Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-12-21
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asst Week
The News Happenings of
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of parsons at Carcon City, New. Kuhl
was to have been shot at the state
prison ON December 20.
designations of every member of the
fire department at Colorado Springs,
except the chiefs, were accepted by
the city council Thursday. The inen,
thirty-five in number, resigned because
their request for increased wages was
refused.
Leigh & Green of Lund. Utah, has
filed application with the state public
utilities commission for a permit to
operate motor freight truck service
between Lund and Parowan.
Butte will see unusual building and
real estate activity in the spring of
1919, Homer Townsend chief clerk of
the city department of public works,
predicts.
Reconstruction and readjustment pc
RODS will not be characterized by
panics or depression, according to Jere
Sharpe, prominent Minneapolis banker,
who is visiting in Butte.
An attack upon the Washington
state mothers pension law of 1915,
brought by Mrs. Rose Snyder of Sc
attic, who alleged it was unconstitu-
tonal in providing pensions for
widows and not for deserted mothers,
was dismissed Monday by the supreme
court. Washington court DEGREES up
holding the laws validity were af-
firmed
A. Z. Spriggs, chairman of the Mon
tana state industrial accident board,
has Endorsed Il suggestion that an eff
fort be made to have the government
turn over Fort Harrison for school
for the rehabilitation of industrial
cripples.
Holland is seeking trade in Utah, ac-
cOrding to letter received by Earl
]. Glade. secretary of the Utah State
Fair association. The letter comes
from the intelligence office for COM
mercial relations at Amsterdam and re-
quests him to send a catalogue of
the exhibitors The letter adds that
all offers and inquiries emanating
from firms in Utah will be welcomed
and laid before importers and expor-
tiers in Holland.
A penchant for writing letters, the
from admission to the mails, has land
ed o. J. Langford of Carbon county,
Utah. in the insane asylum at Provo.
DOMESTIC.
Recruiting in each community of u
trip of "sea scouts" intended to pre-
pare boys for the mrchant marine, will
be one of the features of anniversary
week" of the boys scouts of America,
February to February ID.
A special rate will be granted to
clergymen over the railroads, begin
ming January 1, according to letter
received by the Rev. w S. Foreman
from Director General McAdoo.
Operations of the German propa-
ganda system in the United States,
through which valuable information for
Transmission to Berlin was gathered at
the same time that German doctrines
were spread over the country were
laid bare Friday by Captain q. Il.
Lester of the army intelligence SER
vice in testimony before the senate
committee investigating beer and Ger
man propaganda. Most of the evidence
related to activity of Teutonic agents
before the United States entered the
war;
Buffeted by high seas, which carried
away a deckhouse and wrenched
four-inch gun from its mounting, the
American transport Dekalb arrived
here Friday from France with approx
imately 1850 soldiers, sailors and ma
rines, nearly 400 of whom had been
wounded in action. She was preceded
into port by the mail boat OregOnian,
carrying solitary doughbOy, Sergeant
Leland A. kaufman of the Second
division headquarters troop, who
brought home the favOrite charger of
his commander Major General Omar
Bundy.
Striking street car men at Omaha re-
turned to work at 4 o'clock Thursday
afternoon. Not a street car had been
IuoNtu III Oiidiu uuiih6 thS PoSs SA6Ae
days. The local union voted unani-
mously to obey the request of Interna-
tional President w. c. Mahon that
they return to work.
Henry Youtsey, who has been serv-
Ing a life sentence on a charge OF COM
plicity in the murder in 1900 Of for
mer Gov. William Goebel Of Kentucky.
was par0led Wednesday by the board
of prison control. according to an an
nouncement made by Herbert Carr,
member of the board.
Four hundred delegates representing
employers and employees Of the lumber
ing industry Of eastern Washington
and Oregon, northern Idaho anu west
ern Montana, in session at spokane
voted most unanimously to continue
the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum'
bermen in the Inland Empire camps
and mills as permanent organization