Yerington times., 1918-05-11
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The News Happenings of
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INTERMOUNTAlN

The West Lianga, Skinner & Eddy
world record ship was turned over to
the government at Seattle, May 4
of her keel. The previous worlds rec
ord, held by the Columbia Shipbuild.
ing corporation of Portland, Ore, was
eighty-four days.
For four years Charles Mcneil, q
prospector, has been working a claim
in the mountains on the Powder river
Oregon, all unconscious of the fact
that nearly the entire world is at war
He arrived in Reno with $65,OOO In
gold, May 4, which he deposited at a
bank, and he is trying to make up
for lost time by buying thrift stamps
and war savings certificates.
Police brought fire hose into play
when 1O6 imprisoned alleged Indus
trial Workers of the World and enemy
aliens gathered in one of the county
Jail tanks" at Seattle refused to dis
perse and threatened to break for lib
erty.
Two alleged secret headquarters of
the Industrial Workers of the World
were raided at Spokane by the police.
One was a private residence and the
other was in a hotel. Six men and
one woman were arrested and it was
said they would be held under the new
syndicalism ordinance.
The record of each man at Camp
Lewis hereafter will show his eff
cheney as soldier. Orders issued
Saturday require that a graphic chart
shall be kept of each man and these
shall be posted in the barracks so that
every man may know just how he
compares with the others.
The name of A. C. Kemmis, Sand
Point, Ida, appears on the Canadian
casualty list issued Thursday as
wounded.
DOMESTIC
Four young women were killed and
one man and one woman were serious
ly injured at Oakland when their auto
mobile was struck by an interurban
electric train.
Thousands of cocoanuts are being
shipped from Porto Rico so that the
shells may be used in the manufacture
of Gas masks for American troops in
France. The shell, it has been found,
can be made into high grade char
coal. This charcoal is a valuable anti
dote for poison gas.
John S. Williams, district attorney
for Cochise county, and wiuely known
lawyer and Republican politician in
the state, with his wife and their two
daughters, was almost instantly killed,
when an automobile in which they
were riding was struck by Southern
Pacific flyer at Casa Grande, Ariz.
Two soldiers were drowned and
eleven other persons are missing as
the result of a terrific tide rip late
Sunday at Ocean Beach, resort
twelve miles from San Diego. Sixty
persons were rescued.
A bomb explosion in the county Jail
at Chicago, Saturday afternoon, in
jured several prisoners. The explosion
was said to have been detail of a
Jail delivery plot. Twenty prisoners
made a desperate attempt to escape,
but were dubbed into submission by
guards.
The United States navy will be in
creased to nearly 100000 men before
lie end of the year, declared Franklin
d. Roosevelt, assistant secretary OF
the navy, in an address at Brooklyn.
n. S. Randall, national Nonpartisan
league organizer, was found guilty OF
"utterances tending to discourage en-
listment in the army and navy" at
Red Wing, Mimi, after trial which
lasted three days. The charge on
which Randall was convicted was the
result of a speech made by him be-
fore a gathering of farmers at Kenyon
last August.
Complaints will be issued by the
federal trade commission hereafter
against all concerns refusing to sell
their products unless the purchaser
agrees to maintain a resale price fixed
by the seller.
Upon receipt of information from
the state department that his father
had been living in Berlin since the
declaration of war; George Ehret, Jr.
of New York, has reported all of his
fathers property, valued at S40,OOO,oOo
as an enemy character and has an
nounced his readiness to turn 1T over
to the custody of the government.
Construction of fifty wooden barges
of $500 tons each for use in the coast
wise coal carrying trade has been
authorized by the shipping board. The
vessels will be built at New England
and South Atlantic shipyards.
Sixty-six persons lost their lives
when the steamship City of Athens
bound from New York for Savannah
was rammed and sunk by French
cruiser off the Delaware coast May 1
The missing include ten men and two
women who were passengers, sever