Williams news., 1921-06-24
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RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
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WESTERN
 Mexico's military band, La Banda
 de Estado Mayor,' is to make a sum
 mer tour of the United States, arriv
 ing at the border at Laredo July l
 The band will appear at some of the
 most important state fairs in the Mid
 dle West.
 Three members of the Hop Suey
 tong are dead and four others of the
 same tong were probably fatally
 wounded in a tong outbreak at Fresno,
 CaIif The police say the Hop Suey
 men were attacked by Bing Kong men.
 Six of the Chinese were shot and one
 man was stabbed.
 A lone bandit stole $3,25O at Kan
 sas City, While en route to a bank,
 Fred Sofage, cashier, and John Brad
 fsh, bookkeeper of the Wyandotte Gas
 Company, were accoSted by the bandit
 A pistol was pushed against the body
 of the cashier, accompanied by an or
 der to "come through The bandit es
 capped.
 ("Red Whiskers'') Burnett, escaped convict and suspected of the murder of Mariona Teague at Globe, Ariz., on the night of May 22, for whom a search has been conducted continuously by sheriffs' posses and cowboys, was shot and instantly killed by a member of the posse which had been close on his trail for several days
 The anti gambling law passed by the last session of the State Legislature became effective throughout New Mex leo June 8. The law prohibits all games of chance. including prize play ing bridge parties, and provides dras- tic punishment for participants in gam bling games as well as the owners of buildings in which gambling is per mitted.
 Utah has many lofty peaks. Six of them rise more than 13, 5000 feet above sea level and nearly sixty rise above 12,OOO feet, according to the United States Geological Survey The high est mountain in the state is Kings peak, which has an elevation of 13,4o8 feet Mount Emmons and Gilbert peak, beth in Utah, are also high mountains, reaching elevations of 13,42s and 13,- 422 feet, respectively. WASHINGTON
 Home brewers used up more than | 16,0OO tons of rafsins in 1919 W. M | Giffin, president of the California As | sociated Raisin Company, estimated in | zIV1n& senate SuD-cOmnlCIe0 HIS views on the pending bill to authorize collective bargaining by farmers. He placed the raisin grape crop of 1918 | at 167 900 tons and of 1919 at 1S3, ,0O0 | tons, the difference, in his judgment, demand from home brew CTS
 The government asked the Supreme Court to dismiss it's appeal in the suit hFnnDhf hR l Company and it's subsidiaries under the Sherman antitrust laws. The gov lost in the lower courts. The action was based on the decision Of the Supreme Court in the United States Steel Corporation case. In view of that decision, Solicitor Gen. eral Frierson said 1t was considered useless to continue the case against the American Can Company.
 Everybody's spending money shrank by $1.99 during the past year, accord lnE to the monthly circulation state ment Issued by the treasury. On June 1, 1920. per capita circulation in the country was $57.42, compared with so5.43 on June l, 1921. In the same period the total money in circulation I dropped from se,1o2,1e2,244 to s5.ess,- 25S. .293
 Contentious of the Western Union Telegraph Company that it cannot be $ held liable for damages caused through 1 errors in transmitting messages while { tS lines were under government con 2 trol were upheld by the Supreme Court. A decision of South Carolina I ,ourts, awarding damages to S. B. Pos $ on,-a cotton dealer, on this ground, C vas reversed. (
 An estate tax is an allowable de- C iuction" from the income of an es- [ ate in computing net income, the Su- I ,reme Court ruled The court af- irmed a decision of the Court of V Claims in the case brought by execu- F OTIS of the Alan H. Woodward estate S "a Alabama, which held that the gov rnment erred in refusing to approve t, uch a deduction from that estates in- r ome in 1918. a Inauguration of the administrators 'olicy for refunding most of the ST. d co, 100000 short-dated debt has been u nnounced by Secretary Mellon, with r combined offering of $50O.0OO,OOO of a hree-year 5A per cent treasury notes u nd ene-year 51z per cent treasury cer- e ficates, both dated June 15. fl Hugh R. Robertson, United States b istrict attorney for the western dis rict of Texas, has been removed from a flee by President Harding, it was an m