Cheyenne record., 1919-09-18
CONDENSED RECORD, OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At =.
HOME AND AsRoAD.. :. II
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o N q ., ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERiNos, HoPEo
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN


WESTERN
Mexican bandits held up the paymas-
ter of the EscOndido mine, fifteen
miles from Eagle Pass, Texas, In Mex
leo, obtained $4,000 and fled in the
paymasters' automobile.
American aviators are forbidden to
fly across the international boundary
into Mexico under any circumstances
by orders issued from the headquar-
ters of Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman,
commanding the border district.
Gen. Alvaro Obregon, formerly
member of Caranza's cabinet, and one
time candidate for the presidency of
Mexico, has announced he would take
the field against the United States in
the event Of armed Intervention by the
United States.
Liberty hall, built Us public meet
ing place in the new court house at Ell
Pas0 is to be converted into Il public
market as means of reducing the
high cost Of living The big amphithe.
ater Is to be equipped with stalls and
IN outdoor market will be operated by
the county authorities.
Clnging to the pilot Of Chesa
pcake & Chicago passenger train en-
gine, Frank J. Long, telegraph oper-
ator ut Maiden, Ind, reached out and
pulled 4-year-Old child to safety as
the train sped down the track. The
train rushed n hundred yards past he
place where the child had been play
ing before 1t could be stopped.
Swallowing small piece of tooth
pick was blessing in disguise for
Donald Cuttings of Sioux City The
1oothpick lodged in Cuttings throat
while he was ut dinner recently. He
rOughcd violently, chOked and nearly
strangled before the bit of wood was
Gislodged from his throat. But with its
removal, Cuttings voice, lost after II
gas attack during the st. Mihiel drive,
had returned Cuttings was gassed at
st. NIihiel Sept II, 1918. Since that
time he had been forced to speak only
in husky whisper.
WASHINGTON
Unsuccessful in his hunt for home
in congested Washington, the Rev. l..
NJ. Powers, who recently went there
as the minister of the Church of Our
Father has asked the district commits
siOners for permission to pitch tent
in Rock Creek park as II temporary
parsonage until apartments become va
cant and prices go down.
A report OF the commissioner OF in
ternal revenue shows that total inter-
raj revenue collections from Qll
4
1919, aggregated 81, ,S39. .95O.612. an in
crease over 1918 of $145, ,33O,973. Total
collections from the country from in
come and excess profit taxes for 1919
amounted to $3.50, ,OOS.7 .7O2, as COM
pared with $3.50, OPT 1913 for 1918,
decrease OF $243,Ol9,235. The original
estimate OF receipts from these
sources for 1919 was $4,IO7 ,OOO,OOO.
but the revenue bill of 1918 provided
for the payment of these taxes. If the
taxpayer so elected, in four equal in
stallmcnts beginning with March II, or
the date of filing the return, and in
three subsequent installments due ON
or before June -. Sept. Is and
Dec. Il.
A balance of $oG3, 100000 Is due the
United States from France ns Il result
OF cooperative war activities. 1t in
cludes railroad equipment bought by
the French since the urmistice.
Some Of the seized German liners
are to he retained permanently by the
United States as part Of the army
transport corps, Chief of Staff March
has told the House military commit
tee.
Preparing for the return Of the rail
roads to private control, Director Gen
eral Hines ordered all roads to begin
m inventory of supplies on hand nS
of Dec. 81, 1919. the date indicated by
President Wilson in his address to
Congress as the termination of govern
ment supervision.
General Pershing has arrived in the
national capital and notified the gov
ernmcnt, formally and in person. that
his task rs commander-in-chief of the
American expeditionary forces In Eu-
rope had been successfully concluded. |
He was welcomed by Vice President |
Marshall, speaking for President WILL
son: Secretary Baker. General March. |
chief OF staff, and n delegation Of men |
distinguished In public or private life
here.
Total collections of internal revenue |
from all sources for the fiscal year |
ended June 30, 1919. amounted to 49,
S39, $50, 600, IN Increase Of $145, ,3:}O, 800 |
over 1913, Commissioner Roper esti-
mated Income and excess profits tax /
collections for 1919 amounted to s.,
596,OOS. 200, u decrease of 243,O19, 200 |
over 1913.
An army of 25O.OOO men is adequate