Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-05-25
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we've assigned light work in cleaning
up the yards. They will be paid %
cents an hour and railsead officials
announced opportunities for them to
become "foremen" if efficient.
TwOfsOyS were killed, another prob
ably fatally injured and two slightly
hurt at a railroad crossing isear Salem.
Utah, when train crashed into an
automobile
United States Senator Charles Nc
Nary, appQihted by Governor Witty
connie last winter to complete the ;lln-
expired term OF the late Senator Lane,
of Oregon, and Oswald West, former
governor. were elected candidates in
the general prims ries for the seven
year senatorial tefm beginning next
March. McNary is Republican and
West a Democrat.
Nearly 200 patients had narrow
escape from death, and damage esti-
mated at many thousands of dollars
was caused when fire completely de-
stroyed the engine room containing
the heating and lighting System, to-
gether with the laundry. al Salt
Lake hospital
Members Of the Oregon and Wash
ingtOn Poultry Breeders association
have offered to give free settings OF
eggs to all people who will promise
TO set the eggs and raise the chickens
for market. The offer is war meas
ure.
DOMESTIC
MADEIRA county, California. exceeded
its quota of $1,000 in the Red Cross
drive before the drive opened on Sat
urday, according to telegram sent
TO President Wilson by the chairman
of the Red Cross fund committee.
Probably 200 men were killed Sun
day wnen an explosion Of T. n. T. de-
mOlished the plant of the Aetna
Chemical company, at akdale, on the
Panhandle division of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, sixteen miles from
Pittsburg
Hayes Turner, negro. and his wife,
Mary Turner accused of connection
with the murder of Hampton Smith,
Brooks county farmer, and the wound
ing of his wife at their home near
Barney, Ga, have been hanged by
mob.
A proclamation calling upon the pe0-
pie of the state ito turn aside from
their regular occupations, unless they
are engaged in essential war work, give
hi. Il ~,
to the farmers of the state" for the
gathering of crops, has been issued
By Governor William d. Stephens Of
California
The meat packing industry as at
present constituted was denounced as
"a vicious system, which stiles live
stock raising, so vital in the prosecu-
ton of the war and in feeding our ma
ton and our allies" in an address by
United states Senator John b, Ken
drick Of Wyoming before the conven-
ton of the National Livestock eX-
change at New York.
Wooden ships have been launched
at the rate of more than one day
for the past four weeks
William III. Carlson, former mayor
of San Diego and several years ago
a banker at Los Angeles, has been SEN
fenced to four years Imprisonment Tor
using the mails to defraud in the sale
of Imperial valley land,
DIR. w. II. Bruce, 80, a retired
physician of Mt. Pleasant, Tenn, gave
his wife dose of what he thought
was quinine in an effort to cure colo.
Mrs. Bruce soon complained of being
ill. and in an effort to reassure her,
DIR. Bruce himself took dose OF the
drug. The wife died shortly after
wards and DR.. Bruce cannot recover.
The New York assay office has
shipped to the orient in the last week
about $3,000,000 worth of silver bars
in accordance with an arrangement Ell
fected with the British government
some time ago to stabilize silver In In
dia. where it forms the principal me-
dunn of exchange in trading opera
tons.
"A superwheat," containing Ia pei
cent gluten, has been evolved by Luth
or Burbank, the noted California hor
ticuiturist, after experiments extend
ing over eleven years. The wheat ma!
be q ,wn in any climate.
The death rate at national army ant
national guard camps last week wa
the lowest since last November, TN
surgeon-gene has reported. Tota
deaths were 162 against 16S the wee
before.
German hospital. one OF the oldes
institutions In San Francisco, bearin
that name since 1854, became Franz
lin hospital Friday by vote OF the al
rectOrs.
The Sacramento. CAL, city board Q
education voted to close the city school
June Z, approximately three week
earlier than usual, in order to reieas