Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-11-08
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Past Week.
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/ The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
INTERMOUNTAIN.

MAI ith law mas Deen practlcally de- /
clared in Wyoming Brig. Gen. Ben
jamin Poore, commandment at Fort u. |
A. Russell, where 500 men of the Eff
teenth cavalry are stationed, issued a
proclamation on November l, assum-
ing military control of the state of
Wyoming"
Trainmen employed by the Denver
Tramway company voted to strike as
soon as authority to do so can be Sc
cured from national union officials in
Detroit
Col. w. f. Tucker, retired, former
assistant paymaster general of the
United States army, died at a hos
pital at Hood River, Ore, of acute
stomach trouble.
Arthur HOLDEN. 30, who came TO
Wilcox, Neb., a week ago from his
| home at Tabernash, Colo, shot and
| killed his wife and then took his own
life.
With Col George l.. Byram in per-
sonal command, 100 infantrynen from
Fort Douglas We're dispatched from
Salt Lake to Helper, Utah, to meet any
contingencies which might arise in the
coal camps.
james NJ. Smith, Canadian war vet
eran, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree for the killing at
Seattle last February of his girl wife,
Helen.
j. Vance Johnson, prominent farmer
of the Thomas district, near Black
foot, Idaho, is in JAIL accused of
having shot and killed Leon Reese
Howard, 10 years of age.
DOMESTIC.
A dying motormans last act at Edge
water, N. j. was to apply the brakes
to his car lest it coast Il PERCEPTIONS
incline on the Hudson Palisades and
kill thirty passengers. The passengers
found the motorman dead from heart
disease.
The California land settlement board
announces it has selected a tract of
5000 acres in MERGED county to be de-
voted exclusively to eX-service men.
The land will furnish homes and
ranches for 300 families.
Col. James d. Bell, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, died November l. at his home in
Brooklyn. He was IA years old.
The Liquor Dealers Protective as
ISOLATION voted at a meeting at New
ark, n. j., to ask brewers to discon
tinue the manufacture of "near-beer,"
declaring it IAN outrage to ask decent
people to drink it."
Fourteen members of a Halloween
party, including two women, are dead
as result of a crash between Penn
sylvania railroad train and large
motor truck which was bringing thir
ty-sx masqueraders back to Philadel-
phia from an evening party at Billings
port.
More than 300 families have been
driven from their homes and property
damage estimated at more than 81 ,000,-
600 has been caused by a flood of
Green river in Green county, Kentucky.
Paul JONES' a negro, accused of at
lacking a white woman near the site
of Camp Harris, Georgia, Sunday af-
ternoon, was lynched by mob shortly
after midnight.
Phillip Kellogg, one of the best
known live stock commission men in
South Omaha, was instantly killed
when the automobile in which he was
riding collided with another machine.
John T. Hutchings of Alamogordo, n.
NJ. was shot and fatally wounded
while plotting an automobile in the Ell
.Paso-Phoenix eross-country race near
Ianmark, n. NJ -Four men and four
women are being held, Hutchings was
shot in the back.
Mrs. Russell Sage left an estate with
gross value of S49,05l ,0i5 according
to a report of the state appraiser made
public ut New York,
Resolutions requesting that the prac-
tce of importing picture brides from
Japan to this country be stopped have
been sent by the Japanese Association
of America. representing 10000 Jap
nnese In California. to the Japanese
government.
Fifty-one acts of heroism were rec
ognized and rewarded by the Carnegie
hero fund commission at Il meeting
held ut Pittsburg. In five cases silver
medals were awarded in forty7siN
cases bronze medals.
Suit to enjoin the government from
enforcing the wartine prohibition act
and attacking ii as unconstitutional,
was filed in the United States district
court at Chicago by Levy Mayer, coun-
sci for the distillers.
The mddleweight cateh-as-catch-can
title changed hands Thursday, John
Kilonls of Manchester, n. H., winning
from Ira Dern of Salt Lake In straight
falls at Boston.
Five million dollars in stolen auto