Cheyenne record., 1921-02-24
FOREIGN

government to act to prevent the cOun-
try' being robbed of many Of Its best
workers.
owners of Cuba have signified their ad-
hesion to the plans of the sugar finan-
cial commission charged with market
ing the islands sugar crop, according
to the Department of Agriculture.
American sailors who were fired on
at Vladivostok were attacked by par
ty of Russians probably for the pur-
pose of holding them up, according to
advices received by Admiral Strauss,
commanding the Asiatic fleet.
For hundreds of miles throughout
south and southwest County Cork all
unfit for use, trenches have been dug,
barricades erected and bridges de-
stroye.', according to report issued
at Dublin Castle.
Negotiations with the Egyptian gov
ernment for the conclusion of treaty
according self-government to Egypt
are strongly advised in long awaited
report by Lord Miner, former colonial
secretary, on the Egyptian question,
presented to Parliament.
Cancellation Of the debts of allied
nations by the United States is urged
by the Tribuna in Rome in an editorial
on the economic and financial situation
in Europe. The newspaper says the
United States may find her very
strength peril in future.
Popocatepetl, Mexico's smoking
mounatin," is in danger of violent
eruption, according to the report of n
commission from the National GeolOgi-
cal Institute. after an investigation.
Columns of gases, sometimes over 2,1OO
feet high. are arising from the crater,
which no longer is covered with snow.
Charges made in the Chamber Of
Deputies in Paris by Deputy BrOusse
to the effect that there had been
wholesale arrests of Officers and men
of the American army for the theft of
army stocks sold to France, brought
forth denial from Maj. J. A. Warden,
liquidation officer of the United States
army, now in Paris.
Three checks written originally for
small amounts, then certified and
raised to a total value of $1,000, were
cashed in banks in Montreal by man
for whom police were searching. Made
with invisible ink, the original figures,
an examination disclosed, faded after
certificatiOns were made, enabling the
fOrger to write in his own figures.
GENERAL
A sentence under the old revolution
airy days act "Of being common
scold' was imposed upon Mrs. Bridget
Ripple in Pittsburg after a jury had
convicted her on the charge.
Police Judge l.. l.. Kent of Atlanta,
Ga. found himself guilty of violating
traffic law on evidence submitted by
the policeman who docketed the case,
and imposed theu sual fine. He paid.
The New York Employing Printers
Association announced it had request
ed printing trades unions to send rep
reSentatives to a conference called to
"consider substantial reduction in
wages
Twenty-Five immigrants, part of $50
released from Ellis Island, were taken
to hospital for re-eXamination by the
New York health authorities, disclosed
they were infected with typhus-carry.
ing vermin.
Sleeping sickness has caused forty
seven deaths in New York City since
Jan. l, Health Commissioner Copeland
announced. Eleven new cases and one
death We're reported there, bringing
The anti-alien land ownership bill,
restricting aliens ineligible to citizen
ship from buying, leasing or control
ling land in Texas, was passed finally
in the Senate without dissenting
vote. The bill is directly aimed against
the acquiring of land in Texas by jap
anese.
J. f. Gilman, past cOmmander-in.
chief of the Grand Army of the Rcpub-
lie, is dead at Boston. He was born
in 1874. He participated in many i'm
portant Civil War battles, losing his
liSHt arm At "us
elected commander-in-chief of the G..
A. II. in 1910
When his air mail plane developed
engine trouble three miles south of
Mendoza. Mimi, Pilot c. G. Eversole
leaped to safety in n parachute from
Il height of 5000 feet. Eversolc. who
was flying from Minneapolis and st.
Paul to Chicago, made the leap after
his plane had gone into nose dive.
The murder mystery" which has
grown up around the death Of Richard
S. Lawrence, former Denver man, sup.
posed to have been killed by train
March p, 1918, was exploded in Madi-
son, Wis, with the announcement of
results of an official examination