Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERMOUNTAIN.

the Union Pacific near Granite can
yon, seventeen miles west of Cheyenne
this morning. One is Fireman J. +
Mccarthy of Denver. He was caugh
beneath an overturned locomotive ant
Suffocated. Peter lessen, of Cheyenne
engineer of wrecking crane tina
overturned while working on the wrecl
was so badly scalded that he dice
later.
Government agents continued the in
vestlgation of circumstances surround
ing the death of f. A. Dowsey of the
federal secret service, whose body was
found May in Mushroom In loca
office building shortly before he was
expected to report upon results of al
investigation he had been making In
Seattle. Persons familiar with the
general nature of Dowsey's mission de
clared it involved gigantic fraud
against the government.
d. b. Renear of the Nevada state
Police left Ogden early Sunday morn
ing for Anaconda, Mont, to get Rob
ert Gibson, an escaped convict from
Reno, and in custody of the Montana
officers.
That the late Werner u. Reed, Colo
RADIO capitalist and federal mediator
left an estate of nearly $14,00O,OO0, be
came known Wednesday following the
opening of safety deposit box.
The forest fire, which has been rag.
ing in the Porcupine hills, near Cal
gary, has been brought under control
after destroying between fifteen and
eighteen million feet of lumber. The
Ghost river fire, fifty miles west of
Calgary, is still spreading and heading
east.
Judge Ben. b. Lindsey, of Denver,
has obtained permission from the state
supreme court to appeal to the United
States supreme court from the recent
decision of the state supreme court
sustaining fine Of $500 against him
on contempt charge.
DOMESTIC.
Lieutenant I. J. Lenihan of San
Francisco, Cal, and Chaplain r. H
O'Dowd of Brooklyn, N. Y, assistant
camp morale officer at Camp Pike
were instantly killed Saturday at Lit.
tie Rock, Ark, when plane pilOted
by Lehman was struck by another
machine from Eberts field. The sec
ond machine also fell. but its occu-
pants were not injured.
The Protestant church of this coun-
try represented in the Federal Council
of Churches of Christ in America has
issued declaration that the state of
New York should attempt to secure
to the worker an income sufficient to
maintain his family at standard of
living which the community can ap-
prove
Seven firemen are reported killed
and at least fourteen others were in.
Jured in blaze that destroyed the
five-story warehouse of Jacob Potash
and Brothers in the northeast section
of Philadelphia Saturday.
Martial law was declared Sunday in
Longview, Texas, and the rest of
Gregg county as a result of race
trouble here, precipitated by fight
Friday morning between white men
and negroes and marked by the Stay
ing of one negro early Sunday after he
had resisted arrest.
Hanging in the branches of tree on
the Sacramento river the skeleton OF
man was found by dredger work.
men near Calusa, Cal. 1t Is supposed
the man was drowned during high
water and his body washed into the
tree.
A telegraphic appeal was sent late
Saturday by Mayor Davis of Cleveland
to Postmaster General Burleson thai
he take immediate steps to bring about
an adjustment of the strike here
among telephone operators.
A resolution directing all subordin
ate lodges to employ energetic efforts
in barring from membership persons
who express sympathy with Bolshe
yism and kindred "isms" was adopted
at the closing session of the Elks' con
yention held at Atlantic City.
Samuel Gompers, president of tn,
American Federation of Labor, wa:
among the passengers Friday on boarC
the Mauretania. He will represent the
American labor organizations at an in
ternational congress of the trade un
ions at Amsterdam, Holland. The con
gress is a revival of similar meeting'
held before the war.
Hermann j. Knaesche, a former sol
der, confessed to Sheriff Ralph
Byrnes, at Ukiah, Cal, that he hat
shot and killed his wife, Frieda Knae
she, bride of two weeks.
Representatives of twenty-four affil
lated international unions in the stee
Industries Friday adopted resoln
ton recommending that a strike vot'
be taken among their membership.
The transports Valacia, Saxonia an,