Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-06-29
FOREIGN


The treaty fixes the rights of each
nation in the island, which Is under
japanese mandate.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes
Wilson, formerly chief of the British
imperial general staff and lately mill
tary adviser to the Ulster government.
was assassinated near the door Of his
home in Easton place, London.
Fresh reports from the interior Of
Kiangsl province are lacking. mis-
sionarles and officials at Shanghai be-
lIeve the fury of the mutiny has been
spent and the pillaging soldiers Of the
Peking government brought under
control either by force or bribery.
Fire of undetermined origin at
Mexicali, Lower California, destroyed
nearly a city block at an estimated
damage of 100000. A liquor ware
house and a new barroOm OF the low
er California Commercial Company,
the Monte Carlo gambling hall, n par
TALLY constructed boxing arena and
other buildings were destroyed.
A mysterious disease in the south
eastern districts Of Queensland Ia pug
zling the medical authorities and has
forced them to seek aid from the
United States in determining Its cause
described as being similar to meningi-
tbs, with the difference that the brain
and not the spinal cord is affected. In
one town twelve out of fifteen persons
afflicted died.
A report of the national treasurer,
Mexico City, shows that there was
surplus at the end OF the year 1921 Of
3,55S,531 pesos. Receipts from all
sources totaled O.GO2, 1888 pesos and
expenditures amounted to 77,043, S52
pesos. The largest expense was in
Cured by the War Department with
136,212,283 pesos, the next being the
Department of Finance with only 37,-
634, $50 pesos and the Department Of
Communications and Public Works
with 2s.677,77s pesos.
GENERAL
Forty-four persons, two Of whom
were union coal miners, were killed
when 5000 armed striking miners at.
tucked the Lester Strip mine. near
Heron, ILL.,, which was being oper.
ated by imported workers and guards.
william Bross Lloyd. Chicago mill
lionalre Communist, and eighteen 9TH
er members of the now defunct Com
munist Labor party, must serve pris-
on terms for advocating the over.
throw Of the United States govern.
ment, 1t was ruled by the Illinois Su-
preme Court.
Eagle Boat No. 81, which went
ashore on n reef near Cattle Point,
San Juan island. arrived at Seattle.
having pulled off the reef under her
own power. She escaped serious dam
age. The boat was differed and
manned by members of the Seattle and
Tacoma naval militia units.
William Rockefeller, who with his
older brother, John D., built up the
family millions in the oil industry,
died recently of pneumonia compli-
Gated by IL recurrence of kidney trou-
BILE, at his country estate overlooking
the Hudson river from North Tarry-
town, N. Y. He was 81 years old.
Immediate enactment by Congress
Of legislation for the construction of a
dam and reservoir at Boulder cahon
for the control of the flood waters Of
the Colorado river, was urged in
Washington by Secretary of Com.
merce Hoover before the House COM
mittee on irrigation of arid lands con-
sidering the Swing bill.
Col. Marcellus II. Thompson, vice
president and active head Of the Auto
Ordnance Company of New York, has
been indicted by the federal grand
grand jury at Trenton on the charge
of conspiracy to ship arms to Ireland
in violation of the neutrality laws.
The announcement was made by AS
sistant United States District Attor-
ney Thomas V. Arrowsmith.
Adoption of a program calling for
a nonpartisnn political campaign this
fall to elect the friends of organized
the radical forces that favored recog-
milton of the Russian soviet govern
ment, marked the closing SESSION Of
the American Federation of Labor con-
vention at Cincinnati. +
The administration is considering
the matter of decreasing second
class postal rates, it was said at the
White House Considerable discussion
was given to the subject at the cabi-
ret meeting, and President Harding
and Postmaster General Work are in
clined, to believe that at least a part
of the increase in the secOnd-class
rates made during the war should now
be removed.
Two hoboes were killed outright and
George Welch, third knight of the
rail, so badly injured he died in hos
pital at Redding, Calf, when freight
train on which they were riding was
derailed near Sims. The three were
riding in car laden with lumber and