Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-17
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INTERMOuNTAIN.
Plans for a wholesale Jail break
from the Fort Douglas, Utah, guard
house, calculated to materialize Sun
day, were discovered by Lieut.. X. l..
Borgess., who frustrated the scheme by
placing the ringleaders in solitary con-
fnement.
Ten German prisoners from the
Philippines and Chile arrived in Salt
Lake last week and were at once in
termed in the war prison camp at Fort
Douglas.
Methods for stimulating the produc-
ton of gold will be discussed at a
conference to be held at Reno, New,
at which Utah, Nevada and other west
ern states will be represented.
Salmon fishing in Alaska waters is
over for the season and the pack OF
the Bristol bay canneries Is approx
mately the same as last year,, 5OO,-
600 cases-according to advices receiv-
ed at Portland.
The 9-year-old son of John Mooney,
| a rancher, shot and killed Mrs. VIII
Mooney and wounded her son, Archie,
| II years of age, at his fathers ranch
near Buffalo, Wyo.
Changes in the registration law In
| Idaho since the last general election
make it necessary for all voters to
register again this fall If they want
to vote, whether they voted last time
or not.
Municipal ownership of the water
plant was voted in Denver by a heavy
majority, according to incomplete re-
tuns. The proposal was in the form of
a bond issued for $13,970.OO0 submitted
to the taxpayers.
DOMESTIC.
Wilhelm Peters, South Dakota
farmer, killed 6-year-old Margaret
Porter and committed suicide on n
farm near Pipestone, MINI. Peters
murdered the child because her mother,
Mary Porter, had refused to return
to his farm as housekeeper.
Private Harry Kimball, ID company,
Tenth infantry, stationed at Rock
Island, Ills, was shot and probably
fatally injured, while his companion
Corporal George Snyder, is under
arrest as the result of the efforts OF
authorities to arrest them as deserters
Nine fishing schooners were sunk on
Georges bank Sunday by German
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put in at Nantucket. Mass, reported
Melton Lewis, state attorney general
declared In statement at New York
that he could show by series of aft
davits that William Randolph Hearst
the newspaper publisher, had received
at his home, at the same time, on two
or more occasions, Bolo Pasha, who
was recently executed by France fol
treason, and Count Won Bernstorff, tbs
then German ambassador.
Charles w. Morris, a pacifiSt, who
told the court he would not fight il
the Turks sent an army to America ant
carried off American women for theil
harems, was sentenced by the fedora
COuil Ut isodhohc, va, W hHi'tJ ""J
in Jail.
George NJ. Howard, secretary OF
state of Texas, has enlisted In th'
United States navy as an apprentice
seamean at New Orleans.
Advertising, either through news
papers or by other means, 10 obtain
unskilled labor by employers engaged
wholly or partly on war work with q
maximum force of more than 100 mer
is prohibited by an order issued by the
department of labor.
The United states guards, organized
to strength of forty battalions, Ii
being filled out by the transfer of mer
of draft age who, after induction int
service and training, have been found
disqualified by minor physical defects
for overseas service.
Fire, originating from the explosion
of a trench mortar shell. destroyed
five buildings, blew up two powde
magazines, exploded scores of shell
and did damage estimated at $200,OO
at the Western Cartridge company a
East Alton, Ills.
Loss of III, 100000 bushels of corr
and 100000 bushels of wheat iron
the prospective production of thi
years important food crops, as ind
Gated a month ago, was shown in tn
department of agricultures crop repor
resulting from a canvass made Angus
/.
Mrs. Carrie Sterling, divorced wifi
George Sterling committed suicide q