Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-03-09
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Deen clteu Dy lne fTeHcH SoNeIiihen'
to receive the cross of war for yalor in
service.
An earthquake was felt at Yakima,
Wash, February 2S. The shock lasted
only a moment but was violent enough
to rattle dishes, sway houses and
brighten domestic animals. No dam
age was done.
Miss Augusta Minnie Deckman and
the Rev. B. Henry Leesmann, charged
with having attempted to smuggle a
note to Ernest A. Leybold, an enemy
alien confined in the war prison bar
racks at Fort Douglas, Utah, have been
held for further investigation by the
federal grand jury.
Raymond S. Harrington, one of the
proprietors of the Twin Auto Livery
company of Denver, died at Cheyenne
from wounds received when he was
shot by Colorado state constabulary on
the Cheyenne road eighteen
miles south of Cheyenne, while driving
"a motor car. According to the officers,
Harrington declined to stop his motor
car when ordered.
DOMESTIC
Colonel Roosevelt will leave Roose-
welt hospital with his hearing perma-
nently impaired. He is deaf in the
left ear. His physicians said he will
probably be dizzy for some months,
and that his sense of equilibrium will
be impaired. That, however, will later
be restored, they declared.
Not until Poland is a free, independ-
ent country will Ignace Paderewski
again play the piano. Such was the
declaration of the noted pianist, now
the accredited ambassador of the Pol
ish people to the United States, who
arrived at Chicago Saturday with
members of the Polish mission.
John Macdonald of Montclair, \. j.,
stands convicted of assault and battery
for kissing his wife by force, the trial
judge deciding that no man has right
to kiss his wife by force.
The non-sinkable ship Lucia, loaded
and ready to take her chances with
out convoy against the German subma-
rines, is expected to leave the port of
New York this week.
1.-THE machine gun famine is over,
said NJ S. Browning. part owner of
the patent on the Browning machine
gun, in an interview published at Los
Angeles. There will be $4,000 of these
guns in the hands of soldiers before
the end of the summer, and in a cou-
pie of months six large factories, now
ready to start operations, will be turn
ing out several thousand a day.
General c. c. HOare, supreme com
mander of the entire British royal fly
ing corps in Canada and the United
States, narrowly escaped death, but
was injured severity about the face and
head, in forced landing at Hicks avn
alton field at Fort Worth, Texas.
Combination of electric generating
systems and elimination of hundreds of
isolated and unecOnomical plants is
under consideration by the fuel admin
istratiOn as means of saving fuel
supplies.
The California supreme court on
March l unanimously decreed that
Thomas j. Mooney must hang for his
alleged participation in the prepared
ness day parade bomb outrage of July
%, 1916. which eliminated in the
deaths of ten persons and the injury
of two score others.
Court officials of Chicago, autOmO-
bile dealers and councilmen are agi-
tating the necessity of special court
to try automobile thieves. Last year
5000 automobiles We're stolen in Chi
cagO.
The department of labor has refused
t. deport Count James Minotto, SON.
ilsiaw of Louis Swift, the Chicago
packer, on charges preferred by the
director of naval intelligence, but he
will be held and later may be interned
Prominent Republicans were told by
win II. Hays, new chairman Of the
Republican national committee, at d
luncheon rendered by William Il. Will
cox, former chairman. at New York
that all efforts must be centered upon
the prosecution of the war.
An overwhelming vote in favor of a
resolution warning German business
men that an economic combination will
be formed against Germany after the
war unless the danger Of excessive
armament is removed by making the
German government "a responsible In
strument controlled by the people, IL
announced by the chamber of com
merce Of the United States.
Mormon settlers from the United
States who have homes and farms IL
western Chihuahua have been invited
to return with their families and re
occupy their farms, according to an an
nouncement received at Ell Paso from
the office of the minister of interior o
Mexico.
Captured German airplanes brough