Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-12-28
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ANe June, lJ1f, Alfred II. Behr-
mann, aged 81 years, told the police
VINO arrested him at Seattle, he had
oeen living as hermit In the noun
Jams OF California, with a tent as his
nome, where he fled to evade the draft
law.
| sterilization of mentally and socially
unit persons to control reproduction of
tills class of incompetents in the state
Oh loaho, is recommended by DR.. DOR
foynter, superintendent of the Idaho
state sanitarium at Nampa, in his first
annual report to the board of direc-
tors of the institution.
Eva Lewis, member of the bandit
| gang which terrorized the Colorado
Springs and Denver districts in Sen
TENDER, has been senteL ced to serve
from five to seven years in the state
penitentlary. The sentence is the min
lmum for one convicted of robbery with
gun.
| Camp Lewis, WASH, sent its first
men to the Preside, San Francisco,
and Camp Kearny, Call for discharge
ON December q. Twenty men went
to each camp as a unit under COM
mand OF an officer also eligible for
discharge.
Word of the appointment by General
Pershing of DR.. James G. Graves of
Seattle, major in the medical corps
OF the United States army in France,
as one of the ten physicians and SUN
geons to represent this country at an
inter-allied conference upon the prob
lem of the disabled soldier, has been
received.
A complete survey of positions in
| Utah open to discharged soldiers will
be made by the authorities of Camp
Lewis, Wash, the state council of de-
Tense and the local bureau of the fed
eral employment bureau.
DOMESTIC.
The Kansas supreme court has held
that Frederick Shumaker of Wetmore,
Nemaha county, must go to Jail or pay
fine, as the district court DEGREES,
because he picked out a blacksmith
ship in which to make unpatriotic re-
marks concerning the flag of the
United States. The court held the
shop to be public place.
Camp Funston, Kansas, is to be
turned into winter university in
which soldiers who will be here for
any length of time will be given in
struction in industrial and mechanical
limos Nuall &c ,,n;litorx trn;niDu
After sixteen years a charge of muir
der against Victor Roland O'Shea,
three times tried at Chicago for the
Staying of his wife, has been dropped
He is a free man.
An expedition to be led by Capt.
Robert A. Bartlett, noted explorer,
will be sent to the Polar regions next
June to survey the north pole by air
plane, according to announcement at
New York by the Aero Club of Amer
lea. The plan, it was said was con-
ceived by Rear Admiral Robert E.
Peary, discoverer of the pole.
Walter Hines Page, former ambas-
sador to Great Britain, died at Pine
ness of many weeks. DIR. Pages health
began to fail nearly year ago and he
gave up his post as American repre-
sentative at the court of st. James late
in the summer.
The British schooner Pauline Mar
tin, leaking and rudderless, floundered
for weeks in terrific gales In mid-At-
lantic before her crew was rescued ac-
cOrding to her skipper, Captain
Wayte, and his six seamen, who ar
rived at New York aboard the Swed-
ish steamship Elizabeth.
In it's first report ON the part 1t is
playing In restoring war workers and
discharged soldiers to peace time in
dustry, the United States employment
service announced that, during the
week ending December Z, jobs were
found for S4,2Si applicants who regis
tered
Francis ("Silk'0 OLoughlin, famous
as an American league umpire, died at
his apartment Mt Boston December 20,
after short Illness of influenza and
pneumonia. OLoughlin had been an
umpire in the American league since
it's organization and he had long been
rated as one Of the picturesque figures
In the baseball world.
The United States army transport
Henry II. Mallory arrived at New
York on Friday with 446l American
soldiers from Bordeaux. Nine hun
bred and one Of the men were sick or
wounded.
Four negroes, two of them women,
accused of the murder of Dr. Il. l..
Johnston, were taken from the Jail at
Shubuta, Miss, and lynched, according
to information received at Mobile.
Bernard Nadal Baker of Baltimore,
shipping expert, died at hospital at
Santa Barbara, Cal, following an ILL
ness of three days Mr.. Baker CAME
west on advice of his physicians lie
was formerly MEMBER of the snip