Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-09-07
of
asst Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
INTE RMOUNTAIN.

NTERMOUNTAIN.
Bottles of milk have been substi-
tuted for bottles of wines in christen-
ing ships at Portland, Ore, and sug-
s gestlons have been made to the ship
ping board that the substitution be
made general at all shipyards.
Miss Jeanette siankin, the only
woman In congress, has been defeated
In her race for the United States sen
atorship from Montana.
4 With 1870 men in line, Salt Lake
City union labor staged pageant on
Labor day that will be a pacemaker
for many years to come.
n The body of Frank Smith, who Is
supposed to nave committed suicide
August II, was found on Thursday in
the river near Idaho Falls, Idaho.
II Fearing trouble, white settlers of
southwestern Colorado and southeast
ern Utah are protesting to the commits
II sioner of Indian affairs at Washington
against the acts of bands of hostile
4 Indians reported to be engaged in driv-
ing off stock and burning fences in
B the remote districts of that section.
II Out of thirty men believed to have
j been in the mine Of the Pacific Coast
{. Coal company at Burnett. a small min
4 Ing town thirty miles southeast OF
a Tacoma, when an explosion occurred
Fl Wednesday, only four were brought
!. out alive and one of these died later.
i Utah and Washington are the two
states of the Union whose national
guard officers have stood the rigid
army requirements for efficiency.
h Neither of these states since the out
break of the war has lost single Of
ficer out of the national service on
the score of inefficiency, which is the
4 highest test that could be applied to
4 the former national guard organiza-
tons.
DOMESTIC.
Nilhjalmar Stefansson, the Arctic
4 explorer, who Is in Dawson. en- route
home after five years In the north,
Will recommend to the Canadian gov
Z eminent plans for the reclamation of
the Arctic islands and the Canadian
wilderness on Il vast scale.
Nearly half of the $500, 100000 re-
volying fund provided originally for
the railroad administration has been
consumed In loans and rental pay
ments TO Individual roads, according
to railroad administration financial
report.
With thin, sunken cheeks and blis-
tered skin the crew of British bark
entine arrived at Seattle from Sydney.
Australia, lowering on the brink of
collapse from scurvy and ravenously
hungry from an enforced diet of whole
wheat bread and water for three
months.
William d. Haywood. "Uncrowned
King of the |. W. W.. and IA of his
chief aides in the conspiracy to over
turn the American war program, We're
sentences to 20 years in the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, by
Federal Judge X. NJ Lands. Ten-year
sentences We're imposed upon 33 of the
organizations leaders, five years on SO,
one year and one day on II and ten
day sentences ON two.
I lHt nuliit vi lilt lillSSlllS Npilltl
Cyclops has been formally stricken
from the navy register, Secretary Dan
ies said Friday, and orders have been
issued for the payment by the treasury
of all claims growing out of the loss of
her crew.
Caught signalling to sea with colorcd
flash lights. Il suspected German spy
was challenged by II coast guard at
Ocean City. n. j., and after a brief
struggle was shot and killed by the
officers.
With many persons prominent in the
state and nation present, the funeral
of the late United States Senator Ollie
NJ. james of Kentucky was held at
Marion, Ky, August 30.
Comparison of food prices prevail
Ing new with those of five years ago
shows that the purchasing power of
a dollar bill has shrunk to n cents in
Washington and Baltimore, 20 cents
I'm Philadelphia, 80 cents in New York
and 63 cents in San Francisco, accord
ing to statement by the depart
ment of labor
Democratic leaders are planning to
test in the California supreme court
the state primary law under which
Mayor james Rolph of San Francisco,
apparently an easy winner in the Dem
ocratic gubernatorial primary. would
be debarred from running because of
his apparent failure to be nominated
on the Republican ticket his registered
party.
More than $4,000 unsldlled workers
have been recruited Tn 10 states and
placed in war plants during the last
two weeks. the labor department has
announced.
New hat, clothing and tent repair
shops and an extension of the quarter
master truck company garage are &c
be erected at Camp Kearny.
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