Williams news., 1922-09-15
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.


Four men were killed and six were injured when a Northern Pacific pas | senger train, westbound, cOllided head on with switch engine at Parkwater,
 four miles east of Spokane, Wash At least three of the dead and all of the
 injured were trainmen.
 Fire which partially destroyed the
 logging camp of the Madeira Sugar
 Pine Lumber Company at Sugar Pine,
 ::eur Fresno, Calif., is reported to have
 been brought under control, though
 still burning in the forest nearby. It
 is estimated the loss may reach $1;-
 100000
 Montana's wheat crop will be over
 II 100000 bushels, within million
 bushels of the largest wheat crop ever
 grown in the state. The oat crop will
 be so per cent larger than last year.
 The state corn crop will be the larg-
 est in it's history This years wool crop will be 15,35O,OOO pounds.
 A Los Angeles firm of attorneys has
 served notice of withdrawal from the
 defense of Mrs. Clara Phillips, indict-
 ed for the so=called hammer murder" of Miss Alberta Meadows. No reason
 was given for the lawyers action. Rep resentatives of the public defenders office recently conferred with Mrs. Phillips.
 One hundred and eighty-siX Chinese living in and near MazatIan, SinaIoa and Lower California have been or dered deported by Mexican federal au- thorities as a result of clashes between rival Chinese factions, in which sev- eral were killed, according to informa- ton received at military headquarters at MeXicali.
 After a search over the Panhandle of Idaho since Aug. 4, Joe Farriri, wanted in connection with the shoot ing of Joe Marsden, timber cruiser, was captured in the brush near Her rick, Wash. The fugitive had been Iiv- ing on berries, fish and herbs ever since the shooting, which occurred fol- lowing a dispute over money matters.
 Mrs. Clara E. Sharin Winborn, 2S years old. was arrested in Oakland, Calif., on a request from Seattle, where she is wanted in connection with the death of Ferdinand Hochbrun wealthy retired real estate dealer Hochbrun's body was found in his locked apartment Dec. 21, last .-ear. Mrs Winborn declined to discuss the affair.
 Unable to let go of a live wire he had grasped in a coal mine near Clee- lum, Wash, J. Robertson ordered his son, who had been working with him, to cease his efforts to save him lest the son should lose his life. After the | son had been seriously burned in his | endeavors to rescue his father he ran | for help and in thirty minutes sue l ceeded in having the current turned | off. The father died soon afterward. WASHINGTON
 Mrs. Harding, wife of the President, | is ill and under the care of Dr. Saw yer, the family physician. She has | been confined to the White House for several days. Her illness is described | as an ailment neither alarming nor seri- Ous and she is expected to be up and about soon.
 Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, who has been in San Francisco flor several days on his way home from he Orient, has returned to Washing ton.
 The Senate passed the administra- ion anti-coal profiteering bill, de signed to regulate the price of coal turing the coming winter, through the 1se of embargoes and priority orders ssVed by the Interstate Commerce 
 Resources of the national banks of | he country, amounting to $2O,7O6, ,OOO- 100 on June 30, showed an increase of 9,OOO,00O over the May call, and m advance of $1SS,000,OOO over June 90, 1921, according to an analysis of 'eturnS for the last bank call issued y Comptroller of the Currency Criss- nger.
 Provision for advances to farmers If crop failure areas of the United States with which to purchase seed ,rain was made in a bill introduced " Senator HarreId, Republican, Okla loma, which authorizes the secretary if agriculture to make loans in 1923 Iggregating $5OO,OOO. The bill fixes a init of $500 that may be advanced to my one farmer.
 Earnings of 197 trunk railroads which operate most of the country's ail mileage amounted to S69, ,239 900 n July, according to compilations made public by the Association of Executives. This was esti- hated to indicate an annual return ate of 404 per cent on the value of ailrOad property as tentatively fixed | y the Interstate Commerce Commis- ion and was slightly less than earn I ngs recorded for the same month of | 921, and almost $7,OOO,OOO below the . ct earnipgS of June. 1922 f