Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-08-30

ERMoUNTAiN.


Eight forest fires are burning on
the west side of the mountains of Gla-
cier park and two on the east. 1t was
reported at Kalispell, Mont, but for
estry officials said all were under
control,
The Amalgamated Sugar company
will operate all of its factories in
Utah and Idaho during the coming
campaign on a straight eight-hour day,
according to an announcement made
last week.
Uncontrolled fires In every forest
In central and western Montana and
northern Idaho threaten ranchers and
stockmen. Small hope exists of stop
ping the flames unless rain falls heav-
lily.
Miss Bessie Marold of Calicoon, N.
Y, % years old, formerly an army
nurse in Camp Mills, was shot and
killed at Denver by Isadore Victor. %
years old. whose offers of marriage the
girl had rejected.
Governors of the several states III
the Union in session in their eleventh
annual conference held at Salt Lake
on August 10, discussed three prob
lens which are now paramount in the
mind of the people of the country
First. high cost of living; second state
budgets third, growth and consolida-
ton of administrative boards.
East Helena, Mont, a town of POO
inhabitants, was swept by fire Tues
day. The loss is estimated at $500000
The business section and eighteen res
licences were destroyed.
DOMESTIC.
Revelation of extensive German
plots in Mexico during the war, which
included proposed invasion of the
United States by a German Mexican
army of $4,000 men, at the same time
that the Germans launched their last
drive on the western front in July
1918, was made at New York by the
National Association for the Protection
of American Rights in Mexico, which
gave out statement by DR.. Z. b. Al
tendorf, formerly of the United States
military intelligence department.
Managers of moving picture theatres
of Chicago have been notified to bar
all pictures affiliated with the Pro
ducing Managers Association.
Governor Hobby, of Texas, in a tel
egram to the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
said that John II. Shillady the organ
izations secretary, who was beaten
and ordered out of Austin Friday
was the "only offender in connection
with the matter"
Only sense of duty, altruism and
service prevents the preachers of
America from forming a union, calling
strike and letting the country so to
hell" said the Rev. John Roach STRAIT
ton in sermon in Calvary Baptist
church at New York. Everybody in
the world almost has gone on strike
except the undertakers and preachers"
he added.
Eight persons received injuries
which physicians said would probably
prove fatal, and nineteen others were
hurt in less degrees, in a series of au-
lomobile car and bicycle accidents at
Los Angeles. Traffic officers said
the unusual occurrences were due to
the crowded road conditions caused by
the transportations strikes there.
j. r. Shillady, a white man, secre-
tary of the National Association for
L. A "A ~ In
was severely beaten and placed on
board AN outbound train at Austin,
Texas. Shillady had been ''inciting
negroes against the whites" and had
previously been warned to leave Aus
tin.
A score of strikers at the Crane
company's plant In Chicago wrecked
street car with missiles and beat
unconscious two workmen who had re-
fused to join the strike. dozen pas
injured.
American forces which will remain
in Germany after September 30 are the
Eighth infantry, Seventh machine gun
battalion, Second battalion Of the
Sixth field artillery, Thirty-fifth field
signal battalion, First supply train,
First mobile ordnance repair shop. A
company of the First engineers. field
hospital No. ID and ambulance COM
pany No. &c.
One of the two American soldiers
sentenced to death for sleeping on
outpost duty In France and subse-
quently pardoned by President Will
son was killed In the great Aisne Of
fenslve In July, 1918, and the other
was twice wounded and finally hon
orably discharged.