Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-01-26
FOREIGN

has in Mexico CITY.
During 1921 tourists and climbers 10
the number of 1O1 were kllieu III 'iie
central and eastern Alps, mostly from
falls. according to official statistics
inst published. Eight persons nave
been killed in the last rev dh!s os
avnlnnchcs.
Foreign Minister Alinchitch chtrac-
teriZcd as unfounded rumors OF 'he
possible return to budapest ot former
Empress Zita of Austra-Hungary' VIII"
hus been in Switzerland. where she
was permitted to go to attend an OPP
Grafton an her son, Robert.
Freight loss and damage claims !"
CANADA and the United States during
1920 totaled $125. .S3G,04S, Joe Marshall
special representative of the freight
claim prevention committee OF the
American Railway Association, told
the Canadian Railway Club at Mont
real.
With only approximately $2aO'0oo'-
900 in notes, backed up by one Of the
biggest gold reserves In the world
Australia occupies one Of the strong
est financial positions in the world, nc-
cording to Sir Henry BraddOn, former
commissioner for Australia to the
United States.
The expenditure of the United King
dom must be reduced by f2OOUOOoo,
Austen Chamberlain. government lead
er in the House of Commons, told the
conference OF Scottish Cni0nists IN
Glasgow. This reduction Is necessary
to make both ends meet and will not
take into account any proposed reduc-
tiOn in taxation.
The fingerprint system has been
adopted by leading dressmaker OF
Paris to prevent her customers from
copying her models and selling them.
Every model that she produces will
hereafter bear her signature, her fin
gerprint and number that will enable
the model to be traced TO the person
who purchased it.
A nurse in the employ Of the Amer
lean Red Cross at Goldingen, Latvia,
lost ten sons In the war, her husband
was shot by the BOlsheviki and her
three daughters died last yenr. Still
she goes about her work with IL smile
"Nitchevo," is her consolation, which
means, among n million other things,
ut can't be helped"
GENERAL
Fur buyers In the Adirondacks de-
clnred the present season would be
marked by the largest harvest of pelts
on record with the trappers receiving
approximately $1,5OOOOO for their
catch.
Construction projects aggregating
sc, ,OOO, 100000 have been planned for
the United States In 1922, W. o. Win
ston, president, declared at the opening
Of n three-day conference Of the Cen
eral Contractors Of America at Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Total expenditure for building
throughout the country for the year
1921 was 1856, los, 102. gain of 14.9
per cent over the record year Of 1920,
Bradstreet's announced. Reports from
$50 cities showed that $120, ,994, ,839 had
been expended for building in Decem.
ber, gain Of 1928 per cent over De-
cember, 1920.
Convicted of annoying women, but
saved from n straight jail sentence by
the pleadings Of his wife and children,
August Shomeberser OF West HOboken,
n. j., was sentenced to spend the next
twenty week-ends in n cell. Re-
cOrder Walter arranged for the NASH
er to be locked up every Saturday ut
noon and released on Monday.
Railroad rates are being slowly but
steadily forced downward by economic
laws, Daniel Willard, president Of the
Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad, argued be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion when that body resumed its in
quiry into the general level OF trans
pOrtHtiOn charges. There Is no need,
but considerable danger, he added, in
forcibly decreasing them by govern
ment edict at present.
George Baldwin Selden, inventor of
the first gasoline propelled vehicle, and
Il pioneer in the present autOmOtive in
dustry, died at his home In Rochester,
n. Y. He was president of the Selden
Motor Company of this city and was
q years old
Arthur o. Meininger. cashier Of the
Night and Day Bank Of st. Louis, who
disappeared after the closing of the
bank by the state bank examiner, who
discovered Il shortage of $754,OOO, was
arrested In BelIeville, Ill. He was re-.
leased on $4,000 bond.
When teller mOmentarily left his
cage in the Union Trust Company at
Providence, II. l., an unidentified man
reached through the wicket, stole Il
$4,000 Liberty bond, bill of lading
covering carload of cotton and bun
die of checks, and escaped before an
alarm could be given.
Gatesville, Texas.-H. c. Twyman.
former military Instructor at the
Texas juvenile trimming school here,
was charged with murder In connec.
tim with fhn Iaoth 70 Jn.p