Cheyenne record., 1920-05-20
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT.
THE WORLD.
DURING the PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTe
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE,
WESTERN.

"A large department store anu iaIsc
clothing store in Omaha have an
nounced flat reductions of 20 per cent
on their entire stocks.
The family of ]. B. Henderson Of
Hutchinson, Kan, has established
new moving record. 1t has moved
thirty-four times in the last thirty
years.
State Bank at Colon, Neb., stole about
$4,000 of the banks cash, robbed pri-
vate deposit boxes of an unestimated
amount and escaped.
Four carloads of sugar, alleged to
have been held on n sidetrack since
April IL for speculation, have been
seized at Wellington and Emporia.
Kan, by deputy United States mar
shal.
itor of the Portland Oregonian, is dead
from injuries received in a collision of
two electric trains near Portland. Her
death swells the fatality list of the ac-
cident to nine. Miss Dosch was sis
ter of Arno DOsch- FleurOt, q war cor
respondent.
Mountain lions are menacing the
vast herds of sheep in the Spenceville
region, according to reports of stock
raisers Of Yuba county, Calf. This
season of the year the beasts are par
ticularly ferocious and until watches
were placed on all herds the nightly
toll was reported to be twenty-five or
thirty sheep.
One man is dead and four critically
Ill at Florence, Ariz.. after having
eaten preserved string beans and pre-
served beets, according to County Ply
sician w. G. Small of Florence. DR..
Randall said the men were infected
with the bucilli of botulism, like re-
cent "ripe olive poisoning" cases in
various parts of the country.
Purchase of the town of Marinette,
fourteen miles northwest of Phoenix,
and 5000 acres of land adjacent for
Sl,OOOOOO has been announced by the
Southwest Cotton Company, cotton
producing subsidiary of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company of Akron,
Ohio. Officials of the cotton company
said the purchase increased the COM
panys holdings in that vicinity to 49,
600 acres.
WASHINGTON.
President Wilson has approved an
act authorizing the coinage of new SO
cent pieces to commemorate the 3OOth
anniversary OF the landing of the pill
grms at Plymouth Rock.
Appointment of james Duncan, Il vice
president OF the Federation OF Labor.
As q member of the Interstate Com
Merce Commission, has been indOrSed
by the federation's executive council.
Mr.. Duncan's appointment is now be-
fore the Senate committee.
BY vote of 80 to 1O1 the House
refused to give up the free seed dis
tribution perQulsite which attaches to
the office of congressman. 1nstruc-
tions were given the conferecs on the
agricultural appropriation bill to in
sist on the restoration of the $4,000
Item for free seeds stricken from the
bill in the Senate.
Legislation designed to aid the rail-
roads and shippers in the car short
age situation by extending the uSt of
the $780, 100000 revolving fund pro-
vided In the transportation act from
five to fifteen years. and also amend
ing the law in other respects, has been
agreed upon by the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee.
Senaipr Smoot, Utah, has introduced
an amendment to the sundry civil bin
authorizing the government to pay the
railroad transportation home of war
workers who resign or are discharged
before July |. Senator Smoot said the
amendment was designed principally to
bring about the dismissal of extra en-
ployes hired during the war.
Establishment of paper mills in Alas
ka was recommended as a means of re-
lieving the paper shortage by Secre-
tary Meredith of the Department of
Agriculture. alaska is destined to
become second Norway" Secretary
Meredith said. With her enormous for
ests of rapidly growing species suita-
BILE for pulp, her water power, and her
tidewnter shipment Of manufactured
products, Alaska will undoubtedly be-
come one OF the principal paper
sources Of the United States.
A bill proposing that Congress imme-
diately begin plans for the holding OF
an international exposition in Philadel-
phia in 1926 to commemorate the one
hundred and fiftieth annivarstry of the
signing of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, was sent to the House by Repre-
sentative Darrow, Republican, of Penn
sylvania An appropriation Of $4,000
is proposed and 1t would be used by
a commission composed of two repre-
sentatives from each state to be ap-
pointed by the President. which would
make plans for the exposition.