Cheyenne Wells record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969, 1921-07-21
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4WO SIlIIleSe WE'RE SIlOl uuu hAlSu VA
a truck farm mile and one-quarter
south of Phoenix under circumstances
which attaches of the sheriffs office
say point to struggle between two
tongs.
Alexander Howat, president Of Dis
trict IA, United Mine Workers, and
August Derchy, vice president, were
sentenced to six months In jail and
fined $500 each by District Judge Boss
of Columbus, Kan, for violating the
Kansas Industrial Court law by calling
a local strike over wage controversy.
Home preserved fish affected with
botulinus germs caused the death OF
Mrs. Ida Lemens of San JacintO at
the county hospital Mt Riverside, Calf,
according to health authorities. Sew
enty.five chickens out of flock Of 200
to which contents of the can were
thrown, also died.
Investigation hns been started by
prohibition authorities of reports from
Letterman General Hospital at the
Preside, at Frisco, that number of
bottles sent them from the government
prohibition seizure rooms ut the fed
anu oSAS'SN " A'o'"
whisky were found to contain tea when
they were opened.
In spite of prohibition, the number
Of criminal cases involving alleged in
toxication on the part of automobile
drivers is increasing, said n statement
by three Superior Court judges at Los
Angeles, announcing that hereafter
persons convicted of driving car
while intoxicated would be given jail
sentences instead of fines.
Pelham A. BarrOws, national COM
mander of the Sons of Veterans, of
Lincoln, Neb., forwarded n letter to
der monument, reported to be In
Troy, Ala, which contains an inscrlp-
ton honoring Wilkes Booth for the
murder of Abraham Lincoln. destroyed
Mr.. Burrows stated that this was In
accordance with resolutions passed by
number Of veterans posts.
Bewteen forty and fifty employees of
the Utah Gas and Coke Company at
Salt Lake City, left their places upon
the expiration of the agreement with
the company. The company offered
the men n 20 per cent wage reduction
and the men voted to accept 10 per
cent wage decrease. This the com
pany refused and as result the men
walked out. The places of all the men
leaving were Immediately filled.
New fields Of fertile promise came
within view of the antlered herd when
the grind lodge officers Of the Benev-
olent and Protective Order of Elks
completed n session Mt Los Angeles
that provided Elkdom with national
headquarters and n national publica-
tion. Chicago was selected for the ma
tional headquarters, and plans np-
proved for monumental structure to
house the heart of the lodge at cost
of S2,5OO,OOO.
WASHINGTON
President Harding has nominated
Charles Fowler to be collector of GUS
toms for District No. %, with head
quarters Mt Nogales, Ariz., and Miss
NomecIn Ascnrate to be registrar of
the land office at Las Cruces, N. NJ.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
other representatives Of organized
workers, appeared before Chairman
johnson of the House immigration
committee to protest against pending
resolution giving the President author
ity to admit Chinese labor into Hawaii
temporarily to relieve the shortage of
agricultural labor.
A general tax revision bill will be
reported from the House ways and
means committee within two weeks
after passage of the tariff bill, Repre-
sentative Longworth, Republican, Ohio,
n member of the committee, told the
House during debate on the tariff bill
Republican leaders predicted the tax
measure would be passed before the
middle Of August.
Idle freight cars on the railroads of
the United States numbered 3G9,525 on
July 8, n decrease of 4,2GG from the
previous week, according to state
ment by the American Railway AssO-
citation. A brisk demand for box cars
to meet grain car shortages In the
West reduced the surplus In that class
to 1912, which was 1,1S6 fewer than
IIt eACeSS VI DON ours tile emu OI
the preceding week.
Investigation of the operation of the
Federal Reserve Board, the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States and
''the great trusts, such as steel, coal,
credit and money trusts was asked of
joint congressional commission by
C. s. Barrett, chairman Of the National
Board of Farmer Organizations and
president Of the National Farmers
Union.
Twenty thousand army enlisted men
applied for discharges In the first ten
days Of July, and 1900 have been re-
leased from service, Secretary Weeks
announced.