Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-04-06
History Of
asst Week
The News Happenings of
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tory of Utah, Alonzo Young, son of the
late President Brigham Young Of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, died at midnight Saturday
night.
The war has brought no boom in
women's wages in Washington. Sta
tistics given out by the bureau Of labor
statistics of the labor department show
surprisingly low wages for women en-
gagged in industry at the capital.
Negotiations between the Employ
ers' association and the striking
unions of Great Falls, Mont, have
come to an end, without settlement.
The unions went out two weeks ago on
a demand for higher wages, the COM
mon labOrer in the city service asking
$3.50 per day as minimum wage.
Judge Fred S. Stevens died March
% at his ranch two miles east of
Blackfoot, Ida. Judge Stevens was the
oldest settler in the vicinity of Black
foot, having come there in 1863 and
lived continuously since 1866 on his
ranch.
The farmers throughout Idaho are
planting much larger acreage than
ever before. Wheat and sugar beetS
will be the principal crops for this
year.
All liquor in the State of Utah is
cOntraband and seizable no matter if
1t was purchased prior to August l.,
1917, when the state went into the
prohibition column, and regardless of
the purchase for which the liquor was
obtained, according to a decision of
the state supreme court.
DOMESTIC
Miss Estelle Consolloy. aged 40, a
school teacher, was found dead on her
bed at Trenton, N. j., by police Off
GERS, who burst open the door. Her
wrists were cut and she evidently bled
to DEATH Her sister. Miss Cornelia
Consolloy, Il trained nurse, proclaimed
herself as the lnurderess. She was re-
garded as delnented.
A mysterious epidemic in Haskell in
stitute, the big Indian school at Law
renee, Kans., has caused the death of
four students and the illness of many
more, and physicians of the state board
of health, the Indian service and the
federal public health service are at a
loss as to the exact nature of the dis
ease.
, A rain approaching a cloudburst in
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out crops and endangering some of the
stock pastured in the lowlands along
the Guadalupe river.
Six great German-Owned New Jer-
sey wooden mills. with total valu-
alton of more than $7O,OOOO0O, have
been taken over by the alien property
custodian, who has named governing
boards of directors to assume control
OF them.
Charles and John Parks We're found
guilty of murder in the second de-
gree at Silver City, N. NJ. They were
charged with shooting Deputy Sheriff
j. e. Sharmsher at Hachita, N. NJ,
October 81 The defendants are prom
inent cattlemen of Grant county.
President Wilson has telegraphed
Governor William D. Stephens of Cali
fornia asking executive clemency for
Thomas J. Mooney, now under death
sentence. Mooney was convicted in
connection with a bomb explosion in
San Francisco in a preparedness pa
rade July 90, 1916, which caused the
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others.
Fifty Mexicans crossed the inter-
national line at Faben, Tex, raided
the Place ranch and the ranch of Fed
erico Arroela, took four horses from
each of these ranches and recroSsed
the line to Mexico.
One hundred and fifty men and wom-
Ell accused OF seditious talk or of dis
>regardiTg orders to register as enemy
aliens were arrested in Chicago on
March IS.
The court of criminal appeals has
reversed and remanded for new trial
the case of Harry J. Spaniel, hotel pro-
prietor, who was found guilty by a
Coleman county jury and sentenced to
serve five years in the penitentiary for
the murder of Lieutenant Colonel NJ. G..
Butler, U. s. A., at Alpine, Texas, July
20, 1916.
Cadet H. Hooten of the Royal flying
corps was killed TT Everman field, a
British flying camp near Fort Worth,
Texas, when his airplane got beyond
his control and crashed to the ground.
His death marked the fOrty-fOurth IA
tai aviation accident at the combined
British and American training fields
since their establishment last fall.
Miss Marion. G. Crandell of Ala
media, CAL, mas been killed by the ex-
plosion of shell in the "French sol
diers' fireside" at the French front,
where she was engaged as a canteen
worker for the Y. NJ. G. A.
Cancellation Of all contracts for