Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-09-28
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Montana men in the army technical
school at the University of Colorado
at Boulder, We're reported Saturday
and fraternity house was taken
over for use as a temporary hospital.
Fire of an origin as yet undeter-
mined destroyed the Denver X Rio
Grande freight depot, icehouse and n
number of smaller railroad buildings
at Grand Junction, Colo, together
with 80 loaded freight cars which
were standing in the railroad yards.
Union metal workers, numbering,
according to their leaders, about
$4,000, Saturday noon left their posts
In Seattle shipyards to take Satur-
day half holiday which the shipyard
and shipping board officials claimed
they were not entitled to under an
agreement covering working hours.
Striking zinc and copper miners of
Butte, at mass meeting called by
the metal trades council of the city
ident Wilson, asking the government
to take over the operation of the
metal mines of the district
Circulars urging general strike
until October l in protest against "the
acts of the capitalist class in imprison
ing Haywood, Debs and Mooney
We're scattered broadcast last week
among the mills of the Aberdeen
WASH, district Friday.
More men are working in the mines
of Butte today than at any time since
the l. w. w. called Il strike week
ago in protest against the recent i'm
prisonment of William d. Haywood
and his associates !0r conspiracy
against the government.
Formal recognition of banking as q
field of business activity wherein
women are to be given equal oppor
tunities with men was given at the
closing session in Denver of the an
nual convention of the American In
stitute of Banking.
DOMESTIC.
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho
speaking at the unwilling in Prospec
park of tablet to the memory OF
800 Brooklyn men killed in the war
urged every American from laborel
to capitalist to back up the fighting
forces to the utmost.
For the first time in America Uncle
Sam has transferred soldiers on duty
to their new stations by airplanes, the
war department announces. Fighter
men were ordered from Rantoul, Ill.
to the school of military aeronautics
University of Illinois, Champion, Ill
They were taken in planes, piloted by
officers and rushed across Illinois.
Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, has
| been made lieutenant colonel of his
| regiment, according to a cable mes
sage received by his father at New
York. The former president was un
| able to give further details of the
promotion.
A new epoch in inland waterway
transportation was marked September
81 by the departure of the first flee
! of barges on their maiden voyage
from Chicago down the drainage cana
to the Mississippi river.
The Third infantry regiment, which
was organized by Gen. George Wash
| ington in 1892, and which claims t
| be one of the oldest, if not the oldes
| unit, of the American military forces
on September 81, at Eagle Pass
| Texas, celebrated the 136th anniver
sary of its organization.
Chorus girls who go to Camp Dix
N. j., or Camp Upton, l.. l., to pla.
| in the Liberty theater there will sta.
| after this at the players houses whicl
have been built by the housing com
mittee of the war work council of tn,
Young Women's Christian association
The entire plant of the Anheuser
Busch Brewing company in St. Louis
has been offered to the government OF
the basis of an annual rental for the
| manufacture of munitions during the
| war by August A. Busch, president OF
the company.
A number of workers quit at the
Cramp shipyard Mt Philadelphia be
cause they objected to baseball play
ers, actors, pugilists and others, mex
perienced in shipbulding, being PLACED
over them as bosses.
Safe arrival in Holland from New
York of the liner Nieuw Amsterdam
with a cargo of foodstuffs, was an
nounced Friday by the Holland-Amer
lean line. The steamer left New York
September 6.
Tommy Burns, former heavyweight
| champion pugilist of the world
| knocked out TEX" Foster In the
fourth round Of scheduled ten
round bout at Prince Rupert, b. G
Burns Is in the Canadian army.