Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-11-03
eoNDENsEo REcoR or the
PRooREss OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
bAYiNos. ooINos, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINes. HoPEa
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
tWs..n Ns.ssas~ tales Nsss ssrssA,
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Frank Lemen, "A years old, believed
bne of the oldest circus men In the
tountry and who was credited with
savinE taken the first circus to Aus
;ralia, IL dead at Kansas City.
The body of young man with n
bullet wound In the head, which was
found In vacant lot In San Francisco.
who held up the ferry postoffice. shot
and killed Frank b. Adams, an armed
guard, and escaped with valuable mail
natter.
Twenty-Five men were arrested
:hree stills destroyed and more than
1000 gallons OF liquor seized In raids
lust completed Mt Gallup, n. NJ, by
prohibition officers. The roundup, the
state director says, was the largest ev-
fr conducted In the state, nearly the
entire force taking part.
Two bachelor brothers of Lincoln
advanced one of the most novel boot.
Logging excuses ever heard In Nebrns-
ka. They said they operated the still
for the benefit of n parnlyzed woman.
whose drinking water had to be dis
Tiled. They admit she died more than
4 year ago from the treatment.
District Attorney Mathew Brady hns
under consideration request that he
recommend a parole for Allen McDOn-
aid, convicted in connection with the
sO-called Howard street gang cases
a year ago, In San Francisco. McDon-
aid soon will be eligible to apply for
parole. Recently McDonald's mother
made her way to Frisco from Denver
walking part Of the way and accept
ing free rides at times-and asked
Brady to parole her son.
WASHINGTON
Persons paying federal taxes under
protest cannot bring proceedings to re-
cover such taxes against successor
Of the collector to whom the taxes
were paid, the Supreme Court held In
deciding case brought by the Indl-
ana Steel Company.
Suit to test constitutIonality of the
Capper-Tincher bill passed by Con.
gress to regulnte grain exchanges and
put them under direction of the secre-
tary of agriculture was filed in federal
District Court by John Hill, Jr, n
member of the Chicago board of trade.
Approval of Il loan of $1,OOO.OOO to
financial institution for credit ex-
tensions on live stock in Montana and
Wyoming. was announced by the War
Finance Corporation. The corporation
did not make public the name of the
institution nor the terms of the loan.
The governments annual report on
mortality statistics for 1920, soon to be
issued, shows 1,142,57S deaths within
the death registration area, represent
ing rate of 13.1 per thousand, rs
compared with 12.0 in 1910. Fatalities
from automobile accidents and injuries
increased from 9.4 to lO.4 per hundred
thousand.
Fire in the national forests over the
country cost the government more than
S2O.OOO,OOO annually, and more than
S8,OOO,OOO is spent annually by the
service in proper forest administration
and protection, according to infOrma.
tion given out In Washington by DR..
Herbert A. Smith, assistant forester
AAoah 'eS"ihe VIII ~. Ss
The appointment of Capt. Jesse F.
COttrel1, representative in Washing
ton Of several Tennessee newspapers
for many years, as U. s. minister to
Bolivia is being hailed with satisfac-
tion by the newspaper fraternity.
Captain Cottrell, who left his profess
sion to serve the country during the
war, has won an enviable reputation.
Among the important acts of the re-
cent sovereign grand lodge of the In
dependent Order Of Odd Fellows ut
Toronto, Canada, was the decision to
build memorial building in Bulti-
more Mt cost of S1,5OO,OOO. 1t was
in Baltimore that the order was born
1O2 years ago. Each member is to be
assessed at 10 cents year for five
years to obtain the building fund.
Decision Of many West Virginia
mine operators to refuse next spring
to re-enter into wage contracts with
their employees unions was announced
to the Senate committee Investigating
conditions in the West Virginia fields
The statement was made by +. NJ
Merrell, a Charleston operator, who
said that "a concerted move" was I'M
der way to fight the closed union shop
when the time for renewal of wage
contracts arrived April 1.
Members Of the clergy. the great
majority Of them with war experience
and graduates Of army chaplain schools
at home or in France, are well repre-
sented in the officers corps of the
army. About 900 commissions as re-
serve army chaplains have been issued.
They include five majors, sixty cap
tains and the remainder first lieu
tenants. By denominations the distri-
button 10 as follows: Roman Catholic,
1856; Methodist, lis; Baptist, 81; Pres
byterian. II; Episcopal. "a; Disciples
Of Christ. 81; Congregational. q, and
sthsr sects, II.