Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-05-04
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| death or James l.. HendrickSOn of
Gunnison. Mr.. Hendrickson was a
member of + battery. 10th field ar
tillery utah regimenD.
The Steel Shipbulders' union of Sc
attic has voted to join the proposed
May-day strike as a demonstration for
Tom Mooney.
| Five inches of snow fell In Denver
on April 81. An electrical storm pre-
ceded the snow.
The Seattle Central Labor council
voted Thursday to call a general strike
for twenty-four hours, May l, ac-
cordng to official announcement, as
demonstration for Thomas J. Mooney,
sentenced to hang in California, fol-
lowing his conviction on the charge of
numbering one of the victims of the
San Francisco preparedness day bomb
explosion.
Twelve hundred and sixty-five men
arrived at Camp Lewis, Wash, Friday
as the first contingent of the new
draft. A total of 1892 men is to ar
rive at camp within the next few days.
| The Woolgrowers' association,
through its committee, headed by S.
| w. Mcclure of Salt Lake, has advised
the price fixing committee of the war
| Industries board that they would ac-
! cept the basis of wool prices fixed by
| the government
I DOMESTIC
Ivan Mccain was taken into custody
| Sunday charged with the murder of
Kenneth @. Folston of Oregon, who dis
appeared from his lodging house at
Phoenix, Ariz., last November. The
body of Folston was found on Satur-
day afternoon by cowboys twenty-five
miles northeast of the city.
Earl Austin, u farm hand arrested
at Geneva, N. Y, confessed to the po-
lice that he had murdered Hank Mosh-
er and Blanch Mosher, his daughter,
aged Is, at Victor. Both were killed
with an axe.
Theodore Roosevelt will make a
Speaking tour through the middle west
late in May the National Security
league has announced. The former
president will deliver addresses in
Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin,
under the auspices of the league, which
has been conducting patriotism
through education" drive in the states
named.
American experts are adapting
French methods for the manufacture
Of 90 oh 81
bombs.
Madame Marie X. de Victorica, be-
lieved by officers of the department of
justice to be one of the most active of
the last fifteen months, was arrested at
fashionable Long Island hotel Satur-
| day as a dangerous enemy alien.
Nineteen days of Liberty loan cam
| paigning closed with the government
assured of 81, 7S,S77 $50. 20 per cent of
the three billion minimum require
ment.
Three men, former subjects of Ger
many, were fined in federal court at
Lincoln, Neb., following conviction of
| NiVlitlHS inc tSplphuSt at W oiSNVui-
aging enlistments.
Charged with drilling holes in the
wings of airplanes ready to be de-
livered to the government, an employee
of manufacturing company was ar
rested by federal agents at Cleveland.
Captain f. j. Butterfield, and all the
deck officers of the American steam
ship Florence H., now are believed to
have lost their lives when the ship
was destroyed by an explosion, April
IL, while off the French coast.
| Strong achievements came to the
nations third popular war credit ON
! April 26, as result of the celebration
of Liberty day with parades and DEM
onstrations in practically every part of
| the country.
Lincoln Steffens, magazine writer
and lecturer, was prevented by the
police Mt San Diego from delivering
an advertised address ut local
church on the Menace of
Peace Chief of Police McMullen told
] Steffens that no man who criticized
the government as he (Steffens) had
done In Il previous lecture could speak
again in San Diego. especially in war
| times.
The American line steamship st.
Paul, famous passenger liner, over
turned and sank at her pier at New
York while being warped into pier
preparatory to loading for trip to
Europe. Three men probably lost their
| lives in the accident.
Alaska will be called on in May and
June for 500 draft registrants, Provost
Marshal General Crowder has an
nounced. They will be trained at
Fort \. liam Seward, Haines, Alaska.
Harry p. Flannery, former police
| commissioner at San Francisco, has
/ been brought to trial in the United
/ States court on charge of conspir-
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