Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-08-17
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day, were discovered by Lieut. X. L.
Borgess., who frustrated the scheme by
placing the ringleaders in solitary con.
hnement.
Ten German prisoners from the
Philippines and Chile arrived in Salt
Lake last week and were at once in
termed in the war prison camp at Fort
Douglas.
Methods for stimulating the produe-
ton of gold will be discussed at a
conference to be held at Reno, New,
at which Utah, Nevada and other west
ern states win be represented.
Salmon fishing in Alaska waters is
over for the season and the pack of
the Bristol bay canneries Is approx
matey the same as last year, 800
600 ses-accordng to advices receiv-
ed at Portland
The 9year-old son of John Mooney,
rancher, shot and killed Mrs. VIII
Mooney and wounded her son, Archie,
IL years of age, ut his fathers ranch
near Buffalo, Wyo.
Changes in the registration law In
make it necessary for all voters to
register again this fall If they want
to vote, whether they voted last time
or not.
Municipal ownership of the water
plant was voted in Denver by a heavy
majority, according to incomplete re-
tuns. The proposal was in the form of
bond issued for $13,970.0O0 submitted
to the taxpayers.
DOMESTIC.
Wilhelm Peters, South Dakota
farmer, killed 6-year-old Margaret
Porter and committed suicide on a
farm near Pipestone, MINI. Peters
murdered the child because her mother
Mary Porter, had refused to return
to his farm as housekeeper.
Private Harry Kimball, ID company,
Tenth infantry, stationed at Rock
Island, Ills, was shot and probably
fatally injured while his companion,
Corporal George Snyder, is under
arrest as the result of the efforts of
authorities to arrest them as deserters.
Nine fishing schooners were sunk on
Georges bank Sunday by German
submarine, naval scout boat which
put in at Nantucket. Mass, reported.
Melton Lewis, state attorney general,
declared In IA statement at New York
that he could show by series of affi-
dayits that William Randolph Hearst,
the newspaper publisher, had received
at his home, at the same time, on two
or more occasions, Bolo Pasha, who
was recently executed by France for
treason, and Count Won Bernstorff, the
then German ambassador
Charles w. Morris, a pacifist, who
told the court he would not fight if
the Turks sent an army to America and
carried off American women for their
harems, was sentenced by the federal
court at Roanoke, Va, to ninety days
In Jail,
George NJ. Howard, secretary of
state of Texas, has enlisted In the
United States navy as an apprentice
seamean at New Orleans.
Advertising, either through news
papers or by other means, TO obtain
unskllled labor by employers engaged
wholly or partly on war work With a
maximum force of more than 100 men
Is prohibited by an order issued by the
department of labor.
The United states guards, organized
to strength of forty battallons, Is
being filled out by the transfer of men
of draft age who, after induction into
service and training, have been found
disqualified by minor physical defects
FOR overseas service.
Fire originating from the explosion
of a trench mortar shell. destroyed
five buildings, blew up two powder
magazines, exploded scores of shells
and did damage estimated at S2O0,oo0
at the Western Cartridge company at
East Alton, Ills.
Loss of III 100000 bushels of corn
and 100000 bushels of wheat from
the prospective production of this
years important food crops, as indl-
Gated month ago, was shown IN the
department of agrieulture's crop report
resulting from canvass made August
l.
Mrs. Carrie Sterling, divorced wife
George Sterling committed suicide al
the palatial home of her sister, Mrs
Frank Havens at Oakland by swallow
ing cyanide of potassium.
Orders for the immediate moblliza
sion at Camp Wadsworth, Spartan
burg, s. c., of the Slavic legion, author
lied by the army appropriation bill
have been announced.
Sandbags carried to the seas depths
the body of Captain Y. Iamamoto
master Of the Japanese steamer Cana
da Maru, who ended his life at {
Canadian Pacific port because, 1t |!
believed, he feared disgrace rs result
of the stranding of his command Jul,
80.
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