Cheyenne record., 1920-01-15

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IBERIA, are home, having arrived In
San Francisco on the transport Logan.
Their places have been taken by reg
ular forces. =,
Two unidentified men were killed
and twenty-One freight cars were de-
molished at Boise, Idaho, when
string of twenty-five freight cars
broke loose and ran away down Med
bury hill, west Of Glenns Ferry.
Major F. NJ. Scanland, charged with
murder as the result of the killing of
John Hutchings, driver in the Ell
Paso- Phoenix road race, early in No
vember, was released from the state
penitentiary of New Mexico after he
had furnished 5000 bond.
Lawrence Lackey is under arrest at
Alliance, Neb., charged with the muir
der of his 7-year-old daughter by CIV
ing her poisoned candy. 1t is alleged
the child, after eating the candy, COM
plained it was bitter. A pOst-mortem
examination disclosed the presence Of
strychnine in the stomach.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Payne, SO years
old, first cousin of Abraham Lincoln,
was buried in Ogden, Utah. She died
Of heart trouble. Mrs. Payne, who was
daughter of William Hall, was born
in Louisville, Ky. Her features bore
striking resemblance to those Of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
A New Year gift Of 100000 to
Throop College of Technology, condi-
tional upon an equal amount being
raised from other sources, was an
nounced by President James A. b.
Scherrer. The name Of the donor was
withheld. The donation was said to
be the largest individual one ever made
to an institution in Southern CalifOr-
mia.
Ezra Perrin Savage, former governor
Of Nebraska, died Mt Tacoma, Wash,
at the age of II. He had lived quietly
in Tacoma for the past sixteen years
after long career as a legislator In
Nebraska, where he was in the grain
and cattle business. A boyhood asso-
ciate of William F. Cody buffalo
BID, he served with the famous
plalnsman as scout in the Civil war
and Sherman.
WASHINGTON
Bltuminous coal production has
come back to normal since the settle
ment Of the strike.
Four new aerial mail routes to link
the important cities Of the country
from coast to coast will be established
II Congress grants an appropriation of
$3,OOO,OOO, Postmaster General Burle-
son stated. A fifth route is under
contemplation but has not yet been
given the approval of the Postoffice
Department.
Victor Berger, Socialist representa-
tive-elect from Milwaukee, was denied
seat in the House for the second
time. The vote was 1923 to 6 and was
on a resolution by Chairman Dallin-
ger Of the elections committee, which
was offered Immediately after Berger
appeared and asked that he be sworn.
Berger was denied personal hearing.
The sum of $76O, 100000 was realized
from the sale of American stocks re-
naming in France after the departure
Of the American army, said Brig. Gen.
w. d. Connor, chief of staff of the
American department of supplies He
estimated the value of the stocks at
S1,7OO,OOO,OOO and declared 1t would
have cost $75, ,OOO, 600 to take them back
to America.
1t may require S175,OOO to 100000
to send the American athletes to the
Antwerp Olympic games. The squad
will include track and field athletes,
swimmers, cyclists, marHsmen, football
players, horsemen and fencers and
will sail early in July. The games, as
Aug Is and continue three or four
weeks
Minimum salaries Of $35,OOO for am
bassadors and $4,000 for ministers,
with government-owned embassy build
ings and allowances for upkeep were
recommended to the House foreign af-
fairs committee by Secretary Lansing.
The committee is holding hearings on
the annual diplomatic and consular
service appropriation bill. Ambassa-
dors now receive $17, 800 and ministers
$12,5OO.
If Congress does not enter upon new
fields of large expenditure or reduce
taxes, Secretary of the Treasury Car
ter Glass announced the government
will be able to meet its Indebtedness
without calling upon the country to
bear another Liberty loan issue. The
secretary of the treasury prefaced
~.
ures showing a reduction Of $780,
'622, $40 in the gross debt Of the coun-
try since Aug. 80, and corresponding
large reductions in the floating debt
on loan certificates and unmatured