Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-12-14
\ BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EloN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

SOh0 W. NickCcS % ySuAo oius oAA-
married. was Instantly killed by fall
Of ground ON the 2. 400 foot level Of the
Colorado mine. near Butte. Mont.
Rulon G. James, 18 years old, pupil
at the West Side High School, Salt
Lake City. was shot and killed Instant
ly by one Of supposed quartet Of ban
dts during an attempted holdup Of the
D. and D. drug store.
After resigning the presidency of the
Western League, A. r. Tearney Of Chi
:ago was unanimously reelected for
tive years without any restrictions on
the conduct ot the office. at q special
meeting Of the club owners at the min
sr league convention at Louisville, KY.
Five mort deaths, bringing to ten
he toll incidental to the storm which
struck the Pacific coast recently are
reported at San Francisco. Two men
we're drowned while attempting to
sross an Oregon stream. swollen by
the rains, In q rowboat: another died
,f exposure In eastern Oregon, and
two died of hurns resulting from an
attempt to rekindle a fire III q stove
with gasoline.
Arthur C. Burch. formerly Of Evans
ton. Ill, has been given his freedom at
Los Angeles, after stumbling trial three
times for murder and once for insan-
ity. The juries ON the murder charge
all disagreed and the alienists at the
insanity hearing did likewise. but the
weight OF expressed belief Of the lat
ter was that Burch was sane, or harm
les IL insane, % his freedom was re-
stored to him.
More than thirty blocks of Astoria,
Ore, including part Of the older resi-.
dence district, most of the leading bus
ines houses ard banks were swept by
fire. The fire got beyond control by
eating beneath the plllng room upon
which the city had been built on the
bank Of the Columbia river. Two
deaths were reported. Unofficial es-
Inmates placed the loss as high as $751;
100000.
The activities Of Madame Gadski.
concert and opera singer, during the
recent war, were entirely honorable"
according to a statement Issued In San
Francisco by Seth Mlllington, COM
mander Of the American Legion, De-
partment of California. There Is no
reason why ex-service men should take
offense at any proposed concert given
BY Madame Gadski," Commander Mil
lington stated.
WASHINGTON
Frederick II. Leach has been nomi-
mated to be postmaster at Iduho
Springs, Colo. The following are new
postmasters In New Mexico: Maud w.
Lenfesty ut Aztec, and James A. Ship
ley at Silver City. Harold T. Duffy
was nominated for postmaster at
Wheatland, Wyo.
Withdrawal from settlement of land
in southwestern Colorado and SOUTH
eastern Utah on which are number of
prehistoric towers erected by Indians
will be the effect Of an order Issued
by President Harding, according to the
Smithsonian Institution, which said the
Presidents action was due to Its ef-
forts and those of the Interior Depart
ment.
President Harding nominated Brig.
Gen. william Lassiter to be q major
general and Col. Edwin B. Winans to
be brigadier general.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood has re-
signed the office Of provost Of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania in order that
he might comply with the expressed
wishes Of the administration" and re-
main AZ Encouragement Of the Phil
ippine Islands, 1t was Officially an
nounced recently by tho War Depart
nsent.
The American pension system cost
the public $255, POI. .662 during the fis-
cd year ended last June 80. according
to the annual report of the commits
aoaer of pensions sent to President
Harding. OF this amount S25S, ,807 ,583
was paid out for pensions, the cost Of
maintenance sf the system being ST.
804.O70.
Postmaster 0easrA Work has au-
thorized postmastsfs throughout the
United States to grant half holidays
to postal employees during the entire
year whenever possible without injury
to the service. This privilege Is to be
granted wherever the employs by his
ewn efforts or through situation that
nay exist on Saturday can finish his
work earlier thin the required time.
Mexico City dispatches received at
state that El Universal,
one of the leading newspapers of that
city. claims to have in its possession
the text of secret treaty, said to
have been entered into in May, 1917,
By Great Britain, France and the
United States whereby the latter IS
yunranteed u free hand In Mexican and |
Central American affairs. the other
.wo signatortes undertaking not to rec
,gnize any government In the southern
,epublics Of North America not pre-
dously recognized BY the United
tstes. ]