Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-08-02
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsr
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Az
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAlN.

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 copy
BOY in the art department on Chi
cago newspaper.
The town of Ballantine, on the Hunt
ley irrigation project near Worden,
ton by fire. Seven business buildings
had been raze0
Telephone advices from Gold Hill
to officers at Wendover, Utah, tell of
q murder near Trout creek, Juab coun-
ty, forty miles south of Gold Hill,
Tuesday morning. George Harris, a
homesteader and former soldier, is al
legged to have shot and killed Jesse
Cone of Trout Greek and to have SER
iously wounded James Sabey, dep
uty sheriff of Callao.
Definite relief for stockgrowers in
the drought-stricken regions of the
northwest was Tuesday ordered blythe
railroad administration, both in the
matter of reduced rates on feed going
into these areas and on the shipment
of livestock out.
DOMESTIC.
Upon complaint of the Western asso-
citation of Rolled Steel Consumers that
the United States Steel corporation
and other steel producers act in vio-
lation of the federal trade commission
act and the Clayton antitrust act in
selling rolled steel on Pattsburg
basis, the federal trade commission
Saturday announced that it had under
taken thorough investigation of the
subject, with view to determining
whether formal complaint should be
issued. In It's complaint the Western
association urges that Chicago should
be made another basing point in fixa-
ton of steel prices.
Sweeping investigation of food
prices in every county in Ohio is re-
Quested in communication sent by
iOv. James NJ. Cox, Saturday, to State
Attorney General John G. Price.
The police of Los Angeles were re-
strained Saturday by an order Of the
superior court here, from interfering
with the sale of beer containing 2.75
per cent alcohol by arresting the
venders.
Two whites and colored man are
reported to be dead and approximately
fifty are said to have been injured, a
number probably fatally, when 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.
Thomas Fitzgerald, 80 years old, and
married, confessed Sunday to the po-
lice at Chicago that he killed little
Janet Wilkinson, six years old, neigh
boris child, last Tuesday by strangling
her. He accompanied the police to
his home and showed them where he
had concealed the body beneath some
coal under the basement steps, and it
was recovered.
Prince Aage of Denmark, who has
been visiting in the United States since
June IS, sailed for home from New
York Saturday on the Aquitania. Be
fore leaving the prince expressed his
appreciation of America and it's hos
pitality.
To obtain new air for the Yale
anthem, Bright College Years." which
now Is sung to the tune of "The Watch
on the Rhine" the class of 1899 has
offered $1,000 as prize. Selection
of tune is to rest with the alumni
advisory board.
The navy rifle range near Caldwell,
N. j., where the national rifle matches
were to be held in August under the
auspices of the navy department was
flooded last night when the Passiac
river overlooked it's banks.
The first bale of 1919 cotton was
ginned at Seeley, Calf, Wednesday,
and was sold Immediately for 35 cents
pound, with bonus of $25 and all
ginning costs. 1t brought a sum in
excess Of $500.
Workers ON the surface, elevated
ard subway car lines In Berlin and
also electricians and gas workers, went
On strike Monday In sympathy with
the internal demonstration.
Frank L. Polk, under-secretary of
state, sailed Monday from New York
on the steamship Imperator for
France to take the place Of Secretary
Lansing at the peace conference.
About thirty families were made
homeless and . fire captain lost his
life In q blaze that destroyed fifteen
tw0-family frame houses occupied by
South Chicago steel workers Thurs
day night. Captain Hugh Murray,
commanding an engine company, was
overcome by smoke and died.
Eleven persons were killed and
twenty-five injured when gigantic
Airigible, on its test flight, caught