Williams news., 1922-08-18
CONDENSED AEc ORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN


 ranch near Castle Rock, Wash, and
 found Johnson had been gored tc
 death by a bull.
 | Federal officials, assisted by Sheriff W. J. Hoggatt of Cowlitz county, | Wash, rafded the ranch house of Ja-
 cob Tulsl1us, two miles north of Kala-
 ma, and interrupted meeting of dele
 gates of the Workers Party of Amer
 ica-
 l Mrs. R. L. Brfttan, proprietor of a
 general store at Soap lake, Wash, re | gently identified Cecile Lenighen. en- | ployed by a local hotel, as the son who | was Kidnapped from her in the Blue mountains. near WalIa Walla, Wash. | sixteen years ago.
 Marriages in Cook county, Illinois, increased nearly 12,OOO during the fis-
 cal year ending July 31, while divorces
 reached the total of one for less than every four weddings. Marriage H.
 censes issued totaled 39.5SS, while 1O.- O46 divorces were granted. William S. Hart. known to movie fans as Big Bill, hero of many wild West" screen pictures, and his wife. formerly Miss Winifred Westover,
 have separated and divorce proceed
 fngs are in contemplation on the part
 of the wife, 1t has been reported.
 W. R. Bean, who arrived at Pasade- na, Calif., recently, from Carnegie, Pa., shot and killed his wife, Aliene, and then committed suicide, leaving several notes of explanation. The two bodies were found in a locked bath room in the home of Mrs. Beans sis ter.
 cd hu h0 theft in this country's annals when J. c. Johnson discovered someone had flown his plane away, officers at San Matao, Calif., resorted to the radio as a means of capturing the thief. broad casting a description of the stolen plane.
 The American Bar Association con- vehtion closed recently in San Fran cisco with a dinner at which John w. Davis of West Virginia, former am- bassador to Great Britain, who was elected president of the association, was welcomed to his new office. Other speakers were Chief Justice Taft, Lord Thomas Shaw, M. Henri Aubepin and J. B. M. Baxter, representing the Brit ish, French and Canadian bars, and Cornelius Cole, centenarian who once represented California in the United States Senate.
 WASHINGTON
 The State Department has just re- ceived word from Tokio that Japan has just produced its first automobile, a three-wheeler, 1t was announced.
 The following were nominated to be postmasters in Colorado: Henry R. Pilati, at Aguilar; Alma Geist, at Cad ~ ot
 Secretary Hoover a few days ago celebrated his 18th birthday. Com merce Department officials declared the only notice he took of the anniver- sary was to be 'busier than ever.''
 George Currey, former governor of New Mexico, was appointed by Presi- dent Harding to be the American com missioner on the United States Mexico international boundary commission
 Guy Marks of Columbus, Ohio, was killed and G. F. Martin of San An tonic, Texas, was wounded by ban dits near Mapimi, in the state of Du- rango, Mexico, recently, according to a dispatch to the State Department from Consul Donaldson at Torreon- The authorities were reported in pur- suit of the bandits.
 EOrmal announcement that recent oil land decisions of the Mexican Su- preme Court do not, in the opinion of officials at Washington, effectively protect the rights of American land owners, was made recently in a state ment issued by the State Department. The five court opinions upon which some Mexican officials have based a hope of recognition for the Obregon regime, were said in a statement to | apparently establish precedent pro- | tecting improved oil lands from con- | without furnishing the same | guarantee for land in which mining | operations had not been actually be- |
 Indictments were returned recently | by the special grand jury Investigating Alleged war frauds against Ernest c. | Morse, former director of sales of the War Department; Everly M. Davis, president of the B. M. Davis Chemical Company of New York, and Alexander W. Phillips, associated with Davis The three men, all of whom live in New York, were charged in the indict- nent with having defrauded the gov ernment out of more than $1,OOO, ,OOO The alleged fraud was in connection with the sale of the war-buut plant of 6s Old Hickory Powder Company