Williams news., 1922-07-28
CONDENSED RE o RID OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE MENTS, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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WESTERN
 The meeting of the Colorado River Commission, which was to have been held at Santa Fe, N. NJ, on Aug 1, has been postponed until Monday, Aug. 2S, Secretary of Commerce Hoover, chair man of the commission announced in Washington.
 Two hundred and twenty-five Camp Fire Girls were forced to flee for their lives before a forest fire that swept down on their summer camp on Wash on island in Puget sound. The young refugees were hurried aboard steam CT bound for Seattle.
 Jeffrey Hildreth and his slayer, Monte P. Rose, sleep together in Fall River cemetery at Bedding, Calif They had been friends for several score years until law suit estranged them and led to a quarrel as a result of which Rose slew Hildreth and then himself
 Thomas Lynch, his wife, Mary, their daughter, Katherine, aged 4, and nephew, Philip, aged 8, were killed and four other members of the Lynch fam fly and another woman suffered burns which are expected to prove fatal in a collision between the Lynch automo-
 
 Twenty men and women, passengers aboard the Tourist, an excursion boat. which became disabled ten miles off Newport, on the Orange county coast, south of Long Beach, Calif, were res cued by the fishing smack Music and brought to Long Beach. When the Music sighted the Tourist the latter was wa1lowing in the trough of the sea, engine disabled and a sail set to keep her head in the wind
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has authorized the Eldorado & Santa Fe railroad to construct three new lines in Chase and Butler coun- ties, Kansas, at a cost of S2,917,1 ,133. The company was granted authority to issue $5O,OOO of capital stock and au- was given the AtchiSon, To peka & Santa Fe railroad to acquire | control of the Eldorado & Santa Fe, after the new lines are constructed WASHINGTON
 President Harding recently sent | telegrams directing the operators of | all bituminous mines shut down be- | cause of strike conditions to resume | operations at once, and requesting the | governors of those states in which the | mines operate to furnish such military protection as may be needed. If state troops find it impossible to cope with | he situation, federal troops, 1t was may be employed even- -ually.
 In a comprehensive report submit ed to the Senate by Chairman Norris if the Senate agricultural committee, Henry Ford's offer for the purchase md lease of the governments war-in- tiated projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala, S condemned in unusually strong lan- ,uage, while the Nebraska senator's jill, proposing development of the 'roperties under a government-owned nd controlled corporation, is de cribed as ''the most wonderful plan" hat has ever been proposed in the his ory of the country.
 Operators from the coal-producing districts of six states have been asked " Secretary Hoover to cooperate with the government and the railroads n a plan to insure the distribution of uel to the carriers and public util- ties and to prevent profiteering dur ng the strike emergency.
 Ordinary expenditures of the govern nent during the fiscal year just | losed fell off by $1,393, 100000 as ompared with the previous year, | rhile public debt disbursements | howed a decline of $2,131 100000, ac ording to a statement of classified eX- enditures for the twelve months end ng June 30, issued by the treasury. At a recent conference in Washing | [ 1n rail executives declared they could | ot and would not yield to the union ] emand for a national board of adjust lent. They also were said to be 1n- I stent upon refusing to restore the I tatus quo of employees on strike with ( aspect to their seniority and pension ghtS. All of these have been demand d by the union representatives as nec- ( sSary before they would order the | ( len back to work pending a rehearing l the question of wage scales C President Harding has accepted the of the F1athead Indians of I Iontana to become an honorary mem- | I CT of their tribe. President Harding, c his reply of acceptance, said he had L o objection to a proposal to have | ' lOuntain peak on the Indian reserva- e on named Mount Harding. z Three Japanese cruisers, the Iwate, 2 Sume and Asama, making a world ,ur, visited at Los Angeles harbor le only American port at which the a Iuadron will stop. Officials of the | il apanese association entertained the | n ersonnel of the ships. l: