Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-03-08


diary companies in Michigan.
Charles L. Van Loan, humorist and
famous as Il writer of stories on sport
ing topics, died of chronic nephritis
at hospital in Abingdon, Pa, March =.
a campaign to invoke the referen-
dunn on the recent ratification by the
state legislature of the national pro-
hibition amendment was begun Feb
rnary 2S by eighteen civic organiza-
tons ut st. Louis.
Damasco Quiroz, Mexican, was
hanged ut the state prison ut San
Quentin. Cal, for the murder last
Tulare, Cal, Friday.
WASHINGTON.
In regard to published reports that
President Wilson told Democratic COM
mitteemen who lunched with him that
he would not accept nomination for
third term, it was stated Saturday ut
the White House that the subject of
President Wilson again being II candi-
date was not mentioned.
The oil and coal land leasing bill
virtually was killed in the senate when
obstruction led by Senator LaFollette
of Wisconsin, Republican, prevented
vote on the conference report which
had been adopted by the house
A bipartisan assault on the propos-
ed constitution of the league of ma
tons was made March l in the SEN
ate, speakers being Senator Knox of
Pennsylvania, Republican member of
the foreign relations committee, and
Senator Hardwick, Georgia, Demo.
crat, who retires March 1.
President Wilson told delegation
from the American Jewish congress
that he was persuaded that the allied
Nations, with the fullest concurrence
of the American government and
people, were agreed that in Palestine
should be laid the foundations of
Jewish commonwealth.
Attorney General Gregory has re-
commended to President Wilson COM
convicted under the espionage act, a
review of whose cases by officials of
the department of justice has revealed
that the evidence of wilfull intent to
violate the law was too circumstantial
too warrant the carrying out of the
full sentences fixed by the trial jurles
FOREIGN.
Fifty Mexican federal soldiers were
killed and their bodies burned in the
Moctezuma garrison hy Francisco Vii
las troops in command of Villa and
Martin Lopez.
With nationwide strikes and red
revolutions reported to be increasing
throughout Germany, Berlin is threat
ened with ii famine. Railway com
munication between the capital and
south and middle Germany is cut off.
The death rate probably exceeded
the birth rate in England and Wales
statement by DR.. Saleeby, based upon
during the past year, according to a
unpublished figures sent him by the
registrar general.
The regiment of American troops
which has been scattered in small de-
tachments in coast towns along the
eastern Adriatic is now being cOncen-
trated in Italy.
Russian soviet government is carry
ing on a campaign to secure the sup
port of women throughout Russia, ac-
cording to refugees from Moscow.
Negotiations at Lemberg between
the interallied mission and the Poles
and Ukrainians have been broken off,
it being found impossible to get the
Ukrainians and Poles to agree on d
line of deniarcation between their
forces.
Advices received from Helsingfors
say the Bolsheviki food dictator in
Petrograd, Strijevcki, has been ar
rested, charged with embezzlng fifty
million rubles.
Plans for memorial to be erected
in the cemetery at Toul, France, where
Major Lufberry, HOBBY Baker, Blair
men are buried, have been adopted by
the Aero Club Of America.
The possible fall of the German
government is reported in numerous
special dispatches received from Ber-
lin. The members of the government
have arrived at Berlin to consult with
the workmen's council, and mani
festo has been issued.
Central Germany is in the throes of
a widespread political strike affecting
large parts of Saxony, Thuringia and
Anhalt and through it's effects upon
railroad communication is casting a
sinister shadow over the entire nation.
King Ferdinand of Rumania was
shot in the face and arm by revolu-
Zionist, following series of riots ut
Bucharest. according to dispatches
from Basic. The Rumanian queen is
said to have fled from Bucharest
The financial commission of the