Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-10-07
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STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN


little town of Weston, Wis, destroying
twenty-one buildings, including the
only two stores in the place and the
Methodist church.
A proposal to create an Industrial
commission to investigate controver-
sizes between employers and employe
in Texas and make public their find
ings, has been submitted to the lesis-
lature at Austin, by Governor Hobby.
c. L. Mills, manager of one of
Omaha's best known hotels, and a
number of other hotel men announced
reductions of twenty-five per cent in
restaurant prices in that city. Lower
costs of coffee and vegetables We're
given among other reasons for the re
ductiOns.
Five hours after they had attempted
to hold up Thomas Kelly, cashier Of
the NeoshO Rapids, Kan, State bank,
two men, who gave their names as
Jones" and Smith," were on the way
to the state penitentiary to serve inde-
terminate sentences of ten to twenty
years each.
Two men were seriously injured III
accidents at automobile races at the
county fair at Gallup, N. Mex. The
car of Leo Leaden turned over on a
curve and he sustained broken arm
and other minor injuries. J. II. Willis,
who was taking pictures of the race,
was run over by one of the cars ard
both legs broken, his shoulder dis
nd o.,
bruised
A strike of about 1900 bituminous
coal miners in Texas ended when the
strikers ut Strawn, Thurber and Lyra
voted to accept an offer by operators
Of an increase of twenty-five cents
per ton. Mines in the Bridgeport
fields already had accepted the offer.
In making this announcement, the
miners-Operators cOnferees said they
would meet again to work out details
of the agreement.
While Jake Kramer, farmer liv-
ing near Fort Morgan, was trying to
fix n tractor, his left leg became
caught in the moving machinery and
was torn off above the knee. Kramer
and another man were using a tractor
to pull their plow. Something went
wrong with the tractor, and Kramer
left his plow and climbed to the top
of the tractor to adjust it. The motor
was still running, and as he stopped
over he slipped and his left leg was
thrust into the machinery.
WASHINGTON
Superseaplanes, with. cruising
radius sufficient to enable them to
cross the Pacific ocean, now are I'M
der construction and probably will be
available for use by the navy depart
ment early next spring, said an an
nouncement in Washington by the
Manufacturers Aircraft Association.
United States mints during Septem-
Der coined 100000 pieces of silver
money for Cuba and 100000 pieces of
silver for Peru. Director of the Mint
Baker announced. No gold coins were
executed for the United States during
the month, but coinage from other
metals amounted to Gl,G15,OOO pieces
aggregating S2,7S0930
Health authorities at Boston de-
tained as II leper, Joaquin de Costa,
30, Il mill operative, who had gone to
a hospital for treatment for skin dis
had leprosy for several years without
knowing it. De Costa will be sent to
the state lcproSarium at PenikpSe is
land. the seventeenth unfortunate now
restricted there.
Investigation by the Postoffice De-
partment of recent postal airplane
accidents in which pilots lost their
lives when the machines caught fire
in air has shown that the primary
cause was defective gasoline feed
system. Charges that the accidents
were attributable to carelessness of
employees were repudiated by the de-
partment's announcement.
The 1920 census will show that
the population of the United States
is 105,75O, 1000, If the present rate of
the increase shown in the count is
sustained, according to the census
bureau. With the figures nearly
complete. the population of 1920
shows an increase of fifteen per
cent over 1910, when the total num-
Der of persons in the country was
91.972,266.
A fleet of 2S5 wooden steamers to-
falling 994,235 deadweight tons, has
been offered for sale by the shipping
board. The sale will be private and
bids will be received until Oct. 8.
Officials of eight foreign countries
and seventeen states, as well as the
Philippines and Porto Rico, contem-
plate drafting bills similar to the Kan
sas Industrial Court law, according to
letters of inquiry filed in the COVER
nor's office at Topeka, Kan. A draft
Of a similar act, proposed for Iowa,
has been forwarded to Gov. Heury ].
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