Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-08-24
WASHINGTON.

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entirely to rest at the secluded sea.
side mansion where he is spending a
Few days with Mrs. Wilson He con-
Guided that even attendance at church
service would involve publicity and did
not go.
A loan of S1,000,000 has been made
to the forest service from the presi-
dents special defense fund to combat
iires in the national forests of the
northwestern and Pacific states.
An appeal for government aid to
livestock raisers in the west and south
west reached Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braska Saturday in letter from III. H.
Tomkin Jr., of the food administration
ut Denver, who said the breeding in
dustry is threatened with q 40 to so
| per cent liquidation this fall It IL
practically impossible to borrow money
on breeding cattle, the letter declared
The threatened crisis in the rela.
tions of Mexico with the entente allies
and the United States apparently has
been averted by a modification of the
new Mexican oil tax decree by Presi-
dent Carranza. 1t was learned Mon
day that on August IL CarranZa in
effect cancelled provisions of the de-
cree on July 81, under which unde-
veloped oil lands might be seized by
the Mexican government upon failure
of their owners to make declarations
and submit to what they regard as ex-
cessive taxation.
With $15,0O0,OOO set as a goal. the
Young Women's Christian association
Sunday night opened its nationwide
war work campaign. The $15,0OO,OO
sought is the share of the Y. w. G. A
of the $135,000,000 war fund of tn.
Y. Nj. c. A., the War Camp service and
the American Library association.
Few owners of the first and second
Liberty bonds have converted them
into bonds of the third loan, which
bear higher interest, treasury officials
announced. This can be done any time
before November 1, but action at this
time is urged to avoid rush in the
last weeks.
fhe war department has announced
that enlisted men in camp may obtain
burroughs to engage in agricultural
work by making application to their
commanding officers or by having rela.
tives or other interested persons apply
through the local boards at which they
registered
Freedom of departure from this
country of aliens by means of which a
number of dangerous enemy agents
have been able to escape from the ar-
thorities will not be permitted after
September, under proclamation sign.
ed by President Wilson and an execu.
tive order
Provost Marshal General Crowder
announced Thursday that plans al
ready have been made for registering
the 13,000,000 additional men which he
estimates will be brought under the Sc
lective service law when congress
enacts the pending bill extending the
age limits to include men between Is
and 40 years.
FOREIGN.
The Americans in Lorraine have en-.
liyened an ordinarily quiet sector by
taking from the Germans the village
of Frapelle, five miles east of st. Die.
The action, which started with the
proportions of raid in the early
hours Saturday morning, developed
into an organized attack under the
Ia- Of thA mi
ately after they left their trenches,
The German losses evidently were
heavy in killed and wounded and pris.
oners also were taken by the Ameri.
cans.
A letter from General Pershing was
among the scores of missives received |
by Colonel Roosevelt from France
during the past few days offering con.
dolence on the death of Lieut.. Quentin
Roosevelt and telling of his bravery
and the admiration In which the writer
held him.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele
graph from Amsterdam quoting re
port received from Berlin, says DR.
Richard Won Kuehlmann, former Ger
man foreign secretary, has reported to
the military authorities. The dispatch
adds that it is expected they will give
him a command in the west. He is o
major in the Bavarian Cuirassiers.
The British Sunday morning attack
ed the Fourth Saxon division holding
Outeersteen and expelled it from the
village and from the adjoining bridge
A Japanese contingent arrived Sun.
day at Nikolskoye on its way to UsuT
front.
Air mail service between Paris and
st. Nazaire was opened Sunday. a,
distinguished gathering of ministers !
and other government officers wit
messed the departure of the first mail
carrier.
No increase in the amount of bar
ley used for beer in Great Britain
l. A.