Blizzard cripples West as wires fail across states
The storm halts trains near Salmon, Kansas and Denver, with U S routes 12 hours late. Wires go down from Lexington Nebraska to Ames Iowa, delaying Associated Press dispatches across the continent. Snowbound trains and broken cables cripple communications and repair crews struggle to restore service.
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Associated Press
Denver
U0. P
Salmon
Kans
Rock Island
Kington
Banta Fe
Central West
Lexington
Neb
Associated Preas
Kansas City
Canada
Rocky Mountain Region
San Francisco
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Kansas
Nebraska
Ames
Six Foreigners Held as Undesirables in Tacoma
Six foreign-born men, unnamed, are held in the county jail awaiting deportation as undesirables. Their arrests followed testimony from witnesses at cadet and open meetings advocating revolution and takeover of industries in the Northwest. Officials say none are citizens and deportation will proceed to their countries of origin when feasible. Government agents have operated quietly across the Northwest in recent weeks, rounding up those suspected of Bolshevik ties and industrial interference.
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Associated Press
Tacoma
Peb
Jall
Northwest
Cozens
Strikes and Troop Deployments Hit Berlin Stores
Twenty thousand Berlin store employees walk out demanding higher wages. Troops occupy districts with store closures as Spartacans and other groups clash, while strikes spread across the empire with professionals countering in various cities.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Spartacans
Empire
Dean Huston to Choose Between Two Parishes Soon
News says Dean S A Huston has formal calls from Christchurch Baltimore and Philadelphia parishs. He will arrive from the east tonight and decide within 24 hours which post he will accept, likely leaving Cheyenne shortly for one of the two cities.
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Philadelphia
Dean S. A. Huston
Baltimore
Christchurch
Dean Huston
Cheyenne
Wyoming Men Made Remarkable War Service Record
A Wyoming University tribute highlights wartime service by students and alumni. It notes 264 men in uniform, including 115 army officers, 5 navy officers, 1 marine, 44 cadets, and many in training, with a list of named in-service personnel and casualties. The piece lauds patriotism and unity, citing President Nelson’s pamphlet War Service of University of Wyoming.
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Wyoming University
Nelson
War Service of
University of Wyoming
Army
Navy
Marines
Cadeta
Weat Point
The
State University iv
Cheyenne residents invited to invest in union Pacific housing drive
Officials plan a Cheyenne housing program inviting workers from Union Pacific to support a community housing project. Committees report favorable responses across districts with early totals from Cheyenne Light Fuel Power 6000 and other local firms, aiming to make Cheyenne the ideal mountain city. Also note nomination of Major General Crowder for a four year term as judge advocate general.
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Thaddea
Ela
Washington
Crowder
Senate
Investigation of I W W Propaganda Spreads in Chicago
Government representatives disclosed an inquiry into I W W propaganda spread among Chinese in Chicago on February 13 during a meeting of Chinese leaders. They hope to curb radical tendencies within the community.
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Chicago
Demobilization Totals From Armistice to Feb 8
In Wagnington on February 11, figures show 867,382 American troops in France and Great Britain had sailed for the United States since the armistice. By February 10, 67,474 officers and 669,116 men had been demobilized in that theater. Total arrivals to web were 216,749.
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Wagnington
France
Great Britain
United States
Web
Wyoming Troops To Be Demobilized At Fort Russell Cheyenne
Governor receives reports that the 116th Wyoming unit, to be demobilized at Port Russell, will march toward Cheyenne for discharge. Officials in Basin Cody and New York arrange welcome committees with state-wide support and a Rocky Mountain club greeter roster.
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Carfy
116Th
Port D. A. Russell
New York
Kansas
Wyoming
Washington
Cheyenne
War Department
Adjutant General
Fort Russell
J. 1. Montgomery
Basin
Dr. Bennet of
Cody
Major Bennet
Behilf
Chicago
Montana
Arizona
Rocky Mountain Club
New York City
Wyaoming Boys
Roundup of Reds Woes Forward in Seattle Merrily
Four men named as leaders in distributing anarchistic literature during the Seattle strikes were jailed as warrants were issued for seven others. Raids led to 329 arrests, with county officials, government operatives, deputy sheriffs, constables and a district attorney representative involved.
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REDS
Seattle
Srattim
Senate to Start Earlier as Night Sessions Planned
Washington Feb 12 An effort to avoid an early congress convening shifts to night sessions in the senate until sine die adjournment on March 4. Democratic leaders vote unanimously to begin daily at 11 o clock instead of noon with sessions starting tomorrow and continuing through Saturday before a full schedule.
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Wasitington
Congress
Senate
Wort
France's Plan Rejected by Committee at Paris Meeting
The Bourgeois proposal for an inter allied force to enforce peace was defeated by an overwhelming vote. France and Czechoslovakia supported it. the draft Society of Nations plan was unanimously adopted in form, 26 articles. President Wien will read the draft to the peace conference tomorrow. An amendment on immigration racial discrimination was dropped without a vote after concerns about delay.
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Associated Press
Paris
Commission
Fretch
Ceecs
Society of Nations
Wien
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