Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-10-12
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

newspaper writer, lecturer and labor
advocate. was drowned In the Colum-
bia river near Priest Rapids, Wash.
william S. (BllD Hart, motion
picture actor, who was reported ser
lOusly Ill in Los Angeles with typhoid
fever and complications, is recover
ing.
Doors Of the Commercial National
National Bank. at Great Falls, Mont,
are closed. suspension having been an
nounced by the board Of directors. The
suspension announcement gave the
banks deposits ut $1.202,OOO and Its
loans S1.5O5.OOO.
NJ. W. Friedeil. former president of
an oil refining corporation in Phlia-
delphia, was taken into custody In Los
Angeles ut the request of the author
tiles of that city OF charge that he
had embezZled $4,000. Il am not
guilty." declared Friedell. land | can
prove it."
Proposal Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
| & st. Paul railroad to put into effect
| n reduction OF Z cents hundred
pounds on the freight rates on wheat
shipped from Montana points to Puget
sound terminals for export is opposed
by the millers Of Montana and by the
| state railroad commission.
James Thomas, IA. student Mt the
Inglewood High school in Los An
geles, In trying to prevent door with
| glass panel from slamming. thrust
his hand through the panel and a
silver of glass pierced his heart. As
IL nothing had happened. he walked
down the steps Of the building. Then
he collapsed and death came quickly.
Joe Dieker. while sitting on the
steps of church In Los Angeles. was
arrested for the police Of Denver,
where he Is wanted to answer u charge
Of murdering william Hanlon. 'Dieker,
according to the arresting officers, de-
clared his willingness to return to
Denver to tell what he knew Of the
affair, but declared he was witness
and not u principal.
Frank W. Roach. alias Frank
Frantz, so years old, formerly post
master at Calexico, Calf, was taken
into custody In Sterling. Colo, by
Postoffice Inspector F. e. Jarvis and
f. Mexican, who stated that Roach
was wanted in connection with a
shortage of approximately $1,000 in
accounts of the pOstoffice ut Calexico.
The inspectors had trailed Roach for
several thousand miles, visiting cities
In Texas, Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska
r-r kH Iaf ",l Inn
on Sept. 1.
WASHINGTON
A woman FROM Georgia won the dis
tinction of being the first of her sex
to obtain appointment to the United
States Senate, when Mrs. W. II. Eel
ton OF Cartersville. Ga. long known
as the grand old woman of Georgia"
was named by Governor Thomas W.
Hardwick us senator to succeed the
late Thomas Il. Watson, until the No
vember elections. when a successor
will be chosen at the polls. Mrs. Fel-
ton is 81 years old and has been
prominent in Georgia politics for
nearly half century.
Vice Consul Barnes, at Smyrna, re-
ported to the state department that
evacuation of refugees from Smyrna
had been completed except for 500
who are to embark soon. Since the
fire, the report said, 222,OOO refugees
had embarked from Smyrna and
neighbOring ports, and of these $780,
900 were cared for by American naval
forces and American relief workers. !,
The peace agreement between forty
nine railroads in the western area and
trainmen and conductors was formal
ly signed in Chicago. The agreement
calls for the continuance of the pres
ent rate of pay to conductors and
trainmen for one year, the eight-hour
day basis to be maintained and time
and half for overtime after eight
hours.
Declaring labor to be partisan to a
principle rather than to party. Pres
ident Gompers of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, in a formal statement
in Washington. predicted that no "im-
portant reactionary legislation" would
be enacted by the next Congress, be-
cause Of labor's activities. The fed
GRAFTON head asserted that "labor has
stunned the reactionists in Congress
Railroads of the southeastern Sec
ton of the United States and brother
hood organizations of conductors and
trainmen signed an agreement in
settling all outstanding
between them and extend
ng present wages and working regula-
ions until Oct. 81, 1923.
One Of the following three will be
lamed for postmaster at Brush, Colo:
they are Charles +. McMullen, David
?. Saunders and Cecil p. Lamb. They |
IRE on the eligible list certified to the
'ostoffice department by the civil
ervice commission.