Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-09-14
History of
asst Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
INTERMOuNTAIN.

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 3d.
293 men stationed there during that
period, the weekly health report of
Maj. l.. 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 a
fashionable hotel at Denver by
United States secret service agent.
When a train on the Uintah railway
leaped from the track at a sharp curve
near Atchee, Colo, and rolled down
the mountainslde, the conductor, 7. ].
Fitzpatrick of Cimaron, Colo, was
crushed to death and the engineer,
George LYMAN of Bingham, Utah,
was severely 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
Fection car and school wagon con-
Waning 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, 16 years of age, en-
ployed as porter, suffered fracture
of the skull when he fell from the mez-
canine floor to the lobby of the Hotel
Utah at Salt Lake.
DOMESTIC.
Under new policy of reporting cas-
halties of the American expeditionary
forces adopted by the war depart
ment, the names - the men wounded
will be sent to the United States by
courier twice week and only the
names of the dead and missing will be
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
nbout 1000 recruits whose examina-
lions 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 1. w.
W., including Secretary William d.
Haywood, were placed aboard a spe-
cial train on the Rock Island road at
Chicago, Friday night, under heavy
guard, to be taken to Fort Leaven-
worth prison.
Persons writing poetry, fiction and
advertisements are engaged in essen
tial industries and are NOT affected by
the work or fight" rules, according to
information by the provost marshal
generate office to Boston draft
board.
One man was killed and forty three
were injured, several seriously, when
three coaches of a Rock Island train
We're derailed at Comanche, Okla. The
dead and injured were members of a
party of eighty drafted men from Gar
field county, Oklahoma, on their way
to training camp.
Nearly a million railroad employees.
including clerks, track laborers aud
maintenance of way men, are to re-
ceive wage increases of $25 n month,
sSe equivalent of 81 day or - cents
an hour, over the pay they received
last January l, under wage order
issued by Director General McAdoo.
Death sentences of ten negro sol
diers who participated in the riot Mt
Houston. Texas, August 23, 1917, have
been committed to life Imprisonment
by President Wilson.
Federal officials estimated more
than 10000 suspected slackers had
been arrested Tuesday in New York
and nearby cities. Most of the prls-
oners, it was said, came from other
parts of the country.
The American cotton crop this year
will fall 1850 900 bales below the out
out predicted earlier i'm the season, the
shortage being due to extreme drouth
and pests.
A bomb exploding in the entrance
of the federal building at Chicago, on
Wednesday afternoon, Killed four per-
sons and wounded 10 others The blast
was attributed to the l. W. w. by
Philip J, Parry, acting chief of the
local federal Investigation bureau.
On the ground of German owner
ship, the American Trans-Atlantic Co, /
WHICH, until It's ships We're comman-