Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-07-05
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
INTERMOUNTAIN.

More than one hundred homes and
rowly escaped destruction when an
attempt IVES made to dynamite three
big reservoirs in the Burch creek dis
trict. near Ogden.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen, in triennial con-
vention at Denver, voted to increase
the insurance policy limit of the order
from $4,000 to $45OO.
Eliza Spalding Warren, one Of the
few who survived the Whitman mas
home Of daughter in Occur d'Alene,
Ida
Riding a horse in a spectacular dash
up the capitol steps, cowgirl deliver
ed protest to the governor of the
state against the employment of beau
ties from the east as models for pos
ter of frontier days to be used in the
roundup" celebration at Cheyenne.
Electricians employed by the Noun
tain States Telephone & Telegraph
COHlpduy DcHNtI, VIII udu DCCh VII
strike since June IS, returned to their
places on the oath.
w. C. Hembree, 81 years old. took
fifteen minute ride at McMinnville,
Ore, In an eirplane. Il came to Yam
hill county by OK team in 1877" said
the pioneer as he was being strapped
in his seat, "and l have been looking
forward for something like this ever
SINCE"
DOMESTIC.
Sixteen striking telegraph operators
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany were arrested at Oklahoma City
by federal agents on charges of con-
spiracy to obstruct federal business.
From height Of 300 feet above an
immense crowd at the Methodist Gen.
tenary celebration at Columbus, O., DIR.
Edward Soper delivered sermon
through a megaphone from the decks
of big army dirigible.
Congress has been advised that the
Alaska government railroad project
will be completed in 921 at total
cost Of s5O436,971 or about $4,000
mile.
The Kansas winter wheat crop, now
being harvested, is estimated at 3D.
$1,000 bushels.
William A. English and John Ii.
OBrien, members of the wool firm of
English & O'Brien, were fined $4,000
To oil n
months in prison in federal court at
Bostoa for cOnspiring to defraud the
government in connection with income
tax returns.
A yellow substance, believed by
chemists to be sulphur, probably car
ried from some distant volcano, fell
with the rain at Dawson and streaked
sidewalks and roofs.
kilograms have been sent by Gov
ernor Pleasant of Louisiana to the gov
ernors of all southern states, asking
that they oppose ratification OF the
federal woman suffrage amendment by
the legislatures of their states.
American casualties during the
forty-seven-day Meuse-Argonne often
sive aggregated 10000 men, or 10 per-
cent of the total of 100000 engaged,
according to statistical summary of
the war with Germany" prepared by
Colonel Leonard p. Ayers, chief of the
statistical branch of the general staff
and published by the war department.
A verdict Of guilty Of murder in the
second degree was found by jury at
Redwood City, CAL, in the case Of DIR.
Ephriam NorthcOtt, San Francisco
physician, accused of the murder of
Miss Inez f. Reed. army nurse.
Four persons, one woman of 20,
were burned to death in cabin fire
in the Kelso valley, fifty miles north
east of Bakersfield, Cal.
An international aerial race, which
will start simultaneously from Tor
onto and New York, will be held
A., August IS, with the Prince of Wales
as starter.
The recently created Pacific fleet,
now being organized from vessels
heretofore forming part Of the At
lantic forces, will sail from Hampton
Roads for the west coast between
July Is and 20.
With the recovery of six additional
bodies, the number of known dead as
a result of the tornado that struck
Fergus Falls, Mimi, was raised to
fifty. Five or six other bodies are
still unaccOunted for.
In a statement dictated by Thomas
]. Mooney, serving sentence of life
Imprisonment for murder in connec-
ton with bomb explosion during a
preparedness" parade at San Fran
cisco, July %. 1916, the prisoner warns
, against bomb explosions on July 4, as
.'they would not benefit my cause, but
hurt it beyond measure"
The secular system of education in
<ha TInitad StataS WAS denounced as