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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1920
Page
8
General Sherill, formerly adjutant general of New York, arrived on the Pacific coast from the Orient with a plan to ease tensions between the United States and Japan. The proposal includes an amiable agreement aimed at decreasing the population on the Pacific coast.
The secretary of the interior prescribes land use limits with maximum oil leases of three parcels or ties at 12 percent royalty, coal lands up to 2260 acres at five cents per ton, phosphate and sodium under the same acreage, and 5420 acres oil shale leaseable. A Sinnott compromise blocks sales of surplus oil lands by large holders after October 4 to prevent land juggling.
The United States circuit court of appeals affirmed a federal sentence of 11 years in McNeill Penitentiary for Kennedy and Howenstine of Los Angeles. They were charged under the espionage act for conspiring to impair recruits eye sight at Camp Lewis to reject them for military service. men awaiting induction were allegedly given unfit eye-glasses to avoid army service.
It is believed one reason Vice President Marshall spurned a presidential bid was to spend more time with family. During the war his duties were heavier, leaving little time with his wife and adopted son.
Harvard University formed the Committee on Economic Research in 1917 to provide statistics to federal banks, banks, and large firms. Editor Warren M. Persons notes farmers likely to prosper in 1920, while high money rates may slow credit and prices, seen as a conservative safeguard. The panel will publish monographs, classify industrial statistics, and build trade indices with Harvard professors and business leaders led by Charles J. Bullock.
No. 2 was brought in for repairs and will be seized tomorrow in a government supervised action announced tonight by James Shevlin prohibition enforcement officer for New York. The cargo will be stored under government supervision. The vessel owned and operated exclusively by Negroes left New York for Havana the day before the prohibition amendment took effect but turned back two days out for repairs.
The Rules Committee reviews two resolutions to amend Senate rules and modify cloture. Senators Curtis and Kellogg proposed measures, while leaders discussed bringing a bill to the floor without committee action, possibly as soon as tomorrow.
New York February 2 The Interchurch Council on Organic Union announced an outline for a merger of about 22 evangelical Protestant church bodies into The United Church of Christ in America. The plan, approved by an Ad Interim Committee of 50 clergy, calls for a representative Council to govern a unified church while preserving denominational autonomy and property.
The article portrays Jules Steer as interior minister under Premier Millerand, noted for feuds with Caillaux and Malvy. Millerand secured a confidence vote, though 300 deputies abstained, signaling substantial opposition. It blends political drama with historic religious and international trade passages, then shifts to tea trade routes and border towns Kiakhta and Maimachen.
Bir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, head of British American Tobacco, has just arrived in the country from England. He believes the anti tobacco campaign poses a new challenge and outlines plans to address the situation and protect tobacco activities.
A February bulletin claims Kiakhta in Siberia has been captured by Reds. If true, Bolshevik control threatens the Baikal tunnels and the main supply line of the anti Bolshevik forces, altering strategic balance in eastern Siberia.
Former Philadelphia electrician W. A. Lynch built a fortune in a single year after leaving the gavel reserve corps by buying and selling coconuts from Honduras. He turned postwar profits into a notable success story.
The piece notes tea transport by camel caravan along the Volga and Gobi routes, with Mongol drivers and Buriat camel caravans moving vast quantities after Trans-Siberian disruptions. It mentions Mongol hospitality, yurts, Buddhism, and value tied to livestock, alongside brief sports and wrestling notes about American giants and Stan Zbyszko arriving in the US.
The column tangles sports notes from various leagues. Mentions include Frazee signing 418 Sox locations, Murphy’s Cubs era squabbles, Michigan City weather, and Dempsey Willard bout fallout with Jefferies corn claim for fans.
The Associated Press reports Hungary will start trials Monday for a large group of terrorists. Count Apponyi, head of the peace delegation, defends the slow pace and low executions while noting communists killed thousands. He says arrests target acts, not opinions, as Hungary defends itself against fed terror amid semi Bolshevist influence nearby.
An advertisement promotes Zemo as a safe antiseptic liquid that stops itching and improves skin conditions such as eczema pimples and rashes. It claims rapid relief overnight and notes affordable prices 35 cents and 1.00 for extra large bottles with no staining or greasiness. The E. W. Rose Co. of Cleveland Ohio is listed as the supplier.
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