Cheyenne record., 1919-12-04
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o IN q 3, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINos. HoPEs
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

After being in the Gold Hunter mine
at Mullan, Idaho, since Nov. 18th,
when they were entOmbed by slide
of earth, +. H. Grant and Emil Sayk0,
miners, were taken out alive after two
weeks.
Drastic and fnr-renching rules for
fuel conservation in Lincoln have been
issued by the fuel conservation COM
mittee OF the Commercial Club, adopt
ed with the sanction of the mayor
and members of the city council, who
will give their force il necessary.
An American negro who deserted
recently from the Tenth United States
cavalry IL reported to be the leader
of band of Approximately 300 Yaqui
Indians who raided the eastern part
of the MOctezuma District in Novem-
ber.
Two masked bandits entered the Of
flee OF the American theater at Butte,
Mont, and after beating into insensi-
bility Miss Emma Peterson, the cash
ier, and John Kelly, the janitOr, robbed
the safe of all its contents. 1t Is es-
timated the robbers obtained $1,000.
Guarded by ten armed deputy sher-
ifs headed by Sheriff Rolph, Walter
Thomas Mills, lecturer and writer for
the Nonpartisan League, spoke ut
Prosser, WASH, to an audience COM
posed of sympathizers and about fifty
former soldiers. Mills eulogiZed the
American government and confined
his speech to Americanism and patriot
ism.
Direct from London n statue of the
late Queen Victoria was received mt
Victoria B. G. recently to be set up on
the grounds in front of the British
Columbia parliament buildings. The
statue weighs three tons. 1t was ready
for shipment last year. British Col
umbia officials did not have it shipped
at that time because they feared Ger
man submarines.
Sheriff William Vicrsma of Sioux
County, Orange City, Iowa, would like
TO hear from some one who can identi-
fy the body of n man found dead one
mile west of IretOn, Iowa, in NOvem-
Der. He was evidently about 45 years
of age, five feet tall and weighed
about 40 pounds. The only identifi-
cation marks found was the tattoo on
his left arm of an anchor, cross and
heart with the initials C. II. below it.
General appearance would indicate he
was man of more than passing con-
sequence.
WASHINGTON
The board of temperance. prOhibi-
tion and public morals of the Meth
odist Episcopal church announces that
it contemplates no general campaign
against the use of tobacco. but would
confne its efforts to Il fight against
its use by minors.
Earnings OF the federal farm loan
banks during the six months ending
Nov. were sS5S,O33, according to fig
ures made public by the farm loan
board. This was n gain of more than
S25O,OOO over the previous half year
earnings and an increase OF approx
mately S65O,OOO over profits Of the
banks for the corresponding six months
a year ago.
Documentary proof that Ecnusti;,no
CarrnnZa knew Of the plan of san
Diego and that CarranZa's generals
knew of raids planned across the
United States border and participated |
in them even while CarranZa's recog- |
milton by the United States was being |
thrashcd out in Washington, is now |
IN the hands of the American state |
department ut Washington.
Indications that large numbers of |
Liberty bond holders are trading their
government securities for stock in
fraudulent ventures prompted Serre-
tnry Glass to renew his warming to
bondholdcrS against being persuaded
into such exchanges. In II formal |
statement, MIR. Glass asserted that the
high rate of return on some of these
stocks was in itself sufficient to arouse
suspicion.
Testimony that Frederic G. Howe,
former commissioner of immigration
at Ellis Island, had ordered dcporta-
tiOns of radicals held up although
final deportation orders had been re-
ceived from the Department of Labor,
was given to the House Immigrat ton
Committee by Percy a. Baker super |
intendent of the island. Baker pro- |
duceti an order he had received from
Howe last March.
Navy department officials expressed
surprise mt the action of the supreme
council in allOcating one German bat
tleship and destroyer to each of the
allies and associated powers for ex-
perimental purposes. The United
states had not asked for any Of the
German vessels and said they would
be of little use to this country, even
~ Rly fx.
serted there was little the American
navy can learn from the ">rman vss-
seiS.