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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1920
Page
13
A garbled historical column mixes social unrest, price declines, and odd anecdotes. It notes Anglophobe tensions, funeral trade price cuts, a Joplin man’s death from swallowed teeth, baseball player mentions, and rising Irish turmoil with soldiers blamed by some.
An American official in Poland argues Russian units are well organized and better fed than Polish forces, despite Poles repelling a Russian advance. He cites officer shortages and historical limits on Polish officers, while noting French aid helped at a critical moment.
Gov Allen denounces Chicago board of trade tactics that hammer wheat prices in Harper Kansas. He asks President Wilson to investigate the board and prevent such actions and to lay an embargo on Canadian wheat.
Sixty detainees arrested in anarchist riots last June began a hunger strike to protest trial delays. Workmen in Ancona have proclaimed a general strike in solidarity with the prisoners.
Fernando Iglesias Calderon, Mexican high commissioner to Washington, resigns after failing to settle differences with the United States and plans to return to Mexico City within a week with the full mission staff. The report notes his notification to the State Department. Separately, a local note mentions syrup-covered eggs in some Pacific island groups.
Washington reports July and August price cuts on farm products cost farmers about 1.75 billion dollars. George P. Hampton, managing director of the Farmers' National Council, bases the estimate on wheat corn potatoes apples cotton and beef cattle prices. Annual U S milk production is listed as 7 1905 000 000 pounds.
Yonkers New York October 5 The Rev Dr William Patterson Bruce former president of the Dutch Reformed church synod of America and brother of ex lieutenant governor Matthew Lynn Bruce was killed by an automobile truck. Driver George Dauer said he could not stop the vehicle until it had dragged Dr Bruce about fifteen feet. A coroner s inquest absolved him of blame.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday moved October 11 for the arguments in constitutional challenges to sections of the Lever Food Control Act. The cases set include Detroit Creamery Company Ben H. Bworta J. M. Smith Colesey Grocery Company A. Wood and Company and G. S. Willort Company.
In Washington the Mexican president and president-elect denounced the Bolshevist demonstration in Mexico City on September 26 and pledged severe punishment for socialist agitators. the embassy announced. The report notes four percent of U.S. milk production is used in ice cream making.
An unclear passage notes a football collision with Cresap causing severe facial injury and a painful limp. The text reads as a vivid, if disjointed, account of a player with a black eye and flattened nose, described in colloquial, lyric style.
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