Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-04-29
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WESTERN.

u.s., SeicZu l"eHty stlis, 1ouhu Al a oo~
car billed out of Chicago for Mexico
via Laredo. The boxes containing the
stills were labelled "tin sheeting."
Mount Katmai, in Alaska, Is report
ed still to be in eruption. Flames and
ashes are reported spouting from the
volcanoes crater, which can be seen
from a distance Of thirty miles.
Mrs. Mary Dean, charged with hav-
ing murdered her husband, was de-
clared insane by n jury in Superior
Court at San Luis Obispo, Cal. She
will be committed to the State Hos
pital for the Insane at Agnew.
Frank Smith and Mrs. Marshall
Neallea were drowned in West Main
Canal, eight miles south of Yuma,
AriZ., when an automobile in which
they were riding plunged from u
bridge into eight feet Of water.
Sheriff c. X. Wyman of Beaverhead
county, Montana, was shot and killed
on the main street Of Monida by an
alleged horse thief for whom the au-
thOrities at Idaho Falls, Idaho, had
requested the Montana sheriff to
search.
Scores Of persons were killed and
25,OOO acres of valuable timberland de-
stroyed by forest fires in the kamo
district, Hiroshime prefecture, accord
ing to cable from Toxic, received at
Honolulu by Hippu Jill, Japanese
language newspaper.
Sheriff. Mcpherson, six-pound son
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Mcpherson Of
Usage, Wyo, was born in the drawing
room of the Pullman Deptford in train
No. AZ of the Burlington railroad,
which was stalled in n snowdrift for
forty-eight hours thirty miles west of
Alliance, Neb.
Two girls were burned to death in
fire that swept three blocks of
frame buildings ut Newton, in the
Burkburnett oil field in Texas. Six
oil wells We're damaged and n guam
tity of Oil was also burned. The prop
erty loss will probably be more than
$250,OOO.
The body of man found recently
in Il haystack near Superior, Neb., was
identified to be that of Robert Schultz,
who disappeared from his home in
Grand Island last October, according
to report received from Superior.
His mother made the Identification.
Authorities investigating the matter
are working on the theory that the
man was murdered.
Kansas wheat growers raised their
1919 wheat crop at an average loss of
43 cents an acre, J. G. Mohler, secre-
tary of the State Board of Agricul
tn, Inl
from questiOnnaires returned by 2,O4O
farmers on 491 1,OG2 acres. The only
gain was in the western division,
where there was an average profit of
$3.50 an acre.
WASHINGTON.
Presidential third terms would be
prohibited under resolution intro
duced by Representative Humphrey,
Democrat, Mississippi, proposing II
constitutional amendment limiting the
term of any person as president to
two terms.
Attorney General Palmer has asked
Congress for S5O0OOO for prosecuting
and detecting crime, in addition to
$2,GOO,OOO already appropriated for the
current year.
Suffrngist leaders predict the ratifi
cation of the national amendment
within three months by at least two
and possibly all five of the states of
Delaware, Louisiana, North Carolina,
Connecticut and Vermont.
Gold imports from England jumped
to nearly 3S,OOO,OOO during the first
ten days in April, according to figures
made public by the Federal Reserve
Board. The great increase in gold
movement from England was shown
by the further statement that for the
first three months of the year less
than Sl2, 900 900 was sent to this coun-
try.
A bill requiring the manufacturers
prices to be stamped on shoes and 9th
er footwear as n means of reducing
profits and retail costs, has been intro
duced by Senator McNary of Oregon,
chairman of the committee inveStigat-
ing shoe prices. The bill would be ef-
fective August 1st and would provide
penalties of $1,000 fine and two years
Imprisonment
Government revenues since Septem-
peI, ISli, apout eluaileu revenues loT |
the fifty-five years prior to that year |
The Internal Revenue Bureau an
nounced that in the two and one-half |
years of war taxation, revenue receipts |
aggregated S11 ,4S1, 100000, while for
the fifty-five year period they were
s1, ,5S2, 100000.
Rear Admiral Carlo B. Britain.
chief of staff for Admiral Henry Il.
Wilson, commander of the Atlantic
fleet, committed suicide by shooting
himself while on duty with the fleet