Cheyenne record., 1919-10-09
FOREIGN

Interest on Russia's state liabilities
amounts annually to approximately
$643, SOC, 600, according TO statement,
issued from Omsk by the minister Of
finance Of the Kolchak government.
Economic negotiations between Lux
emburg and Belgium have been broken
off by Belgium as a result of the refer
endum In Luxemburg, under which
France became Luxemburg's financial
ally. The Belgian minister In Luxem-
burg has been recalled.
Brig Gen. Edgar Jadwin of the
American mission in southern Itussia,
who was reported to have been eX-
ecuted by the BOlsheviki, is well and
on his way home, according to dis
patch to the War Department from
United States Minister Gibson at War
saw.
simultaneously with the renewal of
the offensive against the Bolsheviki
on the eastern front by the kolchak
forces, General Yudenitch has begun
an advance toward PetrOgrad from
the Archangel district, according to
advices received by the Russian en-
bassy at Washington.
The Chamber of Deputies at Paris,
ratified the German peace treaty by
vote of 372 to 53 The chamber then
took up the treaties between France
and the United States and France and
Great Britain. The Franco-American
and French-B British treaties were un-
animOuSly ratified.
Germany has new escutcheon,
from which the HohenzOllern arms
have been eliminated. 1t consists Of IA
black one-headed eagle on golden vel
low field. The new eagle, which has
shed its erstwhile imperial crown and
collar, is not q rampant bird, and
would look sedate enough in Its sit
ting posture but for the color Of its
beak, tongue and talons, which are red.
Art treasures valued at more than
$1OO,OOO.OOO, which belonged to Gather
inc II of Russia, who died III 1896, have
been discovered by the Bolshevik COM
mission charged with classifying the
property OF the late Gar Nicholas In
the winter palace and in the palace Of
Tsarkoe SelO. The cases containing
these treasures had never been opened
since they were sent to Catherine from
Rome. The find includes more than
1000, paintings and sculptures by some
of the greatest French and Italian mas
ters. including TerpOlO, Rough, Lntour,
Lancret and Fragonard.
GENERAL
Herman Smith, Buffalo's feather
weight, outpointed Joe Leonard of New
York before the Queensbery Athletic
| Club at Buffalo.
The estate of Anna Held, the actress,
totaled $27s,26O according to an ac-
counting filed by Charles F. Hanlon Of
| San Francisco, executor, with petit
tion asking that his duties as executor
| be wound up.
Seymour Cox, Jr., II years old, made
an airplane flight from Houston, Tex,
| to New York to get an education. With
| his mother, Mrs. S. f. J. Cox, wife OF
| Houston oil operator, and Pilot Harold
Block, Seymour arrived in New York,
making the trip without incident.
Brand Whitlock, former minister to
| Belgium, assumed the rank of ambas-
sador to that country when he pre-
sented the credentials to King Albert
| in the latter's suite at the Waldorf
Astoria. This is the first time in his
tory, it is believe, that ruling SOW
ereign has received foreign diplo-
mats credentials on the latters own
soil
| investigation shows that the forest
| hN
along the line of the Pacific Great
Eastern railway above the Squamish
were so intense that steel rails were
melted. Thousands of huge trees fell.
A train with forty-five passengers was
held up for two days by the fire, which,
driven by a heavy wind, swept through
the Chenknmus valley.
The clocks of the country will be
turned back one hour, under the provi-
sions of the daylight saving law, Oct.
26, the last Sunday in October, ut .
o'clock in the morning. The law, which
was passed in 1918 and repealed in the
summer of this year, says that the
clocks shall be turned forward one
hour on the last Sunday in March and
| turned back to normal time again on
| the last Sunday in October.
A marked increase in the produc-
tion of wheat and the milling of flour
! this year over last year is noted in
/ the report just issued by the United
States Grain Corporation of New
| York city. The total wheat receipts
from FARMS in bushels, extending over
the period from June 81 to Sept. 10 of
this year amounted TO 425 1863, 900 The
total receipts for the same period last
year amounted to S1,29O,0OO. The
production of flour from June % to
Sept 10, this year, amounted to 2S,-
100000 barrels as compared with "a