Williams news., 1922-10-27
4 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

| ZLO1ld VhdIIlld, WuO SdIu Ie IS d DuSI
 ness man of Casper, Wyo-, was hel(
 Gp, bound, gagged, hanged by hi:
 heels from the limb of tree over 6
 creek bed near the highway between
 Salinas and San Juan, Cal, anC
 robbed.
 The three jail breakers, Herbert | Wilson, former evangeliSt-mail bandit
 and convicted murderer, Adam Blas
 Zyk, convicted murderer, and Guido | SpignoIa, convicted robber, were re
 captured in Los Angeles after A hours
 liberty. They were taken without a
 struggle in the home of an ex-convict.
 Portland police, augmented by extra | squads, were on duty recently against an invasion of Industrial Workers of | the World. who, according to a state | ment published by Mayor George l.. | Baker, have ''selected Portland as a | center for the beginning of trouble in-
 tended ultimately to assume the pro- 1 portions of a revolution
 The movement of cattle from l drought stricken sections of New Mex | ico to Old Mexico has begun. Stock men near the border are driving the cattle through, while further north, near Magdalena and Socorro, empty
 stock cars are being loaded as fast as they arrive. More than 100000 cattle will be moved, according to w. R. Morley of Magdalena.
 Freight cars are now coming west to relieve the car shortage, according
 to a telegram received in Topeka by
 Clyde M. Reed, chairman of the Kan
 sas public utilities board, from M. J.
 Gormley, chairman of the car service
 division of the American Railway As
 sociation. "This is the first time in months" said MT. Reed, ''that there has been a balance in favor of the West"
 WASHINGTON
 The United States Coal Commission, created by Congress to investigate and report the facts on all phases of the coal industry, with recommendations for possible legislation or government regulation, at it's first meeting in Washington organized by electing John Hays Hammond chairman and laid out a program for future op- eratiOn.
 The dirfgible C-2 which was de- stroyed by fire at San Antonio, Texas, was the army's best and largest ''blimp." It was completed shortly after the army's big Italian-built air ship. the Roma, was destroyed with a loss of thirty-fOur lives at Norfolk early this year. The C-2 had a gas capacity of 172,OOO cubic feet and was capable of making d speed of sixty miles an hour.
 Fire losses on railroads in this coun- try declined nearly $3,OOO,OOO in 1921, as compared with 1920, G. L. Ball, president, told the Railway Fire Pro- lection Association at the opening ses- sion of its convention in Washington. Railroad fire loses in 1921, he said, to- tailed ST, ,5S9, ,611, against $1O,500,00O in 1920. The association announced that last year fire caused a property~loss of $4S5, 100000 in the United States, killed 15,OOO persons and injured more 1 than 10000.
 The American forces on the Rhine | now numbering some 1,2OO officers l and men, probably will be brought | home in the every near future," it was | stated authoritatively, following a con- | ference between President Harding, | Secretary of War Weeks and Gen. at which the matter was thoroughly | 
 Federal reserve banks have been au- by Secretary Mellon to re- deem in cash, beginning Oct. 23 and | before Dec. 15, treasury certificates of | of series I'D 1922, dated | Dec. 15, 1921, and series TD2 1922, | dated June 1, 1922, and both maturing Dec. 15 next. Redemption will be at | par and accrued interest to the date of redemption.
 Retail food costs for the average family during September were approx imately 1 per cent lower than during August, the department of labor has reported. The conclusion was based on reports of prices gathered at retail in fifty-one important cities. During the year since September, 1921, the report said, the decrease in retail food prices has amounted to per cent, but since September, 1913, there has been an increase of 36 per cent.
 Great Britain, in communication | delivered to the State Department, de- -lined to agree to ~the suggestion of Secretary Hughes for reciprocal agreement for extension of the right of search and seizure such as would give the American prohibition navy juris- tiiction outside the three-miIe limit.
 Walter F. George of Vienna, Ga, received BOA county unit votes out sf Georgia's total of 400 in the special senatorial primary held to nominate a l successor to the late United States Senator Thomas E. Watson, according D complete unofficial returns.