Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-11-23
History OF
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The News Happenings of
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ActoIuiHE W II. II. of1illl, eiliOIlOl-
ogist of the state university, clover
fields around Twin Falls, Idaho, are
infested with aphis, and he advises
grazing to eliminate the pest
NJ. S. Browning, brother of John NJ
Browning, inventor of the machine
guns used by the army, has left
Ogden, Utah. for Hartford, Conn, for
conference regarding the future or
ders for the guns. 1t was stated that
the government intends to continue the
manufacture of the machine guns to
fill all the orders.
A victim of either murder or suicide,
probably suicide, Miss Marion Rowley,
20 years old, beautiful girl whose
dead with bullet hole in her head at
small hotel in Denver.
Secretary Lane announced Saturday
that approximately 1,166,000 acres of
land were designated during October
for entry under the stockraising
homestead law. The lands are located
in Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and
Wyoming. The total area now desig-
nated as stockraising land amounts to
approximately 100000 acres.
Influenza epidemic conditions remain
unchanged in Utah, as far as the
spread of the disease and the setting
of definite date for the opening of
places of public assemblage are con-
cerned.
All shipment of troops from Camp
Lewis, WASH, have been suspended by
orders received there from Washing
Ion. Several hundred men of the One
Hundred Sixty-sixth depot brigade,
who had been assigned to other posts,
but were held because of the influenza
quarantine, are affected
DOMESTIC.
The recent epidemic of influenza in
the United States caused more deaths
than occurred among the American ex-
peditionary forces from all causes
from the time the first unit landed in
France until hOstilities ceased.
Fred Fulton of Minnesota, one-time
claimant for heavyweight champion
ship honors, was given decision over
Sailor Willie Meehan of San Francisco
at the conclusion of four-round con-
test. 1t was one of the fiercest bouts
ever witnessed In San Francisco.
Colonel Roosevelt has authorized
the announcement that he and Mrs.
Roosevelt wJfld visit the grave of
their son, Lieutenant Quentin Roose-
welt, in France, at the spot where he
fell after his airplane had been shot
down by the Germans.
Railroad telegraphers' wages were
advanced by order of Director General
McAdoo on November 16. Ii cents per
hour above the rate prevailing last
January with minimum of 4S cents
per hour. retroactive to October l.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in the
closing hours of the Pan-American Ia
Dor conference at laredo, Tex, served
formal warning that no general reduc-
ton of wages nor increase in working
hours after the war would be accepted
without bitter fight by organized
labor
The victory celebration killed the
Spanish influenza. That Is the opinion
of high medical authorities in Wash
lngton. 1t is admitted that suggestion
may have had something to do with
1t, but 1t is contended that physiologi-
cal rather than psychological reasons
should receive the credit for rendering
he disease germs innOcuous.
Mrs. Mary Simpson, widow, was
killed. and twelve persons were injured
tornado which swept through
rague, causing property damage es-
timated at 100000.
Excessive quantities of trinitrotoluol
I'd other explosives, as we'll as fin
he'd shells were stored not only in
agazines, but in freight cars about the
plant of the Il. A. Gillespie shell load
ing, plant at Morgan last month when
the plant was wrecked by an explo-
sion which killed nearly 100 men, ac-
cording to evidence submitted
When the city council of Long Beach,
Cal. attempted to make kissing in
public a misgemeanor it acted arbi-
trarily and in violation of the consti-
tuition, according to decision rendered
by Superior Judge FrankR. Willis.
Irving Morgan was convicted of sec
Ond degree murder in Shelby county
circuit court ut Shelbyvlile, HIS, for
ne murder of his wife. Morgan threw
his wife from car window.
Extension to November 80 of the
time in which Christmas parcels will
be accepted for mailing to members of
the American expeditionary forces in
France is announced by the postoffice
and war Departments.