Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-07
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stockman, at Salt Lake, on January 3.
DOMESTIC.
Capture of forty-nine Germans,
| single-handed, at Consenvoye, France,
last October brought Felix Bird of the
132d infantry, Chicago, a ID. 5. c., the
award of which was announced Sun
day by the war department.
Flood conditions prevailed in parts
of Nebraska Sunday night, following
a downpour of rain, which in places
exceeded three inches. At Lincoln
the fall was slightly more than two
and half inches. Near Ashland the
bottom lands are flooded and railroad
tracks washed over.
The first sermon from the air,
preached by 'sky pilot of the Meth
odist church, will be a headliner at
the Methodist centennial exposition to
be held at Columbus, o., June 20 to
July IA, according to tentative plans
just announced.
Gen. Felipe Angeles, recently pro-
claimed provisional president of Next
co by the Villistas, plans simultaneous
attacks on Torreon, Chihuahua City
and Juarez, according to MeXicans who
have just arrived from Torreon.
In the 500-mile auto race at Indian
apolis on May 81, three of the contest
ants were killed and fourth prob
ably fatally injured. Howard Wilcox
finished first, averaging SIP miles
per hour.
The food administration grain cor
poration has announced that for the
present it would make no further pur-
chases of wheat flour victory flour or
cereal products, but would re-enter the
market for flour probably early in the
new crop year.
Threats to kill Police Inspectors Fen
ton Thompson and Thomas Wood and
to blow up the city hall at Oakland,
are made in a letter received by the
inspectors from Los Angeles. The let
ter is signed Il. w. W."
Germany spent more than 100000
men in the vain effort to take Nerdun
declared Secretary of War Baker in
n Memorial day address at Camp Mer
rift to 25,000 soldiers. Germany ad-
mitted this loss, he said.
Plans for the Inauguration of per-
nit system TO control the movement of
this years mammoth grain crop. an
nounced Friday by the railroad admin
istration. contemplate the appointment
! of grain control committees at each
prim airy market, comprised of "A rep
resentative of both the operating and
traffic departments of the railroad adj
ministration, and third party repre-
senting the transportation division of
the United States grain corporation.
A nationwide campaign for Il con-
gressional investigation has been in
augurated as result of the mob MUIR
der of Jay Lynch, white man at
Lamar, Mo-, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie has announced.
The body of Mike Chaponis, n
machine operator, was found decapi-
tated and partly sliced into shreds in
a fifteen-foot cylindrical churn used
in the manufacture of fertilizer at the
Armour Packing company's plant at
Sioux City, Iowa.
While complete figures are lacking,
there is every indication that the Sal
walton army passed the Sl3,0O0,000 goal
in its home service campaign by ap-
pr Ultimately S3000.000,
Tribute was paid to the memory OF
Col. Theodore Roosevelt on May 30
Hundreds of persons visited his grave
at oyster Bay, bringing flowers and
wreaths. Many were children.
one ship week for II year, is the
worlds ship building record, claimed
al he launching of three 5500-ton steel
cargo vessels at the. Newark bay ship