Williams news., 1922-07-07
CONDENSED RE CORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

buIle IdII OI d dhSy NAoA SN' " "S found almost dead of strangulation after she had tied shoestring around her throat and twisted the knots.
 Selection of the Finlen site at Butte. Mont, was announced by the citizens hotel committee as location Of ST. 100000 hotel for which a company is being organized The available ground Is 133 by 132 feet, including the site of the present Finlen hotel, one of the pioneer houses of the city.
 ''F1agrant effort has been made in an anonymous way to mislead the pub lie into the belief that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company is attempt ing to override the decision of the Su- preme Court of the United States" said William Sproule, president of the Southern Pacific railroad, recently, at Salt Lake City.
 Mrs. Lydia Adams-Williams, aspir- ant for the Republican nomination for United States senator from Nevada, has taught her male oponents a new political maneuver and her tactics are arousing lively interest. The feminine senatorial candidate is following. the circus companies across the state and in this way finds opportunities to ad- dress large audiences.
 President Harding has commuted the sentence of two more political prisoners and ordered their release from the Leavenworth prison, where they were held for wartime offenses, it was learned at the White House re- gently. They are Clyde Hough of Rockford, H., serving fifteen-year sentence as a conscientious objector, Vincent St John. nationally known ten years ago as secretary treasurer of the I. w. w.
 WASHINGTON
 The use of radio to cure the exter- nal manifestations of cancer was ex- plained recently by Dr. T. Howard Plank of Chicago before the National Society of Physical Therapeutics
 After an all-day fight the House passed a bill to continue certain pub lie land offices which under legislation enacted this session would have been closed July l. The House, by a vote of 11S to 9S, amended the Senate bill to continue the offices at Bellefourche, s. D.; Waterville, Wash. Dickinson, N. D.; Waterville, Wash.; Dickinson, N. D.; Del Norte and Sterling, Colo; Clayton and Fort Sumner, N. M; liar rison and Camden, Ark, and Alliance, Neb. It struck from the bill provisions by the Senate for the continuance of offices at Timber Lake and Lennon, s. D.; Williston and Mino, N. D.; Broken Bow, Neb. Durango, Colo, and Springfield, Mo. After having, in com mittee of the whole, adopted an amendment which would have reduced the offices to be continued to Belle fourche, S. D.; Del Norte, Colo. Wa terville, Wash, and Alliance, Neb., the House revised itself by adopting the Senate bill as reported by the House committee on public lands. The bill now goes to the Senate.
 The House adopted the conference report on the 1922 naval bill, accept ing Senate increases which put the total appropriation around $2S9, ,OOO,- 900. Some minor amendments were adopted and the report went back to the Senate for final action before be- ing sent to the President.
 Former United States Senator Cor nelius Cole of California, who will be 100 years old in September, was a caller at the White House recently his first visit in twenty-five years. He was accompanied by Senator Shortridge, popuDllCdn, Ca1IOfnla. senator Cole, who served in the Senate from 1867 to 1873, is said to be the last surviving member of the body that tried Andrew Johnson for impea chment
 Approval of four applications for loans to assist in financing the orderly marketing of cotton and wheat aggre- gating $16,5OO,00O, was announced by the War Finance Corporation. The ap- pications approved were from Okla homa Cotton Growers Cooperative Association, $6,OOO OOO; Arkansas Cot ton Growers Cooperative Association, S7,5OO, 900; Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association, $2,5OO,OOO, and the Texas Wheat Growers Association, $500, ,OOO.
 Despite the coal strike and the threatened railroad tieup, business in the United States continues to improve, high officials of the Treasury Depart ment said recently. The improvement was accounted for by heavy summer buying of stocks in preparation for winter trade
 Freight rates throughout the United States on practically all commodities have been reduced by 10 per cent since the carriers of the country put into eff feet the decision rendered last month by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion in the general rate case.