Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-10-26
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
NTERMOJNTAlN.

INTERMOJNTAIN.
A strict quarantine has been estab-
lished at Camp Lewis, Wash, which
| forblds soldiers, including officers, en-
listed men and civilian employees, from
| leaving the military reservation and
prohibiting civilians from entering.
Reports compiled October Is by the
city board of health showed 1879 cases
of influenza had developed in Salt
Lake since the outbreak of the disease
about two weeks previous.
Utah has been credited officially
with being the first state to complete
classification of 80 per cent of Sep
TENDER II registrants, forward records
to district boards and conduct physical
examination of at least 80 per cent of
Glass 1 men in the last registration.
Arthur Morse Moon, Salt Lake actor
and playwright, died in Helena, Mont.
victim of influenza, being stricken
while playing ON the Pantages circuit
In spite of drastic action on the
part of state and municipal authori-
ties the spread of influenza through
out Colorado continues.
The high Sierra Nevada mountains
west of Reno are white with snow, far
down their sides, that fell Wednes-
day.
DR.. o. NJ. Lanstrun candidate for
United States senator from Montana
has abandoned his speaking dates and
volunteered his sery ices to the state in
fighting the influenza epidemic.
Utah's shortage in sheep this winter
will exceed 100000, estimates ]. A
Robinson, rancher of Green River
Utah. Shortage in fall feed and high
price of sheep is given as the reason
for the rush to market.
DOMESTIC.
public gatherings of all kinds" are
prohibited under the Spanish influ-
enza quarantine order issued by the
Iowa state board of health, and this
includes football games and other out
door gatherings, it was explained.
Chicago & Alton railroad employees
at Bloomington, Ills, must work or
fight. Local exemption boards re-
ceived instructions Friday to put men
failing to return to work in class AL.
Unless peace can be restored upon
terms that will change the mental at
titude of the German people towards
| It's own master and towards the rest of
the world" the war will have been
fought in vain, Henry Morgenthau,
former ambassador to Turkey, said
Friday ut the Liberty loan rally at
Cooper Union. New York City.
Six sailors and soldiers are believed
| to have drowned in the sinking of the
army transport America at her pier at
Hoboken, N. J.
| Charles Crozat Converse, lawyer, in
ventor, author and composer of What
Friend We Have in Jesus and other
| famous hymns, died Friday at his
home in Euglewood, N. ].
| Declaring "the more coal you pro-
| duce the sooner we shall have peace,
General Pershing through cablegram
to Fuel Adml nistrator Garfield ap-
pealed to the coal miners of the coun-
try for increased production.
| Ii. Rivera, a wealthy wholesale gro
Ger of Douglas, Ariz., was arrested in
| Augua Prieta, Mexico, charged with
completely in the robbery on the night
| of September 80 cf the Mexican stamp
tax office, when $4,000 in American
| gold was stolen.
A fund of 81, O00,O0G,0O0, to be used
to finance the reconstruction of the
| Jewry of the world, will be sought by
| the joint distribution committee of the
| american funds for Jewish war suf-
ferers, which, it was announced at
New York, will undertake what it de-
| scribes as 1.-The largest purely humani-
| tartan project in history to be at
tempted by individual effort"
Mrs. A. +. Rogers was arrested at
Los Angeles on charge of conspiracy
to defraud through the United States
mails in connection with the alleged
embezzlement of funds of the National
Defense league of California.
Influenza at Camp Kearny is being
kept well in hand, the few cases that
have developed being of mild type
and no deaths attributed to the disease
/ having occurred for the last ten days.
Shortly before the american trans
port America, formerly the German
transatlantic passenger steamship
Amerika, was about to sail Tuesday
for Europe with soldiers and supplies,
the vessel foundered at her pier at
Hoboken, n. j. The 300 soldiers
on board were rescued.
| Tentative settlement of the govern
ments claim of S6,50o 900 Inheritance
tax against the estate of the late
Henry Miller, California cattle baron,
was made when Internal Revenue Col
lector Wardell accepted $2,5o0,000 from