Cheyenne record., 1921-02-24
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD,
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN
Western Newspaper Union News sevioe.)

WESTERN
A masked bandit entered the home
Of Edward Shire at Mexico, Mo-, and
at the point of revolver held up and
robbed Mrs. Shire, her two daughters
and two girl visitors of jewelry valued
at $1,000.
After three attempts to kill his
father, Osiri Nixon, 60, Otis Nixon, at
st. Stephens, Neb., set fire to his
fathers property and then shot and
killed himself. The father escaped
with minor injuries.
Thomas Brady, convicted of being an
accessory to the attempted attack on
Jean Stanley in San Francisco last
Thanksgiving eve, was sentenced to a
term in San Quentin ranging from one
to four years. His attorney gave no.
tice Of an appeal and Judge Ward
granted n certificate of probable cause
The two largest freight vessels ever
launched in San Francisco bay-the
14,5OO ton Manuani and Nlanukai,
sister ships, destined for the Ha-
waiian trade, slid from the ways with
in an hour at the Moore Shipbuilding
sells were built for the Matson Naviga-
ton Company.
Mrs. Louise L. Peete has been SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life in San
Quentin penitentiary for the murder
of Jacob Charles Denton. Superior
Judge Frank II. Willis of Los
Angeles pronounced sentence after
he had denied a motion for
new trial. Counsel for Mrs. Peete an
nounced they would appeal to the Ap-
pellate Court for new trial.
Alexander Howat, president of the
Kansas Miners Union, under sentence
of year in Jail for contempt of court
in calling n strike in violation Of an
injunction, has issued n statement de-
flying the Kansas Industrial Court an
District Judge A. J. Currnn, who s"a-
tenced him. "All of the judges of dis
trict courts and all of the injunctOns
and Industrial courts shall not altcr
our position" Howat declared.
WASHINGTON
Efforts to attach as Il rider to the
pOstoffice bill an appropriation of
S1OO,OOO,OOO for road construction
failed in the Senate. A motion to in
sert the appropriation was lost on n
vote of Al to 33, or nine less than the
required twO-thirds majority Rejec
tion of the good roads rider was re-
garded as foreshadowing defeat for the
road appropriation at this session.
Wholesale commodity prices showed
n further decline in January, accord
;,,r, t,l l,-t 81 l,,
reau of labor statistics, and just made
public. Building materials and house
furnishing goods showed the largest
price recessions from the previous
month, the former declining 10 per
cent and the latter group 1S per cent
below the level for December. Farm
products, food and clothing each reg
istered drop of 51a per cent or more,
while fuel and lighting materials, met
ais and chemicals each decreased about
3 per cent. In the group of miscclan-
eous commodities the decrease was X,
per cent
The text of the FrancoBrtish agree
ment by which the Syrian desert is
transferred from French to n British
mandate has been received in official
close attention of State Department of
ficials in connection with the study of
the allied mandates in which the Amer
lean government has been concerned
In Senate speech, generally inter-
preted as forecasting the new admins
tration's policy toward disarmament
and related issues, Senator Medill Nc
Cormick of Illinois. just returned to
Washington from a conference with
President-eect Harding, declared for
'the completion of an American navy
comparable in power and varied fight
ing strength with any other"
The naval appropriation bill, carry
ing approximately 1895 100000, was
passed by the House after 1t had de-
feated. 12i to 30. an amendment which
would have prevented the expenditure
of any part of the 10000, 600 provided
for battleship construction until an in
ternational disarmament conference
shall have been called by the Presi |
dent. The amendment was offered by |
Representative Brooks, Republican, H. |
linois.
The United States has no intention |
of participating in any attempt by the
allies to compel Argentina or any |
other neutral country to prevent i'm
portation from Germany or arms and |
munitions of war, II was learned at
the State Department.
The International communications
conference met again in Washington
TO consider further the ALLEGATION of |
the former German cables, but II de-
veloped that one Of the Delegates had
not received instructions from his gov