Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-14

partment of justice agents disclosed an |
alleged conspiracy to defraud the gov |
eminent in the sale of $30000,00t |
worth of army supplies to be salvaged |
at Detroit.
Two bandits entered the State Banb /
of East San Diego, Cal, shortly before
the closing hour, took all of the -,
in sight, held up and searched -,
customers who entered the - -
the robbery was in n .s...,- ~,
capped with approx .,s,.,v sTooo IN ON
automobile.
Inc s~d,0oe,ooo deficit resulting
rom eevernnent control of railroads
iaec NStr was due to measures that
hoa to be taken to keep Europe from
starvation and to win the war, William
O. McAdoo, former director general OF
railroads, asserted in a letter to
Thomas NJ. Storke, publisher of the
Daily News at Santa Barbara, Cal.
WASHINGTON.
There will be no training camps foa
civilians and reserve officers during
the summer, the war department has
advised Charles b. Pike, chairman OF
the military training camps associa
Director General Hines estimates
that the railroad administration incur
red deficit of approximately $685..
100000 In April, making total deficit
of $250,000,000 for the first four
months of the year.
Resolutions asking the state depart
ment for the text of the treaty with
Germany and directing the foreign re-
lations committee to investigate how
copies of the unpublished document
have reached private hands in New
York, were adopted by the senate with
out a roll call.
Postmaster General Burleson in an
order issued June 5, surrendered Oper-
alton of the telegraph and telephone
systems to their owners.
Armed with the latest figures sup
piled him by the statistical expert, DR..
Harry A. Garfield, federal fuel admin
iStialOlp has SOuHucu dHOtllcI
to "buy coal now"
Secretary Daniels has ordered reduc-
ton of the naval personnel to 250,0UO
men or less by July l. Commandants
of all shore stations and districts were
directed to discharge Immediately
every available man who could possibly
be spared without impairing the eff
cheney of the navy.
FOREIGN.
The EsthOnians are reported to have
taken Heaswegen, in southern Livonia.
They have begun to drive the Bolshe-
Wiki in the direction of Kreutzburg, 20
miles southeast of Riga. The Bolshe-
wiki are fleeing in panic from central
Livonia to avoid being surrounded.
The American delegation to the
peace conference apparently is firm in
its decision not to authorize the publ
cation of the German peace treaty
until it is signed and not even to COM
municate the official text in its present
form to the United States senate.
At least two Americans and thirty
Mexicans have been killed by Yaquis
and bandits in the La Colorado dis
trict of Sonora, Mexico, during the
last two weeks.
The Mexican treasury department,
as result of numerous references to
Mexico's national debt recently in the
United States and Mexico, has fur
nished statement to the press show
ing that on June 80, the debt will total
529,572,0S5 pesos.
The American peace officials at
Paris are convinced that the demand
for the ex-kaiser's trial will be aban-
doned as long as he lives simple life
in Holland.
The peace terms presented to Aus
tria are impossible and mean the death
of the country by starvation, President
Seitz declared in his address opening
the extraordinary session of the ma
tional assembly.
Nicaragua has asked the United
States to land forces there to cope with
threatened invasion from Costa Rica.
The state department is investigating
the situation.
A great movement is afoot in the
Ruhr district, Germany's richest in
dustrial region, for the organization of
wholesale emigration Immediately
after peace is signed.
Three thousand peasants, including
women and children, have been shot or
hanged by the Red army as conse-
enquence of revolts in Western Hun
gary around Oedenburg.
Because the servants employed at
the Hotel Des Reservoirs at Versailles,
where the German peace delegation is
quartered have refused to accept tips
from the members of the delegation,
the hotel management has announced
that it has been compelled to advance
prices 10 per cent in order to increase
the employees wages.