Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-03-23
INTERMOUNTAIN

Pearce-Connoliy club to hold a st. Pat
rick's day parade, despite prohibitive
orders of the mayor. The club is said
to be composed of /. w. W. and pro
Germans. -.
Professor Carlton Il. Parker, mem
Der of the faculty. of the University of
Washington, who has been conducting
an investigation. for the government
into the wage conditions of the Pacific
Northwest, died at Seattle, March II,
of acute dilation of the heart. He was
40 years of age.
The accidental death of Cadet Flyer
Howard w. Holiday, "a years old, of
Denver, Colo, whose body was found
Thursday fifteen miles east of San An
tonic, was the fourth flying fatality: at
training fields there in six dpys.
Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey, former
ly of Ogden, Utah, whose book, lover
the Top. gained him considerable no.
toriety, has deserted the lecture plat
form and will donate his personal serv-
ices to the government.
Every inhabitant of Castle Rock,
Ore, who was physically fit to get out
of doors saluted the. American flag on
Thursday. The demonstration was ar
ranged by committee of citizens, fol-
towing reports that some residents of
the town were disloyal..
Annie's Tommy and three other Co
shute, Indians, all four arrested re-
Gently by the United States marshal
near Deep Creek, Utah, on charges of
obstructing the selectfve service draft,
have been held for trial following pre-
liminary examination.
DOMESTIC
The American Red Cross has formed
an organization called 1.-THE Service of
Home Communication" to take charge
of activities which will touch every
American camp, every soldier in a hos
pital, every prisoner taken by the Ger
mans, every American grave in France
and the home of every soldier in
America.
Three thousand Canadian veterans
of the war disembarked Sunday at an
Atlantic port, from three ocean liners.
Four hundred of these men sailed from
Canada with the first contingent in
1914 and many of them have been
nearly three years on the battle front
All are married and have been given
three months furlough.
John H. Capstick, congressman from
10 ri t cd of
his home at Montville, N. j., March H.
following long illness due to heart
trouble He was a Republican.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lucretia
Garfield, twentieth president of the
United States, were held at her win
ter home in South Pasadena, March II.
The body was taken to Cleveland, o.,
for interment.
The actual condition of clearing
house banks and trust companies for
the week showed that they hold $34,-
315,S10 reserve in excess of legal re-
quirements. This is decrease of $780,
SAT ,4SO from last week.
Wheat holdings at country mills and
elevators on March l were estimated
by the department of agriculture
at 6S,972, 900 bushels. That is about
200O0,OO0 bushels less than was held
March / last year, and S6,OO0,OOO bush
els less than in 1916.
w. A. Greenwood, notorious charac.
ter in Tulsa county, Oklahoma, for
years, has been held on charge of
wife murder. His wife was shot and
killed in the Greenwood home. Testi-
mony showed that the bullet which
caused death entered the back of her
head.
BY vote of "a to "a the lower house
of the Texas legislature passed finally
the bill permitting women to vote in
Texas primary elections.
Fifty horses are dead of poisoning
in Covington, KY, and many more are
expected to die out of government
shipment of 726 horses from Camp
Grant Rockford, H., consigned to
Newport News, Va.
Three automobile bandits held up q
jewery store in the center of the bust
ness district of Hammond, Ind, and
escaped with diamonds valued at $1Ss
900.
SO completely successful was the
launching at a Pacific port on Thurs
day of the worlds largest reinforced
concrete ship that her builders an
nounced they Immediately would be
gin construction Of fifty-four similal
ships Of larger size, and expected tina
all would be completed within eighteei
months.
Installation Of a whipping post TO
wife heaters and men who decline Il
support their families was urged b,
Judges Prindeville, Barasa and Swan
sSn of the municipal courts at Chicag
before the council subcommittee o.