Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-04-22
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EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

4"elNe lulluItu StuuthtSs SolIpiis
ing the largest graduating class in the
history of the University of California,
will receive degrees May - at Berke-
ley.
Lieut.. d. NJ. Hansell and Sergt w.
T. Maxwell, both of the Goth Aero
squadron, were instantly killed when
their aeroplane fell at Sanderson, Tex.
Both were on border patrol duty.
Percy r. Morgan, trustee of Stan
ford University and director in Il
San Francisco bank, shot and killed
himself ut his home at Los Altos, be-
cause of dependency over i'll health.
The Elk Hills, Kern county, Calf,
oil district are reported to be covered
with army worms, which are making
their way towards the alfalfa and
grain fields of the Buenn Vista Lake
section.
Damage to the extent of approx
mately $4,000 was done at Salt Lake
by high wind storm which broke
plate glass windows, tore down electric
signs, blew over sign boards, uprooted
trees and tore the tops off numerous
automobiles.
The first bread -and-water diet i'm
posed in ten years in Douglas county,
Neb., was ordered by Judge Sears for
Elmer Binau, who had failed to sup
port his wife and two children. Bread
and water will be Binau's menu for the
first ten days of n six months Jail
term.
Blue denims made their first appear
ance as churchgoing garb at st. Louis,
being introduced by the members of IL
Methodist church Bible class eighty
five strong A local hotel announced
that overalls for bellboys and khaki
for maids would hereafter be "regula-
tion.'
Arizona had it's first hanging since
capital punishment was restored to the
state statutes by an election in 1918.
Smplicio Torres was hanged at the
state prison in Florence after having
been convicted on charge of having
murdered Victor l.. Melick, peace of
ficer of Williams, Ariz.. May l, 1919.
Residents of Sitka say that the
herds of seal migrating northward to-
ward Bering sea this spring are great
err than they have seen in years and
that the migration is three weeks
ahead of its usual time. Countless
thousands Of the seal have been pass
ing Sitka. Government officials say
the great size of the migratory herd
is evidence it pays to protect.
WASHINGTON.
A cash bonus of 81 for each days
service would be given to approxi-
matcly 3,OOOOOO of the 4,SOO,OOO men
in the army, navy and marine corps
during the war under II plan that has
been approved by the bonus subcom-
mttec Of the House Ways and Means
CoWmittee.
Government financial aid for com
panies purchasing shipping board YES
sells to enable them to compete sue
cesSfully with foreign lines was rec
commended by business men and mem
bers of Congress, who advised with
the board on methods of transferring
into private hands the government
owned merchant marine.
II. c. Leffingwcll, assistant secretary
of the treasury, has resigned ana his
resignation has been accepted by Pres
ident Wilson.
House leaders are planning three-dny
recesses beginning about May Is, un-
der gentlemen's agreement that no bus
mess will be transacted until the Sem
ate is ready to recess for the summer
This is expected to be early in June
and under present plans the recess will
continue until Sept. l
BY unanimous vote the House
passed bill increasing by $40 month
the war risk insurance payment of the
government to 25,OOO disabled soldiers
and sailors now receiving vocational
rehabilitation. Under the measure,
which now goes to the Senate. single
men would receive 500 month and
married men S120.
Enactment of the S462, ,5OO,O 900 post
office appropriation bill, the largest
amount ever granted for the mail serv-
Ice, was completed by Congress when
the House adopted the conference re-
port and sent the measure to the Pres
ident. The bill provided $1,25O.OO for
a transcontinental air mail route be-
tween New York and San Francisco,
via Chicago and Omaha, next July /.
The number Of officers authorized
by the army reorganization bill was
reduced in the Senate from $4,000 to
1898, due to the defeat Of compul-
sorry universal military training. Two
major generals, five brigadier geDer-
ais and forty colonels were among the
oFftcorS dispenSed with
The Sells bill providing pensions of
from $12 to $13 month for disabled
veterans of the Spanish h-American war,
Boxer uprising and the Philippine fn-
surrection was ordered favornbly re-
ported by the Senate Pensions Com