Williams news., 1922-06-09

l (WeStern Newspaper Union News SerV1ceB
 WESTERN
 Half of Pineville's (Ore.) business section was wiped out by fire which caused damage estimated at $40O,OOO before it was checked by dynaniting. Otto Steinen, pioneer, trapper and later civilian scout for the army in campaigns in Arizona and New Mex leo, died at his home in Los Angeles.
 Thomas Lee Woolwine, district at torney of Los Angeles county, has an- nounced his candidacy for the Demo
 cratic nomination for governor of California.
 The ownership of the Los Angeles Evening Express has passed from the Edwin T. Earl estate to B. A. Dickson and F. w. Kellogg, according to an an nouncement they authorized.
 Forest fires are threatening the Northwest in many places. From cen tral Oregon, southern Washington and British Columbia come reports of de vastatfon by the red menace.
 The highest honor in the gift of the National Association of Real Estate boards came to L. F. Eppich of Den yer, when he was elected president for the long term at the election for of ficers recently in San Francisco.
 Lucille Erf1e, IS years old, was none the worse despite her encounter with a locomotive on a railroad trestle near Spokane, Wash. The engine knocked the girl into the Spokane river. The crew stopped and fished her out. She lost her pocketbook.
 Closing of the Mexican-CalifOrnia border to all persons save those show cirr nf h hnn frrlIx vaccinated has been urged upon the United States public health service by the State Board of Health, after an in of an epidemic of smallpox in Mexfcalf, Mexico.
 Donald B. Stevenson, railway brake man. confessed at Everett, Wash, ac- cording to the police, that he killed A. A. Amour, Seattle salesman, whose body was found in a patch of woods near Stanwood, Wash. According to the police, Stevenson says he killed with a club during fight over the question whether or not they would rob a farmer in the vicinity to procure funds to buy "moonshine." WASHINGTON
 A reduction of $51, 1862, ,749 in the pub lie debt of the United States in May 1 was announced by the Treasury De | oartment recently. The nations total l yross debt on May 31 was $23, ,13S, ,S3S,- BOT.
 President Harding took action af- | ,ecting more than 50,000 postal clerks | md carriers throughout the country l when he approved a recommendation l ,f the Postoffice Department for the | establishment of a strict. eight-hour oasis for postal employees.
 Chief Justice William Howard Taft | If the Supreme Court will leave this | about the middle of June for England, where he will spend several weeks in a survey of the English courts, it was announced. The tour will be unofficial, Taft said. This is he firstt ime that a chief justice has made such a trip during his term of 'ffice.
 The House bill authorizing a loan of 5,OOO,OOO to Liberia as urged by the administration was reported favorably y the Senate finance committee.
 Jennie P. Musser of Salt Lake City | laS been nominated to be collector of ustoms for District No. 4S, with head uarters at Salt Lake City.
 A new bill for regulation of future rading on grain exchanges designed 0 meet the recent decision of the Su- reme Court holding the present trad g act imperative in part, was intro ucd in the Senate by Senator Capper, Kansas, chairman of the 1 nofficial Senate agricultural bloc and | uthor of the original act.
 Cyanide was placed on the free list { ecently after long battle on the tar if schedules in the Senate. The com nittee amendment placing a duty of o per cent ad valorem was stricken l ut on a motion offered by Senator | )ddie of Nevada and adopted 46 to IA l he restoration of cyanide to the free st is vitally important to the mining industry of the west and to the citrus ndustry of California, where the , hemical is used as a fumigant against | estructive insects. , The Senate commerce committee agreed to incorporate in le rivers and harbors bill provision e the government to an ulti- f late expenditure of $1, 1894, 900 for the f of a deep-water harbor at i orpus Christi, Texas. The entire pro- \ ,ct calls for an expenditure of $5,OOO,- g DO.
 The resignation of Alvin Hovey- r ing of New York as commercial at z tche at Mexico City has been an ounced by the Commerce Depart I ent Mr. King was forced to give up i