Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-30
of
Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
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iNTERMoJNTAlN.
The quorum of twelve apostles has
unanimously sustained Heber ]. Grant
as president of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. President
Grant announced that he had chosen
Anthem II. Lund and Charles w. Pen
rose as his first and second counselors,
respectively.
Two Seattle shipyard unions, with
| about 22,OO0 members, it became known
Saturday have voted to strike Decem-
| Der 8 as protest against the execu-
| ton of Thomas J. Mooney, San Fran
| cisco, convicted of numbering a victim
of a bomb explosion.
Out of all the millions spent by the
army supplies during the war, only a
very small sum was spent in the west,
barely more than $12 100000 In all, and
| two-thirds of this total was spent in
| the state of Washington.
Colorado's first woman rural mail
carrier, Mrs. Matte f.. Ault of Ken
| drick, won that distinction by defeating
her husband, f. Z. Ault, and two
other candidates in competitive exami-
nations held to determine who would
| get the appointment.
| Six women were on jury at Seattle,
which found Alvin Adams, 2O-year-old
| soldier drafted from Kansas City,
guilty of numbering NJ. r. Raymer, an
automobile driver, near Redmond,
WASH, last June.
| None the less impressive because
| they were announced to be of a pri-
vate nature funeral services for
| Joseph F. Smith, late president of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, were held at Salt Lake City,
November %, during the noon hour.
James F. Delaney, express messen-
ger, accused of conspiring with John
NJ. Browning of Ogden, Utah; J. IL.
DeVine and Joseph Eccles, Ogden at
torneys and others, to ship large guam
titles Of whiskey into Utah, a prohi-
bition state, pleaded guilty in the
United States district court at San
Francisco.
DOMESTIC.
Governors of eight southern cotton
states have signed a proclamation urg-
ing farmers, merchants, bankers and
businessmen to form organizations and
hold the 1918 cotton crop for not less
than 35 cents a pound, middling basis.
Total American casualties to Novem-
Der II, when hostilities ceased were
O0R ny This L cd ia1
of wounds died of disease, unclassified
deaths, wounded, prisoners and miss
ing.
Major General William Crozier, COM
mander of the department of the north
east and former chief of ordnance, an
nounced Sunday at Boston that he had
resigned from the army and that the
resignation had been accepted, effec-
tive January /. After forty-two years
of hard work in the army General
Crozier said he felt he was entitled
to rest.
stampede" north beginning next
spring, according to northerners who
are spending their winters at Seattle
Already plans are being made for plac-
ing returned soldiers and sailors on
the soil of the northern territory.
A majority of the nations railroads
plan to restore to employees who en-
tered military and naval service the
seniority rights which they sacrificed
when they left the roads employment.
Henry Ford has announced his re-
tirement from active participation in
the management of the Ford Motor
| company, complete control of the Ford
| interest in the company to be taken
over by his son, Edsel.
The American eXpeditionary forces
| will have all sick, wounded and con-
| valescent American soldiers back in the
United States within two months. The
number of hospitals in France has been
| considerably reduced already by the
medical corps.
Spread of Bolshevik doctrines in the
| United States has been watched care
! fully by department of justice agents
with a view to undertaking prosecu-
| tons If the agitation develops into Sc
| dition, officials declare.
Removal of the war censorship re-
| striction relating to publication of
| articles on naval matters was an
nounced Thursday by f. ]. Chambers,
| chief press censor for Canada. The
| cable censorship continues.
Regulations limiting the amount of
bituminous coal stored by consumers
were lifted on November 81 by Fuel
Administrator Garfield in conformity
with the cancellation by the war indus
tries board of its preference list. Any
industry or domestic consumer may
now store all the bituminous desired
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