Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-02
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRiEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE,
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAiN.


were found dead in tent after some
of the stock had wandered into a
nearby town. Both had died from in
fluenZa.
A call to coffee drinkers in Oregon
has been sent out from food admins
tian headquarters, at Portland, asking
that they curtail the size and number
OF cups of their favOrite beverage. RAJ
tjoning will not be resorted to, it was
said but voluntary abstention was
asked.
Holding that non-declarant aliens
cannot be legally drafted into the
American army, Federal Judge Bour-
quin at Butte, Mont, issued a writ of
haheas corpus applied for by John Ma
porn. a Russian citizen. and ordered
bis -rlease Napora had been classed
delinquent by the Minot n. D., draft
boar,l and indicted into military serv-
ice uader the rule providing for such a
procedure.
Glad to put up with the discomforts
Of quarantine to be near their boys
who lie i'll with influenza and pneu-
monia in the base hospital at Camp
Levi, Wash, nearly 100 women are
quart ared in the Y. w. C. A. hostess
house and the Salvation Army rooms.
Apparatus suspiciously resembling
that lsed in ''mooonshine" stills was
discovered in Salt Lake City. A guam
fity Sf apples and peaches and three
barrels of liquor, which officers de-
c2arei contains nearly per cent al
coholr We're found. The liquor tested
Is in rhe form of peach cordial.
DOMESTIC.
Four men and woman were wound
ed n. McComb, Ills, as the result of
Il two-heur fight between officers and
:. L, Danley, Il rhubarb wine maker.
who escaped from Jail year ago and
for s,sme time past, it is alleged, was
selling his product in defiance of local
authc sities.
TIN ee army camps did not report a
single. new case of influenza on Satur
day and only two, Kearny, Cal, and
Lewii, Wash, reported more than 100
cases.
To work at some essential industry
ror lalor for the city at the work farm
will he the only alternative henceforth
Of the able-bodied idle men of Duluth,
MINI. who are not in military service.
En- argement of Camp Kearny by
'one-t'ird was authorized by tele-
graphic instructions received from
Wasl, ington. 1t is estimated that the
work in contemplation will entail an
expenditure of S1,OOO,OOO.
Complete elimination of tuberculosis
by the introduction of nitrogen into
the pleural cavities is expected from
an operation performed at the Metro
pulitan hospital, New York, by DR.. j.
A De Oliveira Botelho, noted sur
gcon of Brazil.
America has turned out its first fab
ricated steel ship. She is the Agawan,
%! $500 lightweight tons, completion OF
which by the Submarine Boat corpora
zion at Port Newark, n. j., was an
bounced Wednesday by Chairman Hur-
ley of the shipping board.
The mean allowance of dog meat IN
famiShed Holland is two ounces per
week for each person, it was declared
by a passenger arriving at an Atlantic
pori ON Holland-American liner.
State cases in criminal court against
men indicted in connection with the
steamer Eastland disaster of July "A
1911, at Chicago, were cleared from
the dockets few days ago.
Albert Steinhauser, publisher of the
Post at New Ulm, Mimi, was indicted
by a federal grand jury at Mankato,
MIMI. on charge of violating the
espionage act.
The Forty-second (Rainbow) divi-
sion, one of the crack units of the
American army, left the United States
lust year ago on october IS. This
American division has fought and taken
prisoners from twenty-six enemy di-
Visions, including three Prussian guard
divisions and one Austrian division,
and also prisoners from nineteen in
dependent German units.
t'AJlX GOuleu, colllraCl pIolHotoi,
convicted of conspiracy to defraud the
government in the manufacture OF
army raincoats, was sentenced to seven
years' Imprisonment by the federal
court mt New York. Captain Aubrey
Vaughan, who admitted using his
former office to help Gouled, was given
a two year term.
The Texas statewide prohibition law
was on October % declared unconstitu-
tionai by tie court of criminal APP
peals One nudge dissened.
Spanish influenza as an epidemic Is
subslding rapidly in the military
camps of the country, but among the
civilian population generally the peak
has not yet been reached.
President Wilson will be urged to fix
minimum price of $2.64 bushel for
No. ! northern WHEAT or its equivalent,
Chicago delivery. by representatives
OF the National Wheat Growers asso-