Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-07-13


terrified, No., reported that he was
beaten at the camp in fight which
began when Kibbin thought he was
being Knocked by another man who
suffered!
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Dewitt, girl aged 8 and boy aged
4, were burned to death at Snowflake,
Ariz., when the Dewitt home was de-
stroyed by fire. Two other boys, aged
II and 10, who tried to rescue their
brother and sister, were seriously
burned.
The Arkansas constitutional conven-
ton on July 4 voted to incorporate into
clause giving women all civil and
political rights, including suffrage and
serving on juries.
WASHINGTON.
Moving picture players are classed
as Legitimate theatrical performers"
in an order announced by Provost Mar
shall General Crowder, and draft
boards are directed to consider such
players, musicians and all skilled per-
sons employed in creation and presen-
tation of moving picture productions
as engaged in productive employment.
Formal warning was issued from
the office of the fuel administration
on July Z that the stock of coal may
be insufficient to meet the domestic
necessities during the coming winter.
Only the strictest economy will see the
country through the cold season with
out suffering from lack Of fuel.
Every American soldier who returns
from France would be given his choice
of return to the life he led prior
to entering the army, or farm,
planned out of the fifteen million acres
of land, owned and untouched by the
United States government, if plans of
Secretary of the Interior Franklin X.
Lane, are adopted.
The urgent desire of President Will
son to have the resolution providing
for the seizure of the telegraph and
telephone lines passed before congress
takes a recess was communicated
ednesday to members of the house
who were called into conference at the
White House.
misunderstanding of the war risk
insurance act either on the part of the
enlisted man or by his dependents
has caused much of the delay in the
mailing of monthly checks for allot-
ments and allowances, according to the
findings of special committee of in
quiry appointed by Secretaries Baker
and McAdOo.
FOREIGN.
General Count Won Mirbach, Ger
man ambassador to Russia, has been
assassinated at Moscow, according to
Berlin report received by the Havas
agency. Two unknown persons were
involved in the crime.
The American Red Cross flood relief
camp at Tientsin, with its HOO fam
lilies, aggregating 1880 persons, shell
tered there when river floods drove
them from their homes, is now only a
memory, every family having been
located in homes provided for them or
of their own choice.
AApOitS VI iOOuStuiiS W lhC tChtA al
powers from Denmark is being curbed
by the associated Scandinavian gov
ernments.
Germany will send three army corps
to the aid of Austria, according to a
Rome dispatch to the Temps.
English and japanese landing parties
patrolled the streets of VladivoStok
and enforced neutrality in the area
where the consolidated are looted dur
ing the fighting between the Czecho-
Slovaks and the Bolsheviki, according
to dispatch from Vladivostok.
Stockholm advises state that Grand
Duke Michael, brother of the former
car, is marching on Moscow at the
head of Czecho Cossack army.
NJ. Volodarsky, Bolsheviki commits
sinated, the Central News learns, while
returning from meeting, the dispatch
says.
The war will continue until Ger
many is beaten and her power to
break treaties at will is shattered
of state for war, to an audience OF
Americans at the Palace theatre in
London.
The entire population of the Muir
man coast ION the Kola peninsula, Dor
dering the White sea and the Arctic)
has broken with Russia and Joined the
entente, according to dispatch from
Vardoe, Norway.
Conforming to the action of the
director general Of the United
States railroad administration order
ing United States carriers to increase
transcontnental westbound commodity
rates from the eastern states to coast
points, the dominion railway board has
authorized a similar increase in Cana.
dian rates, effective August |.
The American transport Covington,
homeward bound after landing several
thousand soldiers in France, was tor
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