Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-05-04
INTERMOUNTAiN

has been received in Salt Lake of the
death of James l.. Hendrickson of
Gunnison. Mr.. Hendrickson was a
member of battery, 145th field ar
tillery (Utah regiment).
The Steel Shipbuilders' union of Sc
attic has voted to join the proposed
May-day strike as demonstration for
Tom Mooney.
Five inches of snow fell in Denver
on April q. An electrical storm pre-
coded the snow.
The Seattle Central Labor council
for twenty-four hours, May /, ae-
cording to official announcement, as
demonstration for Thomas J. Mooney.
sentenced to hang in California, fol-
lowing his conviction on the charge Of
numbering one of the victims of the
San Francisco preparedness day bomb
explosion.
Twelve hundred and siXty-five men
arrived at Camp Lewis, Wash, Friday
as the first contingent of the new
draft. A total of 1892 men is to ar
rive at camp within the next few days.
The WoOlgrowers' association,
through its committee, headed by S.
w. Mcclure of Salt Lake, has advised
the price fixing committee of the war
industries board that they would ac-
cept the basis of wool prices fixed by
the government.
DOMESTIC
Ivan Mccain was taken into custody
Sunday charged with the murder of
Kenneth c. Folston of Oregon, who dis
appeared from his lodging house at
Phoenix, AriZ., last November. The
body of FolstOn was found on Satur
day afternoon by cowboys twenty-five
miles northeast of the city.
Earl Austin, Il farm hand arrested
at Geneva, N. Y, confessed to the po-
lice that he had murdered Hank Mosh-
er and Blanch Mosher, his daughter,
aged Is, at Victor. Both were killed
with an axe.
Theodore Roosevelt will make IA
speaking tour through the middle west
late in May, the National Security
league has announced. The former
president will deliver addresses in
Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin,
under the auspices of the league which
has been conducting patriotism
through education" drive in the states
named.
American experts are adapting
French methods for the manufacture
Cf bullets for shrapnel and shrapnel
bombs.
Nadine Marie X. de Victorica, be-
lieved by officers of the department of
justice to be one of the most active of
Germany's agents in this country for
the last fifteen months, was arrested at
fashionable Long Island hotel Satur-
day as dangerous enemy alien.
Nineteen days of Liberty loan cam
paigning closed with the government
assured of So, 17S,S77 $50, 20 per cent of
the three billion minimum require
ment.
Three men, former subjects of Ger
many, were fined in federal court at
Lincoln, Neb., following conviction of
violating the espionage act by discour-
aging enlistmentS.
Charged with drilling holes in the
wings of airplanes ready to be de-
livered to the government, an employee
of a manufacturing company was ar
rested by federal agents at Cleveland.
Captain f. J. Butterfield, and all the
deck officers of the American steam
ship Florence H., now are believed to
have lost their lives when the ship
was destroyed by an explosion, April
II, while off the French coast.
Strong reinforcements came to the
nations third popular war credit on
April 26, as result of the celebration
of Liberty day with parades and DEM
constructions in practically every part of
the country.
Lincoln Steffens, magazine writer
and lecturer, was prevented by the
police at San Diego from delivering
an advertised address at local
church on the Menace Of
Peace" Chief of Police McMullen told
Steffens that no man who criticized
the government as he (Steffens) had
done in previous lecture could speak
again in San Diego, especially in war
times.
The American line steamship st.
Paul, famous passenger liner, over
turned and sank at her pier at New
York while being warped into pier
preparatory to loading for a trip to
Europe. Three men probably lost their
1ives In the accident
Alaska will be called on In May and
June for 896 draft registrants, Provost
Marshal General Crowder has an
nounced. They will be trained al
Fort \. -lliam Seward, Haines, Alaska
Harry p. Flannery, former police
commissioner at San Francisco, hal
been brought to trial in the United
States court on n charge of cOnSpir