Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-04-06
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INTERMOUNTAIN
One of the noted figures in the his
tory of Utah, Alonzo Young, son of the
late President Brigham Young of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, died at midnight Saturday
night.
The war has brought no boom in
women's wages in Washington. Sta
tistics given out by the bureau of labor
statistics of the labor department show
surprisingly low wages for women en-
gagged in industry ut the capital.
Negotiations between the Employ
ers' association and the striking
unions of Great Falls, Mont, have
come to AN end, without a settlement
The unions went out two weeks ago on
demand for higher wages, the com
mon laborer in the city service asking
$3.50 per day as a minimum wage.
Judge Fred S. Stevens died March
% mt his ranch two miles east OF
Blackfoot, Ida. Judge Stevens was the
Oldest settler in the vicinity of Black
foot, having come there in 1863 and
lived continuously since 1866 on his
ranch.
The farmers throughout Idaho are
planting a much larger acreage than
ever before Wheat and sugar beets
will be the principal crops for this
year.
All liquor in the State of Utah is
contraband and seizable, no matter If
It was purchased prior to August 1,
prohibition column, and regardless of
the purchase for which the liquor was
obtained, according to a decision of
the state supreme court
DOMESTIC
Miss Estelle Consolloy aged 49, a
school teacher, was found dead on her
bed ut Trenton, N. j., by police Off
GERS, who burst open the door Her
wrists were cut and she evidently bled
to death. Her sister, Miss Cornelia
Consolloy, trained nurse, proclaimed
herself as the murderess. She was re-
garded as demented.
A mysterious epidemic in Haskell in
stitute, the big Indian school at Law
renee, Kans., has caused the death OF
four students and the illness of many
more, and physicians of the state board
of health, the Indian service and the
federal public health service are ut a
loss as to the exact nature of the dis
ease.
A rain approaching cloudburst in
severity fell at Suero, Tex, washing
out crops and endangering some of the
stock pastured in the lowlands along
the Guadalupe river.
Six great German-owned New Jer-
sey wooden mills, with n total yalu-
alton of more than $70,O00,000, have
been taken over by the alien property
custodian, who has named governing
boards of directors to assume control
of them.
Charles and John Parks We're found
guilty of murder in the second de-
gree at Silver City, N. M. They were
charged with shooting Deputy Sheriff
j. e. Sharmsher at Hachita, N. NJ,
October 81. The defendants are prom
inent cattlemen of Grant county.
President Wilson has telegraphed
Governor William d. Stephens of Cali
fornia asking executive clemency for
Thomas j. Mooney, now under death
sentence. Mooney was convicted in
connection with bomb explosion in
San Francisco in a preparedness pa
rade July %, 1916, which caused the
death of ten persons and injured forty
others.
Fifty Mexicans crossed the inter
national line at Faben, Tex, raided
the Place ranch and the ranch of Fed
erico Arroela, took four horses from
each of these ranches and recreSSed
the line to Mexico.
One hundred and fifty men and wom-
en- accused of seditious talk or of dis
regarding orders to register us enemy
aliens were arrested in Chicago on
March IS
The court of criminal appeals has
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reversed and remanded for new trial
the case of Harry j. Spaniel, hotel pro-
prietor, who was found guilty by a
Coleman county jury and sentenced TO
serve five years in the penitentiary for
the murder of Lieutenant Colonel NJ. c.
Butler U. S. A., at Alpine, Texas, July
| 20, 1916.
Cadet II. Hooten Of the Royal flying
| corps was killed at Everman field. Il
British flying camp near Fort Worth,
Texas, when his airplane got beyond
his control and crashed to the ground.
His death marked the forty-foufth IA
tal aviation accident ut the combined
British and American training fields
since their establishment last fail.
A Decorating Hint
Many young housewife who Is try.