Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-12
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Philip Cohen, Il produce merchant of
Sterling, Colo, and Frank IL. Multi
gan, former city detective of Den
yer. must serve sentences in the peni-
Tertiary for the robbery of Mrs. Harry
1. Nolan, prominent society woman, ut
the Model roadhouse, near Brighton
Colo, on January |. 1918. the Colorado
supreme court decided on Monday.
The report of the pension committee
was discussed at the convention of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen at Denver. 1t is pro
posed to make members eligible for II
pension at a minimum age of 45 years.
Some opposition developed during the
| discussion as to the minimum age and
the matter went over until this after
noon.
Sole power to regulate the rates of
public service corporations is vested
in the people, the Colorado supreme
court decided Monday, in the case in
volving question of control i'm home
rule cities in this state. Telephone,
gas, electric light and street car rates
In Denver and other large cities are
automatically reduced under the de-
cision.
Two persons were instantly killed,
one fatally injured and half hun
dred others received severe electrical
shocks when lightning struck crowd
ed grandstand at homecoming week
celebration at Whitewood, S. ID.
Five hundred automobiles, three
hundred of which carried liquor, were
stopped by the state constabulary be-
tween Brighton, Colo, and the Wyom-
Ing Colorado state line during Monday
night and early Tuesday morning. The
drivers of the cars were allowed to
proceed because of lack of adequate
facilities to handle offenders.
A fine of $500 was imposed by
Judge II. Lee, at Helena, upon II. B.
Smith, president of the Butte Daily
Bulletin company, who was convicted
of sedition. The charge was based on
publication in the Bulletin of an edi-
torial in which it was alleged the
authority of the state council of de-
Tense was questioned
There Is no necessity for submitting
the dispute of the telephone operators
and the company to arbitration,
declared Postmaster General Burleson
in a telegram to Mayor Stewart of
Reno.
DOMESTIC.
Once the champion brOnchO buster
at the Pendleton, Ore, roundups, d. e.
Presley was found dead at Denver,
Monday, a revolver by his side. Friends
said he had been Respondent because
of lung disease contracted in the
navy which he feared would prevent
him from ever riding horse again.
He was "a years old
The first disturbance growing out
of the labor strike called July for
| five days as a protest against the con-
viction of Mooney and Billings in San
Francisco, occurred Monday, at Chi
cago, when 100 policemen were called
to dispense a crowd of 700 which was
distributing strike handbills in front
OF Il nOftn size factory.
After breaking the high price record
three times last week, the hog market
Monday at Chicago, continued its up
ward course. New top quotations were
as against an average cost of $2f.53 on
Thursday, since when there has been
no trading until this morning.
BY virtue of one of the speediest
and most one-sided battles which ever
decided II big fistic vent, Jack Demp-
sey, on July 4, became the worlds
champion heavyweight boxer Willard
threw up the sponge at the end of the
third round, never having had Il chance
to win.
Mrs. Arthur kistler, wife of farm
er at Stoneham, her four children, the
Oldest 10 years of age. and her mother
in-law. We're drowned while trying to
ford Pawnee creek, thirty miles east of
Sterling, Colo.
monument to the American sold
erected in May of next year near the
tomb of Lafayette in the Picpus cem-
etery.
No one has claimed the body of DR..
Walker Keene wilkins, the aged physi-
clan who hanged himself in the Nassau
county Jail at Mineola, l.. l., Sunday,
after his conviction of first degree
murder for killing his wife at their
Long Beach home.
A 10-cent car fare will be established
by the Boston Elevated Railway COM
pany, July 10, the public trustees of
the road have announced The pres
ent rate is 8 cents.
Violation of the law regarding farm
loans was charged against the federal
land banks las guided and controlled
by the federal farm loan board by
Representative McFadden, Republican,
Pennsylvania, under an extension of
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