Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-10-26
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
INTERMOJNTAIN.

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 30 per cent Of
Glass / men in the last registration.
Arthur Morse Moon, Salt Lake actor
and playwright, died in Helena, Mont,
a 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. M. Lanstrum, candidate for
United States senator from Montana,
has abandoned his speaking dates and
volunteered his services to the state in
fighting the influenza epidemic.
Utah's shortage in sheep this winter
will exceed 100000, estimates j. 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.
OHltSS ptdCt ttiH Dt ltSlOitu upOh
terms that will change the mental at
titude of the German people towards |
Its 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 at 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 ut her pier at
N. j.
Charles Crozat Converse, lawyer, in
ventor, author and composer of What
a Friend We Have in Jesus" and other
famous hymns, died Friday at his
home in Euglewood, N. ].
Declaring 1.-The more coal you pro-
duce the sooner we shall have peace,
General Pershing through cablegram
to Fuel Administrator Garfield APP
pealed to the coal miners of the coun- |
try for increased production.
Ii. Rivera, wealthy wholesale gro
Ger VI bouSids, hliH., was oiiN'''' 3"
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 $1,000, 0OC, 900, 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
scribes as "the largest purely humani-
tartan project in history to be at
tempted by individual effort"
Mrs. A. F. 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 we'll 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
| Amerka, was about to san Tuesda!
for Europe with soldiers and supplies
the vessel foundered at her pier a
Hoboken, n. J. The 300 soldiers
on board were rescued.
Tentative settlement of the govern
ment's claim of S650o,0O0 inheritanc
tax against the estate of the lat
Henry Miller, California cattle baron
was made when Internal Revenue Col
lector Wardell accepted $2,5O0,OOO fror
the heirs and trustees as an inirii
payment.
Jack Burkholder, farmer, who wa
charged with refusing to subscribe
the fourth Liberty loan, was mobile
ut Sterling, H., by 500 citizens. He wa
painted yellow from head to foot an
"a bucket of paint was dumped upo
his head.