Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-02-16
AN EPI7OME ! ! VI OF
lA1EINE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM all SOURCES
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MENrs, sUFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.


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Loss estimated between $3.50. 900 and
100000 was caused by a stubborn fire
at San Francisco, which endangered
for q time the lives Of 200 employees
Of the Thomas Day Company. manu-
faeturers Of electrical supplies.
The business O6 robbing stores was
70 profitable that Carl SOrrenson and
two other youths purchased an automo-
bile to assist them in their operations,
according to a statement to the police
Of Spokane, WASH, by Sorranson fol-
lowing his arrest en- charge Of burg
larry. Police lay fhsfts totaling over
$4,000 to the trio. Sorrenson, a stu
dent at Spokane high school, and the
other two boys were taken into Gus
tody by police at Great Falls, Mont.
One of the interesting features said
to have been disclosed IN the Holly
wood night life as result Of the &C.
tivity of many working on the Taylor
murder mystery is that there are ten
rival squads who have been supplying
drugs to narcotic addicts. 1t is said
one of the rings gets the drugs from
Canada and the othec imports from
Mexico. So bitter have the rival fac
tions become In their quest for new
business, sleuths said, that active war
fare has been engaged In for weeks.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway plans the expenditure of $43,-
10000 during 1922 for improvements,
according to announcement made In
San Francisco by President w. B. Sto-
rey. During 1921 the company spent
$35 100000. OF the 1922 expenditures
$22,OOO,OOO will be for new work, In
Guiding seventy-five miles Of second
track in Arizona, from Yampai to Grif-
fifth, according to Mr.. Storey. Eight
million will be spent for new equip
ment and s1.4OO,OOO for new branch
line from Santanta, Kan.
Maurice P. Codd, medical student
in Northwestern University Of Chicago
and holder Of the Barret medal for
athletic prowess Mt GonZaga Univer-
sity of Spokane, Wash, was charged
with first-desree murder following the
death ut the post hospital at Fort
George Wright, near Spokane, of
Frank p. Brinton of New York city, u
soldier of the medical corps Of the Fif-
ty-eighth infantry. Brinton died as the
result of injuries Sustained, it is
charged, when Codd threw linn over
the third floor bannister Of Spokane
business building following an alter
cation. He sustained fractured skull
when he alighted on his head on the
ground floor.
WASHINGTON
More than 200 Russian relief organ
izations operating in this country are
described as frankly communistic
committees" by Secretary Hoover in
report to President Harding, made
public recently at the White House.
Declaration was made recently by
Mai. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson of
the Third United States cavalry that
he had sent a letter to President Hard
ing charging that "the army Is suf-
fering from reign of Prussianism,"
but at the White House and War De-
partment it was said that no such let
ter had come to the department.
Tenant farmers in the United States
trent land equal 10 the combined area
of Texas, Illinois. Iowa, Arkansas,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida" DR..
c. l.. Stewart, land economist, declared
in analyzing figures issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture showing that
farm tenancy is increasing more rap
idly than census figures Indicate
Establishment of a farm risk insur-
ance bureau which would Insure grow
ing crops of nonperishable products
against loss or damage resulting from
adverse weather conditions is pro-
posed in bill introduced by Repre-
sentative King, Republican,, Illinois.
The bureau would have authority to
fix reasonable" premium rates. A re-
volving fund would be created for
payment of claims.
A legislative program contempla.-
ing ratifications of the treaties grow
ing out of the arms conference and
passage of the tariff, soldier bonus,
farm credit and merchaDt marine bills,
with adjournment OF congress ABOUT
June 1, was said to have been agreed
upon at White House dinner confer
ence recently, in which President
Harding and members of the Senate
and House steering committees took
part. , 49,, -
The long controversy between the
United States sand Japan relating. to
the Pacific island of Yap--the subject
Of many notes and other diplomatic
exchanges-was formally and finally
ended with, the signature of a treaty
by representatives of the two conn-,
tries. The treaty which defines the
rights of the United States in Yap and
other islands mandatcd to Japan pn-
der the treaty Of Versailles was signed
by Secretary Hughes, for the United