Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-12-21
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Inc SENTENCE OF ueatn imposed on
Ben +. kuhl, murderer of Fred Searey
Jarbidge stage driver, was commutos
to life Imprisonment by the state board
of parsons at Carcon City. New. Kuhl
was to have been shot at the state
prison ON December 90
designations of every member of the
fire department at Colorado Springs
except the chiefs, were accepted by
the city council Thursday. The men
thirtytiye in number, resigned because
| their request for increased wages was
refused.
Leigh & Green of Lund, Utah, has
filed application with the state public
utilities commission for a permit to
operate motor freight truck service
between Lund and Parowan.
Butte will see unusual building and
real estate activity in the spring of
| 1919, Homer Townsend, chief clerk of
the city department of public works,
predicts.
| Reconstruction and readjustment pc
RODS will not be characterized by
panics or depression, according to Jere
Sharpe, prominent Minneapolis banker,
who is visiting in Butte.
An attack upon the Washington
state mothers pension law of 1915,
brought by Mrs. Rose Snyder of Sc
attic, who alleged it was unconstitu-
tional in providing pensions for
| widows nd fnr 1ncarta1 unn
was dismissed Monday by the supreme
court. Washington court DEGREES up
holding the laws validity were af-
firmed.
A. u. Spriggs. chairman of the Mon
tana state Industrial accident board
has indorsed a suggestion that an ef-
| fort be made to have the government
| turn over Fort Harrison for a school
for the rehabilitation of Industrial
cripples.
Holland is seeking trade in Utah, ac-
cording to a letter received by Earl
J. Glade, secretary of the Utah State
Fair association. The letter comes
from the intelligence office for COM
mercial relations at Amsterdam and re-
quests him to send catalogue of
the exhibitors. The letter adds that
all offers and inquiries emanating
from firms in Utah will be welcomed
and laid before importers and expor-
tiers in Holland.
A penchant for writing letters, the
| character of which precluded them
| from admission to the mails, has land
ed o. J. Langford of Carbon county,
Utah, in the insane asylum at Provo.
DOMESTIC.
Recruiting in each community of a
trip of 'sea scouts" intended to pre-
pare boys for the mrchant marine, will
be one of the features of anniversary
week. of the boys scouts of America
February to February 3D.
A special rate will be granted to
clergymen over the railroads, begin
| received by the Rev. w S. Foreman
from Director General McAdoo.
Operations of the German propa
ganda system in the United States,
through which valuable information for
| transmission to Berlin was gathered al
the same time that German doctrines
| were spread over the country were
laid bare Friday by Captain G. b
Lester of the army intelligence ser
vice in testimony before the senate
committee investigating beer and Ger
man propaganda. Most of the evidence
related to activity of Teutonic agents
before the United States entered the
war
Buffeted by high seas, which carried
away a deckhouse and wrenched a
four-inch gun from it's mounting, the
| American transport Dekalb arrived
here Friday from France With approx
| imately 1850 soldiers, sailors and ma
rines, nearly 400 of whom had beer
| wounded in action. She was preceded
into port by the mail boat Oregonan
carrying n solitary doughboy, Sergeant
Leland A. Kaufman of the Second
division headquarters troop. who
| brought home the favorite charger OF
his commander Major General Oman
| Bundy
Striking street car men ut Omaha re
| turned to work at o'clock Thursday
afternoon. Not n street car had been
moved in Omaha during the past eight
days. The local union voted unani
mously TO obey the request of Interna
| tional President w. c. Mahon that
they return TO work
Henry Youtsey, who has been serv
Ing life sentence on Il charge of com
| plicity in the murders in 1900 of for
mer Gov. William Goebel of Kentucky
was paroled Wednesday by the boarc
of prison control, according to an an
nouncement made by Herbert Carr
member of the board.