Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-09-23
FOREIGN

1922, with 1872 deaths reported.
Ada Bazaar, twenty-three miles east
Of Ismid, has been captured by Greco
British troops, after sharp skirmish.
ing.
A number of the members of the diet
are planning to visit the United States
next summer with hope of improving
the relations between Japan and the
United States.
The Chinese government has ar
ranged short term S1O0OO,OOO loan
to meet urgent demands for famine
relief in the Shantung, Chilli and
Shansi provinces.
Representatives of italian employers
and the striking workmen who have
seized the factories have accepted Pre-
mier Giolitti's offer of mediation, 1t Is
stated in advices from Rome.
The dominion bureau Of statistics of
Canada has issued an estimate on the
Canadian crop; wheat, 2S9, ,498,OO0
bushels; oats, 556, $4,000 bushels bar
ley, 64,257 bushels; flax, 1000 bush
els.
According to estimates by the jap
anese press, Japan Will have 12O sub
marines by 1927, when it is expected
eight battleships and eight battle crui-
sers on the naval building program
will have been completed.
Three persons were killed and six
injured in an explosion in the Ionfolo
powder factory at Mantau, says Rome
dispatch. The explosion, which dam
aged several houses, is believed to have
been caused by parties unidentified.
The soviet government of Russia
has published figures claiming that
under the 1919 program the total Red
army strength. actual and potential,
was 4,75O,OOO men, and that this pro
gram has been restored as q result Of
the Polish campaign.
Baklanoff, n baritone Of the Chica-
go Opera Company, arrested in Chica-
go last year for immortality, has been
refused an American passport wise
from the American passport bureau Of
Paris, which acted on advice from
Washington. This bars Baklanoff
from the United States.
| 1t is officially announced that the
total killed in the recent earthquakes
in Italy was 174 The mountainous
zone affected was thlnly inhabited and
the destruction was limited to small
places. Normal life Is being resumed.
The houses destroyed are being re.
placed by huts.
| The Chinese foreign office notified
Prince N. A. koudachef, minister of
Russia, in charge of the Russian
legation by appointment of the late
czar, that in view of the nonrepre-
sentative status of the Russian lega-
ton, voluntary cessation of function
ing of the legation and Russian con-
sulate would be welcomed.
GENERAL
The body Of Olive Thomas, motion
picture actress who died in Paris re-
Gently from mercurlal poisoning, is
coming back to the United States on
ford, who was the husband of the act
tress, is accompanying the body.
| A spread of infantile paralysis in the
vicinity of Boston, which. while not an
epidemic, yet constitutes condition
that has caused some concern among
health officinls, was announced by the
state department of health. A total of
ninety seven cases In the state was re-
ported with the addition of fourteen
new cases in reports received. The
number . cases is the greatest in the
state since the epidemic of 1916.
Robbery, jealousy and other ele-
ments entered into the brutal slnying
of John Zelel, foreman of the stock
department in large warehouse,
whose body was discovered in a small
Mushroom in Chicago. He had been
beaten to death in Il most savage man.
ner, n plank and hammer being the
weapons Scattered about the floor
near the body We're n number Of love
letters which the police are investignt-
ing. They believe Zelek was muir
dered by II jealous rival.
Liquor bandits in two raids on ware
houses at Chicago, escaped with whs-
kies and rare wines worth $4,000 One
Of the bnnd, which included five men,
was wearing policemnn's uniform.
| Declaration has been made by Pro-
hibltion Commissioner Kramer that
dry law enforcement machinery IS in
adequate. Coupled with this was
statement by the Anti-Saloon League
that the nation is confronted by
gigantic and vicious conspiracy to dis
credit and ultimately overthrow prohi-
bition"
Two suits q S1O,OOO,OOO were filed
by the city OF Chicago. on orders of
Mayor william Hale Thompson against
the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago
Daily News, respectively. The suits,
according to Corporation Counsel S. A.