Cheyenne record., 1921-02-17
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A brief RECORD OF P".ssING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
(Western Newspaper
WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News ssrvlee.)
WESTERN
Psychology and the "crime wave"
were blamed by Mrs. Louise L. Peete
for her conviction on a charge of hav-
ing murdered Jacob Charles Denton.
Seven persons were injured and prop
erty damaged to the extent of several
thousands Of dollars by tornado,
which passed north of Gilmer, Tex.
Joseph A. Bartos, cashier of the
Bank of Wilbur, Neb., for many years,
and active in business and politics,
was found dead. A coroner's jury rem
dered a verdict that death was the re-
suit of alcoholic poisoning.
Charles NJ Fickert, former district
attorney, who handled the, Mooney
case, narrowly escaped death when a
bullet, which is believed to have been
fired by an assassin, crashed through
his office window on the ninth floor
of the Kohl building in San Francisco.
Four thousand two hundred dollars
in gold, thought to have been stolen in
the robbery of $4,000 from the West
ern Loan and Building Company in
January has been found by Chief of
Police Joseph L. Burbidge under a pile
pany's building.
N. II. Wheat, 60, n rancher living
eighteen miles from Eugene, Ore, and
his wife, 55, We're found at their home
shot to death. A revolver lay behind
Wheat's body, and a note, purporting
to have been written by him and ad-
dressed to brother in Portland, said
self because they had quarreled. The
couple left thirteen children ranging in
ages from 2 to 81 years.
A bill requiring that fifteen days
elapse between application for mar
riage license and issuance of the IL
cense has been passed by the State
Senate of Washington and sent to the
House. Under the bill persons author
lied to solemnize marriage who adver-
tse the fact or employ runners or so
licitors to secure the performance of
marriages would be guilty of a misde
meanOr.
WASHINGTON
Live stock on farms and ranges Jan
uary l were valued at $6,235, ,569, ,0Ot
compared with $S,5O7, 5000 in 1920
the census office has announced.
Latin-American contributions las
year toward the feeding of the United
States are set forth in figures mad,
h., hn nrt,p Of
merce, The statistics show that tho
people of the United States Leaned
heavily in 1920 on the Central ant
South American neighbors for the sup
ply of certain f0Odstuffs.
Twenty-One American marines, at
tached to the legation guard at Man
aqua, Nicaragua, have been arrested
by American military authorities as q
result of the wrecking of the plant OF
the newspaper, La Tribuna, at Man,
aqua, Secretary Daniels has an.
nounccd Capt. ]. l.. Underhill. com,
manding the guard, reported to the
Navy Department that the men at,
tackled the newspaper establishment
us result of the publication of what
they considered "abusive and libelous'
articles regarding the marines.
Arrest of five men in Philadelphia
in Il raid on II printing shop where AZ
legged counterfeit internal revenue
stamps were being produced has been
announced by Chief Moran of the Sc
cret service. Chief Moran said about
100000 strips of stamps rs well rs
liUuOr labelS were seized.
Alternately crying for help and
shrieking from pain, Herman Imsick
hung head downward from n stairway
in the building of n manufacturing
plant at Oakland Imsick. the watch
man, was the only person in the build
ing He slipped on the stairway, broke
one leg and entangled the opposite
foot in the balusters. PaSsers-by
eventually broke into the building and
released him.
Cattle on farms are now valued Mt
less than prewar prices, the Depart
ment of Agriculture announced in
Washington. The drop, the depart
ment said, began in January, 1919. The
department further stated that the de-
crease In value not only resulted in the
loss of all the increases sustained dur
ing the war, but an additional so per
cent. Hogs have lost SS per cent of
the gains made during 1917 and 1918,
according to the figures.
Charges that a combination exists in
the coal trade to maintain high prices
Of coal and to shut off the supply of
coal to dealers who cut rates were put
before the Senate committee consider
ing the Calder coal regulation bill by
J. C. L. Ritter, who said the "combin-
alton" put him out of business.
Unless trades unions are "affirma-
lively and definitely" excluded from