Williams news., 1922-06-23

| Two men, trapped by a fire, were
 entombed on the 8OO-foot level of the
 Quartet mine at Searchlight, Utah
 They were believed dead by members
 of rescuing party which saved two | other men from the burning mine.
 The Los Angeles county grand jury
 which has been Investigating alleged | activities of the Ku K1ux Klan, sub-
 mitted a report to Superior Court | Judge Frederick W. Houser. The | judge, after perusing the document
 ordered it filed and kept secret"
 With Washington selected as the | next convention city, officers elected,
 the business of the fortyeighth annN-
 al session of the Imperial Council of the Shrfners was wound up by a grand | pageant spectacle which brought to a | close the golden jubilee of Shrinedom l In San Francisco
 More than 100 pieces of firearms
 have been turned in to the National
 Guard by strikers in the Carbon
 county, Utah, coal district. Women | took most of the guns to military
 headquarters. Some of the women l called members of the guard to their | homes and gave them weapons, while others called at headquarters and asked that militiamen be sent to their homes.
 Posses are searching in the vicinity of Ouray, northeast Utah, for Sechea- guy, a Ute Indian brave, who is al- legged to have slain his rival in love, Maroocoop, and to have Kidnapped and fled into the mountain wilds with an Indian belle named Wilma Wilson. Ac- cording to reports received at the In dian agency at Salt Lake City, Schea- guy shot and killed Maroocoop while he was asleep in his tepee Sunday night.
 Ralph B. Trotter, alias Howard c. Williams, 27 years old, of Youngstown, Ohio, said by police to face charges of cashing $25,OOO in forged pay cheeks in various cities of the United States, is under arrest in Oakland, Calif. He was masquerading as Shriner, ac- cording to police. Trotter has been sought since, police say, he disap- peared from Youngstown with a pad of blank pay checks stolen from the Trusscon Steel Company of that city. WASHINGTON
 Canadian and United States author ities are Investigating the alleged con fession of William Johnson, alias N. Pnmatcheuk, that he caused the ex- plosion of three British ammunition ships in the harbor of Halifax, N. S., in 1917, resulting in many deaths and great destruction in that city. John son committed suicide in a lonely spot on Baon creek, in Skagit county, last month.
 President Harding has signed the WadSworth-McKenzi bill, returning the navy, army, marine corps and coast guard service to peace time pay stand ards. The bill, effective July l, slash es $14,154, 900 from the pay bill of the four services It reduces the $50 a month war time pay of private soldiers to $21 a month, but grants many spe- cial allowances which might run the enlisted mans pay as high as $157. 50 per month.
 The Swing bill for construction of the Boulder Canon dam and develop ment of the lower Colorado river basin at an approximate cost of $7O,- 100000, was approved by Secretary Fall in letter to Chairman Kfnkaid of the House committee on irrigation of arid lands.
 The purchase of 74,O25 acres of land to form the nucleus of the new Allegheny national forest in PennsyI- vania has just been authorized by the National Forest Reservation Commis- sion in Washington. Twenty-seven | tracts of cut-over and burned Iands | on the headwarters of the Allegheny | river in Warren, Elk, Forest and Me | Kean counties, were contracted for al | an average price of $2.75 per acre.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made | to set fire to the offices of the | alien property custodian in the veter- | ans bureau building, according to of | ffcial reports to the secret service. | Rags soaked with kerosene were | stuffed through a hole bored in a win | dow sash and a match applied from | the outside. Theb laze was discovered | by watchman and extinguished. Of | ficfals believe that an effort was made | to destroy the records
 Senate Republican leaders who are i opposed to the plan of Chairman Mo Cumber of the finance committee to | side-track the tariff bill for the sol 1 diers' bonus have the support of Pres ident Harding. The executive, it was stated officially at the White House, regards tariff legislation as most i'm portant and worthy of the undivided attention of thzs Senate.
 Indications in Washington tend to show that prohibition proponents in Congress would EIOve through the pending merchant marine bill to stop the sale of liquor on American ships.