Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-07-19
NEWS Of A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Al
Quarters Of tho Globe and
Given In 4 Few Lines.
INTERN MOUNTAIN,

wreck WHICH DlOckeu IHe main line o.
the Union Pacific near Granite can
yon, seventeen miles west of Cheyenne
this morning. One is Fireman j. +
Mccarthy of Denver. He was caught
suffocated. Peter lessen, of Cheyenne
engineer of a wrecking crane that
overturned while working on the wreck
was so badly scalded that he died
later.
Government agents continued the in.
vestigatiOn of circumstances surround
ing the death of f. A. Dowsey of the
federal secret service, whose body was
found May in Mushroom in a local
office building shortly before he was
expected to report upon results of an
investigation he had been making in
Seattle. Persons familiar with the
general nature of Dowsey's mission de-
.clared it involved a gigantic fraud
against the government.
ID. Il. Renear of the Nevada state
Police left Ogden early Sunday morn
ing for Anaconda, Mont, to get Rob
ert Gibson, an escaped convict from
Reno, and in custody of the Montana
Officers.
That the late Werner z. Reed Colo
rad6 capitalist and federal mediator,
left an estate of nearly S14000,000, be-
came known Wednesday following the
opening Of "A safety deposit box.
The forest fire, which has been rag.
ing in the Porcupine hills, near Cal
gary, has been brought under control
after destroying between fifteen and
eighteen million feet of lumber. The
Ghost river fire, fifty miles west Of
Calgary is still spreading and heading
east.
has obtained permission from the state
supreme court to- appeal to the United
States supreme court from the recent
decision of the state supreme court
sustaining a fine of $500 against him
on contempt charge.
DOMESTIC.
Lieutenant L. J. Lenihan of San
Francisco. Cal, and Chaplain Il. III.
O'Dowd of Brooklyn. n. L., assistant
camp morale officer at Camp Pike,
were instantly killed Saturday at Lit
tie Rock Ark, when plane piloted
by Lehman was struck by another
machine from Eberts field. The sec
ond machine also fell, but its occu-
pants We're not injured.
The Protestant church of this coun-
Try represented in the Federal Council
issued n declaration that the state of
New York should attempt 10 secure
to the worker an income sufficient TO
maintain his family ut standard of
living which the community can APP
prove.
Seven firemen are reported killed
and at least fourteen others were in
jured In "A blaze that destroyed the
five-story warehouse of Jacob Potash
and Brothers in the northeast section
Of Philadelphia Saturday.
Martial law was declared Sunday in
Longview, Texas, and the rest of
Gregg county as result of race
trouble here, precipitated by Il fight
Friday morning between white men
and negroes and marked by the STAY
ing of one negro early Sunday after he
had resisted arrest.
Hanging in the branches of tree on
ha Oh n
man was found by dredger work
men near Calusa, Cal. 1t is supposed
the man was drowned during high
water and his body washed into the
tree.
A telegraphc appeal was sent late
Saturday by Mayor Davis of Cleveland
to Postmaster General Burleson that
he take immediate steps to bring about
an adjustment of the strike here
among telephone operators.
A resolution directing all subordin-
ate lodges to employ energetic efforts
in barring from membership persons
who express sympathy with Bolshe-
vism and kindred "isms" was adopted
Ut lHt CItSlIS StSSioil VA ehe A<''N' w.
vention held at Atlantic City.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, was
among the passengers Friday on board
the Mauretania. He will represent the
American labor organizations at an IN
ternational congress of the trade I'M
ions at Amsterdam. Holland. The con-
gress Is a revival of similar meetings
held before the war.
Hermann J. Knaesche, former sol
der, confessed to Sheriff Ralph
Byrnes, at Ukiah, Cal, that he had
shot and killed his wife, Frieda knae'
she, a bride of two weeks.
Representatives Of twenty-four ami
lated international unions In the steer
industries Friday adopted resolu'
ton recommending that strike vote
be taken among their membership.