Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-06-15

The American steamer Pinar del Rio
| was sunk by German subma rine
seventy miles off the coast of Mary
| land Sunday morning. One of her
boats with the captain and seventeen
members of the crew Is missing; an
| other with sixteen men has landed on
| the Virginia coast.
A wheat crop of 931 100000 bushels
is practically assured, which is quite
| large compared with the 651, 100000
| bushels of last year, and a five-year
| average of SO9,OOOOOO bushels.
Colonel Hersey, commandant at Fort
Omaha balloon school, says the first
| flight of a new balloon to be used in
spreading propaganda in Germany was
a success The balloon is equipped
with clock device to distribute rircu-
/ lars.
American citizens and two subjects
of the German empire, one Of them
| woman, are named as fellow conspira-
tors In two indictments returned by
federal grand jury at New York.
WASHINGTON.
A bill by Senator Meyers of Mon
tana to authorize the secretary Of the
interior to make allOtments Of mineral
land in the Blackfoot Indian reserva-
ton in Montana, repeating laws pro-
hibiting disposal of the land, has been
passed by the senate.
Assistant Secretary Of war Stet-
tinius may soon go abroad on an i'm
pOrtant mission In connection with the
ordnance and ammunition supply of
the American forces. Secretary Baker
has authorized the statement that such
assignment for Mr.. Stettinius was I'M
der consideration.
A countrywide move to reduce the
cost of food to the consumer and
standardize methods of compelling the
observance by dealers of flair price
list" was ordered Friday by Food Ad
ministratOr Hoover.
The Smoot pension bill granting to
every veteran of the Union army in the
civil war a pension of not less than
$50 month for service of ninety days
or over, was passed by the house.
Speaking for his child labor bill with
its provision fOrbidding the courts to
pass upon its validity, Senator Owen
of Oklahoma declared the supreme
court nullified a great human public
policy by Cts recent decision holding
the child labor law invalid.
FOREIGN.
The German people are being
warned that they must prepare for
another winter of war. In announcing
that this was probable, Conrad Hauss.
man, progressive member Of the
German reichstag, said In speech at
Stuttgart, as reported by the Berlin
Tageblatt, that it Is necessary to give
the warning to prevent public disap-
pointment.
After the land forces have driven
the French and English beyond Paris,
it will be the turn of the kaisers navy
to drive the English fleet off the sea-"
Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz Is quoted
as declaring in an interview with the
publisher of the Keller Zeitung.
The arrival in Switzerland Of the
Grand Duchess Olga, sister of former
Emperor Nicholas of Russia, gives
color to recent persistent reports that
the former emperor and empress and
others of the Romanoff family may
take up residence here or ut some
other point outside Russia, where
their personal safety will be less en-
dangered by disorders in that cOun-
try.
Twenty-three tons of bombs were
dropped on railway functions. air.
dromes and ammunition dumps be-
yond the German lines Saturday by
British airmen.
The discovery Of a plot to free the
former emperor of Russia while he
was confined at Tobolsk, to take him
to Sweden and thence to America Is
reported in German newspapers re
ceived at Amsterdam.
Herr Fahrenbach Roman Catholic,
has been elected president of the Ger
man reichstag, according to dispatches
received at The Hague.
Four hundred persons are dead as
the result of an explosion of munitions
near Jassy, May 80, according to news
just received at Moscow.
The spirit trade, which was sup
pressed in Russia by imperial de-
cree early in the war, despite an enor-
nous loss in excise taxes to the treas
ury, has been revived in the Ukraine,
according to advices from Kiev. The
production. 1t is stated, will be limited
to 100000 kegs annually.
According to statistics published in
the Vienna Zeitung, 10000 persons in
Budapest are barefoot, owing to the
scarcity of shoes.
/ force of Turks estimated at 5000
In northwest Persia has occupied sew
eral towns north of Lake Urumiah
and the village of Soujbulagh, south
of Lake Urumiah.