Cheyenne record., 1920-11-04
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vonec, a Greek, tried to swim, fully
clothed, to st. Joseph, Mo-, $50 miles.
He sank after travelling a mile. Duck
hunters rescued him.
Six are known to have been killed
and fifteen injured in the wreck Of
the Pacific Overland No. 102 near
Yermo, Calf, according to message
received from Las Vegas, New.
A. B. Show, professor Of European
history at Stanford since 1892, died
at the age of "a. Professor Show was
a graduate of Doane college, Nebraska.
He is survived by a widow and five
children.
Seven firemen were injured when
they fell with the floor on the second
story of the Schoemuller and Mueller
Piano Company warehouse at Omaha,
while fighting a fire. The building, a
three-story structure, was destroyed.
Disclosure that Mrs. Richard Peete,
indicted in Los Angeles for the muir
der of Joseph Denton, was exonerated
after grand jury investigation at
Dallas, Tex, into the death Of a Dallas
hotel clerk in 1913, was made by the
police of Dallas.
Nineteen cases of Canadian whisky,
valued ut $3.50 case, was seized by a
federal officer in a carload Of furni-
ture being shipped from Canada to
Sweet Springs, Texas. T. Graham, to
whom the car was consigned and who
accompanied the car in transit, was ar
rested and charged with Illegal trans
portation and possession.
Louis f. Swift, packer of Chicago,
in a statement published declared that
live stock market conditions will i'm
prove now that the United States gov
ernment has sold all of its cold stor-
age meat supply. This supply, said
Mr.. Swift, has been bear factor. Mr..
Swift also advised Texas stockmen
against liquidating, stating with the
recovery Of the market their own lot
will improve.
A submarine chaser rescued Navy
Lieut.. T. Garnette, four seamen and
five musicians on the open sea off
Oceanside, forty miles north Of San
Diego, after the party had spent n
night adrift in a crippled seaplane,
while submarine chasers searched up
and down the coast for them. The
plane left San Pedro to bring the mu-
sicians to dance at the North Island
naval air station. Engine trouble
forced the machine to alight at sea.
WASHINGTON
Reports Of the national committee
Of the Prohibition party, filed with the
clerk Of the House of Representatives,
showed receipts of $13,244.49 in the
party's national presidential campaign
and expenditures Of $13,017.s2 up to
October 18th.
A bronze tablet, commemorating the
founding of the American navy 145
years ngo, was unveiled at Washing
ton with representatives Of the navy
and the Sons Of the American Revolu-
ton participating. Assistant Secre-
tary Woodbury. Of the Navy Depart
ment was the principal speaker. The
tablet has been placed Mt the foot Of
the John Paul Jones statue in Poto-
mac Park.
An expression of thanks to the
American government and people for
their courteous reception was Issued
BY the delegates from Great Britain
to tercentenary Of the landing of the
pilgrims Mt Plymouth
Only one bid for the Hog Island
shipyard, an offer Of SS4,OOO.OOO from
tho Barbe Brothers Steel Corporation
Of New York, was received by the
shipping board. Chairman Benson an
nounced that the bid would be re-
jected.
Resolutions demanding immediate ac-
tion by the Polish government to end
reported discrimination against the
Jews in. that country were adopted at
q conference of the provisional or
ganization, American Jewish Congress
in session at New York
q. L. Rice, a patent attorney of
Washington, filed a damage suit
against Secretary Of. War Baker and
q number Of officials Of the War De
partment, seeking damages of more
than $1O2, ,OO0, 900. Rice, in his decla-
ration, alleges a conspiracy on the
part Of the War Department officials
In connection with the use Of certain
patents in the manufacture Of air
planes.
Suit for s2,353, 41o damages against
the United States Shipping Board and
the Emergency Fleet Corporation has
been started by the Huron, Minneapo-
liz, st. Paul and Binghampton Steam
ship Companies. The four companies
allese they lost this amount through
failure Of the two bodies to keep an
alleged promise to transfer to Cana
dian registry twelve steel freighters
md to advance $4,000 to facilitate |
he construction sf the vessels l6st
,~ar ~ the Vireinia ShiDbufldinR On.