Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-01
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INFERNO JNTAlN.


of labor, to discuss the present labor
situation in the big copper producing
states, has been called by the secre-
tary of labor for January 81 in Wash
ington.
A bill providing for double election
boards, one board to receive ballots
and another board to begin counting at
l p. m, on election days has been
introduced in the Washington legis-
lature.
Three lives were lost and consider
able damage was caused in the mining
town of Ladd, Wash, when a great
jam of logs and debris, loosened by
flood waters, swept down the canyon
of East creek and carried the entire
settlement with it.
Resolutions opposing government
ownership of the railroads and urging
early return of the railroads to private
control under adequate federal regula-
ton; favoring federal licensing and
regulation of packers and stockyards
but opposing government ownership
of marketing facilities; advocating I'M
iversal military training and endorsing
the federal woman suffrage amend
ment were adopted at the closing ses-
sion at Denver of the twenty-second
annual convention of the American
National Live Stock association.
Cattlemen contributed $43,S43 to the
American Red Cross through auction
of herd of 1858 heifers exhibited at
the Denver stock show by Red Cross
chapters of Wyoming and Colorado.
The average price was $3.50 hun
dred.
DOMESTIC.
A wagon loaded with explosives ex-
plOded in the residence section of the
little town of Big Heart, Okla, and as
u result four people are dead and
score of others injured.
Relatives of sick and wounded SOL
diers ADMITTED to military hos pitais in
the United States will be advised of
the whereabouts and condition OF the
patients at the time of admission, I'M
der a plan soon to be put into OPP
GRAFTON.
Less than fifty enemy alien women
were interned during the war, it was
disclosed by the department of justice.
Most of the women now are being
transferred to special barracks at Fort
OglethOrpe, Ga, and instructions have
been issued to treat them with partic-
ular courtesy. Heretofore they have
been confined in various institutions
about the country.
The Nebraska state law giving
women partial voting rights, operation
of which has been suspended for near
ly a year by efforts OF antf-suffragists
to have the suffrage act submitted to
a vote of the people for ratification or
rejection, went back into effect JAN
uary 20.
Predicting that the country will get
back into its normal swing" within sir
months after the signing of the arms
tice, William b. Wilson, secretary or
labor, declared in an address at New
York City that the nation faces eight
or ten years of 1.-The greatest Industrial
activity ever known"
Mrs. Clara Hanson aged 80 years,
shot and killed her five children ana
then attempted to take her own life
at the family home at Sherman, ). u.
Misses Gladys and Dorothy Crom-
well, sisters, of New York, leaped from
the rail of the French steamer La Tor
raine as the steamer was in the Ga
rome river bound for New York. Both
were drowned.
Brig. Gen. Frank Hines, chief of EN-
barkation for the army has sailed from
New York for London to work out with
Lord Reading, British ambassador to
the United States, financial settle
ment for American troops carried to
France in British ships during the war.
The Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pacific
Railway company has terminated its
litigation with the Colorado South
ern railway. and on payment OF 3d.
100000 will own outright a half inter
est in the Trinity & Brazos Valley
railway, with permanent outlet to the
gulf ports.
Weather bureau officials declared
that records show less SNOW to have
fallen in New York City thus far than
during any previous winter since re-
cords have been kept although IL is
not the warmest winter.
Thirty-One acts of heroism were
recognized by the Carnegie hero fund
commission ut its fifteenth annual
meeting held at Pittsburg. Nearly all
the recipients of medals were east
ernerS.
Two soldiers out of every thousand
who fought with the American army
overseas lost an arm or leg.
James G. Blaine, Jr., of Providence
r. l.. has retired as director OF the de-
nartment of development OF the Amer
scan Red Crosr to become vice presl-
dent of the Liberty National oank OF
New York.
Calmly referring to "the next war"
MAJOR General Leonard Wood mace a
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