Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-10-14

and many seriously injured in the eol-
lision Of two passenger trains near
Venice.
Some thirty persons were injured
when passenger train, travelling from
Paris for Argenteuil, c0llided with an
other passenger train running from Ar
genteuil for Paris.
American relief workers in the Cri-
mea, now controlled by General Wran-
gels anti-Bolshevist forces, have been
ordered to increase their distribution
Of supplies and foodstuffs to 500 tons
per week.
Demands for immediate increase in
wages has been telegraphed the Ger
man minister of labor by the confer
ence held at Bochume of four miners
unions composing the Miners Fedora
ton, says the Vorwaerts.
Horse racing in Argentina received
a blow when President Irigoyen We
toed bill authorizing the Jockey Club
to continue to hold meetings on Thurs
days. The veto condemned gambling
and declared the Sunday holiday was
sufficient.
Next years budget for France, total
ing $4,000. 100000 francs, is being
trimmed down by President Millerand
and Frederic Francis-Marsal the H.
nance minister. 1t IL proposed to fix
the reparation expenditures which are
recoverable from Germany at 24,OOO.-
100000 francs.
A dispatch was sent through Official
channels to Paris for confirmation Of
the Copenhagen report that the French
General, Weygand, had proceeded to
South Russia to take supreme com.
mand Of the Baron Wrangel's anti
Bolshevik forces. If the report is true,
1t is said, the action of France is in.
tended to give larger moral support to
the Wrangel government in pursuance
of the French policy which was indi-
Gated when France recognized the
Wrangel government.
GENERAL
Mrs. Elizabeth Niles, 90 years old,
who with close clipped hair and uni
form that concealed her sex, is said
to have fought beside her husband
thru the Civil war, is dead at Rari-
tan, N. J.
Capt. R. w. Schroeder of McCook
field, holder of the world altitude
record. will retire from the air serv-
ice as soon as he returns from
France, where he flew in the Gordon
Bennett race.
A gift of $4,000 by the Rockefeller
Foundation to the American Hospital
Association, on condition that 5000 is
obtained from other sources, was an
nounced at the closing session of the
association's convention at Montreal.
Gold valued at approximately &c.
100000, consigned to the federal re-
serve bank, arrived at New York on
the steamship Aquitania. This is the
fourth recent shipment Of gold from
the Bank of England, making $685.
100000.
Two Brooklyn Boy Scouts have ar
rived in New York from San Francis
co, completing round trip made part.
ly on foot and by picking up rides in
automobiles and wagons. The boys.
]. F. Budd and A. G. Greiner, began
their journey July 81, arrived at San
Francisco Aug. % and started back
three days later.
The Santa Fe railroad handled rs
by per cent more business In the first
eight months Of this year, represented
by carloads, than 1t did in the corre-
spending period last year and 11.2 per
cent more than for the same period in
1918, according to q bulletin just is
sued by the railroads general office at
Topeka, Kan.
Public bequests totaling $s65, 900 are
contained in the will of w. Murray
Crane, filed for probate at Pittsfield,
Mass. The will is twenty-eight pages
long. The widow, Mrs. Josephine NJ.
Crane, received $75O,OOO and the in
come from a trust fund of $1,000, 600.
The total amount Of the estate of the
former United States Senator was not
given.
Twelve members of the crew of the
steamer Speedwell, wrecked in trop-
ical hurricane in the gulf, and one
passenger, were picked up in a life
boat by the steamer Lake Superior,
according to radio advices received nt
New Orleans.
The 1920 corn crop promises to be
the largest in the history Of the coun-
try by more than ninety million BUSH
els. A yield of 3,218192,OoO bushels,
compared with the previous record
production 3,124, ,746O00 bushels in
1912, was forecast by the Department
of Agriculture from a condition of
S9.1 on Oct. 1. The yield would ex-
ceed that of last year by practically
300, 100000 bushels.
Charles Ponzi can pay less than one
a.,,,, t. +y,rao on tho ,lo;y,,o nf