Cheyenne record., 1920-01-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDEMNED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.

Simmons College dismissed classes
at Abilene, Texas, for the funeral Of
Dammit, the schools white bulldog
mascot. A marble headstone erected
over the grave carried the epitaph:
Dammit, He's Dead"
Ed ((strangler) Lewis defeated
Ivan Kranloff, Russian wrestler, at
st. Louis in two straight falls. both
with the head lock. The first fall
took fifty-six minutes twenty-nine
seconds, the second sixteen minutes
ten seconds.
As a result Of the activity of Ger
man consu1s in Mexico there has been
arranged a steamship line between
Germany and Mexican ports which will
begin regular service at once. A steam
er will reach Mexico each week from
Germany, according to Mexican news
papers
Rather than serve a thirty-five day
sentence in the Oakland city Jail, Pearl
WhitfOrd, %, eluded the matron and
climbing through an open window on
the fourteenth floor of the city hall,
jumped 300 feet to her death. Hun
dreds Of persons witnessed the trag-
edy.
Mrs. Marion A. Forrest, prominent
in Eastern Star circles in California
and New Mexico, was instantly killed
in Oakland, Calf, by an automobile
driven by Harold Craven, Univer-
sity of California student. Craven is
charged with manslaughter. 1t Is
charged that he was driving at exces-
sive speed.
First installation of wireless tele-
phones for commercial purposes in
Utah was completed when cement
manufacturing company at Ogden
erected aerials above its offices and at
its plant thirty miles north of Ogden.
Similar equipment Is to be installed for
coal company with mine at Rock
Springs, WyO.
Gov. William d. Stephens Of Cali
fOrnia has declined to grant an au-
dience to committee appointed by
the Oriental Exclusion League and
other organizations to seek from him
an expression as to whether he pro-
posed to call special session of the
State Legislature to deal with exclu-
sion legislation.
Thirty establishments at Ell Centre
and in Imperial and Calexico. Calf,
were raided by deputy sheriffs, and $50
men and women, alleged bootleggers
and gamblers, were arrested. District
Attorney Simon issued statement in
which he declared that the police Of
the three cities were either asleep or
negligent"
WASHINGTON
Since Sept. l, 1919, less than 1000
cases of influenza have been reported
to the United States public health serv-
ice. it Is announced. During the pre-
ceding similar period last year more
than 100000 cases occurred.
As the German peace treaty is not
yet operative so far as America is
concerned, the United States has not
Joined in the demand upon Holland
for the extradition Of the former
Kaiser, nor can it do so even If 1t de-
sired.
In order that schools may teach their
pupils something about the 1920 CEN
sus, the Census Bureau has prepared
a special circular for the use of teach
ers.
By margin of one vote the House
clude In the deficiency appropriations
bill fund Of $4,000 900 asked by the
Navy Department for repairs to ships
Naval officials had informed the COM
mittee that unless the money was made
available necessary repairs to many
capital ships and destroyers could not
be made and that 1890 navy yard en-
ployes would have to be discharged
next month.
Senator Phelan,. California, intro
duced n resolution to amend the four
teenth amendment of the federal con-
stitution SO that Japanese born In the
United States and its possessions can
not obtain citizenship. Phelan pointed
out that within few years, under
the present constitutional provision,
Japanese born in Hawaii will control
the territorial government. The high
birth rate of japanese in California
In also menace to the control of land
by the whites, he said.
Coinage of a 2-cent piece as a me-
mortal to former President Roosevelt
has been proposed in bill introduced
by Chairman Mclean Of the Senate
banking committee ut the request of
the women's National Roosevelt Me-
mortal Association.
President Carranza has granted pro-
visional permits to American petrol
cum producers to resume oil drilling
suspended in November, the Ameri-
can Association of Petroleum Pm