Cheyenne record., 1919-04-10
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Prices for steers in the Salt Lake
market reached the record mark for
beef cattle at Salt Lake when AM
cents pound was paid for a 2-year-
old Hereford entered at the Intermoun-
tain Fat Stock show.
Three mines of the Anaconda Cop
per Mining Company were closed tenn
porarily. They are the Silver Bow, in
West Gray Rock and the Alex Scott
shaft of the West Colusa. Between
400 and 500 men are affected.
While Frances H. Gray, Chicago
helress, is reported to have been Sc
cretly taken to a sanitarium in Cali
fornia for observation as to her men,
tai condition, Jose Cardenas, the bus
boy with whom she attempted to elope,
was taken to Jail in Pasadena.
Carried by a wind of exceptional vio-
lence, salt storm swept from Great
Salt Lake to Ogden, distance of
more than ten miles, leaving a white
coating Of salt on the paving, side
walks, buildings and automobiles. Au-
tomobile wind shields were crusted
by the spray.
A Korean Battalion of DEATH"
consisting Of GOO men, fully armed,
has crossed the Tumankang river from
Manchuria into Korea, pledged not to
return until Korea is free, according
to a cablegram received ut San Fran
cisco by the Korean national assOcia-
ton fron the Rev. Hymn Soon, its
representative in Shanghai.
An explosion Of ton Of dynamite,
from some unexplained cause, in the
powder house of the Pacific Coast
Coal Company's mine at IssaQuah,
Wash, about twenty-five miles south
east Of Seattle, shattered every win
dow In the seventy-five or 100 workers
homes, broke plate glass windows in
IssaQuah and did damage to the mine.
Ballots cast in the recent municipal
primary in Butte, Mont, in which
william Il. Cults, recently captain in
the United States army, was declared
the Democratic nominee for mayor
over w. f. Dunn, under conviction of
seditiOn, were missing from the ballot
box of one precinct when it was
opened in court in the hearing of the
contest Dunn had instituted over the
election.
WASHINGTON
The United States government has
sold to the CZecho- Slovak military au-
thorities aeroplanes and aeroplane
equipment to the value Of $1,000, 900.
Charges of gross carelessness and
negligence in preventing and control
ling the spread of typhoid and para
typhoid fevers in the army are made
against many medical officers serving
with the forces overseIs in a circular
published by the chief surgeon of the
American Expeditionary Forces.
Members of the special mission of
the Philippine Legislature at Washing
ton seeking immediate independence
of the islands were told by Secretary
Baker that he spoke President Will
sons mind when he said he believed
the time had come to grant the COM
plete independence desired by the Fill
pino people.
Assistant Secretary Crowell has
given notice that contractors desiring
to adjust cancelled war contracts
through the machinery set up by the
War Department for that purpose,
must present their claims before May
IL next
The meat packing industry, which
his been under federal license since
October, 1917, has been released from
food administration control by pro-
clamation signedby President in Paris
Under the proclamation "all persons,
gagged in importing, manufacturing, in
cluding packing, storing or distribut-
Ing fresh, canned or cured beef, pork,
mutton or lard are released from
license by the food administration.
First aid instruction for public
school children is TO be introduced un-
der the supervision of the American
Red Cross in schools throuS.rnTt the
country. Red Cross headquarters n.
Washington announced that arrange
ments had been made for adding the
course to the curriculum of the schools
Of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alnbanu,
California, Washington. Alaska and
New York City and that the plan had
been endorsed in many other states.
The war trade board has announced
that goods of enemy origin owned by
American citizens and stored in Hol-
land or one of the Scandinavian coun-
tries prior to April 6, 1917, now may
be imported into the United States pro-
vided the commodities are not on the
list of restricted imports.
Recent activities on the part of
brigands in Haiti has led the navy de-
m rtv,,npt tn roinforco tho hr;vo 40 ~
marines on duty in that republic, 1t
was learned In Washington. Four
companies Of marines have been or