Williams news., 1922-05-26

(western Newspaper Union News Servtce)
 WESTERN
 Prohibition Director Samuel F. Rut-
 ter of San Francisco, announces he
 will request Attorney General Daugh-
 erty to frame a national law with
 most stringent restrictions on the
 carrying of firearms.
 Mrs. J. T. Hazard of Seattle escaped without serious injury and seven other persons were unhurt when the eight members of the MOuntaineers, an or ganiZatiOn of mountain climbers were swept by an avalanche of snow 400 feet down Mcclellan butte in the Cascade mountains recently.
 The east end of Riverside county, Calif., consisting of about 10000 acres of fine farm lands, was flooded recent ly as result of a break in the levee of the Colorado river at HauSer Bend, a short distance from Ripley. The town of Ripley was said to be under four feet of water.
 Authorization for immediate action toward the merger of the Salt Lake and Denver Railroad Company, and the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company, the latter of Colorado, has been made by directors of the Tormer road. Simon Hamburger, general man. ager, announced at Salt Lake.
 Establishment of union stockyards in Los Angeles with a full complement of packing houses and by-products plants has been assured through the purchase by group of Chicago men of PAT acres of land in the southeast ern part of the city, according to a story the Los Angeles Times published recently.
 Rodolph Valentino, hero of the screen. is free under $1O.OOO bond, fac ing trial on a charge of bigamy as a result of his romantic marriage in Mexico to Winifred Hadnut, daughter of wealthy New York perfumer, with out awaiting the formality of a final decree of divorce from Jean Acker, his first wife.
 Fred A. Knox, rancher, was instant ly killed in roundup staged at Grants Pass, Ore. Knox was engaged in catching a horse. which had thrown its rider. His own horse became un- manageable and ran beneath a large oak tree with low branches, two of which hit Knox in the head. killing him instantly.
 The death of Hiram B. Adams near Lolo Hot Springs. in Missoua coun- ty, Is the first death this year in Montana from spotted fever. accord Ing to reports received by the State Board of Health. The disease is caused by the bite of an infected woodtick Nine cases have been re- ported to the board this year. WASHINGTON
 The Mcclellan resolution directing an inquiry into the causes of incress- ing prices of gasoline would be broad ened so that the Senate Investigating committee could employ attorneys and summon witnesses and records under a substitute resolution introduced by Senator La Toilette, Republican, Wis conSin, chairman of the manufactures which will have charge of the inquiry. 1
 An army of 10000 men with an av- craze officer strength for next year of 12,53O has been agreed upon by the Senate appropriation sub- committee which has charge of the measure.
 Steps are being taken by the gov ernment to forstall tendencies toward rising prices of bituminous coal at the mines. it was said at the White House. l has the investigation and ac ton in charge.
 Acceptance by the government of Henry Ford's offer for development of the Muscle Shoals projects was recom- to members of the Senate agri- cultural committee in conference in by Thomas A. Edison, who surveyed the Alabama prop ties in company with the Detroit man. ufacturer.
 President Harding was asked in a presented to him recently by Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary of the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks to assist in obtaining proper observance" of the postal eight-hour law MT. Flaherty said that many clerks in the large postoffices were 1 ten hours daily.
 Approval of twenty-nine advances | poses aggregating S676,OOO, has been | announced by the War Finance Cor | 1oration. Distribution of the loans in | .luded: Colorado, $245,OOO; Idaho, l ;eO,OOO; Kansas, SPA ,OOO; Minnesota, | s25, 900; Nebraska, $14, 4,000; New Mexi- l 70, STOOD; Oklahoma, $21, 1000, and | Texas, $19O,OOO.
 Without roll call the House voted | special fund of half a million dollars 'or use by the Department of Justice | n investigating and prosecuting war fraud contract cases.