Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-05-18

half million dollar historical building
and the gathering of the Minnesota
! Territorial Pioneers.
Asserting that the Democrats will
stand "Firmly and triumphantly on
their record-not upon promises, but
upon monumental things accom-
plished,p Champ Clark, speaker of the
house, at Fort Wayne, Ind, Saturday,
fired his party's opening gun in the
coming campaign to re-elect a Demo-
cratic congress.
Men and women, boys and girls,
through whose efforts more than ST.
100000 worth of war savings stamps
have been sold in New York City, took
their places joyfully Tuesday in fun
eral procession which wound its way
through the city behind coffin whose
plate announced that KAISER Bill"
had "died of w. S. S. 1918"
WASHINGTON
Railway fare of l cents a mile. in
Guiding war tax, may be granted to en-
listed soldiers and sailors by Director
General McAdoo within short time,
as the result of petitions filed with
him.
With the establishment of a regular
airplane mail service between WASH
ington and New York, the postoffice
considers that the project is expert
mental only in the sense that now
familiar means of locomotion is to be
put practically to new use.
President Wilson has decided to
spend the entire summer in Washing
ton this year, as he did last, so that he
can keep in constant touch with the
war making machinery.
Secretary Baker has approved the
proposal that the graduation of the
1919 class at West Point be again adj
vanced, this time from August 20 to
June II.
The case of a soldier in the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces condemned to
death for deserving in the face of the
enemy, has been sent to President
Wilson for final action. The president
recently committed the death sentences
of two soldiers for sleeping at their
posts, and of two others who diso5eyed
orders.
FOREIGN
The former car of Russia, and the
members of his immediate family are
Impoverished in their captivity in
Dinbler castle, according to special
correspondent of the Frankfurter lei
tung in the CriIfiea.
The Franco-German agreement for
the exchange of prisoners which has
just been signed, in addition to con-
firming the arrangement previously
made in regard to soldiers, terminates
the interment of civilians.
Advices from Russia show that Pet
rograd Is afflicted with desperate
food shortage. Social disorder is
steadily increasing. Hundreds of free
love" societies and circles are being
established in the rich quarters.
So confident is the entente of its
ability to withstand any drive the
Germans can launch that it has been
decided not to use the American army
until it becomes a complete and pow
erful force, according to cable sum-
mary of operations on the western
front, received at Ottawa.
In wireless message to Ambassa-
dor Joffe at Berlin, the Russian for
eign minister, NJ. Tchitcherin, instructs
the ambassador to "try to obtain from
Berlin cessation of every kind of hos
tility."
After long period of inactivity,
owing to weather conditions, Italian
troops on the mountain front executed
a brilliant operation Saturday night,
capturing the dominating position of
Monte Como, destroying an elaborate
system of enemy defenses and taking
many prisoners and guns.
Italy's contribution to the reserve
army General Foch is building up be-
hind the lines in France for supreme
emergency uses numbers nearly
quarter of a million men, official dis
patches say, and the force Is being
strengthened steadily.
German submarine operations from
the harbor of Ostend, Belgium, have
been seriously hampered for a time, If
not rendered impossible, by daring
raid upon the harbor by the British
Friday morning.
As part of the practice of commanr
deering labor, the German military
authorities in Belgium have registered
all youths above thirteen in the region
of Mons and are employing many be-
tween IA and II in digging and grading
close to the trenches north of Verdun
and near st. Mihiel, the American sec
tor.
The British navy has completed its
operations for the bottling up of the
German submarine mouths on the Bel
gian coast by the sinking of the
SCARED old cruiser Vindictive, stuffed
with concrete, at the entrance to Os-
l.