Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-07
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tuted for bottles of wines in chrsten
ing ships at Portland, Ore, and sug
gestions have been made to the ship
ping board that the substitution be
made general at all shipyards.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, the only
woman in congress, has been defeated
In her race for the United States sen
atorship from Montana.
With 1910 men in line, Salt Lake
City union labor staged pageant on
Labor day that will be pacemaker
for many years to come.
The body of Frank Smith, who is
supposed to have committed suicide
August II, was found on Thursday in
the river near Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Fearing trouble, white settlers OF
southwestern Colorado and southeast
ern Utah are protesting to the commits
sioner of Indian affairs at Washington
against the acts of bands of hostile
Indians reported to be engaged in driv-
ing off stock and burning fences in
the remote districts of that section.
Out of thirty men believed to have
been In the mine of the Pacific Coast
Coal company at Burnett, small min
ing town thirty miles southeast of
Tacoma, when an explosion occurred
Wednesday, only four were brought
out alive and one of these died later.
Utah and Washington are the two
states of the Union whose national
guard officers have stood the rigid
army requirements for efficiency.
Neither of these states since the out
break of the war has lost single Of
fcer out of the national service on
the score of inefficiency, which is the
highest test that could be applied to
the former national guard organiza
tons.
DOMESTIC.
Vilhjalmar StefansSon, the Arctic
explorer, who is in Dawson, en- route
home after five years In the north,
will recommend to the Canadian gov
eminent plans for the reclamation of
the Arctic islands and the Canadian
wilderness on a vast scale.
Nearly half of the $500,000,0OO re-
volving fund provided originally for
the railroad administration has been
consumed in loans and rental pay
ments TO individual roads, according
TO railroad administration financial
report.
With thin, sunken cheeks and bis
tered skin the crew of a British bark
entine arrived at Seattle from Sydney
Australia, lowering on the brink of
collapse from scurvy and ravenously
hungry from an enforced diet of whole
wheat bread and water for three
months.
William ID. Haywood, "Uncrowned
King of the l. w. W., and IA of his
chief aides in the conspiracy to over
turn the American war program, We're
sentences to 20 years in the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, by
Federal Judge n. Nj. Lands. Ten-year
sentences were imposed upon 33 of the
organizations leaders, five years on 33,
one year and one day on II and ten
day sentences on two.
The name of the missing collier
Cyclops has been formally stricken
from the navy register, Secretary Dan
iels said Friday, and orders have been
issued for the payment by the treasury
of all claims growing out of the loss of
her crew.
Caught signalling to sea with colored
fash lights, suspected German spy
was challenged by coast guard at
Ocean City, n. j., and after brief
struggle was shot and killed by the
officers.
With many persons prominent in the
state and ration present, the funeral
of the late United States Senator Ollie
NJ James of Kentucky was held at
Marion, KY, August 80.
Comparison of food prices prevail
Ing new with those of five years ago
shows that the purchasing power of
dollar bin has shrunk to "a cents in
Washington and Baltimore, 70 cents
In Philadelphia, 50 cents in New York
and 63 cents in San Francisco, accord
ing TO statement by the depart
ment Of labor
test In the California supreme court
the state primary law under which
Mayor James Rolph of San Francisco
apparently an easy winner in the Dem.
ocratic gubernatorial primary, would
be debarred from running because of
his apparent failure to be nominated
on the Republican ticket, his registered
party.
More than $4,000 unskilled workers
have been recruited in 10 states and
placed in war plants during the last
two weeks, the labor department has
announced.
New hat, clothing and tent repair
shops and an extension of the quarter
master truck company garage are to
be erected at Camp Kearny.
GOV. James Z. Goodrich of Indiana
was seriously injured in a collision be-
tween his automobile and street cal
Ell Indianapolis.