Cheyenne record., 1920-03-04
scAvoHT From THg~NETWoRK OF
Wlaes MOUND AsovT
TIE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RgcoRp or IMPORTANT EvEMTs
& coMpENsGD FOR Dusy
i PEOPLE.
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o1ty, IexAs, an OIL tOWu, VI $AosVVv ''
and were captured BY an
armed posse at Breckenridge, near
Cisco.
The Rt. Rev. Nathaniel Thomas. mis-
sionary bishop Of Wyoming. has de-
ciined the bishopric of Delaware, to
which he was elected by the diocesan
convention.
Chester Brown and seven other al
legged members Of the Industrial Work
ers Of the World were found guilty by
a Jury in the Superior Court at spo-
kane on charge Of criminal syndicai-
ism.
A Jury in the District Court at Beat
rice, Neb., found Orlando Langley
guilty Of murder in the second degree
for the killing Of Justice Of the Peace
Christian H. Pfeiffer at the town OF
Cortland last August.
One woman was killed, six probably
fatally injured and twenty seriously In
jured in an explosion at the Aluminium
Products Company at Manitowoc, WIS.
The explosion occurred when tank
used to collect poisonous gases caught
fire.
Miss Florence Housel, so, owner OF
the Huntington Hall School for Girls
in South Pasadena, Calf, was shot and
killed in her room by an unknown as
sailant, who then piled excelsior In the
kitchen and set fire to the building.
The fire was discovered by Miss Hou-
sells father, aged 80, who extinguisheo
the flames.
Suits on behalf Of tforty-three men
and two women, backed by the Ameri-
can Legion, have been filed against
the Union Pacific at Omaha. A total
Of $4,000 is asked on the ground that
the plaintiffs, nearly all ex-service
men, were victims Of misleading state
ments to induce them to invest In an
Idaho colonization project.
Abandonment Of forestry experiment
stations In Colorado, Idaho, Washing
ton and Arizona will be forced II ac-
tion Of the Senate agriculture commit
tee in reducing the forest Investigation
item Of the pending appropriation bill
K from $78,72S to $4,000 Is approved,
the American Forestry Association as
serted in announcing that 1t would seek
to have the Senate committee on for
estry restore the original provision.
The second trial of Frank A. McCor-
mick at Marysville, Chilli, accused OF
the murder of Charles Brown, well-to-
do sheep raiser, has been set by Super
Tor Judge q. p. Mcdaniel for March
20. Bail was fixed at $4,000. Judge
Mcdaniel dismissed the jury In the
first trial after It had been deadlocked
for many hours, six voting for acquit-
tai and the other six holding out for
conviction on the charge of.manslaugh-
ter.
WASHINGTON
Investigation Of Rear Admiral Sims
charges that the United States navy
failed to cooperate fully with the al
lies during the war will begin March .
with the admiral as the first witness,
Chairman Hale OF the inquiry commit
tee announced in Washington.
Attorney General Palmer has issued
a ruling that under the United States
constitution homes or places Of busi-
ness cannot be entered by government
agents for the purpose Of search and
seizure of liquor, or making arrests
without the issuance Of warrants.
One-cent postage for local or drop
letters has been approved by the Sen
ate postoffice committee, which incOr-
porated the reduced postage amend
ment of Senators Dial OF South Caro-
lima and McKellar of Tennessee, Dem
ocrats, in the postoffice appropriation
bill. Approximation of 81, 100000 for
transcoDtinental airplane mail route
from New York to San Francisco also
was written into the bill.
Chances of successful pay check for
geries in the navy were reduced to
minimum when the department or
dered that the endorser of every such
check must place the impression Of
the four fingers OF his right hand on
the back thereof before it will be
cashed. AS record Of the finger
prints Of every man in the service is
kept, It will be practically impossible
under the order for forger to escape
Identification, officials said
Although there were general COM
plants of sugar shortage in this
country last year. exports Of the COM
modify during that time exceeded those
Of the year before by more than 1000,-
100000 pounds, according to Depart
ment OF Commerce records. Exports
reached a total Of !, ATS, ,407 ,67S pounds.
compared with 407 ,288.3 .324 pounds the
year before.
Ths Benate has adopted the Under
wood resolution to create q commission
to negotiate with Canada regarding
modffications Of embarsoes on wood
pup and print paper.