Cheyenne record., 1919-08-14
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o. q ., ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union
WESTERN

midway between Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas, and construction will
start Immediately.
Claims for damages inflicted during
the Mexican revolution totuled u, 300
900 pesos on Aug. =. This amount does
not. include American, British and
French claims, which have not been
filed.
Stranger Ed. Lewis won two of
three falls in his match here last night
with Ivan Grnndavich, Russian. Lewis
won the first fall in fOrty-slx minutes
and twenty-nine seconds and the sec
ond in thirty-siX minutes and fifty
five seconds.
Whether property owner Is also
owner of the air above his land is to be
determined through ii court action
action brought by Frederick Hoene-
mann, Il farmer in Kansas. He seeks
to restrain company owning airplanes
from using the air above his farm.
Loss from forest fires in Montana
and northern Idaho this season, up to
July 81, amounted to $755,0oO, it was
estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant
hlSllhl ltSltl lledN haNO "
moved the fire menace in Montana,
though fires in Idaho still are threat
ening A total of $4,000 hns been
spent in fighting forest fires in Mon
tana and northern Idaho this season.
Thirty-six thousand dollars belong
ing to the Alamo National Bank of
san Antonio, which H. J. Brown, bank
messenger, reported as having been
stolen from him, has been recovered
by detectives Brown and y. J. Glenn
entS are being held for grand jury ac-
tiOn Brown, according to the police
has confessed that the robbery was II
frame up" by Clements and himself
WASHINGTON
Without "ppuSitinn or d"hai" TIA"
Senate adopted II resolution nuthoriH-
ing til, foreign relations ""mmilt"" to
make II sweeping Investigation of out
IngrS against Americans and property
III Mexico and to report what If ANY
means should be taken to prevent such
OutragrS
\ cotton production of ll,OlGoOn
bales this Year has been forecast by the
Department of Agriculture. basinS its
estimate ON the condition of the crop
july -, which it announced as 61l
per cent of ii normal The forecast
shows an increase of 10000 bales over
the forecast made Il month ago. The
condition of tn" crop showed IL decline
of 20 per cent during the month com
pared with the average decline of ~
per cent during the period in previous
years.
Income TAX returns We're filed by g.,
12.S9O persons, about ; per cent of the
population, for the calendar year OF
1917, according to final reports just
completed by the bureau or Internal
revenue They showed total net in
come of .Sl3.6l2. .3S:s.2O1. The increase
over 1915, before the law was expanded
tu meet war expenses. was 3,H'H,Nnl re-
turns and S7.353, Snl,lSI in net income.
Taxes paid totailrd S6I1,249, 100, an nv-
rragr of $3GS. I6 per individual, or GO3
per cent Of the income.
A four story garage, from any story
of which entrance and exit Is directly
from the street, is one of the nrchi-
Irrturnl landscape oddities of "auiO-
mobile row. in Los Angeles. The OK
pnuution is simple: The garage is
built on IL hillside.
A joint resolution "dcclarug that Il
state Of anarchy exists in the United
States and authorizing the President to
free Interstate mails and traffic from
further unlawful Interference and ade-
uualrly protect citizens In their prop
rrIy rights" WAS Introduced by Repre-
sentative Blnnton, Texas
\ protest against the policy of the
Navy department which, ii was
charged, compelled California oil in
tercsts to sell to the navy ut tidcwntc:
nj 50 cents a barrel. plus vague
promise of final Adjustment crude
oil, for which producers received Sl.23
ut the well. was embodied in II state
mrut sponsored by the executives of
several of the leading oil companies of
the state Under contract which eN-
pircd July the companies had been
supplying the navy with crude oil at
S1iI barrel, at an aggregate loss, the
statement said, to the oil interests of
the state Of 100000.
The State Department has been ad-
viscd of efforts on the part of Japan
cse oil companies to acquire properties
in the Tampico oil fields of Mexico and
that American companies have been
nppruached with view to selling to
the Japanese.
one new article of war and changes
in thirty others have been recommend
ed by the special board of officers ap
pointed early in the war to investigate
III.
ing This announcement. Secretary Ba-
kcr said he soon would transmit the
LGmrdS report to Congress