Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-07-06
FOREIGN

Fire believed to be OF lncendaty
origin destroyed the Owl cafe and gam.
bling house, part of its liquor stock.
and the segregated district at Mexicali.
at an estimated loss OF $4,000.
A. Bruce Bielaski, the American kid.
naped by Mexicans, escaped without
the ransom his captors demanded hav-
ing been paid, according to informa-
tion from Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Missing nearly eight months and be-
lieved lost, the schooner Teddy Bear Is
frozen in ut Poten river, twelve miles
south Of Emma, village on East
Cape. Siberia. Al on board are well
and waiting for the ice to clear out Of
the river before returning to Nome.
Premier Lloyd George, Colonial Sec
retary Winston Churchill and Sill
Hamar Greenwood, former chief sec.
retary of Ireland, have received anony
nous letters threatening them with
death If James Connolly and John
OBrien, alleged assassins of Field
Marshal Wilson, are hanged, it has
been reported.
A. Bruce Bielaski, former chief OF
the Investigation bureau Of the Amer.
lean Department of Justice, Is re-
ported to have been kidnapped and held
for ransom near Cuernavaca in the
state of Morelos, Mexico, together
with Manuel Barcena, IN attorney OF
Mexicala. The American charge DAT.
falres is investigating.
Gen. WI Pei-Fu, dominant figure OF
northern China. indorsed the recent
suggestion Of Gen. Chen Chiung-Ning,
outstanding leader of the South, that
federal system be adopted for re-
united China, patterned after that Of
the United States of America. General
WI suggested that the reOrganized re-
public be known as the UNITED States
Of China"
Despite his repeated assurances that
man farmer of the state of Durango,
the movements of Francisco Villa are
being closely watched in official CIR
cles in Mexico City. To some Observ-
ers it is difficult to believe that this
former guerrilla has accustomed him
self to the routine Of ranch life and N
now finding in his growing crops and
lowing herds the contentment that
man Of his tremendous nervous energy
derived in the past from daring deeds
of warfare.
GENERAL
Jack Dempsey has formally accepted
the challenge Of Harry Wills. negro.
for bout for the world heavyweight
championship.
The Douglas National Bank, said to
be the only national bank in the coun.
try where all the officers and directors
opened ut Chicago. The bank is l0cat-
ed liz the negro residential and busi-
ness district.
Actual knowledge Is necessary to
obtain search warrant, 1t was ruled
by Judge Benjamin +. Bledsoe in the
United States District Court in Los
Angeles, sustaining motion to quash
an Indictment charging violation of the
VOlstead act by Louis Guerrero and
Andrea Michael, proprietors Of win
cry.
Adoption Of a program calling for
nonpartisan political campaign this
fall to elect the friends Of organized
labor, and an overwhelming defeat Of
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 National Industrial Traffic
League at Chicago issued n statement
regarding the effect the recent Coro.
nado case might have upon the nation.
wide rail strike. The statement, in part,
follows: IF the strike should be con.
Quoted with violence and the destruc-
tion of life and property ensues, the
organizations which have promoted the
strike, their officers and agents, may
be held liable in civil dumages for
losses entailed.
Frances DeCamp, Is years old,
daughter OF Mrs. Lillian DeCamp of
Helena, Montana, was drowned in the
WOolstOn reservoir, on Mount Helena,
while camping there with party OF
PASA1NhClSs 4hC CulIu went 10 IHS
reservoir to dip out water, leaned over
to fur and fell in.
One hundred and seventy-one thou.
sand dollars was pledged toward a na.
tional headquarters building to be
erected in Washington, D. c., by the
delegates to the biennial convention OF
the Federation of WOman's Clubs AT
ChautauQua, N. Y. Colorado delegates
pledged $1,000 on behalf Of the Colo.
RADIO federation. Several Colorado
women were prominent in the meet.
ings.
Death from ''heat prostration' waa
the verdict reached by a coroner's jury
at Brawley, Calf, at the inquest over
the bodies Of three men who died in
the desert a few miles southeast Of Nj.
land, Calf, recently. The men were
J. J. Everharty and Henry c. Brown
of Los Angeles and David Wilcox, nm
aged prospector, who had lived In