Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-08-09
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Complaints from ranchers in Snoho-
mish county Washington that beavers
have increased In number so rapidly
that much valuable land is being inun.
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 old,
and Don Long, aged Ii, were recov-
cred. John Shaffer, piano tuner,
and an unidentified farm hand were
the other victims.
Police investigation Tuesday of the
mysterious explosion that wrecked the
home of Jake E. Molinsky, fruit ped
der lat Denver, disclosed that the Mo-
linsky family was not in the house at
the time the explosion occurred.
Suffering intensely from their in
.5juries, exposure and lack Of nourish-
ment, e. Harris, his wife, their child
and the grandmother were Monday
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they had been subjected for twenty
four hours to the desert heat after
their automobile crashed through a
broken bridge fifteen miles east of
here. They were all severely injured
with the exception of the child.
Gardeners Monday in the public
market at Twin Falls, Idaho, offered
the first green corn of the season.
Peaches, pears and apples were plen-
tiful when the market opened.
James O'Neill, back from France
with four service stripes and one
wound stripe and only 10 years old, is
at Camp Lewis for discharge from the
army. His papers show he enlisted
with his fathers consent when q copy
BOY In the art department on a Chi
cago newspaper
DOMESTIC.
Into the high tide of Oakland har-
Dor, the Utacarbon, Utah's Liberty
loan honor ship, was launched at 5
o'clock Thursday afternoon, California
wine and Utah mountain water glisten-
ing on the bow as the big Oil tanker
glided down the ways at the Alameda
yards of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
corporation.
The demand for tobacco is the great
est in the worlds history, according to
Benjamin Duke. He declared that
America is supplying much of the
worlds output and that 1,OOO,OOO,OO
cigarets are made in the United. States
every three days to meet the demand.
Fifty-three ships have been complet-
ed in Seattle shipyards in the past
seven months, equalling 62 per cent of
the 1913 tonnage output, it was an
nOunced.
One hundred steamships built on the
great lakes during the war have been
sold by the shipping board to the An
dersOn Overseas corporation of New
Yprk for approximately $8O,OOO,O0O.
More than 100000 worth of sur
plus textiles were auctiOned off at
New York in about three hours by the
surplus property division of the army,
with representatives of Admiral KOl-
chak's Siberian government; taking
more than $1OOO,OOO Of it.
Operations of the big packing COM
panies and other concerns dealing in
foodstuffs are to be Investigated by
Attorney Alexander J. GrOesbeck, of
Michigan, to determine whether prices
are controlled in violation Of Michi-
gan's antitrust law.
Ratification of the federal suffrage
amendment was voted by the house of
representatives of the Montana legis-
lature. in special session Tuesday.
Among the soldier pupils at Camp
Dix army college, was Major General
ii. c. Hale, commander of the canton
ment, who will take the course in mo-
tor mechanics.
Two whites and a colored man are
reported to be dead and approximately
fifty are said to have been injured, a
numbe. probably fatally, " en race
rioting broke out Sunday in Chicago
among white and negro bathers along
South Side beaches, from Twenty-ninth
street south to Thirty-fifth street.
WASHINGTON.
Universal army and navy and lSca.
ticnal training for youths between Is
and ~ years and a national reglstra-
ton system are proposed in a bill in
tronuced Thursday by Senator Cham
berlain, democrat, Of Oregon.
The Nebra ska legislature ,-ent into
special session here Tuesday to con-
slider the ques Aon OF ratifying NE fed.
sral woman suffrage amendme.N.
The house war investigating com
mitteA inQuiring into expegt lures
abroad will sail for Europe on August
on the transport Mount Vernon. II
was announced Thursday. Composing
the committee are Representatives
johnson Of South Dakota, Bland Of
1ndianA and Flood Of Virginia.