Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-23

SeNeIdl tlDuSdHu men 10 SlOTii tne city
hall and lynch a negro accused of
shooting J. e. Childress and Sheriff
F'lynt and attacking Mrs. Childress.
Minnesota will remain wet, complete
official returns announced by the
Secretary of State showing that the
proposed dry amendment to the state
constitution Called by 756 votes at the
general election November 3.
American copper industry through
committee Of producers and refiners
have agreed with the war industries
board to maintain the present rate of
production and preserve existing levels
of prices and wages.
WASHINGTON.
Movement of American troops across
the Atlantic has stopped entirely and
rehabilitation of troops in canton
ments and camps at home is under
way.
Provost General Crowder has or
dered the discontinuance of all phys
zeal examinations of draft registrants
and of all work by district draft
DOuiuS Ol Tie CluSSllltutlOn VI ItSlS-
trants.
The suffragists still need one vote
to pass the Susan b. Anthony amend
inent through the senate. They have
100 days left in which to secure this
vote before the present congress ends.
If favorable action is not secured by
March 4, the measure will have to be
put through the house again.
Arrangements for bringing home the
troops in France are being worked out
the shipping board announced Satur-
day, in issuing call for 500 volunteers
to man the ships that will be used for
that purpose.
Downward revision of the war reve-
nue. bill to about the six billion dollar
total recommended by Secretary Nc
Adoo appears to be assured.
Regardless of the ending of hostil-
tiles Director General McAdoo intends
to continue to unity railroad operations
and pool fa>.ilities throughout the per-
Tod of gov inment CONTROL which under
liiC law Will Chu LWCnty -OiC inOHllfS
after peace is formally declared.
FOREIGN.
King Ferdinand Ill of SaxOny, who
held out to the last against the ma
tion-wide clamor in Germany for the
elimination of all kings and princes,
has abdicated, it Is officially an
nounced from Berlin. This makes the
fourth of the German Kingdoms king
less" Prussia, Bavaria and Wurttem-
burg having been proclaimed repub-
lies in the early phase of the revoiu-
ton.
Emperor Charles has specifically re-
linquished the throne of Hungary, ac-
cordlng to dispatch received from
Budapest.
Two hundred cadets and 103 other
sailors on the German training ship
Schlesien were drowned when she was
sunk by two German battleships fly
ing the red flag.
Count Wilhelm Hohenzollern is now
nearly broke except for considerable
property in the United States and
Canada, held in another persons name,
the Daily Express is informed by its
Amsterdam correspondent.
The British government is arrang-
ing for the departure to the United
States of number of German vessels
for the purpose of bringing to Ger
many foodstuffs which the allies will
permit Germany to receive.
1t is learned upon the best author
ity that former Crown Prince Fred
erick William of Germany and twelve
officers have been granted safe resi-
dence by the governor of Limburg at
Maastrict, Holland.
DIR. Matthias Erzberger, who was
the civilian head of the German arm
istice commission, will be Germany's'
representative in the preliminary
peace negotiations, in conjunction with
DIR. w. S. Solf. the foreign minister.
Holland is our Elba," said a Ger,
man in the encourage of the kaiser in
conversation with Dutch official, ac-
cording to the Amsterdam cOrrespon-
dent of the Express.
Fearing the wrath of the German
people, Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz,
former German minister of marine,
fled from Germany just before the
revolution. presumably on advance
notification The Frankfurter lei
tung says he is now in Switzerland.
Developments in Europe, not only
military but in international politics,
and the tendency of the revolutionary
spirit manifested by the demoralized
civilian population of the central en-
pires to spread to neighboring states,
have influenced the allied and Ameri-
can governments to arrange for the
meeting at an early date of the great
peace congress.
The armistice terms imposed upon
the Turkish war forces In Mesopotamia,
as officially announced comprises:
Evacuation of the Musel Villayet. Sur
render of artillery, supplies and am