Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-03-02

from st. Johns for New York, by way
Of Halifax, with 40 persons aboard, in
Guiding IS passengers, piled up on the
ledge near Cape Race during biz
zard Sunday and all on board were
| lost.
Felix r. Jones of Abilene, Texas,
was found guilty by a jury in the dis
| trict court at Ell Paso of the murder
| of Thomas r. Lyons, wealthy Silver
City IN. No cattleman. The jury
fixed the penalty at twenty-five years
! Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Refusal to accept d consignment of
beans because of drop in the market
caused the r. d. Otter company of
Louisville, KY, to lose its food license.
The food administration notified the
concern to close it's doors February 25.
! WASHINGTON
A price of $3.50 bushel--the same
as for last years crop-was fixed by
President Wilson on February %, for
! the coming seasons wheat yield. The
price is for number l northern spring
wheat at Chicago, with a scale of diff
ferentials for other markets.
Secretary Daniels has recommended
to congress that it abolish the extra
and provide instead reasonable in
crease in death or disability compen-
sation in government insurance.
While war department. officials re-
| iterate that no date has definitely been
fixed for the calling of the second draft
of the national army, all available out
ward indications would seem to point
to some time during the month of
April or at the latest early in May.
Seven hundred thousand army rifles
have been produced in the United
States since this country entered the
war, according to Il statement made
public by the ordnance bureau of the
war department.
The administration bill, providing for
| the government control of railroads
until eighteen months after the war,
including many "short lines" and APP
proprating a revolving fund of $780,
100000 for federal operation was APP
| proved by the senate February y.
Director General McAdoo has given
assurance that, so far as transporta-
| ton is concerned, there is no danger OF
suffering from q serious food shortage
| in the eastern part of the country"
With the approval of President Will
son, the federal railroad administra-
ton is about to interest itself in street
railway, light heat and power compa-
MES throughout the country whose
financial stability may be threatened
by mounting costs of operation.
FOREIGN
There are numerous indications in
Germany of very systematic cam
paign to promote new general strike,
says Berlin dispatch to the Weser
Zeitung, of Bremen.
| American troops are entering into
the larger field of operations. They
have passed through the training pc
riod in the trenches and are now ac-
lively engaged in large infantry at
lacks and artillery duels almost con-
tinuouSly.
Villa is heading toward the Durango
mountains and column under General
Eduardo Hernandez and General Fran
cisco Gonzalez is in pursuit of him
from the direction of Parral and Es-
Gallon, according to reports reaching
JuareZ.
The Turkish forces dislodged by the
British by the capture of Jerico, in
| 70, hn NIL nd
east, the war office announces.
A Russian courier with the peace
! proposals of the Russian government
has arrived in Berlin, according to adj
| vices received at Amsterdam.
If the Germans refuse peace to Rus
sia "a struggle to the death or victory
for us is inevitable" says Ensign Kry-
lenko, commander-in-chief of the Rus
| sian armies, in an official statement
! issued February %. THE peoples
heroism must be opposed to the adj
| vancing enemy" it is declared.
The bitterest disappointment of the
war for the Prussians has been the
SCATTERING of the 'fatuOus belief" that
the labor of the United States could
be stampeded by ''insidiOus prOpa-
ganda," Secretary of the Navy Daniels
declared in an address at New York.
| The British have captured Jericho,
in Palestine, the war office reports.
The city was entered by Australian
troops February q. Little opposition
was encountered. Subsequently the
| Australians established themselves on
the line of the Jordan and the Wadi-
Auja.
A complete economic agreement, in
which Great Britain and the other
| allied nations are in accord, has been
reached between the United States and
| Norway The terms have not yet been
made public.
Operations have been resumed ON