Williams news., 1921-07-22
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
(westsrn Newspaper Union News serice.)
WESTERN

Two Chinese were shot and killed on
 a truck farm a mile and one-quarter
 south of Phoenix under circumstances
 which attaches of the Sheriff'S office
 say point to struggle between two
 tongs.
 Mrs. Myrl (Jesse) James and Col die Gordon, Harrison Fishers model, charged with the murder of John Devereux, aged jurist, were found not guilty by a jury in the District Court at Tulsa, Okla.
 One fireman was injured, probably fatally, and three others were less se- riously hurt in a fire which destroyed more than a block in denSely settled flat and apartment house section in San Francisco.
 Alexander Howat, president of Dis trict 14, United Mine Workers, and August Derchy, vice president, were sentenced to six months in jail and fined $500 each by District Judge Boss of Columbus, Kan., for violating the Kansas Industrial Court law by calling a local strike over a wage controversy.
 Investigation has been started by prohibition authorities of reports from Letterman General Hospital at the Presidio, at Frisco, that a number of bottles sent them from the government prohibition seizure rooms at the fed era1 building and believed to hold whisky were found to contain tea when they were opened.
 Pelham A. Barrows, national com mander of the Sons of Veterans, of Lincoln, Neb., forwarded a letter to President Harding asking that he or der a monument, reported to be in Troy, Ala, which contains an inScrip ton honoring Wilkes Booth for the of Abraham Lincoln, destroyed. MT. Barrows stated that this was in accordance with resolutions passed by a number of veterans posts.
 New fields of fertile promise came within view of the ant1ered herd when | the grand lodge officers of the Benev- | olent and Protective Order of Elks | a session at Los Angeles headquarters and a national publica- ton. Chicago was selected for the na- tiona1 headquarters, and plans ap- proved for a monumental structure to house the heart of the lodge at a cost l of $2,5OO,OOO.
 A motor car collision near Topeka,
  cases of dynamite and a large quan- tity of nitroglycerine figured, brought death to M. A. Ross, an oil well shoot ar, and his wife and the injury of four other persons. The explosives played only a minor part, however, for, al- though it was scattered along the high way for a considerable distance, it failed to explode. The victims were inf hxyf fhn cI, of +ha | machines.
 
 President Harding has nominated Charles Fowler to be collector of GUS oms for District No. 26 with head quarters at Noga1es, Ariz., and Miss Somecia Ascarate to be registrar of ] he land office at Las Cruces, N. M. /,
 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and i ther representatives of organized appeared before Chairman ( of the House immigration | committee to protest against pending ( esolution giving the President author ( ty to admit Chinese labor into Hawaii to relieve the shortage of | + gricultural labor. z A general tax revision bill will be f epOrteQ rom the House ways and 1eans committee within two weeks Q fter passage of the tariff bill, Repre- i entaive Longworth, Republican, Ohio, II
 member of the committee, told the 4 Touse during debate on the tariff bill a republican leaders predicted the tax a leasure would be passed before the fiddle of August. Through an agreement reached be- VI
 
 apartment and representatives of the c K brewerieS raided at New Orleans u ecauSe they were making real beer, l u was decided that the breweries must $ ay fine of a little more than S1OO,- S DO to the government. The govern S ent does not promise them immunity E 'om prosecution on the charges of 2 aving violated the Volstead law d InveStigatio of the operation of the edera1 Reserve Board, the Chamber E Commerce of the United States and O he great trusts, such as steel, coal, Ii edit and money truSts,' was asked of T joint congressional commission by m $. Barrett, chairman of the National D oard of Farmer Organizations and a resident of the National Farmers nion. st Twenty thousand army enlisted men w 1plied for discharges in the first ten ii ays of July, and 13,OOO have been re- tf ased from service, Secretary Weeks m ,nOuuced IIo