Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-09-02
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PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
sHoWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News servios.
WESTERN

leo, when the foreman at the wheel
of a lighter on which they were travel
ing made a sudden maneuver to avoid
collision with another boat.
About $4,000 in cash, nuggets and
jewelry were found in the safe of the
punken steamship Princess Sophia
when Harold Post, temporary receiver
for the Deep Sea Salvage Company,
opened 1t at Juneau, Alaska.
Two ST. Louis army officers are be-
ing sought by the military authorities
In connection with the disappearance
Of $487 7S9 from the quartermaster
corps of the United States urmy 1t be-
came known at st. Louis when the To-
cal police received an army bulletin
containing request for their arrest.
The provisional government of Mex
leo has issued orders closing all sa-
looms except four in each town along
the Rio Grande, according to informa
tiOn received at San Antonio, Texas.
The order also provides that hereafter
license to operate saloons in Mexico
will be issued only to Mexican citizens.
Eight hundred ploys, harness for
1000 mules, two tractors, twenty now
ing machines, two threshng machines
and thousands of dollars worth of ad-
ditional agricultural implements pur-
chased In the United States are ex-
pected to complete the subjugatiOn of
Francisco villa, erstwhile Mexican
bandit and guerilla.
The 1920 population of El Paso is
Sl2 N Of S9R ncl,
announced on July 18th. 1t was ex-
planned that n rechecking showed that
the Fort Bliss military station had
been included in the enumeratOrs' re-
port, thus necessitating the deduction
of 6,293 from the city's population as
originally reported.
Samuel Samuels, proprietor of dry
goods store at Douglas, Ariz., shot and
killed Mexican, whose namc was
given as Femia Lopez, rs the latter
was seeking to enter Snmuels' store
through Il rear window. Bars protect
ing the window had been bent away
the night before and Samuels was
watching for an intruder.
Gold yield of placer camps in the
Yukon valley for 1920 is estimated at
Si.4SI,OOO by mining company officials
ut Dawson. Camps in the interior of
Alaska are expected to yield $685.
900 There has been Il considerable
shrinknge in the output, it is stated,
owing to Il dry season and the decrease
in the purchasing power of gold.
A few hours after Macedonia Esca-
Iante, "A house painter, touched n power
wire that sent 1000 volts of elec-
tricity through him at Phoenix, Ariz,
he was telling his father he would be
all right in n day or two. c. l.. Baker,
his foreman, saw him hanging from
the wire, smoke rising from one arm
As Bnker ran to get help, Escalante
dropped to the ground five feet below
and was taken to n hospital. He had
been painting the transformer house
of a cotton gin. Physicians declared
the voltage many times enough to kill
man.
DR.. George r. Miller. Omnha's first
practicng physician, and founder of
the Omaha Herald later made part of
~ NorldIIeralh. is dead ut Omaha.
WASHINGTON
The right of women to the ballet was
formally made IL part of the CSnStitu-
tion of the United States when Secre-
tary of State Colby proclaimed Tatifi-
cation of the nineteenth amendment.
In an attempt TO get baby panther
ms mascot. members of the One Hun
dred and Fourth aero squadron fought
"a mnthnr I,pnthsr mud he IN, 81,
cave near Saudcrson, Ten, according
10 war department advices in Wash
ington. The mother panther defeated
the squadron
According to FL Heraldo, President
de Ia Huertn has announced that no
condition for the recognition of the
Mexican government have been i'm
posed by the United States or France
The Mexican government" he is
quoted as saying, '.is giving all guar
antees to foreign countries and not
seeking to break promises with foreign |
countries. and it does not believe for |
eign nations have any reason to i'm
pose conditions belittling our dignity"
Production of bituminous coal reach |
ed its 1920 peak during the week end |
ed Aug 18th when the miners turned |
out II 1,72S.OOo net tons. The geological
survey, in making this announcement |
made public figures showing produc-
tion of bituminous coal since last
January LIST TO total 324,S77, 900 tons.
which is 4S25O,OOO tons greater than
the 1919 production at the same date.
Every indication points toward n
total motor registration in the United
States by 1925 of double the present
figures-or 100000 passenger cars
and trucks.