Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-10-19
FOREIGN

Official Japan anticipates an cary
~.iI from President Harding for IN
economic and land disarmament so
ference.
The Japanese government has or.
dered a thorough examination oi II"
passengers booked for America oe.
cause of the cholera epidemic In 'ha'
country.
1.-The British government" 1t was
stated semi officially, -is taking steps
to nay $5O,OOO,OOO into the New 1ork
Federal Reserve Bank soon on account
of this years Interest on Great br't'
ain's debt to tn. United States.
The Spanish campaign against repei'
lions Riff trIbesmen In Morocco. when
has been In progress about two years.
virtually has ended In complete victory
for the Spaniards. General BurGues,e'
Spanish commander. reported TO '"e
government.
Sir Robert Stevenson Horne, CHAM
eelIor of the exclequer. has mde1ihi'e'
ly postponed his debt funding mlss'oh
to the United States, according |" the
London Daily Express. This action IL
In consequence of the political situa-
tion In England.
Cable dispatches received by the
Nippu Jill, japanese language news
paper ut Honolulu. state that cholera
is spreading in Toxic and 1okohalna'
127 cases having been reported in To-
kio alone There are said to have been
twenty.eight deaths from the plague.
Hungry peasants in Russia are shell
tering their cattle In their houses pe-
cause of an epidemic of cattle steal
ing. Extreme shortage of live stock
has put high premium on cattle, win
the result that those fortunate enough
to own even one head find II much
safer to keep the animal under the
family roof.
Paris. France will be unable TO
meet any part of her debts for the
next four years, as all available re-
ceipts for that period must be devoted
to reconstruction of the devastated re-
giOns, according to the Paris Herald.
which quotes lone of the highest au-
thorities of the French ministry of
finance"
Berlin.-Another shocking cannibal-
ist crime, similar to those of Butcher
GrOssman, was revealed recently with
the arrest of Alfred Obendorf, charged
with the murder of his sweetheart, IL
year-old Anna Wroebel. According to
the police, Obendorf, in ii fit Of jeal-
Gus rage, cut the body to pieces, ate
some and sold part as veal.
The problem of the high cost of dy-
ing, which is widely discussed In Ger
man papers, has been solved in AuSs-
burg. Bavaria, where the public can
rent coffins of all descriptions by thy
hour. The price of coffins has gone up
1000 per cent and "what use are they
to any one?" Is the Augsburg argu-
ment. With the usual pomp the coffin
Is lowered into the grave, but when the
witnesses have gone the coffin is tax
en- out, the corpse clad in a paper
shrOud and confined to the earth and
the coffin restored TO its rightful own
er for further use.
GENERAL
Andrew Harlaton shook hands so Wig
orously on parting from a friend in
Chicago that he dislocated his shoul-
der and tainted.
Julian H. Caudle, 80, farmer, died at
his home near Hopkinsville, KY. short.
ly after he had been stung over the
heart by Il yellowjacket.
A total of $222,OO4.93 in cash and
bonds was obtained by five bandits
who held up the Hamilton County
Bank of Cincinnati few days ago.
Fatty" Arbuckle soon is to roll
back into the movies with his bag full
of slapstick tricks, 1t was reported in
theatrical circles in New York re-
Gently.
A theory that while the physical
body sleeps an "ether body" wanders
the world over, accommodating the stuff
that dreams are made of, met with dis
favor before the Mississippi Valley
Medical Associations convention at
Rochester, Minr.
1t will cost the !. W. W. S29,OOO be-
cause William d. Haywood. their for
mer leader, and eight other REDS
jumped their bonds and went to Rus
sia. That was the amount of the bonds
signed in behalf of the /. W. w.
Plans for discussion at a dinner in
Washington, April u, of the newspa-
per in its relation to public affairs by
| men of national and international
prominence were made at meeting
of the board of directors of the Amer.
lean Society Of Newspaper Editors in
Cleveland recently.
New York. Claus A. Spreckels,
president of the Federal Sugar Rein.
ing Company, who declared on his ar.
rival from abroad that the price Of
sugar was too high, emphasized his re.
marks by announcing that he would at
once shut down the Federal COmpany's
plant at YOnkers.