Cheyenne record., 1920-11-18
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
WESTERN

"GS LINN
Fire, which swept the department
store district of Sacramento, Calf,
caused a loss estimated at $1,5OO,OOO.
Four firemen were injured fighting
the flames, one perhaps fatally.
The robbers who pillaged the Bur
iington railroads transcontinental fast
mail at Omaha and secured loot vari-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to ST.
100000, have dropped completely out
Of sight.
Carries Young, declared by Omaha,
Neb., physicians to be afflicted with
leprosy, has disappeared from Madison
county farm where he was placed by
the State Board Of Health. Efforts, to
find Young have been made without
avail. No guard to prevent Young's es-
cape was maintained.
The legal standing of 5000 Indians
ON the White Earth reservation In Min.
nesota was determined when Judge
Page Morris, in United States District
Court at Fergus Falls, Minn., approved
blood status roll" prepared by a
commission authorized by Congress.
The action Is expected to end much lit
igation pertaining to lands sold by the
Indians.
Following the effecting of a perma-
nent organization of the National Park
tO-Park Highway Association on new,
broad basis, Denver was designated as
the permanent headquarters of the or
ganization, and Salt Lake City was
chosen as the place for the next annual
convention. Eleven states are included
in the organization: Colorado, Wyo-
ming, Montana, Idaho, Washington.
Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mex
leo, Nevada and Utah.
Seventy.six counties in Colorado,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Michigan and Minnesota will share in
the distribution of S2l3,632 derived
from national forest business in the
Rocky Mountain District of the o. $
Forest Service during the fiscal year
1920 This amount Is 25 per cent of
the total receipts received from tim
ber sales, grazing. water power, spc-
cial Uses, etc, which by act OF Con-
SiSsN StVS ~ swell tnG Iouu anu
school funds OF the counties in which
the national forests are located.
WASHINGTON
Approval of n government loan to
the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific rail
road of 81 ,S62,0tO for improvements,
has been announced by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The internal revenue bureau con.
firmc'l reports that crusade against
home brewing of alcoholic beverages is
planned by the governments prOiiibi-
tlon enforcement agencies.
John Burke, treasurer of the United
States, n former governor of North
Dakota, has submitted his resignation,
TO become effective Jan. |, when he
will become president of an automobile
body manufacturing company
Homcbrewinc wns brought actively
under the prohibition ban when it was
learned that enforcement officials had
ruled against The sale Of hops and
malt to others than bakers and CON
. fectiOncrS. Great secrecy Surrounded
The prohibition bureaus action.
The Washington government has
been advised that the presidents of
Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador are
In conference mt Amalpa, Honduras, to
consider boundary disputes and the
problems arising from use of adjacent
.errtory of one as base of revolution
iry operations by political refugees
rom another.
President Wilson has directed Sec
'etnry Colby of the State Department
10 visit Brazil and Uruguay in ac-
tnowledgement of the recent visits to
his country of the presidents of those
republics. The President also said lie
would be gratified if Mr.. Colby took
he opportunity to visit Buenos Aires
n response to the recent invitation re-
!eived from the Argentine govern
nent.
Organized workers will strike in
SANITY at the first attempt of any en-
ployer TO cut wages In union shop
IN violation of existing contracts, Vice
President James Duncan Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor warned upon
leaving the opening session of the fed.
eration's executive council Mt Wash
ington. The American Federation of
Labor will back them up" Vice Presi-
heEt Matthey VOL added.
Decision Of the War Department to
authorize the maintenance of only four
permanent cemeteries in France has
been announced These will be Mt Su-
resnes, on the outskirts of Paris; at
Romagne, in the Argonne region: at
Belleu wood, where American soldiers
and marines met the Germans in the
first important engagement, and at
Bony, In the department Of the Aisne
which shall be known M ''Flanders
field" A permanent cemetery also will
,e established near London for those
soIdIera Ml.O died In (srenf Rritrin