Williams news., 1921-06-17
FOREIGN

FOREIGN
 Seventeen persons were drowned in the Ida mine at Meuselwitz, Saxe-Alt- enburg, owing to the flood of the mine | by the Erlenbach river.
 Guerilla warfare between French and Turkish Nationalist troops has been renewed in Cilfcia. Turks are pre- pairing to recapture the city of Aintab from the French, while Nationalist leaders are being arrested by the French authorities.
 Caribou and native reindeer are re- ported ranging the hills like droves of sheep in full view of Dawson, Y. T. As 1t is calving time, the herds are not allowed to be moIested, and instead of shooting with q gun the citizens of Dawson are shooting" with . camera Two hundred and four tenemsnts, stores and other buildings in Honolulu, declared unsafe and insanitary, have been torn down since the beginning of the building cleanup campaign in- augurated last year by city officials, according to a recent official report on the progress of the drive
 A link with the old days of the Hawaiian monarchy was broken re- gently when the death occurred of Mrs. Emily O. Judd, widow of Charles Hastings Judd, chamberlain to King KaIabaua, the last king of Hawaii Mrs. Judd was born in Portsmouth, N. H., March 10, 1S40, and went to Hawaii in 1858.
 Pursuit of the mirage of religious freedom has been taken up again by 3O,0 900 Mennonites. For four centuries the sect has followed the phantom. Ar
 kH,0 transportation of the colony now resid- ing in Canada to land in Mexico, pur- chased from the Obregon government for $5,OOO,OO
 A conference of the foreign minis ters of Lithuania, Letvia and Esthonfa will be held in Riga in June, according to advices. It is understood that the conference originally was suggested by Finland with the view to organization of a league of Baltic states. Although Finland and Poland are not expected to participate 1t is believed that the league, if it comes into being, will have the support of both countries.
 Reports indicate that there will be considerable increase in acreage sown to wheat this season in Calgary, espe- cially in the north country, which has
 
 Many points state from 70 to 90 per cent of this grain has been already sown. One or two cases have already been reported of wheat above ground. notably at Carseland, east of Calgary, and at Cadillac, Saskatchewan.
 GENERAL
 The Mulford biological expedition has sailed for South America to ex- plore the headwaters of the Amazon and seek Theodore Roosevelt's famous River of Doubt.
 Letters and documents signed by royal personages of former centuries brought only $1 to $14 each in an auc- ton sale at Philadelphia, while Benja min Franklin's essay on ''Hygrome- ters' went for $27O.
 Progressive rediscount rates now m effect in the St., Louis and Kansas City reserve districts-described by President Harding recently as penal izing grates''-probably will be removed by the federal reserve board soon-
 Offering of cigars at election polls by candidates was held to be a viola ton of the corrupt practices act by the District Court after Jacob Beck, town ship treasurer of Granite Falls, Minn., NdS TeuOFcu 1IOtA OlIlCt Ou pcIltiOA Ol forty residents because he had given away cigars at the polling place in his 
 A great meeting of the representa- tives of all the railway unions affected by the wage cut decision of the rail- way labor board to be held in Chicago June 27 and 2S it has been announced. | At that meeting the unions will give | their answer to the $4O0, ,OOO,O wage | gut and in all probability the question | )f strike or~work will be decided there. |
 Two young men forced two clerks | md 8 customer of the Citizens State | Bank at Priest River, Idaho, into the | vault and escaped with about 5000 | n currency that lay on the counter.
 It was announced at the Union Ma | tiOnal bank in Newcastle, Pa, that the | five bandits who held up the bank had | secured $6O,3OO. It was also stated | that the bandits failed to take $41S,- | poo in securities which was within | -heir reach.
 F. s. Tyler of Washington has been appointed by the Supreme Court as to take testimony on the | question of what constitutes the south ,ank of the Red river and as to where tlong that bank is the true boundary inc as between the states of Oklahoma md Texas
 Sidney J. Catts, former governor of