Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-03-30

INTERMOUNTAIN

VI tHelT IellOWS, DuJ iHOSe WIN ic
main behind are active in Red Cros:
and other war activities.
Second Lieutenant Lester G. Bau
man of Salt Lake City was instantly
killed March % as a result of fall
in a hydroairplane near Miami, Fla.
Warrants charging criminal syndi
calism have been sworn out by the
prosecuting attorney in the cases OF
forty of the eighty-five Industrial
Workers of the World held at st
Maries, Idaho, by state guardsmen.
John H. Taylor, scout commissioner
has sent out eighty medals to Boy
Scouts of Utah who have won them
for having sold ten Liberty bonds In
ten families The bonds have not been
smaller than $50.
Mexican laborers are being imported
to Utah for work in the beet fields.
Three carloads of Mexican laborers
passed through Ogden last week, en-
route to Garland.
Mrs. Emma Fewer of Chicago, who
is under arrest at Portland on charge
of conspiring to obtain a substitute for
drafted man, was held in default of
$4,000 bonds.
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson,
daughter of the president, reached
Denver March 81, to sing at the dedi-
cation of the municipal pipe organ.
f. c. Schroeder of Denver was held
to the federal grand jury in a thousand
dollar bond for making an alleged dis
loyal remark.
DOMESTIC
"Two-bits day-the patriots
way" was the prize winning slogan in
contest conducted by Los Angeles
bank. Five thousand patriots par
ticipated in the contest. win the
war, bit by bit" won the second prize,
and Every miser helps the kaiser"
won the third prize.
An alleged draft evader whose name
is unknown to the police was coated
from head to foot with white
paint by a vigilance committee at
Christopher, Ills. Following the appli-
cation of the paint he was released
after he had made public avowal of
his loyalty.
now prisoners in German camps, made
public March %, by the state de-
partment, records the death of Charles
Hemphill, shot while attempting to
escape in September, 1917, and the
death of Andrew Campbell Murtroy,
an aviator, brought down near Pargny,
September 80, 1917.
Captain Archibald Roosevelt, who
GENTLY was injured, is reported as
resting very comfortably in a Red
Cross hospital near the front, and is
unstinted in his praise of the Red
Cross.
A German U-bOat was sunk and its
nine survivors were captured near the
French coast by an American liner on
March 10, according to w. S. Hamb-
ling, who has landed at an Atlantic
port from a French liner.
Three men, charged with disloyalty,
were tarred and feathered at Christie
pher, ILL.,, a mining town, by a vigilance
committee numbering several hundred
persons.
Firing across the border by Mexicans
near Fabens, Texas, caused strong
return fire from American troops at
border patrol on Friday. Four Mexi-
cans were killed.
A bond issue and a campaign for the
sale of general defense stamps" have
been started by the l. w. w. to COM
bat the Liberty loan and war savings
stamps campaign, according to litera-
ture seized by federal officials in re-
cent raids ON I. w. w. headquarters
at Chicago.
A cut of 80 per cent In the cOnsump-
ton of wheat between now and August
81 must be made by the people of the
United States in order to supply the
armies of America and the allies, Har-
ry A. Wheeler state food administrator
for Illinois, declares.
In drive against offending "spit-
tciS TIE man VI WOHiuu WHO cApcC-
torates on the sidewalks, In the street
cars, and the elevated stations-some
two hundred persons were arrested in
Chicago in day.
The shipyards of the Pacific coast
are far in advance of those on the
Atlantic seabOard with their proper
tionate share of war construction, ac-
cOrding to Meyer Bloomfield of Boston,
head of the industrial service of the
emergency fleet corporation.
A resolution urging that guilty en-
envy spies in America should be dealt
with by firing squads before brick
walls" was adopted by the Louisiana
Bankers association at the closing SEES
sion Of its annual convention at New
Orleans.
j. Franklin Dederick, cashier Of the
Commercial & Savings bank. was shot
and killed at Lexington, N. c.. by j
Graham Hege, manager of the South