Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-01-11
CAPTAIN Emery Rice, born in Boston

Mongolia, the first American steam
shin to sink German submarine, and
who made forty-one voyages across the
Atlantic during the war, died Satur'
day at the New York navy yard hos
pital of pneumonia, following influ-
enza.
! The influenza epidemic, which swept
the country during the latter part of
t last year, caused Ill ,6SS deaths in the
! forty-six largest cities and Increased
the combined death rate for those
communities in 1918 to 1876 per thou
sand.
japan will enter the peace confer
ence pledged to policy of peace ana
the 'open door in the far east, III the
maintenance of which she Will wei
come the cooperation of the allies
Baron Nobauk Maxine, of the Jap
anese peace commission, declared on
his arrival at New York, on his way
to the conference.
WASHINGTON.
With its holiday vacation ended,
congress is expected to settle down TO
the task of clearing an unusually
heavy legislative calendar before the
session ends early in March.
President Wilson has named Herbert
| C.. Hoover, director general OF an In
ternatiOnal organization for the reilel
of liberated countries both neutral ana
enemy. Norman Davis, formerly on the
staff of Oscar l.. Crosby, special com
missioner of finance for the United
States in Europe, will act as MI
Hoover's assistant.
Small change required TO pay war
taxes caused the government minis to
produce 307 614,0O0 1-cent pieces In
1918, record output. according to Il
report by Raymond T. Baker, director
of the mint.
War bills pouring into the treasury
made the actual cash outgo in De-
cember $2,O6O,OOO,O 900, the highest fig
ure reached, and for the last six
months of the year the total was
SO $50 100000, excluding transac-
tons in the principal of the public
debt.
| Mexican labOrers may be admitted to
the United States up to and includ-
ing June 80 solely for employment in
sugar beet production. under an order
issued by Secretary Wilson.
A protest against further shedding
of American blood in Russia was made
in the senate by Senator johnson of
| California. The senator called TO the
attention of the foreign relations COM
mittee, to press dispatches from Arch
angel telling of the advance of the
allied troops in northern Russia.
FOREIGN.
American troops, fighting desperately
near Kadish, have driven back Bolshe-
vik troops which made an advance
there. The Bolshevists also launched
attacks on the Omega sector and bonn
barded the allied front. The Ameri
cans came into battle along the PetrO-
grad road and in the frozen swamps
that border it.
One million well-equipped Bolsbevik
troops are reported moving on Berlin.
Drunk with their success in the regions
through which they have been tearing,
they intend to hoist the red flag over
| this capital.
Violence reigns in Berlin. The wait
ers are still on strike. They broke
up various establishments in the Ber-
| lin suburbs and robbed one place of
$4,000. A Waterman was murdered
in prominent hotel and the place was
robbed of $4,000.
Count George f. Won Hertling, the
former imperial German chancellor,
died Saturday night at Ruhpolding,
Bavaria. He had been i'll for six days.
A second invasion of Belgium, this
time by American capitalists, is report
ed imminent. An American syndicate
is said to have been formed for the
purpose of erecting mammoth hotels
for tourists who will visit the most
sanguinary battlefields.
William Hohenzollern, the former
German emperor, has undergone sue
cessful operation on one of his ears
by Professor Lang of Amsterdam uni
versity.
In parliament house at Rome on
January 3, joint reception was given
President Wilson by the members of
the senate and the chamber of depu-
ties The function was an impressive
one. The large and distinguished
gathering gave the president an Ova-
ton.
A storm said to be the worst in years
has seriously damaged several thous-
and acres of agricultural land with
loss of partly matured crops, in the
state of Sinaloa, Mexico.
News has reached Sydney of The
murder of two white traders on one of
the outlying islands of the New Britain
group. The victims according to re-
Iports by the steamer Melusia. were sur
rounded by hordes Of savages and
butchered to death, the bodies being
afterwards cooked and eaten.
Many German airplanes were dam
aged by the Germans when they evac-
uated Cologne, according to reports