Cheyenne record., 1919-10-09
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PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
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WESTERN
The strike of miners In the Tonopah,
New, district, which tied up operations
for six weeks, has been settled salts
factorily, according to reports.
Twenty-Five negroes were killed in
race clashes at Elaine and Hoop Spur,
according to stories told by many of
The negroes arrested by federal troops
at Helena, Ark, ~,
A reduction of % cents word on
ordinary cablegrams to Japan from
San Francisco was put into effect by
the Commercial Pacific Gable Company
Mt San Francisco according to an an,
announcement by the company.
]. f. Canfels, farmer near Had
den, KAN, is dead of injuries suffered
when bull gOred him. The bull
charged him and he threw bucket
oyer his horns, but the bull felled him
with his front feet and then gored
repeatedly.
Charles Jesse Jones, known thruout
America as Buffalo Jones, famous
cowboy and big game hunter and
friend of the late former President,
Theodore Roosevelt, died Mt Topeka,
Kansas, as result of jungle fever,
contracted during his last trip to At
rica in 1914.
Thousands of British subjects will
immigrate into Mexico about the mid
die Of October, according to Excelsior,
a newspaper of Mexico City. The
colonists will settle in Durango and
Chihuahua. Arrangements for their
passage into Mexico are to be made
by Gen. l.. Gritchley of the British
army.
Passport regulations of the United
States, which prevent hundreds Of
Mexicans in Sonora from crossing to
this side Of the international line to
do their trading, have caused consid-
cradle complaint among the mer-
chants of Arizona border towns who
have heretofore reaped harvest from
Mexican patronage.
The king and queen of Belgium will
visit San Francisco Oct. 10, going from
there to the Yosemite valley and
thence to Los Angeles, Senator Phelan
of California announced, after a con-
ference with Assistant Secretary of
State Long Senator Phelan said it was
thought that only one day would be
spent at San Francisco.
WASHINGTON
Casualties in the signal corps dur
ing the war averaged 80 to 1000, rank
ing next to the infantry, which suf-
fered 262 to the 1000, Gen. George
o. Squier told the House military ar-
fairs committee.
With disposition of the peace treaty
expected by Nov. l, congressional
leaders are discussing the prospects
of closing the extraordinary session,
which began May 10, so as to have a
months rest before the regular De
cember session begins
Favorable report was unanimously
ordered by the Senate irrigation com
mittee upon the bill by Senator Jones
of Washington to appropriate $780,
100000 for the completion of reclama-
tPn projects now under way as well as
for the construction of such new ones
as the reclamation service may think
feasible
A resolution favoring an Information,
al union of all Latn-American repub-
lies for maintenance of the integrity
and sovereignty of each nation has
been adopted unanimously by the Co.
lombinn Senate, according to II dis
patch to the State Department.
The United States trade with foreign
nations has grown enormously and
reached S10,500.000,00O n year, with
balance in favor of this country
amounting to $4, 4,1S2, 100000. Statistics
for the year ending Aug 81, just issued
by the department OF commerce, show
that the years commerce exceeded
that of last year by more than 81 ,5OO,-
100000
The number of women employed by
railroads in heavy work while the
war was on and when men could not
be obtained Is being reduced steadily,
Director General Hines announced
Women employed in all occupations on
federal controlled roads July /, were
40 per cent fewer than on April /, but
those working in round houses had
been reduced 23.8 per cent and in shop
work 1S per cent The total number
of women working on railroads July
! was S2,294, most of them in clerical
positions.
The sentence Of twenty-five years
meted out by a court-martial to Capt
David A. Henkes of the 16Sth infantry,
who on May 26, 1917, sought to resign
from the army rather than oppose his
fathers kinfolk in Germany, has been
commuted by President Wilson to not
more than five years, it is announced
at the War Department.
Investigation of wholesale and retail
zL.os ~ sugar hv the federal fra he