The St. Johns herald., 1922-07-13
AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAVINGS, DoINcs, ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Della MichaelsOn, 26 years Of age, supposed to be originally from Detroit, Mich, who has lately been teaching school at Ringing, Meager county, Montana, committed suicide by taking poison.
 A new travel record for the opening day of Yellowstone park was estab- lished this year, when 1880 tourists entered Wonderland. The record hung up is within twenty of the big gest day in the history of the park, August 8, 1921.
 The Rev. Donald D. Stewart, widely known in California as a temperance worker, was arrested near Sierra Ma dpe, twenty miles northeast of Los An geleS, on charges that he had commit ted bigamy in several states and had swindled his wives out of thousands of dollars.
 Frances DeCamp, 15 years old, daughter of Mrs. Lillian DeCamp of Helena, Montana, was drowned in the WOOlstOn reservoir, on Mount Helena, while camping there with a party of picnickers. The child went to the reservoir to dip out water, leaned over to far and fell in.
 Fred Ramsey died at Yakima, Wash, recently of hemOrrhage caused by stab in the shoulder, accidently inflict- ed by his 4-year-Old brother, Robert, as they were at play at the home of their parents, MT. and Mrs. O. P. Ram sey. The wound was made with pen knife and it is said it caused internal bleeding which could not be stopped.
 About S,OOOOOO cantaloupes have routed on the ground in the vicinity of Brawley, Calif, the growers having de cided to cease picking for a day and take the resultant loss in the hope that as a consequence OEerstocHng of Eastern markets would be eliminated and they could get a price for their product which would afford them a profit.
 Mrs. Ella B. Hell, former wife of a Chicago capitalist, arrested in Los An geles several months ago on a charge of having robbed a residence where she was employed as maid, and who was accused of similar Offenses in |, Chicago, was found mentally sick" by the Los Angeles county lunacy com mission. She was paroled to Mrs. Jean McCracken, county official, and ordered placed in private sanitarium. WASHINGTON
 Secretary of Labor Davis has an- nounced that the farm bureau of the United States employment service would open offices at St. Louis June 24 and at Denver July 1 for the con- venience of men coming from the East and West into the harvest fields of Kansas and Nebraska.
 The Senate has adopted the confer ence report on the army appropriation bill, fixing the stxe of the army for the coming fiscal year at 12,000 officers and 125,000 enlisted men. The House has yet to act on the report, which in- cIudes an appropriation of $7,50O,00O for continuation of work on the Muscle Shoals power project, on which no agreement was reached in conference.
 Although commenting the Philippine aspirations to independence and a complete self sovereignty, President Harding, in reply to the Philippine parliamentary mission, stated that the time is not yet ripe for independence.
 Former United States Senator Cor neIius Cole of California, who will be 100 years old in September, was a caller at the White House recently, his first visit in twenty-five years. He was accompanied by Senator Shortridge, Republican, California. Senator Cole, who served in the Senate from 1867 to 1873, is said to be the last surviving member of the body that tried Andrew Johnson for impeachment.
 Increased prices of agricultural products, which will follow the enact ment of the tariff bill, will mean a tax upon American people amounting to $1, ,316, ,569, ,449, according to a state ment made by Senator Walsh, Massa- chuSettS, Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee. Senator Walsh estimated that the burden due to the tariff will amount to $13.15 per capita more than the present Under wood act and $3.63 per capita more than the former Payne-Aldrich act.