Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-04-15
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WESTERN.

WESTERN.
Patrol of Alaskan waters next sum-
mer to enforce laws relating to fisher
les, game and the liquor traffic will be
undertaken jointly by vessels of the
navy, coast guard and geodetic sur
vey.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Searle have
been acquitted of charges Of killing
Mrs. Hilda Neamy, whose body was
found ip the furnace of her home in
Lead, S. D., last January. Mrs. Neamy
was Mrs. Searle's mother.
II didn't know it was loaded"
claimed another victim at Las Vegas,
N. NJ, when Winfield Barnett, 10 years
old, was shot and dangerously wound
ed by George frost, u, while playing
with shotgun and revolver.
Capt. Lewis p. Schilling, SS, last sur
vivOr of the Alamo massacre, noted
pioneer character and adopted son of
Kit Carson, died at the National Sol
diers' Home at Sawtelle, Calf. Schil-
ling was native Of Ohio.
A. }. Cooper, 23, an employe Of the
Union Pacific railroad, was killed at
North Platte, Neb., when he was struck
by a switch engine that was running
wild. Cooper stepped from behind a
train into the path Of the runaway To-
comotive.
Five Mexican outlaws, members of
n party of fifteen who recently raided
the mining camp of John Hicks, an
American, near Guadalupe Calno, Chi
huahua, have been lynched by neigh
bors Of Hicks, according to word re-
ceived at Ell PasO, Texas.
Four women were drowned Mt Port
Arthur, Texas, when an automobile in
which they were riding plunged
through an open bridge and fell into
the ship canal None of the bodies
has been recovered and the identity
Of the women could not be learned.
The car was from Beaumont and it Is
presumed all the women resided there.
Appeals to the people and legisla-
lures of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
California, Nevada, New Mexico and
Arizona will be made by Governor
Thomas Campbell of Arizona, the new
ly elected president of the League OF
the Southwest, to obtain contributions
to finance an educational campaign
for the Colorado river basin project,
covering 244,OOO acres.
WASHINGTON.
Voluntary instead of compulsory
universal training, as proposed by the
army reorganization bill, has been
adopted by the Senate. The vote was
46 to o.
Approximately 1000 of the 5000
alien reds arrested by the Department
of Justice in the raids on radicals II
few weeks ago are to be set free by
the Secretary of Labor, before whom
the deportation proceedings are pend
ing
The Senate Elections Committee has
ordered full and immediate inves-
tigation of the FordNewberry cleo
ton by the subcommittee of which
Senator Watson, Republican, OF Indi-
ana, is chairman, and which will be ap-
pointed for the purpose of recounting
the ballots cast in Michigan for both
candidates.
The United States Bituminous Coal
Commission, which settled the dispute
between soft coal miners and opera
tors, declared in formal statement
that present prices of bituminouS coal
"were incxcusable" and "out of all re-
latiOn to the increase in the cost of
production caused by higher wages
granted by the commission"
,f hor lie
were warned by the Treasury Depart
ment that the government would be n
heavy borrower in April and May de
spite the March reduction of $705, &C.,
600 in the public debt. The amount of
treasury certificates of Indebtedness
which would be necessary to meet the
nations needs was not disclosed, but
another issue of such obligations Is ex-
pected soon
Capt Ronald Amundsen, discovcrcr
of the south pole and now leader of n
north polar expedition, has not left his
ship, the Maude, for final dash to
the pole The denial of the recent re-
port from London that the Amundsen
dash had actually begun was received
in Washington by Gilbert Grosvenor,
president OF the National Geographic
Society, In a cablegram from the Nor
wegian Geographical Society.
Eggs have been nntionalized in soviet
Russia, according to n dispatch re-
ceived by the Department of State at
Washington. A decree apportioning
the amount of eggs to be consumed in
each soviet district has been signed by
NicOlai Lcnine. II the hens do their
full duty all will be well.
Senator McNary's bill enlarging the
Oregon National Forest by adding A.
600 acres Of Its northern and western
boundaries, including Larch mountain