Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-21
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How to solve the problem presented
by thousands of men rejected by
draft boards or at camp, or dis
charged from the army on account of
tuberculosis, will be the chief question
taken up at the Northwestern Tuber
culosis conference to be held in Spo-
kane on September q and %.
The supreme court of Nevada has
confirmed the decision of the district
court, and Ben Kuhl must pay the ex-
treme penalty for the premeditated
killing of stage driver at Jarbidge,
New, two years ago.
Willie Jack, 13.year-old Indian
boy who confessed to killing Mrs.
Charles Williams at Hicks Station,
New, has been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
Governor Alexander of Idaho ar
lived in Camp Lewis Wednesday and
spoke to several hundred Jewish sol
diers at the Jewish Welfare building
Thursday he made tour of the camp
and expressed delight at its develop
ment during the sixteen months since
his previous visit.
A few miners, mostly Films, quit
work Friday at Butte, following circu-
lation of handbills, threatening to shut
down Butte district mines, by persons
alleged to be connected with the In
dustrial Workers of the World.
Miss Jeanette Rankin. defeated in
ha 70 m 4.
can nomination by DIR. o. NJ. Lanstrum,
will make the race for United States
senator from Montana as candidate of
the National party.
DOMESTIC.
Suicide and famine were the spec
trail passengers aboard IA Bristol Bay
Packing eompany's steamer which ar
rived at San Francisco, Friday the
18th, from Alaska waters, faced. Three
men aboard the steamship committed
suicide en- route TO this port, and the
Americans aboard had to band to-
gether to fight off $50 Italian fisher
men to get their share of the slim pro-
visions aboard the boat.
William II. Taft, president of the
League to Enforce Peace, has been
invited TO deliver the principal adj
dress AT the first meeting of the
League of Free Nations associations,
to be held in London, October 10.
One thousand cases of influenza are
reported at Camp Devans, Mass, by
the division surgeon, Lieut.. Col. Nc
Cornack. Death has occurred in only
one case, and IN that pneumonia com
pllcations were present.
Shelled by German submarine in
fog Sunday morning. so miles OFF
the American coast British passen-
ger steamer escaped by altering her
course and understanding the U-boat
She arrived safely in port.
One man was killed and six were
wounded near Owen, Wis, in pitched
battle between members of the home
guard and farmers on one side and two
alleged draft evaslets.
Advices received at San Francisco
from Honolulu announced the death on
August 20 of Mrs. Anna C. Dole. wife
of Judge Sanford Il. Dole, the first and
only president of the republic of
Hawaii and afterward governor of the
territory.
Eugene V. Debs, charged with vio-
lations of the espionage act, was SEN
fenced to ten years In the Moundsville,
w. Va, penitentiary on each of three
counts of the indictment. by Federal
Judge Westenhaver at Cleveland, ..
The sentences viii run concurrently.
Elijah Roberts, game warden of
Breathitt county, KY, and leading
Republican politician, has been as
sassihated while riding along a coun-
try road. Bloodhounds were sent to
Breathitt to trace the murderer.
Striking machinists and other war
plant workmen at Bridgeport, Conn,
have been informed in a letter adj
dressed directly to them by the presi-
dent, that they must return to their
work and abide by the decision of the
war labor board, or be barred for a
year from all employment over which
the government exercises control, and
lose all claims for draft exemption on
occupatlonal grounds.
Surgeon General Gorgas announced
Thursday that 4i7 sick and wounded
soldiers from. the American expedi-
tionary forces were returned to the
United States during the week ending
September @.
Full responsibility for the recent
Stacker raids In New York and adj
Joining cities has been assumed by
Attorney General Gregory, who prom
Uses continuance of the roundnps, but
without use of soldiers, sailors and
members of the American Protective
league to make arrests.
Threatened labor difficulties at the
Bethlehem steel works have been
aversed by promise from the com
i,any to obey an order from the war
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