Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-08-09
History OF
Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
fNTERMOUNTAIN.

organization similar to Governor Stew
arts proposed welfare commission are
provided in bill introduced in the
state senate Monday afternoon.
A daily contingent of approximately
100 men Is cared for at the Red Cross
canteen as they pass through Poca-
tello In all directions. Monday night
contingent of sixty-five men travel
ing together, en- route to Camp Lewis
for discharge, were cared for.
Forest fire conditions in the Pend
Oreille and Occur d'Alene forests of
northern Idaho. were worse Saturday
while In the st. Joe forest, where sew
eral small fires were burning, little
change was noted.
Delayed thirty-four hours by wash
Salt Lake train, due there at g a.
Thursday night, arrived in Denver at
4 80 Saturday morning. The train
was backed to Tolland, Colo, where
provision for the feeding of the pas
sengers was made. Nine of the pas
sengers. however, walked eight miles
through the flood and debris to Plain
view, Colo, and boarded freight
train for Denver.
Herbert s. Hadley, former governor
of Missouri, and widely known in legal
circles throughout the country, Friday
was appointed counsel for the Colo
RADIO state railroad commission.
Two fatalities and thousands of dol
lars worth of property damage result
ed from a series of heavy thunder
storms in various parts of Colorado
Friday night
Complaints from ranchers In SnohO-
mish county Washington, that beavers
have increased in number so rapidly
that much valuable land is being mum
dated by water overlooking from their
dams, that Game Warden Leckie took
steps to open the dams.
A cloudburst at Dubois, on Horse
creek. Fremont county, Wyoming,
Thursday night drowned four persons
The bodies of Dr. Welty, 20 years DID,
and Don Long, aged ID, were recov-
cred. John Shaffer, piano tuner,
and an unidentified farm hand were
the other victims.
DOMESTIC.
Rewards offered for arrest and con-
vlctlon of persons guilty of placing
a bomb which Sunday destroyed the
home of Oscar Lawler, formerly as
sistant United States attorney general
Monday night totaled $11,500.
Seventeen negroes We're charged
with rioting and murder in indictments
voted by special grand jury investi-
eating race riots, which, for five days
last week, held the south side of Chi
cago in reign of terror.
More than two score persons were
injured, many seriously. when two in
terurban cars on the Peninsula rail-
way collided head-on nine miles from
San Jose, Calf, at noon Sunday. One
of the cars was crowded with picnick-
ers bound for Congress Springs, re-
sort.
Miss Anna Adams Gordon. president
of the w. G. 7. u, admitted Sunday
that her organization is conducting a
campaign for an amendment to the
constitution to prohibit the manufac-
ture and sale of tobacco.
Revenge for the part he played in
the prosecution of u group Of dyna-
miters in the middle west several
years ago was assigned by the police
here as the probable motive for an at
tempt on the life of Oscar Lawler, at
Los Angeles, former assistant attor-
new general of the United States. Mr..
Lawlers home was practically de-
stroysd by bomb and subsequent fire
Sunday and he and Mrs. Lawler both
seriously burned and otherwise in
jursd.
An injunction restraining the police
department of Los Angeles from inter-
ferng with the sale of 275 per cent
beer In cafes here was granted Sat
urday by the superior court on appli-
cation of restaurant men.
Paul Gottfried. st. Paul police de.
tective, was wounded and an unidenti-
fled man killed Saturday when police
detectives entered house in South
Minneapolis in search of men who wre
believed to be counterfeiters.
The destroyer Philip. first vessel OF
the new Pacific fleet to reach an
American port on the Pacific coast
frcm the Atlantic, arrived at San
Diego, Saturday afternoon to bring
mail from the fleet and take mail back
to it. Lieutenant Commander L. w
Strother, the Philips commander, ex
poets to join the flagship New Mexico
on August ), two days before the fleet
is due at this port.
Giannini Vineyard interests compris
ing 400 acres of fruit and alfalfa lands
near Visalia have been sold, 1t was
announced, to ]. f. Goree, japanese
of Fowler, for $475,0O0.
Into the high tide of Oakland har