Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-02-15
of
asst Week.
The News Happenings of
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iNTERMOJNTAIN.

TN ! 2 HmS in AIN.
The genval strike in Tacoma was
officially called off shortly before )
o'clock Sunday afternoon by the gen
eraI strike committee.
Soldiers of the Forty-fourth regular
infantry are patrollihg the mining dis
trict of Butte, and have established a
dead line" behind which they forbid
picketing by the strikers.
From six to thirteen persons were
washed overheard and drowned from
the cannery tender Uwanta of the
Pacific American Fisheries company,
ten miles south of Belingham, Wash,
as the boat was making its way from
the company's plant on Eliza island.
The Colorado senate passed with one
dissenting vote resolution memorial
izing the peace conference at Paris TO
adopt an international bimetallism
standard of finance.
The Butte city council voted TO dis
charge all members of the city fire and
police departments with the exception
of the chiefs, captains and lieutenants.
The action follows an announcement
by the members of the departments to
resign unless provisions We're made for
cashing last months salary warrants
John Mileh former saloon man,
was found guilty of sedition by jury
in the district court at Helena, Mont.
United States troops from Camp
I Quiz. In, md
Tacoma to "stand ready for any emer-
gency," as army officers said, result
ing from the general strike on Febru
airy 6 of $4,000 union men, in sym
pathy with 25,000 shipyard workers
who walked out January u to enforce
| demands for increase of pay.
Seven persons were burned to death
in Il fire which destroyed the Tokyo
house, lodging place at Seattle. Eight
are missing and fourteen reported in
jured.
DOMESTIC.
Simultaneous conventions of metal
trades councils have been called for
February II in New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Galveston, New Orleans,
Portland, Ore, and other cities for the
purpose of discussing new wage agree
ments to supplant the Macy scale for
shipyards workers.
Bragg Williams, negro, under death
sentence for the murder of Mrs.
George Wells and her child at Itasca,
was taken from the Hill county Jail
at Hillsboro, Texas, by mob and
burned at the stake.
With labor and materials available,
the government is preparing to rush
work ON the Alaskan railroad, and Sec
rotary Lane has asked congress for
$13,S00,0OO to complete the job. The
Alaskan railroad commission estimates
it will take three years
The death of Edward Ratzoll,. II
years old, increased the death list in
an explosion and fire at Platteville,
Wis, which wrecked three-story
building. Nearly score of persons
were injured by flying debris.
Railroads should be kept under gov
eminent control until congress has de-
veloped permanent plan for their
management, Glen II. Plumb of Chi
cago, spokesman for organized rail-
commerce committee.
William Allen White of Emporia,
Kans, and Prof. George Davis Heron
have been appointed the American del
egates to the Marmora conference with
the Russian factions.
James s. Critics, better known I'M
der his pen name of Luke North
noted advocate of the single tax. died
mt Los Angeles after an illness of sew
eral weeks.
Fire believed to have been of In
cendiary origin destroyed the building,
machinery and stock of the Michigan
Seating company, located within the
walls of the Michigan state prison,
causing n loss of half Il million.
Twenty buildings in the heart of the
Fairbanks. Alaska. business district
have been destroyed by fire which
started Thursday morning. Fire
fighters We're handicapped by the ex-
IRENE cold. The fire started from Il
defective furnace in the basement of a
| jewelry store
The bin giving presidential suffrage
to women in Indiana was passed by
the Indiana senate, A to B. The mea-
sure was adopted by the house recent
ly and requires only the governors
signature TO become law.
Scott Nearing, one time professor in
the University of Pennsylvania and To-
ledo university and a Socialist candi-
date for congress in New York last
fall, was placed on trial in federal
court at New York on Tuesday on
charge of sedition.