Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-03-02

lNTERMoUNTAiN

Threats that diaDOlical force was SUI
perior to any efforts that could be
made by officers of the third war
prison camp at Fort Douglas, Utah, to
keep the prisoners in their charge from
escaping We're seen to have been more
than mere words when Il cunningly
cOntrived bomb, containing q high eX-
plosive sufficient to wreck building,
was found Saturday in the civilian
quarters by one of the guards.
Seattle mattresses have begun watch
ing in restaurants and hotels for vio-
lations of the food conservation laws,
the Mattresses local union having in
structed it's 500 members to cooperate
with their employers in enforcing the
regulations and reporting violations.
The reclamation service has complet-
ed the necessary work for watering
approximately 10000 acres of public
land included in the Grand valley and
Uncompahagre irrigation projects in
western Colorado, and arrangements
are being perfected for their disposal
to homeseekers.
The Montana house unanimously
adopted resolution providing for i'm
parchment proceedings in the senate
against District Judge Charles L..
Crum of Forsythe, for alleged pro-
Germanism.
DR.. Il. G. Tiff, former superintend-
ent of the Utah mission of the Method
ist Episcopal church, died at Denver,
February %, at the age of %.
Cooperation of the livestock men of
the northwest with the government in
winning the war was pledged by the
northwest livestock conference in reso-
buttons adopted at Spokane.
The Montana legislature signaliZed
Washington's birthday by adopting a
resolution asking congress to grant ma
tion-wide suffrage to women. The res
Olution put through the house was
approved by the senate.
Chaplain z. X. Howard of the Ore
gon Episcopal diocese has asked the
Oregon diocese to protest against the
verdict of an Episcopal church COM
mittee in which Bishop Paul Jones of
| the diocese of Utah is found guilty
of issuing propaganda contrary to the
ethics of the church.
A sentence OF twenty years in the
penitentiary has been imposed upon
Gordon Sprandin of Montrose county
Colorado, recently convicted by a court
martial of eyading the draft.
DOMESTIC
Captain David A. Henkes, Sixteenth
infantry, u S. A., has been sentenced
to dismissal from the service and con
finement at hard labor for twenty-five
years by Il general court-martial held
at Governors Island. Henkes, who is
Of German descent, endeavOred to re-
sign his commission, saying he did not
care to fight against relatives and
friends.
Fifty-three saloons and twenty-seven
wholesale liquor houses closed their
doors February % in obedience to Il
federal order prohibiting the sale of
liquor within half mile of of the
Rock Island Qll) arsenal.
Letters indicating that Alexander
Berkman and Emma Goldman were CO.
operating with Har Dayal, the German
spy, and Indian revolution propaganda
list, before they We're sent to prison for
violating the draft law, have been
made public.
Bunker licenses will be denied to
vessels built in the United States and
completed after February /, unless
they sail under the American flag or
the shipping board valves it, under a
ruling by the war trade board.
Captain Joseph N. Marx of the
United States mounted patrol on the
river front, near Ell Paso, Texas, was
fired upon by Mexican snipers Sunday
afternoon, one bullet striking him in
the left leg.
The people of the south will never
give in and will do their share in this
war until German autocracy is downed
of Arkansas declared at Chicago in
a speech before the Union League club
at Chicago.
In a general order designed to clarity
the relations between the railroad adj
ministration and employees of the roads,
Director General McAdoo emphasized
that officials and wOrkmen no longer
are serving private interest, but the
government and the public only and
that all must work together for the
common object of defeating Germany.
Mrs. Thomas Preston, Jr., formerly
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, arrived in Chi
cago Thursday to take charge of the
wOmen's activities in connection with
the congress of national service.
New Dress Made Reversible.