Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-08
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wide fight against the new Burleson
schedule of long distance telephone
tolls. The initiative will be taken by
the state public utilities commission.
A lone unmasked bandit boarded
northbound Great Northern passenger
train at Samish, Wash, and held up
the train crew and the day coach pas
sengers.
Representative w. w. Corner of
Seattle, has introduced into the Wash
ington legislature bill aimed to APP
propriate 100000 for the immediate
relief of needy American soldiers and
sailors. The act proposes to relieve,
not reward, the men, Representative
Connor said.
Plans for the organization of cor
poration with $4,000 capital to extend
financial aid to returned service men
were made at a meeting of business
men at Spokane.
Frank Leroy Silvie, 15-year-old
runner employed by the Denver Ma
tiOnal bank, is the object of search
on the part of police and private de-
tectives following two escapes from
officers, after he had absconded,
according to bank officials, with $50
in cash, checks approXimating $4,000
and several Liberty bonds.
William J. Ruff, while digging well
near Bountiful, Utah, was crushed to
death, the walls caving, burying him
beneath fifteen feet of earth.
DOMESTIC.
Vandercook lake is being dragged in
an attempt to recover five bodies of
young people of Jackson. Mich, sup
posed to have been drowned while
skating.
nationwide construction program
involving an expenditure of not to ex-
coed $3,OOO,OOOOOO for needed roads,
waterways. railroads and building
work would provide buffer employ
ment" for discharged soldiers and
sailors and released war workers suf-
ficient to tide the country over pc
riOd of threatened industrial unrest, in
the opinion of department of labor of
ficials.
An appeal to women, released
from knitting for the Red Cross, TO
make protectors for wounded soldiers
or sailors who have suffered amputa-
tion of arms or legs. has been issued
by the National Booth Knitting COM
mittee of the Navy league, with head
quarters at New York.
Official tables Of the major battle
casualties Of the American forces in
France, just made public by General
March, chief of staff, show that ap-
proximately 10000 men remain wholly
unaccounted for nearly three months
after the ending of hostilities. The
total loss was 56,592, of whom 17.434
are classified az missing or captured.
Approximately $4,000 boilermakers,
riveters and helpers in the Pacific dis
trict council of boilermakers are TAX
ing a strike vote, the result of which
will be announced on February 10.
If America wants man to fly
across the Atlantic and will provide
the necessary support, am willing to
undertake the job" is the declaration
of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Ameri-
can ace of aces, with a record of
twenty-six Boche planes.
While postal inspectors were lnvesti-
eating the accounts of William Schuck-
mann, postmaster at Nogales, Ariz.,
Schuckmann went into an adjoining
room and killed himself by inhaling
gas.
Because of the prevalence of infiu-
enza and pneumonia in virulent form
at Camp McClelland, Ala Surgeon
General Ireland has recommended that
no more troops be sent there for de-
mobilization until conditions improve.
Fifteen persons were injured, four
seriously, when the rear coach of pas
senger train No. 106 of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad jumped
the track and crashed on its side near
Burbank. S. d.
Thirteen railway express messen-
gers, employed on runs between New
York and Boston, pleaded guilty to the
larceny of goods in transit. Twelve
were sentenced to terms of from four
months to one year.
Capt. Archibald Roosevelt, son of the
late Col Theodore Roosevelt, aided a
New York policeman in capturing an
alleged rObber after a street chase in
which the patrolman shot and wounded
Frank Marcell0 the man pursued.
Three 10-year-old boys who boosted
of their liking for whiskey, beer and
cigarets, confessed to the police at Chi
cago that they had killed Wadisla WI
delkis, 10 years old. by clubbing hin.
Ovei the head with an empty beer bot
tie while he was asleep in a shed.
Philadelphia on January 30 extend
ed hearty welcome to 2197 men Of
the American expeditionary force, first
of the overseas contingent to arrive at
that port. They came on the liner
Haverford. which sailed from Brest on
January 10.
Speakers at the annual meeting of
the American ErIit and VppetahIa