Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-28
lNTERMOUNTAIN,

SCiOui at TIE university Cl COlOEduO,
at Boulder, were reported Saturday,
and a fraternity house was taken
over for use as a temporary hospital.
Fire of an origin as vet undeter-
mined destroyed the Denver & Rio
Grande. freight depot, icehouse and a
number of smaller railroad buildings
at Grand Junction, Colo, together
with 30 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 en- tiled 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,
passed resolutions addressed to Pres
ident Wilson, asking the government
to take over the operation of the
metal mines of the district.
Circulars urging general strike
until October in protest against "the
acts of the capitalist class in imprison-
ing Haywood, Debs and Mooney"
were 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 a strike week
ago in protest against the recent i'm
prisonment of William ID. Haywood
and his associates for conspiracy
against the government.
Formal recognition of banking as a
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 Prospect |
park of tablet to the memory of |
300 Brooklyn men killed in the war, |
urged every American from laborer
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. Eighteen
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 cable mes
sage received by his father at New
York. The former president was I'M
able to give further details Of the
promotion.
A new epoch in inland waterway
transportation was marked September
p by the departure of the first fleet
Of barges on their maiden voyage
from Chicago down the drainage canal
to the Mississippi river.
The Third infantry regiment, which
was organized by Gen. George Wash
ingtou in 1892, and which claims to
be one of the oldest, If not the Oldest
unit, of the American military forces,
on September n, at Eagle Pass,
Texas, celebrated the both anniver-
sary of dts organization.
Chorus girls who go to Camp Dix,
N. j., or Camp Upton, l.. l., to play
in the Liberty theater there will stay
after this at the players houses which
have been built by the housing COM
mittee of the war work council Of the
Young Women's Christian association
The entire plant of the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing company in st. Louis
has been offered to the government on
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 ut the
Cramp shipyard at Philadelphia be.
cause they objected to baseball play
ers, actors, pugilists and others, mex
perienced in shipbuilding, being placed
over them as bosses.
Safe arrival in Holland from New
York of the liner Nieuw Amsterdam
with cargo of foodstuffs, was an
nounced Friday by the HOlland-Amer
lean line. The steamer left New Yorl
September 6.
Tommy Burns, former heavyweight
champion pugilist of the world
knocked out TEX" Foster in thu
fourth round of scheduled ten
round bout at Prince Rupert. b. G
Burns is in the Canadian army.
Mrs. Robert Carlton Morris of To
ledo, O., was elected president of thu
War Mothers of America at the meet
ing at Evansville. Ind, and Mrs. Sci
den Ciawson of Salt Lake City treas
urer. The election Of both was unani
nous.
The 240 communities which make
the best record In obtaining subscrip
tons to the fourth Liberty loan viii