Williams news., 1921-07-01
AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED O R D OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoINGS, ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
(western Newspaper Union News service-)
WESTERN

Police Captain Harry Phoenix was
 shot and killed, and Sergt- s. c. Hous-
 ton seriously wounded in Fl Paso, Tex
 One of two MeXicanS whom the of
 ficers stopped to question as suspic1- ouS chara acterS did the shooting The tragedy occurred in East Fl Paso on q well lighted suburban business street
 A bandit who held up k. F. Smith, cashier of the First State Bank of St Joe, Idaho, forced Smith to give him $3,992 and escaped to the hills afoot after locking the cashier in the vault. The man, who was unmasked, had the appearance of a woOdSman, according to Smith, who released himself with a screwdriver. Officers are in pursuit.
 Inability to disguise his voice when he ordered four clerks of the Pacific Oil & Lead Company of San Francisco to throw up their hands resulted in the capture of Paul Towney, former em- ploye of the company, as the bandit who held up and robbed the cashiers office of pay roll amounting to $2,- 665. Towney confessed and the loot was recovered.
 The Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine in the closing session of its convention at Des MOines apprOpri- ated $1OOOO for relief of flood suffer CTS in Pueblo, Colo. Only one member of Fl Jebel patrol of Denvef attended the conclave there after S23,OOO that was raised for sending the whole out fit was turned over entirely to flood relief committee in Pueblo.
 Michael John Nolan, 42-year-old stu dent at the University of Washington in Seattle, and called by psychology experts the intelligence test wizard of the United States" again surpassed all competitors in a test at the univer- sity, according to William R. Wilson, instructor in the department of psy chology. This time it was the "shot- gun" test, and Nolan, besides scoring 252, seventeen points ahead of his nearest rival, occupied but twenty-five minutes, five minutes less than the al- 1otted time.
 A total of fifty-one suits to recover strike benefits paid out during the general strike in Tacoma, Wash, in 1919 has been filed in a Justices Court. Fhe suits were entered by the boilermakers, iron ship builders and helpers, local No. 56S, and demand re- payment of money advanced to union members on strike more than two years ago. The informations filed by the union alIege that money advanced to destitute workmen was in the form of temporary loans, and was not to be considered as a strike benefit gift. WASHINGTON
 Cyrus E. Wood of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has been selected by President Harding as ambassador to Spain, succeeding Joseph E. Willard.
 Harris Lipschitz, an American citi- zen, has been murdered in Haiti, ac- cording to advices received at the of flee of Representative Siegel in Wash | ingtOn- Lipschitz was engaged in busi- ness on the island, it was said. Inves- dgatiOn has been ordered by Major l General Lejeune. commandant of the | marine corps.
 Brown sugar sold at auction for 25 | cents per 100 pounds in New Orleans. | Five thousand bags, brought last year | from Guatemala in the sugar rush, | brought from A to A cents a pound at | a government auction. The prices ob- | tained were not sufficient to pay the | duty.
 Strong Democratic opposition to Senate investigation of the fighting in | the Mingo county, West Virginia, coal | fields developed in the Senate, and | Senator Johnson's resolution proposing | an inquiry went over. Senator Myers, | Democrat, Montana, led the fight, de claring the matter was purely a state | one. Congress has gone mad-it has | a perfect mania-for Investigating and | regulating everything under the sum-"
 The United States Harness Company will ignore President Harding's order annulling the contract which the har- ness company has with the War De partment for the disposal of surplus harness, Frank. J. Hogan, counsel for the harness concern has announced in Washington. Hogan called at the White House and served notice that his clients are of the opinion that the President has no authority to annul the contract and will ignore his action.
 Railroads in 1920 lost .O2 of a cent for every mile of train operation, L. E. Wettling of Chicago, manager of the bureau of statistics of the western lines, testified before the Senate inter state commerce committed Average revenue per mile was $5,O65, he said, and average expenses, plus taxes, were $5,O67. During the last four months of 1920, he said, after the increased rates went into effect, a net operating revenue per train mile of 55.5 cents was earned.