Cheyenne record., 1919-07-24

The jury in the case of Roy Emerson
of CrestOn, Ia, charged with beating
his mother to death with an iron brace
and throwing her body down an ele-
vator shaft, returned verdict of
guilty of murder in the second degree.
F"rrSted areas in the eastern sec
tiOn of the Thunder mountain region
of southern Idaho are a cnuldrOn Of
smoke, and there is no way to estimate
how many new fires are eating into
the timber of that region underneath
the hnzy pail
Henry NJ. Garcia, prominent San
Jose business man, received probably
fatal injuries and Lieut.. !. NJ. Stanley
of Minneapolis, the pilot of passen-
gcr-carrying airplnne, was badly hurt
when their machine fell in the resi-
dence section Of San Jose, Calf.
Southern California mountain
streams. which heretofore have main
tanned at least Il 'trickle" during the
summer, are going dry, and many
trout are dying as Il result, according
to S. w. Sopp, engineer of the United
States forest service, with hendquar-
ters at Pasadena.
DIR. Charles X. Krueger and party.
travelling by automobile to California,
were attacked by band of timber
wolves on the tfilnscOntincnta high
way east of Flagstaff They killed
three of the animals with their revol-
vers and wounded five others hrfor"
the band was driven off.
s. j.. Taylor, a travelling salesman
OF Los Angeles, was severely injured
and Sgt. Oscar HOlte was badly
bruised when the army airplane which
Holtc was plotting fell several hun
dred feet in East Bakersfield The
plane struck the edge of II house and
tree, which broke the force of the
fall.
Jud w. Tobias, said by the police
to be Il bandit, was heartbrokrn on his
dcathbcd when told he had shot his
bOyhOod chum, Detective Frank Muir
ply, in Il revolver duel with detectives
at Omaha. Tobias died in IL few hours.
Murphy was shot in the right chest.
lie will recover. Murphy and TobiaS
hadn't seen each other for several
years until they met at the hospital.
WASHINGTON
Ycgglncn blew the safe in Il postof
flee on the outskirts of the national
capital and got IL haul of $l,oW in
cash md war savings stamps.
Secretary Daniels said that he "N-
poets to leave Washington for the Pa
rific coast about Aug |. arriving in
,..if
fleet which is due there the morning
of Aug T. The President. it is under
stood, will arrange to be on the Pa
cific conSt in mi,l-AuguSt and probably
will review the fleet in San Francisco.
The British government has hrgi;.
the construction of the largest dirgi-
BILE that hnS We, been undertaken. az
cOrtling to word received by the air rN
pertS of the American government
The lirigible will cost S9.OoU0n. Ii
will carry an equipment of six air
planes for ii own protection. 1t will
have II capacity of 1O.OOO.OO0 cubic feet
and Will be LOO feet long.
Germany increased her stock of gold
during the war but lost $l22,OOO,Om
between January LIST and May 7th of
This year according to information OBJ
tanned by the Federal Reserve Board.
The loss was due to reparntions made
belgium and Rumnnin for gold stolen
from those countries and by shipments
to neutral countries for food. Begin
ming with sos. .OOu.OOO in gold ut the
outbreak of the war,
The railroads of the United States
haulrd l.E1G.!i9 troops on special aud
regular trains for an average of GGO
miles each in the first six months or
1919. according To statistics made pub
lie hN Director General Hines. In adj
ditl"ll. profanity .oou.'sm officers ana
men mad" railway trips while ON fur
Tough and another million were trans
ported from rAUp> to their homes at
ter discharge. making IL total of I.2W.-
900 military passengers accommodated,
i'll addition to the lISllnI civilian travel.
The military traffic i'll six months re-
uuired ?,MM.oOo train miles and aS
much of the equipment had /" he sen,
empty in one direction. This figur"
should he doubled To express the az
4rrgntr transportation ,lr,nlnd 10y tha
military forces.
Carrying increased appropriations
for the rehabilitation and ruu-
cation of disabled Suilirr>, sail
ors and murinr>. :hr SGl:s,-
Wn.Mm Sundry civil appropriation bill
was passed 10y the Senate. 1t now goes
tn the President. who vetoed tho orig
iuul hill hccauSr II limited funds for
trimming wounded service men
Lieut.. Charles G. Mausy of Fowler.
Ind. an army aviator from Rockwell
field. San Diego, was killed at Los