Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-06-29
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home. Both u revolver and a knife
had been used in killing him. One ear
was cut off, his skull was fractured
and he had been shot through the
stomach.
DlscOntinuance of instruction in Ger
man at the University of Denver was
announced Iline %. During the sec
Ond semester OF last year only 80 stu
dents enrolled in the German classes.
Next year no German will be taught
unless requested by the government for
VAR workers.
Salt Lake officers Sunday night
rounded up about 500 men suspected
of being draft evaders, in a raid con-
Quoted at Saltar The men were taken
to the county Jail and asked to pro-
duce their classification cards. OF the
men taken into custody by the officers
all were able to show their cards ex-
cept six.
All fires in the Helena forest nave
been extinguished, according to infor-
nation received Friday. 1t is esti-
mated by the supervisor that 1900
acres of the Helena forest have been
burned over
"A fine lot" is the way officers spoke
of several thousand draft man who ar
rived at Camp kearny on Friday from
Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash.
They also commented favorably on the
happy appearance and good discipline
evidenced by the recruits, all of whom
were drafted last May
The bodies of George !. Crow of Salt
Lake City, registered for the draft In
Utah in class Al, and of a woman said
by the police to be Mrs. B. +. Smons
were found at Los Angeles in a room
which had been occupied by Crow and
IL roommate. II is believed Crow shot
the woman and himself while insane.
DOMESTIC.
When an empty troop train ran into
circus train near Gary, Ind, sixty
two people, members of the circus,
were killed and 100 injured. The cir
Gus train had stalled on u switch and
the engineer of the troop train evident
ly failed to see the fuses set out as
warning.
Silliman Evans, former clerk in the
American legation at Copenhagen and
Texas newspaper man, has been ex-
onerater of completely in the Russian
crown jewel smuggling case.
Inaugurating IA movement to boycott
German-made goods the American de-
Tense society has issued an appeal for
20O0O,OOO signatures to n pledge not
to buy anything with the German
mark.
Blanket authority to increase the
price of wheat ut primary and other
markets, with the approval of Food
Administrator Hoover, above the 500
bushel minimum price guaranteed by
presidential proclamation last Febru-
AIRY p, is given the food administra-
ton grain corporation in New York by
an executive order of the president
British and American aeronautic eX-
perts believe swarms of American
made airplanes will be flying across
the the Atlantic to the battlefields of
France next year.
After rejoicing most of its officers
the American Federation of Labor con
cluded its sessions at st. Paul on June
~, and adjourned, to meet next year
In Atlantic CITY, n. j. President Sam
uel Gompers, Washington; Secretary
Frank Morrison, Washington, and
Treasurer Daniel J. Tobin, Indianapo-
lis, were e-elected without opposition.
A heat wave of great intensity pre-
walls over most of the southwest. and
damage already has been caused in the
wheat fields of Kansas and Oklahoma.
Joseph II. Rutherford and seven
other defendants, followers of the late
pastor" Russell, were found guilty of
conspiring to violate the espionage law,
by II jury in federal court at New York.
Thirty-four soldiers were injured,
five probably fatally, near Selby, Tex,
about Is miles east of Waco, Texas,
when n st. Louis & Southwestern rail-
way train carrying troops stationed at
Camp Macarthur, was wrecked while
passing over a wooden bridge.
Fifteen hundred members of the Ma
tional Association of Creditmen, meet
ing In convention at Chicago on June
IS, discussed war creuit measures,
dwelling particularly on commercial
readjustments to follow the declaration
of peace.
American troops may be sent to Italy
at once to aid in the battle against
the invading Austrians, and to demon
strate to the Italians that the United
States is really in the war to win.
Because of German submarine ac-
tivity off the American coast, the ship
ping board has ordered bonus of %
per cent of their monthly wages paid
to all licensed officers employed on
American merchant vessels in the
coastwise, West Indian and South and
Central American trade.
Over 300 men of draft age were