Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-14

INTERMoUNTAIN.

0OWn tnelF t0OlS Ut NOON CdtuTudy anu
refused to work out the day. The
workmen said they were dissatisfied
because the summer Saturday half
holiday had not been extended through
the fall and winter.
There were only fifty cases of COM
municable diseases in Camp Lewis
during the past week among the 35,-
293 men stationed there during that
period, the weekly health report of
Maj. L. /. McGlassan, camp sanitary
inspector, shows. There were no
deaths.
Charged with desertion, impersonat-
ing an officer Of the United States
army and passing bad cnecks, Private
E. j. Simmons, who said his home
Is in Ogden, Utah, was arrested at d
fashionable hotel at Denver by a
United States secret service agent.
When train on the Uintah railway
leaped from the track at sharp curve
near Atchee, Colo, and rolled down
the mountainside, the conductor, p. j.
Fitzpatrick of Cimar,on, Colo, was
crushed to death and the engineer,
George LYMAN of Bingham. Utah.
was Sc erely injured.
George Mangios, section hand, was
killed and George Kasonius, section
foreman, was seriously injured near
Aberdeen, Idaho, in avoiding a COLI
sion between their fast-driven power
iection car and school wagon con-
yaning twelve children.
''Loafers" in Utah are going to be
sounded up at once and placed in the
shipbuilding department. according to
notice issued from the federal employ
ment office.
Earl Dodge, 1G years of age, en-
ployed as porter, suffered a fracture
of the skull when he fell from the mez-
canine floor to the lobby of the Hotel
Utah at Salt Lake
DOMESTIC.
Under a new policy of reporting cas-
haties of the American expeditionary
forces adopted by the war depart
ment, the names of the men wounded
will be sent TO the United States by
courier twice week and only the
NdilCS vi iAlC AINtitl anu ihioolhS III NC
cabled by General Pershing when the
system is fully in effect.
Ten and seven-tenths per cent re-
jections for all causes were figures
given out by the medical examination
board at Camp Kearny as indicating
the high physical qualifications OF
about 1000 recruits whose examina-
tions had been completed.
Plans for collecting fruit pits and
nut shells to be used in making gas
masks for the army have been extend
ed to the home and all persons are
urged to deposit their collections in re
ceptacles provided by hotels and res
taurants, according to an announce
ment made at New York.
Ninety-three members of the l. W
W., including Secretary William ID
Haywood, were placed aboard spe
cial train on the Rock Island road al
Chicago. Friday night, under heavy
guard, to be taken to Fort Leaven
worth prison.
Persons writing poetry, fiction ant
advertisements are engaged in essen
tial industries and are NOT affected b.
the work or fight" rules, according L
Information by the provost marsha
general's office to Boston draf
board.
One man was killed and forty-thre,
were injured, several seriously, whel
three coaches of Rock Island trail
were derailed at Comanche. Okla. TIL,
dead and injured were members of ;
party of eighty drafted men from Gar
field county, Oklahoma, on their wa.
TO training camp.
Nearly million railroad employees
Including clerks, track laborers an,
maintenance of way men, are to re
ceive wage Increases of SO month
the equivalent of 81 day or II cent
an hour, over the pay they receive,
last January 1. under a wage orde
issued by Director General McAdoo,
Death sentences of ten negro sol
iiers who participated in the riot a
Houston, Texas. August %, 1917. hav
been committed to life Imprisonment
by President Wilson.
feueTdl OlHCidiS tSlilhuteu hioi'
than 10000 suspected slackers hat
been arrested Tuesday in New Yorl
and nearby cities. Most of the pris
oners. it was said, came from othe
Darts of the country.
The American cotton crop this yea
will fall 4.0S9, 900 bales below the out
put predicted earlier in the season, tn
Shortage being due to extreme drout
and pests.
A bomb exploding in the entranc
Of the federal building at Chicago, o.
Wednesday afternoon. killed four pei
sons and wounded 70 others. The bias
was attributed to the l. w. w. b
Philip j. Parry, acting chief of tn
local federal investigation bureau.
On the ground of German owner
ship. the American Transatlantic Co
which, until It's ships We're commar