Williams news., 1922-10-06
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
WESTERN

l WESTERN
 City Paymaster F. P. Schooley and
 Robert Armstrong of the city hall staff | of Vancouver, B. C., were held up and
 robbed of $75,OOO by two automobile | bandits. The robbers escaped, mak- | ing a sensational dash through the | business district. The men had just left the city hall when the bandits as
 saulted them and snatched a bag con taining the money.
 No more may the sweet coed steal silently away, and in some quiet nook
 solace her harassed nerves with a cig-
 arctic. The mo smoking" rule for CO.,
 eds at the University of California
 must be obeyed, so Miss Beatrice
 Ward, chairman of the student affairs
 committee, has asked the sorority
 presidents to see to it that there are
 no violations of the edict.
 Victor Cusson, 53 years o1d,- of Day
 ton, Ohio, and William Crowell, 45,
 Spanish war veterans, inmates of the
 National Soldiers Home at Sawtelle,
 near Los Angeles, quarreled over a
 hat, according to officials of the inSti-
 tuition. Cusson died from a knife
 wound in the abdomen, and Crowell
 was brought to the county jail at Los Angeles pending an inquest over Gus sons body.
 Five unidentified men seized w. W.
 Glenn of Sacramento, in Centra Costa
 county, near Berkeley, Calif., plunged him first feet downward and then head downward into barrel of melt ed tar, and left him in that condition. Glenn experienced some difficulty in extricating himself. A passing motor iSt brought him to Berkeley. He said he could not account for the attack on him.
 Five sheep herders are in the Reno, New, jail under indictment of a fed eral grand jury charged with the theft of sheep from the Idaho-Nevada Live Stock Company, which is under sub- sfdy of the War Finance Corporation. l A Department of Justice operative in l San Francisco said the men are al- | legged to have stolen sheep valued in l excess of $5OO,OOO in the last few | years. The company has sheep in Ne | vada, Idaho and Utah.
 WASHINGTON
 British Ambassador Geddes was among Secretary Hughes callers on the latter's first day back at his desk | in the State Department after an ab- Sence in Brazil of several weeks. While | no statement as to the nature of the conference was forthcoming, either at the embassy or the department, there were indications that the Near Eastern situation was among the subjects dis cussed.
 Survey of the coal situation was said at the White House to have con- vinced President Harding that al- though a shortage during the winter Is inevitable as result of the miners strike, the situation would not be par acute. The President and his cabinet had before them at a recent | meeting report from the Geological Survey which showed that effective steps have been taken to prevent a .uel famine.
 Two New Workers have annual in- omes of more than $5,OOO,OOO each. j Two Michigan citizens, Henry Ford robably being one of them, also are , D the $5,OOO,00O class. These figures, 1 , hough the names of individuals with , he fancy incomes are a secret, are re- f ealed by Internal Revenue Collector , Blair in his annual report for 1920. ,
 The cabinet recently decided to re- ( trict prohibition enforcement opera ions within the three-mile limit at 1 . ca except in cases where ships beyond | |, nat limit are in communication with hOre through their own crews and l | mall boats. Prohibition enforcement | 6 it was said authoritatively, T -ould be cautioned to observe this de S iSion. a Coal-carrying railroads have been rged by Federal Fuel Distributor pens to make every effort to break Il records for coal shipments during J le month of October. The current l 1tput of coal and it's movements, Mr. Il pens pointed out in a letter to presi- C entS of the railroads concerned, are a 1equate for current needs of consum- E $, but do not permit laying up of il serves against a possible cold snap II lrly in the winter. h A pension pay envelope increase om $50 to SIP month for Civil and | b exican war veterans, possibly as a a hristmas gift from Uncle Sam, is ~ anned by Republican leaders in Con It 'ess. A bill providing pension in- o, ease already has passed the Senate 1o Id Senator Bursum, Republican, New exfco, it's author, says he has been N