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

of the Versailles treaty, have begun
recently
Japanese troops have captured the
from VIudivostok to Khabarovsk, ac-
cording to Toxic cablegram.
DIR. Meyer, who is on the allied ex-
tradition list charged with i'll treating
war prisoners, has committed suicide
at Halle by taking poison, says the
I4Okal Anzeiger.
Polish successes are reported along
the Slutz river, where Bolshevist at
tack has been repulsed. General Lit
Owski's forces captured 300 Bolshev-
lists, four guns and much ammunition
and other material.
The Germans are working feverish-
ly to construct giant commercial and
passenger airships and airplanes, ac-
| cOrding to n report from Romansliorn.
The first trials of two monster ma
chimes were successfully held above
| Lake Constance recently.
After studying the State Depart
| ment's Interpretation of the Monroe
doctrine, sent several weeks ago, the
Congress of Salvador adopted a decree
proposing the creation of Latin
American Court Of Arbitration with
the United States excluded.
| The German battleships Nassau and
| Ostriefsland have arrived at the Firth
Of Forth in England, this constituting
the commencement of the surrender Of
| the remainder of the German wa:ships
under the terms Of the treaty Of Yer
sailles. Ultimately
The population of Canada for 1920
is estimated at 100000, as compared
with 100000 in 1911, in report
made public In the House of Commons
by Secretary Of State Sifton. The es-
timated total revenue for 1920 is $685.
100000. Total revenue per capita for
1920 is estimated at $38.11 and ex-
penditures per capita at $75.O1.
The German government hopes to
raise 1,OOO,OOO,OOO marks by unusual
levy on telephone subscribers. 1t is an.
nounced that they will be assessed d
special One-tlme tax Of 1000 marks,
which will bear interest and be re.
turned when the subscription Is can.
celled. Charges for the use Of tele-
phone will be more than doubled and
postage rates increased 100 per cent in
April. Telegraph rates will be heavily
advanced.
GENERAL.
The torpedo boat destroyer Peary,
named in honor of the late Rear Ad.
miral Peary, was launched at the
Cramps shipyard on the eleventh an.
niversary of his discovery of the North
Pole.
Patrick Tyrrell, 80 years old, who
was one of the guards about President
Lincoln when the chief executive was
shot, is dead at Chicago. Mr.. Tyrrell
was connected with the secret service
for many years.
"Fighting Bob" Evans old battleship,
the Iowa, now condemned and out Of
commission, is destined to play an i'm
pOrtnnt part In the experiments of the
Navy Department in the control of
ships by wireless.
A thoroughbred Poland China hog,
which William Brothers, breeders, of
Villisca, Iowa, bought about fifteen
months ago from l.. II. McClarnon of
Braddville, Iowa, for $265, has been
sold by them at private sale to w. II.
Ellsworth of GOldfield, Iowa, for the
record price of $4,000, declared to be
the highest price ever paid for hog
in the United States, if not in the
world.
Tenants in one Chicago apartment
building set their own rent by order
of Judge X NJ. Lands. The tenants,
paying $50 II month, complained that
their landlord, John r. Lewis, had
raised the rentals to 500 and $lOO
Judge Lands ordered the receiver to
execute leases at II price to be set by
the tenants and the latter named $62. &c
as the amount they were willing to
pay.
Mrs Rose Veal of Chicago told Her.
man Eckhardt that she'd be a sister
to him, but never his wife. Eckhardt
set fire to her home and attempted to
slash his wrists. Firemen saved the
house and physicians Eckhardt.
Edward O'Toole, Sc years old, who
witnessed more elcctrocutions in Sing
Sing prison than any other employe
there, having been for nineteen years
Il keeper in the death house, died at
his home in OsSining, n. Y.
Action of the Michigan Legislature
in ratifying the national prohibition
amendment is final and cannot be
submitted to referendum vote of the
people, the Supreme Court held in a
decision handed down at Lansing
The national debt of Canada on Feb
ruary 2Sth, last, amounted to $1,915,-
995,924, according to n report made in
the House of Commons. The Domin-
ions gross debt amounted to So, 49,