Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-08-03
OF
Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
iNTERMouNTAIN.

Inc uooTS u lne SuOp are loCkcu.
Within the plate glass window is a
placard reading. "Store closed for
duration of war. Proprietors enlisted
in United States navy"
Sixty-three new Alaska fish indus
tries, including canneries, salteries,
mild cure and fresh cure fish plants
have been listed since January by the
Alaska bureau of the Seattle chamber
of commerce and Commercial club. The
bureau estimates that the Alaska fish
ing output this year will have value
of between S55,000000 and $70,000,000.
j. Harry Humphreys of Huntington,
w. Va, was reelected president of the
Gideons, the Christian Commercial
Travellers association in session at
Denver.
A conference of gold producers of
the western states to consider the gold
situation and to work out some plan to
stimulate the production of gold In
the west has been called jointly by
Governor Boyle of Nevada and the
American Mining congress- to be held
In Reno on August ~.
The army hospital to be established
at Fort Douglas, Utah for the treat
ment of wounded soldiers returned
from France when completed will
accommodate maximum of $500 men.
Seattle city officials before the Capt.
tai Issues committee appealed for
authorization to issue $5500,000 worth
of bonds for building extensions to the
municipality owned hydro-electric
plants which they said were Overbur-
dened by shipbullding and Industrial
war.
DOMESTIC.
Thomas J. Mooney, In death row"
at san Quentin prison under sentence
20 be hanged for murder in connection
with bomb explosion during u pre-
raredness parade in San Francisco in
1915, will not be executed August %
next as decreed by court, Governor
lillian d. Stephens having granted a
reprieve until December ID.
For the first time Yukon king sal
mon, which run in millions up Alaska S
big river, will have to dodge cannery
traps this year II they want to reach
the upper river spawning ground.
Union labor gathered In 500 great
mass meetings in the larger cities of
the country on Sunday to plan further
action in defense of Tom Mooney of
San Francisco, convicted of murder in
he preparedness day bomb outrage.
nj Sc, aI,,; ,,f
factories is approaching completion.
There are now 11S fully equipped
yards in the United States, and A
others partly complete, of which % are
more than 20 per cent finished and only
six less than 20 per cent ready to be-
gin building tonnage.
Latin-American diplomats, the guests
If the shipping board at an inspection
of the Hog Island shipyard, were told
by Chairman Hurley that the great
merchant marine now being built by
the United States must bring prosper
ity to Americas neighbors, as well as
to this country, or the pride of the
would be diminished.
Ten special wardens will be sent
to Alaska soon to prevent violations
of the fisheries law. Five will be de-
tailed in southeastern Alaska and the
others to the Copper and Bering rivers,
Prince William sound and Cook inlet.
Twenty-one persons We're indicted at
New York by the federal grand jury
on charge of being implicated in the
theft of beef consigned to the United
States army.
Felix Frankfurter, chairman of the
war labor policies board, has telegraph
ed to Governor Stephens of California
a denial that while acting as secretary
of President Wilson's medium commits
sion he expressed an opinion that
Thomas j. Mooney was guilty of the
San Francisco preparedness day bomb
plot.
George Sylvester viereck, publisher
formerly editor of the Fatherland
which was barred from the mails be-
cause of its pro-German views, has adj
mitted that he received approximately
100000 from Count Won Bernstroff,
DIR. Constantin Theodor Dumba and
others for disseminating propaganda In
the form of pamphlets and books.
In the face of threatened strike
of seamen on the Great Lakes, which
would tie up the transportation essen
tial to the war program, the shipping
board has issued statement declar-
ing that the board docs not feel that
there are any grievances to justify u
strike at this time"
DIR. Stephen Wise of the Free Syna-
gogue in New York City is working as
a day laborer at a local marine con-
struction plant. DR.. Wise said Friday
that he took up the work because he
believed it the duty of every man who
could not enter military service to con-
tribute directly his labor to essential
production for war needs.
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