Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-09-07

of a slx-months' sentence in the War
! rensyllle, Ohio, workhouse for spread
Ing birth control propaganda.
| Invention of a concrete freight car
as a means of solving steel conserva-
ton and troop and supply transpo:ta-
| ton problems, Is announced at San
/ Francisco by a. c. Greenvank, drafts
man employed by the state harbor com
/ mission
The crew of The tug Triton, whick
reached an Atlantic port Friday re-
| ported having been fired upon by an
enemy submarine in fog off Boone Is
land. The tug changed its course and
raced here for safety.
WASHINGTON.
Plans for President Wilson's speech.
| making for the Fourth Liberty loan
are taking hope and it Is said his cam
paigr nay carry him to the Pacific
coast
Usurpation of power, inefficlency and
unjust abuse of business interests are
among charges made against the fed
eral trade commission and laid before
President Wilson by the chamber of
commerce of the United States.
Pledging anew to the world the con-
secretion of every strength of arm and
brain in america to the winning of the
war, President Wilson IN his Labor
day proclamation, issued September
], ranked the army of labor working
at home with the army abroad.
Director General McAdoo has Or
dered all railroad men, officials and
employees alike, to keep out of politics.
One-third of all the gasoline pro
duced in the mdcontinent fields in the
next three mouths is to be turned over
TO the government for war purposes,
according to an agreement reached at
conference between government of
ficials and western refiners and job
bers.
A treaty providing for the drafting
for military service of Greek citizens
in America and American citizens in
Greece, similar in general terms 10
conventions between the United States
at the state department Friday by See
rotary Lansing and Minister Roussos
FOREIGN.
The Japanese government is plan.
ming the organization of a commission
composed of officials, bankers, business
men and scientists to study the ques-
tion growing out of the recent food
disturbances. including labor and So
cial problems.
Yaqui Indians have revolted at Ortiz,
Sonora and Culiacan, in the Mexican
state of Snaloa.
The Telegraf says it learns new
sickness probably cholera, has broken
out in Belgium. Thirty young persons
died last week in village near Diest
seventeen miles northeast of Louvain.
For the first time American troops
fought on Belgian soil September l.
They captured Noormezeele and wera
engaged in the operations elsewhere
in the same locality.
Representatives of eleven Rhih,
towns are holding meeting at Saar-
brueck, according to German advices,
discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of urging
an agreement by both groups of bel
ligerents not TO attack open towns or
of increasing the antl-alrcraft d.
lenses.
Hang Hui Lung, minister of educa-
tion for China, brother of Admiral
Ting Fiji All Ming of the war depart
ment, Pekin. was assassinated at Vic
toria, b. c., by local Chinese barber.
who then committed suicide.
The Spanish government has decided
to take over all the German steam
ships informed in Spain, in accordance
with SPANS recent note to Berlin, be-
cause of the torpedoing of Spanish YES
sells by German submarines.
Mount Nesuvius is in violent erup.
ton for the first time since November
% last year.
Serious strikes involving 100000
workmen have broken out at Bochum
in Westphala, according 20 dispatches
Friday from Munich. Three thousand
strikers have been sent to the front
and 5000 deported from the region
under escort.
Thousands of anonymous revolution
airy pamphlets are beginning to maEe
their appearance in many parts of Ger
many, according to an official dispatch
| from France.
Twelve hundred German mutineers
have joined forces with an armed peas
ant body and attacked the German
| forces in the region of Dymera, "A
miles from Kiev, according to Rus
sian wireless dispatch received from
| Moscow
IL, Herman Harjes of the banking
! firm of Morgan, Harjes 4 Co., and
formerly high commissioner of the
| American Red Cross society for France
and Belgium, was seriously injured in
! an automobile accident near Yer
SALES.
J The Germans continue in retreat ev-