Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-08-23
of
asst Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
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shipping board in honor of the news
paper men and women of the United
States and Canada was launched at
Seattle on August 16. In the presence
OF cheering scores of members of the
National Editorial association. gather
ed In Seattle from all parts of the
country TO attend the associations 1919
convention.
Citizens Of Walsenburg. Colo, kid
mapped three l. W. W. agitators sched-
uled to speak at mass meeting, and
chased them out of town.
Nineteen persons were injured when
passenger train overturned near
Chester, Colo, defective rail being
the cause
Mine operators of the Occur d'Alene
district have decided not to attempt
to operate their properties. which
practically were closed down when the
strike of miners belonging to the Inter
national Union of Mine, Mill and Smell
ter Workers went into effect.
As result of an electrical storm on
Sunday night forty-one forest fires are
burning in the Cascade districts in
Oregon.
The Independent mill at Victor, Col
orado, was robbed Thursday night.
Bandits oyerpowered two watchmen
and escaped with a quantity of gold
concentrates. The watchmen are In
ffAI lf tf.ff No. %
the amount of loot has been made.
DOMESTIC.
A. 80 to 60 per cent increase in
wages Is demanded for III 900 fire
United States and Canada in IA wage
scale adopted before adjournment Sun
day by 300 general chairmen of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen in session at Cleye-
land.
Two American aylators, Lieutenant
Paul ii. Davis and Harold G. Peterson,
are reported as having been captured
by bandits in Mexico and are being
held for ransom.
The 1900 striking Northern Pacific
shopmen at Tacoma returned to their
places Saturday morning, following
orders issued by their officials. The
Milwaukee shopmen went to work
earlier in the week.
The sugar shortage In this country
soon will be relieved, according to the
Trnifpd Statao c,.Ua p anuoIi,a ti,n hno,,l
which announced Saturday that it had
more than 100 ships engaged in bring
ing sugar from Cuba.
Drivers of retail milk wagons in
New York City have formulated de-
mands for $50 week and six-hour
day to be presented to their employ
ers when their present contract ex.
pires the last of October.
Wholesale boarding of foodstuffs in
hastily imprOvised storage warehouses
by amateur spectators has been dis
covered at New York by agents of the
department of justice.
Petitions for the recall of Mayor
Smith and Finance Commissioner Will
liam IRE, Street Commissioner Roy
fowl and Police Commissioner Dean
Ringer, have been filed at Omaha.
The ninth annual convention of the
National Old Trails association came
to a close at Durango, Colo, on August
16, without selection of the 1920 con
vention city. The selection was left
to the executive committee.
When the police arrested Frank
Boyles of Sioux City, Ia, in Chicago
hotel as suspect in the robbery of
a bank at Dempster, S. o., they found
several thousand dollars worth of
nlckels piled on the floor
Five persons were instantly killed
near Lima, o., when an automobile
In which they were riding was struck
by Western Ohio traction ear.
A jury at Mount Clemens. Mich,
awarded Henry Ford "six cents" dam
ages against the Chicago Tribune for
calling him an anarchist.
Revocation of railway rights of way
through Indian reservations or lands
where grantees over a period of five
years have failed to construct roads
or utilize other land granted them
was recommended in Il report sent to
congress by Secretary Lane.
The funeral of Andrew Carnegie
was held at Shadow Brook, his sum-
mer home in the Berksilrcs, August
Il. There was no eulosy and there
were no pallbearers. Phe service was
as simple as were the tastes and habits
of the man In life. Fully one-half of
the sixty persons present were men,
bers of the household. The Others
wer, intlmates of the family.