Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-14
History of
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The News Happenings of
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INFERNO JNTAiN.

WoitH oI Liberty UOHuA from JfS
clothes.
A. S. Anterior, custom house in
spector, was painfully burned and Lee
]. Carter, custom house officer, was
B1ightly burned while searching the
steamship Javary, just IN port at Ia
coma from Shanghai, for contraband.
The officers charge the Chinese crew,
after getting "a full head of steam in
In the boiler rooms where the search
was In progress.
Spreading rails caused a train to
leave the track near Casper, Wyo., the
engineer being probably fatally injur-
ed many passengers narrowly escap-
ing death.
Fifteen men arrested as an outcome
Of the Seattle general strike in Febru-
airy were freed of charges of criminal
anarchy on motion Of the prosecuting
attorney.
A verdict of guilty was returned by
a jury which tried Douglas M. Storrs,
charged with the seduction of Miss
Ruth Garrison, 10 years old, who pois-
oned Storr's wife, Mrs. Grace Storrs
In Seattle last spring.
Two wives are claiming the estate
of Walter Mitchell, Salt Lake hotel
man killed in an automobile accident
In Echo canyon, April 18, while re-
turning from trip to Evanston, Wyo.
At the time of his death, police and
sheriff authorities reported inability
to locate Mrs. Mitchell.
George and Thomas Boskos
brothers, were found guilty of murder
In the first degree at Pueblo, Colo,
for the killing on April II of William
7. Hunter, a wealthy farmer, and E.
O. Parks, an automobile salesman.
Election of officers, adoption of
state constitution and passing of set
of resolutions setting forth the views
Of the men who have been in service
marked the completion of the first
state caucus of the American Legion
held at Salt Lake on June 5.
DOMESTIC.
Four robbers held up the Leeds bank
at Leeds, Iowa, locked the banks cash
fer and clerks in a vault, took nearly
$4,000 in cash, $4,000 in bonds de-
posted for safekeeping, and $4,000
worth Of bonds held by the bank, and
escaped In waiting automobile.
Street car service in Detroit came to
sudden halt at 10 O'Clock Saturday
night, when motormen and conductors
of the Detroit United Railways COM
pany struck to enforce their demands
for increased pay.
One of the entomologists at Johns
hopkins university has made the dis
covery that locusts are a delectable
food. He says they taste much like
shrimp and sdvises everybody to add
them to the menu. 1t is the easiest
way to get rid of the pests, he adds.
President Wilson has sent the fol-
lowing message to Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, president of the National
American Woman Suffrage associa-
ton: II join with you and all friends
Of the suffrage cause In rejoicing over
the adoption of the suffrage amend
ment by the congress. Please accept
and convey to your association my
warmest congratulations"
1t took but three hours and thirty
minutes for DR.. #. A. Brewster
of Beaver City, Neb., to fly in an air
plane to Oberlin, Kan, sixty-five miles
distant, attend a patient and return
by the aerial route to Beaver City.
Jamaica ginger was declared to be
an intoxicant and its sale or posses
sion unlawful, in an opinion handed
down by the supreme court of Maine.
Billy Miske of st. Paul decisively
defeated Willie Meehan, the Pacific
coast heavyweight, at st. Paul, but
seemed unable to put over a knockout.
June IL has been decided upon as
the date for the beginning of the ma
tion-wide strike of telegraphers, ac-
cording to a telegram said to have been
received at San Francisco.
With the arrest of George Oliver,
aged 2S, of Cleveland, police believed
they were ON the trail of the anarch-
lists responsible for the recent bomb |
explosions at Pittsburg.
With view to carrying prohibition |
to all parts of the world, temperance !
assembled at Washington for |
the annual national convention of the |
Anti-saloon League of America organ
lied the Worlds League Against Al
coholism."
Eighty-three men dead and fifty
others burned and manned, many of |
whom will die, Is the toll of disaster
In a mine at Wilkes-Barre, Pa, on
June 5. Seven kegs of black powder.
800 pounds in all. were detonated, and
the dead and the MANNED were literally
roasted by the superheated gas flames
following the explosion.
Twenty thousand men will be needed
10 handle the wheat harvest in Nebras-