Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-04-20
History Of.
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had received blanket authority from
the president to seize wheat crops and
in several instances has exercised this
authority. General action against farm
ers boarding wheat will not be begun,
however, until after seeding.
Miss Annie Martin has left Wash
ington for Nevada to open her cam
paign for the United States senate.
A wise polly" with limited educa-
ton is wanted by Seattle boys now
training at the Bremerton naval sta
ton. Soon these boys will be hound
ing U-boats in Atlantic waters. The
boys believe a parrot is the only pet
able to stand the rough life aboard
subchaser.
The bones of a monster prehistoric
animal are being unearthed in the ex-
cavation for a building in the down.
town district of Denver. The teeth,
found almost intact, are eighteen inch
es long.
Vilhjalmar Stefansson, the Arctic
explorer planned to start in February,
on dash into unexplored regions
north of Beaufortsea. according to let
tiers received at Seattle from members
of the Stefansson expedition encamped
on Barteris island.
AS part of the governments plan to
encourage increased production of food
the reclamation service will lease 3d.
600 acres of public lands in Lake Har-
ney, Malheur and Grant counties, Ore
poses.
Eight delegates from Vancouver and
Victoria, British Columbia, to the
northwestern conference of the Inter
national Bible Students association
in Bellingham, Wash, were refused
admission to the United States from
Canada Friday by the immigration
authorities, acting under orders, it was
said, from the department of justice.
, DOMESTIC
The work of getting 10000 Kansas
boys and girls to farm small plots of
ground in order to do their bit toward
fWiullllS lile wax, lidS Dttli uiuti tdheli
by the Kansas State Agricultural col
iege.
The German espionage headquarters
for this hemisphere has at last been
definitely located at Havana, Cuba.
The United States secret service, 1t is
learned from the highest sources. has
finally rounded it up. The principal
agents operating from it are Latins, di-
rected, of course, by Germans.
Maj. John NJ Birkner, One Hundred
Twenty-seventh field artillery, was ar
rested at Camp Cody, n. NJ, April II,
charged with violating the espionage
act. Major Birkner, who is native
of Germany, has been in the United
States military forces for more than
thirty years,
Abolition Of the bars in all hotels
In the United States and Canada was
forecast in an announcement by the
executive council OF the American Ho-
tel association, in session at Chicago.
Hens are to enjoy immunity from
Tic NIOppluS Ouly Il lew udyS
longer, as the food administration an
nounced Friday that restrictions
against their sale would be lifted on
April 20.
The Loughead seaplane on Friday
made successful flight from Santa
Barbara to San Diego, distance of
200 miles, carrying four passengers
The time was three hours and one
minute. The big plane has a wing
spread of seventy-five feet and is
rated to travel eighty-five miles an
hour fully loaded and to carry 1000
pounds.
From now on all Red Cross goods,
including surgical dressings, hospital
garments and knitted articles, intend
ed for American forces abroad will be
shipped direct from division headquar-
ters everywhere to Paris.
Federal officials, in an opening
drive at Milwaukee for the rounding
up of some $50 enemy, aliens accused
of violating the enemy alien act in
various ways, gathered in about 200
who failed to comply with the regula-
tons.
William Madison Hicks, president of
the World Peace league, was tarred
and feathered at Elk City, Okla, and
ordered to leave the county. Hicks is
under federal indictment on dsiloyalty
charges.
An explosion in the Grabier Manu-
featuring company at Cleveland start
ed a fire which caused damages esti
mated at 100000. The company has
been manufacturing hand grenades fol
the government.
Discharge from the federal service
of Brigadier General K. Resche, o.
Minnesota, a German-born officer com
manding brigade of the Thirty-fourti
national guard division at Camp Cody
N. M., was announced Wednesday IL