Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-10-05
History of
asst Week|
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
iNTERMOUNTAIN.


every shipyard worker in Seattle on
Saturday laid down his tools and quit
All hands knocked off at the noon hour
because double pay for Saturday after
noon was not forthcoming.
Forest fires, driven by high east
winds, have swept an area of % miles
wide near Shelton, Mason county,
Wash, destroyed all bridges on the
upper line of the Peninsula railroad,
burned out three logging camps of the
Simpson Logging Co., and completely
surrounding two other camps.
James A. Wood, former assistant
federal food administrator for Nevada,
was convicted Of bribery by jury in
the United States district court at San
Francisco.
Nearly 5000 draft recruits from Cali
fornia, Arizona and Utah, sent to Camp
Kearny early this month for training,
have been transferred from the camp
where they have been in quarantine
to permanent organizations.
Appropriations have been made by
the war department amounting to
nearly $4,000 for the construction of
the convalescent hospital at Fort Doug
last Utah.
J. A. Carlson, pattern maker at
shipyard at Seattle, Is under arrest on
charges Of "doctoring" steel placed in
government vessels, tampering with
rolling stock In an effort to cause
wrecks, and participating in destruc-
ton of Spaghnum moss prepared by
Red Cross workers for use in ban
da-ges for overseas.
Gus Kangas, killed by Police Of
ficer james Larkin at Butte, after
he had fired at the patrolman. has
been identified as an active leader of
the I. w. w.
DOMESTIC.
Thirty thousand Industrial workers
soon will b. sent to San Francisco by
the government, provided housing facll-
flies are provided, according to John
ii. Saunders, manager of the place
ment bureau OF the United States bu-
reau Of housing.
Shlpbuidlng In New Jersey has
grown within a few months from an
infant industry to an infant prodigy.
A score of vessels, capable of carrying
5000 tons of Supplies to Americans
and their allies overseas, have been
launched and two are ready to sail.
Others will take the water at the rate
or II IA month, or oftener.
All hope has been abandoned of res
euing alive - miners known to be
left in the north mine of the Frank
lin Coal & Coke CO., Royalton, H., In
which 81 men were trapped in an ex-
plosiOn Sunday.
Felix Frankfurter, chairman of the
war labor policies board, in state
ment issued Sunday, said that while
contracts negotiated by the war ad-
minlstration permit the employment of
children over IA years of age in war
Industries. 1t does not follow that the
employment OF children is favored.
In a Liberty loan address at Balt-
more, Theodore Roosevelt declared:
Let Germany be so thoroughly licked
that no other nation dare to attack
MS. If we had permitted Germany to
win this war, we would have been at
tackled next by the Huns, who would
have treated US as they have treated
the Belgians."
In an address at New York, Friday
night, President Wilson made the most
comprehensive and stirring war speech
of his career. He ex, ,fained once more
the issue of the war and the sacred
things for which America and all the
civilized world are fighting, and he
POINTED out the purposes which will
he accomplished in only one way---the
utter defeat of the central powers.
Investigators of the bureau of labor
statistics, surveying the cost of living
in principal Industrial centers, reported
that the cost in the New York district
is 6207 per cent greater than in De-
cember, 1914, and 1879 per cent great
er than in December, 1917.
Homes in Juneau, Alaska, are being
torn away, big government hospital
has been temporarily abandoned power
plants are idle, and all business is sus-
pended as result of torrential rains
OF unusual warmth, causing water
deluge along the main shore of CAST
neau channel. The main street of
Juneau is threatened by the floods.
The five members of the staff of the
Philadelphia Tageblatt on trial in the
federal court at Philadelphia, were
found guilty there this week of con
spiracy to violate the espionage act.
A motion for a new trial was made and
bail was continued.
Spanish influenza continued to
spread today in army camps, 6S24 new
cases having been reported to the Of
flee of the surgeon general of the army
during the 24-hours period ending at
noon Friday.
A. S. Embree, acting secretary
treasurer of the Industrial Workers of
the World, was arrested at Chicago by
federal operatives on warrant charg-