Williams news., 1919-08-15
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR ElGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
 MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

uduy S0T1OuSiy, WHICH, ItWO ih- terurban cars on the Peninsula rail way collided head-on, nine miles from San Jose, Calif.
 Plans have been perfected for S15O,OOO motor speedway at Dalworth, midway between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, and construction will start Immediately.
 Strangler Ed. Lewis won two of three falls in his match here last night with Ivan Grandavich, Russian Lewis won the first fall in forty-six minutes and twenty-nfne seconds and the sec Dnd in thirtyssix minutes and fifty five seconds
 A four-story garage, from any story Df which. entrance and exit is directly from the street, is one of the archi- fectural landscape oddities of auto mobile row. in Los Angeles. The ex- planation is simple: The garage is built on a hillside.
 Loss from forest fires in Montana and northern Idaho this season, up to July 31, amounted to $755, ,OOO, it was estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant district forester. Heavy rains have re- moved the fire menace in Montana, though fires in Idaho still are threat ening A total of $S15,0OO has been spent in fighting forest fires in Mon tana and northern Idaho this season.
 Thirty-six thousand dollars belong ing to the Alamo National Bank of San Antonio, which H. J. Brown, bank messenger, reported as having been stolen from him, has been recovered by detectives. Brown and A. J. Glenn ents are being held for grand jury ac- tion. Brown, according to the police, has confessed that the robbery was a frame up'' by Clements and himself.
 A protest against the policy of the Navy Department which, it was charged, compelled California oil in terests to sell to the navy at tidewater at 80 cents a barrel, "plus a vague promise of final adjustment crude oil, for which producers received SIPS at the well, was embodied in state ment sponsored by the executives of several of the leading oil companies of the state Under 8 contract which ex- pfred July l the companies had been supplying the navy with crude oil at $1.47 barrel, at an aggregate loss, the statement said, to the oil interests of the state of $5OO,0O0.
 WASHINGTON
 A cotton production of 11,O16,OO0 :, bales this year has been forecast by the Department of Agriculture. passing it's estimate on the condition of the crop July 25, which it announced as GIL per cent of normal The forecast shows an increase of 3O.0OO bales over the forecast made month ago. The condition of the crop showed a decline of 2.9 per cent during the month com pared with the average decline of Az per cent during the period in previous years.
 Income tax returns were filed by B. 472, ,S9O persons, about per cent of the population, for the calendar year of 1917, according to final reports just completed by the bureau of internal revenue. They showed total net in- come of S13,652, ,3S3, ,2O7 The increase. over 1916, before the law was expanded to meet war expenses, was 3,035, ,S54 re- turns and $7, ,353, ,SO5, ,5S7 in. net income Taxes paid totalled $e75, ,249, ,45o, an av- craze of $36S.56 per individual, or eos per cent of the income.
 President Wilson has saved a num- Der of the United States army from death sentence. His communication of the sentence to be hanged, imposed on Second Lieutenant Halber B. Perry, 81st Infantry, for the murder of Capt. Abram Posner, also of the 81st Infan- try, on the highway between San Di- ego and Escondito, California, last De cember, to imprisonment at hard labor for life.
 Surplus food held by the War De partment July 19 was valued at $132,- 137,700. Bacon totalled $35,818,492. Other subsistence items were corned beef, $26, ,183,63S; roast beef, $2O, O,86O,- 458; fresh frozen beef, $16, ,543, ,636 ; corned beef hash, SIG, ,93O; toma- toes, 5,5O9, ,967; baked beans, $2 1885, 646; canned sweet corn, $2,1O7 ,OS4 !; fresh pork, $2,O72, ,o42 granulated su- gar, $1,478,9 ,947; canned peas, $1 ,2S2,- 495; fresh frozen poultry, $1, ,136, ,964 !; miscellaneous, $5,S27, ,5O1
 The State Department has been ad- vised of efforts on the part of Japan csc oil companies to acquire properties in the Tampico oil fields of Mexico and that American companies have been approached with a view to selling to the Japanese.
 One new article of war and changes fin thirty others have been recommend ed by the special board of officers ap- pointed early in the war to investigate the army court-martial system. In mak- ing this announcement, Secretary Ba- ker said he soon would transmit the boards report to Congress.