Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-01-03
FOREIGN

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coast.
The Berlin papers dilate on the Inn
portance of the Brest-Litovsk peace
negotiations and declare peace offer Is
free from lust"
There are persistent rumors at Pet
rograd that King Ferdinand of Ru-
mania has abdicated in favor OF
Crown Prince Charles.
Marshal Joffre is now an ''immor-
tai Members of the French acad-
emy at Paris voted by a large MAORI.
ty to take the famous soldier into the
group known as "immortals.''
The delegates of the central powers
to the peace conference at Brest-Li-
tovsk agreed to a ten-day recess in
the peace negotiations, which will be
resumed Jan. at place not deter
mined.
More than 800 members of the Ger
man minority Socialist party were ar
rested on Christmas eve by the Ger
man military authorities, according to
Zurich dispatch given out in London
by the Wireless Press
France will not accept a peace
based on conditions before the war,
Foreign Minister Pichon declared in
replying in the Chamber OF Deputies
| at Paris to the peace terms of the
Central powers outlined to Russia.
The allies purposes in continuing
the war are not imperialistic nor vim
dictive, but for the future freedom
and peace of mankind, Premier Lloyd
| George declared in a letter to the La
| borites' war aims" congress in Lon
| don.
The establishment of republic in
White Russia has been announced. ac-
cording to Petrograd advices. A rada
or legislative body, for the territory
has been assembled at Minsk, at
which place a decree will be ISSUED
proclaiming the independence of the
state.
The central powers are ready to
make an immediate general peace
without compulsory annexations anal
without contributions. This is their
answer thru Count Czernin, the Aus
tro-Hungarian foreign minister, made
on Christmas day at Brest-Litovsk to
Russian proposals.
SPORTING NEWS
Jan. 10 as been set as the date for
starting the annual pocket billiard
tournament of the Denver Athletic
Club
Johnny Noye, the crack St. Paul
lightweight, defeated Jimmy Hanlon
of Denver at Des Moines, Ia, in fast
twelve-round bout.
Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the
White Sox, has offered $4,000 for Joe
Bush, pitcher of the Boston Ameri-
cans, according to H. Fl. Frazee, presi-
dent at the Boston club.
Whether government control of the
railroads would affect the spring
training trips of the two major league
baseball clubs of Chicago was sub
ject of some concern among baseball
men.
Denver golfers are asked to contrib.
ute clubs which are not indispensable
to their participation in their favorite
pastime. balls both new and old and
| othSt " lAe dLAy
camps in the United States
GENERAL
Peace maneuvers will not slacken
war preparations, says critic.
At Chicago the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad Company was made
defendant in a s36.O0O,OOO attachment
suit.
John r. Thornton, former United
States senator from Louisiana, died
at his home at Alexandria, La, aged
seventy-one.
The American consulate at Odessa
was the object of bomb early in the
morning of the 18th, according to a
state department message.
Miss Martha Rebecca Hobey, 20,
Toledo, has enrolled at Cincinnati as
yeoman in the navy reserve. She
was assigned for hospital service.
A ten per cent increase in wage
effective Jan. l., was granted by the
Northern Pacific railroad at ST Paul
to $500 station clerks and employees
Representative Mann, floor leader
of the Republicans, Will not return to
Congress for some time, it was an
nounced at Baltimore. He is in Johns
Hopkins hospital.
Fire believed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed the boxmak-
ing plant of Otto Baker & Sons, at
Baltimore. Md, engaged in govern
ment work, with loss of more than
100000.
More than 81 100000 is said to have
been obtained in operations of three
swindlers under arrest at Chicago, the
biggest haul having been obtained
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