Williams news., 1921-06-17
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PRoGREo9
 OF THE AoE.
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 Paul J. Fakken, a farmer living near Le Mars, Iowa, committed suicide by
 placing a shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger by q string attached
 to his foot. His wife recently filed a
 petition for divorce.
 Two thousand railroad workers and their sympathixers held q demonstra- ten at Raton, N. Mex, in protest against the recent nationwide reduc- ton in wages. After a parade, . mass meeting was held, at which the open shop movement was attacked.
 Lon R. Daley, former Bisbee, Ariz., postmaster, held in the Pima county jail for several weeks, has been indict- ed by the grand jury of the United States District Court on ten counts. Each count charges failure to deposit sums totaling several thousand dollars.
 The body of wingie Davis, an Oma- ha taxioab driver, was found under a small bridge near Grand Island, Neb. It is believed he was murdered by members of . drug ring" who feared he might reveal their secrets to the au- thortties. Davis was under indictment for selling drugs
 The Mexican government has made settlement with Mormons. in Colonia Morelos, Sonora, south of Douglas, ATiz., paying them $1O0, GOO as dam ages and title for the Mormon colony there, which was confiscated during the revolution. The land will be turned over for homesteading.
 John J. Vance, 60 years old, died sud- denly at Alliance, Nebr., a few minutes after he had jumped into a pool of water to save a 3-year-old boy from drowning Prior to the rescue Vance had been at work building a cement sidewalk and physicians said that the shock of plunging into the cool water in an overheated condition caused heart failure.
 Roger, aged 6, son of MT. and Mrs. F. F. Borland, near Westgate, Iowa, owes his life to Buster, dog. The dog followed Roger when he wandered out to the creek to observe the effect of recent heavy rains. The bank gave way and the boy was thrown into the swollen stream. The dog jumped to the rescue. The strangling little boy pulled ashore.
 WASHINGTON
 Michael J. Kelly is understood to have been selected by President Hard ing for superintendent of the San Francisco mint. MT. Kelly, who lives at Oakland, was recommended for the place by Senator Shortridge, Repub- Ecan, of California.
 The Haughen Packer Control bill has been passed by the House without a record vote and sent to the Senate. The bill places packing houses and stockyards under the supervision of the secretary of agriculture and was authorized to prescribe regulations. Packers and stockyard proprietors would be required to establish account ing systems and keep records that would clearly show profits and own ership.
 A joint resolution designed to pre- vent wholesale importation of foreign goods preliminary to the enactment of q tariff law by congress, has been in- troduced by Chairman Little of the House committee on revision of laws. It would authorize the President to limit importations for ninety days.
 Admiral A. S. Fletcher, commandant of the Fifth naval district, died at Hampton Roads. The admiral had been i'll for some time. During the war Admiral Fletcher was commandant ofi the Norfolk navy yard and directed | part of the plans of defending the | coast from Maryland to Florida. He | was made commandant of the Fifth | district early in 1918.
 Costs of raising armed forces dur ing the war with Germany and during troublous periods on the Mexican bor- der, would be returned to the states by Senator Lodge of Massa chusetts, the Republican leader Treasury re- payments are to be limited to the prin- cipal of sums spent in this way There | was no estimate as to what amounts l might be claimed by the various states | or what states might make such | claims.
 Emmett Bohannan, an American, was killed by bandits at his home near | Tampico, Mexico, on the night of May | 30, the American consul at Tampico re- | ported to the State Department at | The dispatch gave no de- tails and there is no record at the de- partment of the American residence of | 
 President Harding has sold the res idence in Washing ton which he occu- pied while senator, to Charles F. Cramer, local attorney, formerly of San Francisco, it was learned. It is the price paid was S65 900