Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-06-29
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1 chdrSeu With numbering MIN. The body
of DIR. DigOcomo was found in his
home. Both a revolver and knife
had been used in killing him. One ear
was cut off, his skull was fractured
and he had been shot through the
stomach
Discontinuance of instruction in Ger
man at the University of Denver was
announced JGne %. During the sec
ond semester OF last year only 80 stu
dents enrolled in the German classes.
Next year no German will be taught,
unless requested by the government for
war workers.
Salt Lake officers Sunday night
rounded up about 500 men suspected
of being draft evaders, in raid con-
Quoted at Saltair. The men were taken
to the county Jail and asked to pro-
duce their classification cards. OF the
men taken into custody by the officers
all were able to show their cards ex-
cept six.
All fires in the Helena forest have
been eXtinguished, according to infor-
nation received Friday. 1t is esti-
mated by the supervisor that 1900
acres of the Helena forest have been
burned over.
"a fine lot is the way officers spoke
of several thousand draft men who ar
rived ut Camp Kearny on Friday from
Camp Lewis American Lake, Wash.
They also commented favorably on the
happy appearance and good discipline
evidenced by the recruits, all of whom
were drafted last May.
The bodies of George /. Grow of Salt
Lake City, registered for the draft in
Utah in class Al, and of a woman said
by the police to be Mrs. b. E. Simons,
were found at Los Angeles in a room
which had been occupied by Crow and
a roommate. 1t is believed Grow shot
the woman and himself while insane.
DOMESTIC.
When an empty troop train ran into
a circus train near Gary, Ind, sixty
two people, members of the circus,
were killed and 100 injured. The cir
Gus train had stalled on switch and
the engineer of the troop train evident
| ~ ldlIcu 10 See lue IuSeS SET Out us
warning.
Silliman Evans, former clerk in the
American legation at Copenhagen and
Texas newspaper man, has been ex-
onerater of completely in the Russian
crown jewel smuggling case.
Inaugurating movement to boycott
German-made goods, the American de-
Tense society has issued an appeal for
20,000000 signatures to a pledge not
to buy anything with the German
mark.
Blanket authority to increase the
price of wheat at primary and other
markets. with the approval of Food
Administrator Hoover, above the 1920
a bushel minimum price guaranteed by
presidential proclamation last Febru-
airy 81, is given the food administra-
ton grain corporation in New York by
an executive order of the president
British and American aeronautic eX-
perts believe swarms of American
made airplanes will be flying across
the the Atlantic to the battletields of
France next year
After re-electing most of its officers,
the American Federation of Labor con-
cluded its sessions at st. Paul on June
-, and adjourned, to meet next year
in Atlantic City, n. ]. President Sam
uel Gompers, Washington; Secretary
Frank Morrison, Washington, and
Treasurer Daniel J. Tobin, Indianapo-
/ oil NNffhntf ntAnpGftfnrn
heat wave of great intensity pre-
walls over most of the southwest, and
damage already has been caused in the
wheat fields of Kansas and Oklahoma.
Joseph +. Rutherford and seven
other defendants, followers of the late
"Pastor" Russell, were found guilty of
conspiring to violate the espionage law,
by n jury in federal court at New York.
4 Thirty-fom soldiers were injured,
five probably fatally, near Selby, Tex,
about 10 miles east of Waco, Texas,
when st. Louis & Southwestern rail
way train carrying troops stationed at
Camp Macarthur, was wrecked while
passing over a wooden bridge.
Fifteen hundred members of The Ma
tional Association of Creditmen, meet
ing in convention at Chicago on June
Is, discussed war credit measures,
dwelling Particularly on commercial
readjustments TO follow the declaration
of peace.
American troops may be sent to Italy
at once to aid in the battle against
the invading Austrians, and to demon
strate to the Italians that the United
States is really in the war to win.
The French Woman's Many Pillows.
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