Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-04-12
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Lorrin ID. Briggs, % years old, ath
letic coach of East High school at Sail
Lake, and one of the best known ath
letes in Utah, and his wife, Mrs. Jane
Vinegar Briggs, 81 years old were
killed and their 3-year-old son James
was critically injured when an auto
mobile in which they rode stalled OF
the track and was struck by BAN
berger electric line train at Bountiful
Utah.
Harry NJ. Wicks, who, the police de
clare, is an organizer of Soviet
patterned after those of Russia. was
arrested at Spokane on charge of
violating city ordinance that pro.
hibits the advocacy of disloyalty to
the laws of the United States.
Expenditure of S1,250000 on roads
in the national forests of the Rocky
mountain district will be made this
year by the national government, ac-
cording to an announcement by the
Denver office of the United States
forest service.
Fifty-seven arrests were made by
police at Tacoma on Saturday in the
rioting that took place when half Il
hundred former soldiers of the Sol.
diers and Sailors Mutual Aid associ-
alton attempted to hold tag sale on
the streets of the city in the face OF
police edict forbidding the sale.
A triple tragedy took place at Ho
GUAM, Wash, when A. A. Sedgwick
shot and killed Sidney NJ. Heath, IN
attorney; Louise Sedgwick, his wife
and then ended his own life.
Preliminary plans have been com
pleted for peace jubilee, to be held
at Tacoma, from June 30 to July 4, tC
raise fund for the erection of 0
memorial to soldiers and sailors of the
war.
With the opening of spring work and
the advent of the lambing season, 6
shortage of labor is being experienced
in Oregon and the local branch of the
federal employment service is unable
to supply the demand of local ranch
ers for farm help.
The fat stock show opened at Sail
Lake on April 3 for three-day session
with record attendance.
DOMESTIC.
Weighing of more than 100000
babies, establishment of many new
health centers to advise mothers OH
the care of their children, and slim
ulation of the movement to keep child
rem in school and provide them ade-
quate recreation were reported April
5 by the children's bureau as some OF
paign.
Bringing 2182 troops of the Forfeit
division-former National Guard OF
California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado
Arizona and New Mexico-the steam
ship Edgar A. Luckenbach arrived a
New York on Saturday from Bordeaux
Pledging 1.-The support of the Re
publican party" to the constitutions
amendment, which would grant nation
wide suffrage to women, senator Will
lam NJ. Calder of New York, speaking
at a dinner of the New York City wo
mans suffrage party, declared that III
extra session of congress would surely
be called by June or July.
Announcement has been made of the
payment by the Southern Pacific com
pany at San Francisco, as private
corporation of its first quarterly diyi
dend for 1919, amounting to SLIGO,
600. This amount was distributed
among 3T,OSS stockholders of the com
pany.
Besides the destroyers which will
patrol the course to be mapped fol
the naval seapanes on their proposed
flight across the Atlantic ocean in
May, fuel ship, probably the Mel
vile, will be stationed along the route
so that IL necessary the planes can
take ON fuel ut sea.
Urging that Americans awake to the
problems confronting the country,
Senator Johnson of California, in Il
statement issued April 4, declared,
"Weye been afflicted with mental far
sightedness" since the signing of the
armistice and unable to see and care
"for the ills and problems of our own.
A strike which has involved practi.
cally 10000 maehinists in the San Fran
cisco bay shipyards since early in Feb
ruary ended when the machinists
agreed to accept an offer submitted
by their employers.
Approximately 1000 independent
fishermen went on strike at San
Francisco against the fixing of fish
prices by the state market director
Fourteen hundred men are on strike
ut Monterey and as many ut San Pedro
fac the Slule reason.