President in gen.
eral way only the details being left
for discussion with Secretary Work.
The Supreme Court refused to con-
slider the appeal of sixty-two insurance
companies from fines laid upon them
by the courts of Mississippi for al
legged combination in restraint of
trade The fines totaled more than
eight million dollars.
President Coolidge, although holding
strictly to his announced intention of
making no extended addresses prior
to the convening of Congress, is be-
coming somewhat of a front porch"
speaker. The front porch" however,
is the south portico of the White
House and the speeches so far have
been merely little talks made to visit
ing delegations of convention dele
gates.
Plans are now being perfected in
the Denver offices of the reclamation
service for gigantic Boulder canon
dam on the Colorado river, near Las
Vegas, New, which will cost between
$40,000,000 and $50,0OO,OO0, and pow
er project in connection with the dam,
which will cost a similar sum. Con-
structiOn of this huge dam and power
project, which may cost a total of
$100000000 is to be recommended to
Congress, when it meets in December,
by the reclamation service.
A maximum increase of 4 per cent
in the retail cost of food in the month
ending Sept. Is was shown in com
pleted compilations announced in
Washington for twenty cities out of
fifty-one for which the bureau of labor
statistics receives reports.
The New York-San Francisco mail
route, with lighted night flying be-
tween Chicago and Cheyenne, will be
opened about March 1, Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Paul Hender-
son announced, speaking before the
National Association of Postmasters
In convention in Washington